Cambridge, Erie Town, the willow trees along the coast cast jagged reflections on the Uz River, and the grass on one side is blooming with Maurice and Clive's rudimentary love-if that can be called love.
"Maurice". The Chinese translation of the name "Morris" was written by the famous British novelist EM Forster. It was completed in 1914. Because the content involved homosexuality that was not tolerated in British society, it was published in 1971 the following year after the author's death. His unique positioning and Forster’s personal homosexuality have attracted much attention. In 1987, he was put on the screen by James Ivory, starring James Wilby, Hugh Grant and Rupert Graves. Jiao won the best actor award at the Venice Film Festival that year.
Ivory's "A Blue Sky Outside the Window" and "Howard Manor" have never been seen before, and there is no way to compare the success of the adaptation. This director who seems to have a special obsession with EMForster's novels does have the ability to discern people. Hugh Grant's winning at the Venice Film Festival is of course a part of luck, and his acting skills should not be underestimated. The character of Clive is full of peculiar personality. Forster mentioned in his creation notes that he symbolizes Cambridge, being calm, smart, and restraining himself and others with self-righteous moral standards. While he said "That I love you" to Maurice, he also The relationship between the two is confined to Platonic idealism. The book describes the image of the top student of Trinity College when the two met for the first time. "He was short—very small—with a natural attitude and fair skin. When Morris stumbled in, he became red. Face." Hugh Grant has always been recognized as a very British gentleman. Needless to say, he was indeed a handsome young man with red lips and white teeth. Even if he had a moustache in the second half of the film, he was still handsome and handsome. It's just half a point shorter than James Wilby, impeccable in appearance.
Forster's writing has profound elegance, probably because of the background of the Royal Academy of Cambridge. Xiao Qian once mentioned that it was a hotbed of homosexuality in the British upper class, and suspected that Forster's homosexuality was acquired. "Maurice" is undoubtedly an autobiographical novel, and it is also a novel that "true" describes homosexuality. In contrast, although the film has an aesthetically appealing atmosphere, it weakens the irresistibility of the gains and losses of homosexuality.
The novel describes the painful struggle of Maurice and Clive when they realize that they are different from ordinary people, especially the change of Maurice's mood since childhood. It is not accidental, but the film will completely ignore this point. Only after reading the book, a large number of puzzling details in the film can be perfectly interpreted. The most typical is the "March" in the "Symphony of Sadness" Maurice was looking for when Maurice first met Clive, which was later nicknamed "The Tragedy of Incest and Tragedy" by Risley. His creative background was Tchaikov. Sky fell in love with his nephew and dedicated this sixth symphony in B minor "Sorrow" to him. The movement of "March" hides fear behind the power, and it collapses suddenly after the climax. And Tchaikovsky himself once said, "The composition of this symphony is life in the final analysis. The first part is passion, impulse, self-confidence, and desire for action. It must be short, the second part is love, and the third part is disappointment. The fourth movement It gradually disappeared at the end." It represented the seemingly detached emotion between Maurice and Clive.
What Maurice demands is the unswerving love of soul and body, and Clive, who abides by the rules, cannot give it. For their departure, the narratives of the book and the movie are quite different and interesting. In the novel, Clive suddenly became interested in women after a serious illness, while in the film, it was obvious that Risley was arrested by Clive. hit. Movies always pay attention to dramatic plots, but it seems that Clive is more tender than the book.
Alec appeared just at the right time. Here we have to mention the advantages of text over images. With only a few texts, everyone will think that this is a hunting ground watcher. After a few seconds of lensing, everyone will think that this is not a game. Ordinary hunting field watchers, there is no suspenseful fun. Alec is completely the image of the lower class, bold and bold, but unswerving in love. I saw him climbing the ladder into the Maurice room in the middle of the night and the two kissing each other, Maurice also climbed into Clive many years ago. The afterimage of the room couldn't help but sigh.
I want to thank Forster, who wrote in his notes, "Although in a fictional world, I am determined to make two men fall in love anyway, and let their love last forever within the limits of the novel." So finally The scene of the two embracing each other can be seen outside the insurmountable class boundaries.
The night overwhelmed the twilight, and the houseboat stood alone in the wilderness. There were only two of them here, and it was solemnly announcing that we would never be separated again, forever.
However, whether it was a book or a movie, there was no way to forget that Maurice fell on a chair trembling and muttered "What an ending".
What an ending...
Clive stood in front of the blinds, and there seemed to be a smiling young man standing downstairs, waving his hands vigorously, yelling "Come on" in his mouth, and then ran away. His vision gradually blurred into a huge void, and only his wife's gentle and calm face was within reach.
"The blue room shimmered, and the fern bushes swayed. His friend waved to him on the Cambridge campus. The friend was bathed in the sun, exuding the fragrance and noise of the May semester." It's just
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