The most determined duckweed in troubled times

Elliot 2022-01-08 08:02:48

"Evita" is a film adapted from a musical by director Alan Parker. Compared with stage musicals, the biggest change of cinematic musicals is that the spreading and interpretation of the storyline is no longer limited to the stage of a square inch, but is embodied in several real scenes. As an audience, perhaps the perception of singing and dancing will be more or less weakened, but the sorrows, joys, honors and disgrace of the characters in the play can greatly increase their sense of reality through the restoration of historical scenes.
Although it is a biographical film loyal to historical facts, the director did not make it flow into an inspirational story of "the ugly duckling becomes a swan" in a straightforward manner. Although the ugly duckling has transformed into a swan after all, there are flashback techniques, clever settings of narration characters, and a reasonable interpretation of fantasy dreams. In this way, the historical framework and context have not changed, but due to the director's artistic treatment, it has been integrated into the understanding of history observers.
In a highly hierarchical and class-antagonistic society, it is undoubtedly empty talk that everyone is born equal. The struggle of the day after tomorrow may help you climb a little higher on the hierarchy of the pyramid, but like Ivita, from the illegitimate daughter of a rural farmer to the first lady of the country, it can be regarded as crossing the two ends of the rich and the poor. Up. The turning point in Evita's life trajectory began with her encounter with the wandering tango singer McGadi. The well-known Mejiadi in the country made Evita, who was 15 years old, enamored of it, and more importantly, Mejiadi is about to go to the capital Buenos Aires-Evita’s mind is the most likely A place to make a face-lift by yourself. At this time, the film sounded "I want to be a big man in Buenos Aires". The theme of this song is complicated and the style is changeable. It is mixed with McGadi’s painstaking exhortation, Ivyta’s bold expression of ambition and everyone’s ambition. Echoed. McGadi could not hold back Evita's insistence, so she fulfilled her wish. When I came to the bustling city, Ivyta's mind was filled with curiosity and excitement. She looked at the busy traffic and the lights of thousands of houses, and she felt that there were opportunities everywhere. But the difficulty of survival lay first on her road of struggle: it turned out that McGadi was a person with a family, so it was natural to shake her annoying trouble away. Of course, survival may not be called a "difficult problem" for Evita at all. Ivyta, who has been suffering since she was a child, is not afraid of the current despair. What she pursues is the life of the upper class. Before reaching this goal, anyone can use it, anything can be tolerated, and any means may wish to try. But for a country girl who is not well-known, what capital does she have even if she wants to dedicate all her money? Youth and beauty. For a woman who betrayed her body in order to make friends with powerful and powerful people, she can only be judged on the basis of our country's ethical measure of everything, and her lashings can be imagined. However, we must have a "compassionate understanding" when dealing with history-in a patriarchal society with a rigid hierarchical system, a poor woman from a low birth may be able to achieve fame through general means such as production and labor, teaching and educating people, and joining the army. ? The environment that Evita is in is immoral. If she adheres to the so-called morality, she should only be the illegitimate daughter of the farmer, living in the contempt and contempt of the neighbors. When she relies on her own efforts to change the destiny of life, perhaps her approach is not worthy of generalization, but the spectators who are not among them should really not be judged in the name of morality.
In this way, Evita appeared in bars, karaoke halls, and dinners, and wandered between all kinds of powerful and powerful, until she met Colonel Beron, who was well-known at the time, at a charity party. I don't know whether the marriage between the two of them completed within a few tens of seconds is love at first sight, but it is certain that there are political ambitions and interest considerations in the love that germinates between the two. Accompanied by a long and graceful rumba, Evita sang "I'll be so good to surprise you." "I know this sounds unreasonable, but I have to tell you. The encounter between you and me is absolutely unpredictable. I confess it directly, and please forgive me. I am not urging you, but please know. I am very suitable for you. I don't want to act. Hurry up.” Although Evita is sophisticated, she is also frank at the moment. She knew what to talk about in this moment, you, Nong, I, Nong were obviously insincere nonsense, so she bluntly said "I suit you well"-"I" has everything a man thinks of an ideal lover, let alone "I" is so generous Appropriateness can greatly help "you" in the political cause.
Naturally, Veron readily accepted this sudden but happy marriage. Evita follows Veron in and out of various occasions where celebrities and dignitaries gather. On the surface, Evita’s sociable ability made her go to the right and left, but secretly, the men, women and children of the upper class are very disgusted with this country girl who suddenly broke into their circle. This dislike is clearly seen in the song "Belon's New Girlfriend": "We never want to be in the jewelry store, sitting on an equal footing with her, and seeing her head-on." Although Evita is dressed in a Chinese dress and talks elegantly, she is of noble blood or The distinguished and proud dignitaries see in their eyes only an uninvited guest from a humble and vulgar background.
It is true that Ivyta’s benefit to Veron began when Veron was arrested and imprisoned by the military for a power struggle. On the one hand, Evita encourages the retired Veron to reinvigorate, and at the same time acts as the spokesperson and propagandist of Veron, using democracy, freedom, and equality as the slogan of Veronism, and strives to win the support of the majority of the lower-class people in Argentina. The song "A New Situation in Argentina" can be said to be the most sonorous and heroic voice in the entire film. When Ivyta screamed on the radio, "Veron loves you and understands you, otherwise, how can I love me more?" Realizing that the combination of a careerist with a poor background and a politician with military power, its success is beyond doubt.
The successive political changes that have occurred since then all seem to be logical. When the film progressed until Veron was successfully elected as the President of Argentina, the crew even borrowed the terrace of the Rose Palace in the Presidential Palace to reproduce the historical scenes of the time as much as possible. Frankly speaking, the subsequent "Argentina, Don't Cry for Me" sung by Evita is not uncommon. Perhaps it was because it was so thrilling that when I heard this song in the movie, I didn't have any feelings worth talking about. It was just that after Evita's voice was loud, she made a promise to the excited voters under the terrace: "Someday you will get rich." Evita was 26 years old at this time, but this promise remained in the open air of the Rose Palace seven years ago when she passed away due to overwork at the age of 33, and did not go far.
After all, Evita failed to save the suffering Argentine people. Of course, this had nothing to do with her identity as a woman, but she made a blank check that could not be cashed only by her “haven to the rich, friend to the poor”. The magnificent political ambitions are often burdened by the complicated reality. Mrs. Veron, who lacks political strategy, is destined to become a tragic theme written by Hollywood and Broadway. It is worth mentioning that the film "Evita" is a collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice after they parted ways for nearly 20 years. They have accomplished 146 excellent changes and created a song for the film. The new song "You must love me". "I have a thousand words hidden in my heart, and I don't dare to tell you what I feel, I'm afraid you will be gone forever, you must love me." This poignant elegy that haunts Evita's death may be Chen Yuan will be the truest expression of the true love for Veron in the bottom of Ivyta's heart.

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  • Hermann 2022-04-21 09:02:56

    I was moved by the musical version of this work, but the film version brought people more reflection: maybe when Mrs. Peron gave benefits to the poor, she also pushed the country into the abyss of bankruptcy. A charming woman with beautiful political aspirations but not without political talent is destined to be splendid and short-lived.

  • Lilla 2022-03-16 09:01:05

    You have to wait patiently, and you have to persevere to the end

Evita quotes

  • Eva Perón: High flying adored, that's good to hear but unimportant. My story's quite usual, local girl makes good, weds famous man! I was slap in the right place at the perfect time. Filled a gap, I was lucky, but one thing I'll say for me, no-one else can fill it like I can!

  • Eva Perón: And as for fortune, and as for fame... I never invited them in, though it seemed to the world they were all I desired.