"You have to promise me that you can't fall in love with her memory."
He lay silently behind her naked back. In front of me was the dark water, the bridge in the distance, the shaking boat lights, and the laughter of young girls on the river. Even with white wings, there is no peace in his heart. He has nowhere to go. The dying pigeon broke its wings. This absurd drama chased in glitz.
"Dove Wings" was filmed in 1997, based on the American novelist Henry James's original work of the same name, directed by Iain Softley, HBC and LR starring the male and female protagonists Kate Croy and Merton Densher respectively. Many works of Henry James have been adapted into movies, and this one by Iain Softley is one of the best. HBC, who debuted very early, starred in a series of movies based on literary masterpieces such as "A Place Where Angels Dare To Settle", "A Room with a View", and "Howard Manor", and she is in "Dove Wings" The powerful performance of Katie's tragic female character is the best.
The shell story of "Dove Wings" is quite popular. It tells a young woman Katie with a corrupt family tradition to take care of her aunt Molly. The aunt hopes that she can marry a wealthy family, but Katie herself falls in love with Mo, a newspaper reporter who has no money. pause. Aunt Jasmine warned her that if she had a relationship with Morton, she would no longer have financial support, and her impoverished father would be unsupported. For her father and herself, Katie made a compromise. At this time, Millie, an orphan of the richest Americans, came to Britain for vacation. She met Morton by chance at the banquet and fell in love with her. Katie learned from Sir Mark that Millie was suffering from cancer and was about to die soon. After the secret, she persuaded Morton to accompany Millie so that she could become the heir to her property after the lonely and helpless Millie died. In this way, Katie does not need to be coerced by Aunt Jasmine and can marry her beloved Morton. In the dark, Morton obeyed Katie's arrangement. The three had a happy time in Venice. But in the end Millie developed symptoms and was discovered by Morton. Katie revealed the truth and insisted that Morton continue acting for the future of the two of them, and returned to England early. Morton was helpless. The two of them wandered in all the streets of Venice, from strange to familiar, familiar to close. Morton's "love" made Millie seem to come alive. However, in the face of a sincere heart acting day and night, Morton felt more and more difficult.
At the same time, Katie, who was as far away as the United Kingdom, became increasingly nervous. She was afraid of Morton's fake drama, and she fell in love for a long time, and she truly fell in love with Millie. She had to divulge the truth to Sir Mark, who was trying to marry Millie, and Mark went to Venice to tell Millie and Morton the true relationship between Katie and Morton. Millie, who was betrayed by her best friend and lover, collapsed. The illness extinguished her newly resurrected life. But the dying woman forgave Katie and Morton with infinite love and tenderness. She said to Morton, I love you, I love you two. Morton repented and fell on his knees before Millie's sick bed and wept bitterly. However, it was too late and could not be undone. Millie still left the inheritance to Morton. Morton could never be with Katie again. The shadow of death enveloped his soul. As Katie realized in despair, he fell in love with the memory of Millie. When she was alive, he didn't love her at all, but after her death, he fell in love with her memories, the days and nights they spent together in Venice. At the end of the film, Morton, alone, returned to Shuicheng again. Millie was sleeping there, and the kind-hearted American girl's love for him.
Thomas Mann made his Eisenbach die in Venice, and Evelyn Waugh made Venice a witness to Charles and Sebastian’s youthful scene and the prelude to the decline of Blaizehead, Henry James put him Morton Dansi described in the pen stayed in Venice forever. Venice seems to be the place where generations of writers pay tribute to youth. Its romance, its enthusiasm, the fragrance of death contained in its romance and enthusiasm. Evelyn described this city built in the water to resist the flooded fate in his "Old Land Revisiting" like this:
"...I am immersed in sweet happiness, carefree. There are days, days. While we were on the gondola, we slowly passed the tributary of the Grand Canal, and the boatman issued a sad and bird-like warning. For another few days, we took a speedboat and sailed over the sea lagoon. Glittering in the foaming waves of the sun; the chaotic memories left now are the hot sun on the beach and the shade in the marble building, where the water is hitting the smooth stones, reflecting on the painted ceiling The bright spots are like the night of the noble mansion of Colombona that Byron might have spent, and there is another Byron-like night-catching big prawns on the shallows of Chioggia and appearing behind the boat The gleaming wakes, the boat lights swaying on the bow, the nets of weeds, sand, and jubilant fish; remember to eat melon and smoked ham on the balcony in the cool morning; Remember to eat hot cheese sandwiches and champagne cocktails at Harry's Bar."
An abundance of joy came. A carefree isolated from the world. "Dove Wings" depicts the scene of the carnival, with fire trees and silver flowers, tourists wearing masks in exotic costumes, and Morton and Millie dancing happily in the crowd. Katie spied fearfully from a distance. A mess. Katie dragged Morton and ran away from Millie and Susie. She surrendered herself to him in the dark as a proof. Lust transpires in the night and the silence of this place. Millie, I think she has guessed the truth of the deception on this night. She is not a silly girl, on the contrary, she is so intelligent and loves life so much, that is, her mission is not long and she does not want to be pityed by others. Instead, she wants to live happily through the remaining life, happily and do her best to love one. people. How much is her love for Morton compared to Katie's love for Morton?
Poverty destroys love. Katie is unwilling to test this truth, she would rather earn the capital to maintain love than to believe in love itself. Millie, who has seen through death, only loves life itself, the most cruel deception and malice, in the end failed to completely take away her love. This is the American face described by Henry James. In the eyes of the British, whose aristocratic consciousness is still deep-rooted, Americans are not elegant enough. They are simple and easy to be deceived. In Henry James' novels, the encounter and estrangement of Americans in Europe is a central topic. In the outer story of "Dove Wings", the deception that Milimong is deceived is the tragic manifestation of this estrangement.
The picture of "Dove Wings" is extremely delicate. The clothes and decorations of the characters in the film are rich in classical Greek style, with a small fan, slender waist and bare arms, and a light purple and light pink skirt dragging across the bridge in Venice. The alleys, the umbrellas held up, and the falling rain, can't help but shuttle the time.
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