The movie "The Libertine" starring Johnny Depp is a story about John Wilmert. He was more outrageous than Li Bai, dared to tease the king between his hands, and was exiled many times; he was more licentious than Cangyang Gyatso, drunk and indulged, and died of syphilis at the age of 33. But many people love him: when he was hunted down by the king and tortured to nothing, a servant and a prostitute he picked up from the street followed him to protect him; he was festered and dying. When he returned home, his wife kissed him desperately on the face of gambling; and his mistress, who had never spent a penny on her, one of the hottest opera actors at the time, also left her silently after he left her. They told their daughter, and said to himself: I will not marry you, nor will I marry anyone. He hurt many people who loved him, but they couldn't hate him, because he was cruelly true and shamelessly magnanimous from beginning to end.
The whole movie feels dim, dirty, gloomy and depressed, but the starring Johnny Depp and the lines inside are the highlights of this film:
Rochester: Mrs. Barry, you must acquire the trick of ignoring those who do not like you. In my experience, those who do not like you fall into two categories: The stupid and the envious. The stupid will like you in five years, the envious, never.
Rochester: Mrs. Barry, you have to learn the trick of ignoring those who don’t like you. Based on my experience, there are two kinds of people who don’t like you: one out of stupidity and the other out of jealousy. The former will be liked within 5 years. On you, and the latter never will. King Charles II: I thought about putting you in the tower. I even considered putting your head on a spike. But I decided on something worse. I'm going to ignore you. I will no longer encourage any hope in my breast for you . I am condemning you to be you for the rest of your life.
King Charles II: I wanted to put you in the tower and even cut off your head, but I made a worse decision. I will ignore your existence and never have any hope for you again. I pronounce you to continue to be yourself for the rest of your life.
I am a jealous person in the golden age
. All attempts in my life are costly.
There are two kinds of people who don’t like you. One is stupid and the other is jealous. After 5 years, stupid people will like you and be jealous. the people will never
no one likes a smart bastard
when men no longer pay attention to a woman's appearance, while turning the mind, the man come to an end
can not tell whether it is John Wilmot achievements of Johnny Depp, Johnny Depp or He made John Wilmert, but I can’t think of someone who is more suitable for interpreting the role of John Wilmert than Johnny Depp.
John Wilmert reminds people of many words, such as arrogance and lust, lewdness, depravity, self-willingness and depravity, and a waste of talent. This person who is swinging between freedom and reality has not found his own place after all; this person who is struggling between freedom and reality has not been saved by himself or others; this person who has been destroyed between freedom and reality has finally Contributed to the altar of the world with a magnificent self-immolation. He used cynicism to fight against destiny, but was dragged into a deeper quagmire; he hated aristocratic corruption and corruption, but shouldered the expectations of the king, his mother, and his wife. He escaped and indulged in it and couldn't extricate himself; he taught How does the lover survive? In order to survive, his lover can only choose to stay away from him. He could have become a genius artist, a brave general, and a great minister who promoted the prosperity of the country, but his only achievement seemed to be to snatch an aristocratic woman. Although he was exiled for this reason, this aristocratic woman was willing to become a man. His wife. Current events can make heroes, and world events can destroy heroes. He tried, thinking that his lover was a life-saving straw, desperately trying to catch him, and even wanted to marry him, but she could only save herself, not him. No one can save him except himself, but he is too fragile, as fragile as a child, and cannot save anyone, including himself. His lover Barry, an opera actress who has a free and natural soul like him, saw that behind his infamous reputation, there was an incomparably loving heart for life. Although he refused to be with him in the end, he did it in her own way. Bravely guarding what they both cherish: freedom and their children. At the end of the film, he wore a battered face and dragged a sickly and weak body to the parliament, giving up his king's generous statement and winning the king. For a long time, I couldn’t understand why he did this, until he thought that when he saw his lover a moment ago and knew that he had a daughter named Elizabeth, and said her daughter’s name softly and tenderly, I think I understood. The existence of his daughter has awakened his remaining courage, for the people he loves and those who love him, even at the end of his life, he is willing to do his last effort. In the reality of history, it does not matter whether there is Barry or not. In the movie, she and the child become a symbol, a symbol of John Wilmert’s hope, a hope of reconciling freedom and reality—on the stage She freely swayed her freedom and nature, and calmly calculated the gains and losses of benefits in life. Johnny Depp is a prodigal son, just like John Wilmert born in this world, maybe without John.
Between the ideal of freedom and the cruel reality, where is our way out? Without freedom, we are like juggling monkeys manipulated by others, without reality we have nowhere to be free. How much freedom and reality do we need? I don't know, but we know from this film that at least one has to be brave, and avoidance will not solve the problem.
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