dream life,

Crawford 2022-09-21 20:32:31

Dreaming of Life,
- "The French Lieutenant's Woman"

Preface: "The French Lieutenant's Woman" is based on the original book, which is actually a fairly simple story - an engaged man who falls in love with an abandoned woman , For this reason, the man abandoned his fiancee and chose to live and live with that woman. Love stories like this, to be honest, are already as numerous as a feather in the film field. However, the film version of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" has carried out a subtle treatment: the play within the play, so that the entire story follows the classic original, and can use the new story mode to emerge with a deeper theme, which is undoubtedly the director's adaptation. .

The first scene of the film version of "The French Lieutenant's Woman", the first prop of the first shot - the scene board, has subtly brought out the main line and branch line relationship of the whole movie: inside and outside the scene. In the play, the male and female protagonists are the original "The French Lieutenant's Woman", interpreting the same story; outside the play, they are both actors, but they also experience emotional entanglements similar to those in the play.
The two stories are both cheating and incoherent loves, but the endings of the two stories are very different: the former ends in a happy ending, and the two protagonists in the Wanghai room finally meet again, hug each other, and cry with joy; and also in the same room, the latter. But it was unsatisfactory. The woman did not leave anything behind, except for the back figure who walked away gracefully, and the lonely man was left alone and melancholy. This kind of double ending treatment is naturally clever, not only in the structure to achieve a second climax in the true sense, but more importantly, it triggers people to think deeply about the plot: Can a relationship be replicated?

Or some viewers will say that this design is because the director wants to highlight the fatal blow of the era to a love: the two relationships are basically the same except for the different backgrounds of the times. And it was the abominable external factor of the times that directly declared the death sentence for this relationship, and ended up like this.
The reason for this theory is that this part of the audience directly equates the roles in and out of the play-they think that the actor and the role are the same, so their emotional experiences are so the same.

However, the real situation is that the two relationships have almost nothing in common except for the same indecent love (in fact, there is another point, that is, the man's dissent). The problem is that the male protagonist outside the play does not realize this. He seems to also hold the above-mentioned ideas of the audience, believing that if the plot fits so well, it will inevitably lead to the same ending. A relationship in the play can be easily dismissed Copy to off-screen.
Not to mention that the actress who plays the heroine is a maverick strong woman, and even the actor who plays the hero is a family man with a wife and children - but these two points are enough to judge the relationship. Tragedy ends.
As a result, he did not notice all of this at all, and was deeply immersed in the plot of the play, unable to extricate himself, simply thinking that everything would go according to the script in the end; but she already knew everything and knew that it was just a playful encounter rather than love, so she chose to quietly leave. The French lieutenant's woman, in the end, did not add the title of the book.

No relationship can be replicated because no two relationships are the same. "The French Lieutenant's Woman" uses men's naive obscenity to present the reality of love naked. At least, in the play, women's rationality is far stronger than men's.
The constant in love is that nothing is certain, and no plot can be directed like a script. The dream of play is always just a dream of play, and life will be life in the end. The two are like fire and water, and cannot blend with each other, that's all.

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The French Lieutenant's Woman quotes

  • Dr. Grogan: I have known many prostitutes. I hasten to add, in pursuance of my own profession, not theirs. And I wish I had a guinea for every one of them I have heard gloat over the fact that their victims were husbands and fathers.

  • Dr. Grogan: Do you wish to hear her? Do you wish to see her? Do you wish to touch her?