Picking up a pen (it's really a ballpoint pen from echt, this time the article was written by hand first), just want to jot down Oscar Wilde's words:
There are two kinds of tragedies in the world: one is not getting what one want , and the other is getting.
In order not to forget this most touching line after watching the movie "Wilde" (there is a vulgar translation: Xin Taizhi) in a state of excitement, I decided to take a scrap paper and write it down, As a result, a song Dying in the Sun, which happened to be put into MP3 again this week, came from the earphones. I'm not talented enough to translate:
"When you hold me tightly, I feel too weak;
when you hold me tightly, I feel too weak; Catch me, we'll never be lost,
you know, I want to be so perfect—" I
was shocked: Wilde was in that Italian square, hugging Percy tightly, that must have been the mood .
It was 1897, when everything was bathed in the sun, he saw his face from a distance again, and he, after two years of ups and downs, still seemed like nothing had happened , happily and loudly greeted: "Oscar!"
The faces of the great masters of aestheticism were a little flattered. The shrunken body trembled slightly, and he slowly stretched out his hand to hold his hat and salute... Then we couldn't see the two Zhang’s sensational face of a long-awaited reunion. The camera just took a panoramic view of the square. This team is in the lower left corner of the camera. This is not the center position, which symbolizes their ordinaryness-they are just part of a busy and lively group. They are just ordinary lovers.
Of course, we can also understand it in this way, the director himself does not know (or is not willing to know), what kind of emotions should the actors show at this time, to bring out this fact that Wilde has to endure the separation of his wife and children and prison He even made a vow to "kill him when we meet again", and he couldn't forget and gave him a heartfelt hug-sometimes, the "powerlessness" in his performance might also be part of the director's "strengthening" sense of respect. some way.
What's more, Wilde himself in prison said: "I don't really know myself." Throughout his life, he brought us countless classic drama and literature works, but this "life" was only 46 years (--with Leslie Cheung was alive for the same time), his wise light in the text is enough to make people believe in his self-confidence and uninhibitedness. However, in the film, Wilde not only does not have much shocking temperament, but instead appears more as an ordinary person who is trapped by "heretic" love and hovering on the edge of family and morality. This kind of treatment is just one of the thousands of narrative methods for the lives of celebrities, but this kind of intimacy is what I personally like.
In the film, the "him" who gave him a lot of hardship was named Alfred Douglas, nicknamed "Percy", the youngest son of an "old and rough" nobleman. When the two first met, Percy was only 21 years old. , and Wilde is 36 years old and has a lot of fame in the literary world. And this Posey, who was working as a ticket player in a noble school, made a grand debut with an air of self-care. Perhaps, in the movie, Wilde was attracted by his confident yet stubborn and stubborn expression. This young man was even a little condescending, revealing his appreciation for Wilde's works, but it sounded like a A kind of provocation, as if to say: "Well, old man, I didn't expect you to be good." The real Wilde should not be like in the movie, like Percy, who immediately began to complain about the outdated school system like the "trolleybus" He replied, "How could they treat such a beautiful person like this?", but at the same time as he was slightly taken aback, a strange feeling surged in his heart. A game of mutual attraction begins here.
Although Wilde's most common phrase is "How talented Percy is", and in fact, the real Percy is indeed a talented person, but in the movie, he chose to portray him as a person who is good at The playboy who "enjoys life" is innocent, drinking, watching theater, playing, banquet all day long, tirelessly. Occasionally, like a young literary man, he complained about academic corruption and the injustice of the world—just like he appeared in front of Wilde, but more often he seemed to anesthetize himself, fully anesthetizing himself with a gesture of surrender.
The following story fully illustrates a sentence we often see in the media: "Stars are not Martians, but stars are ordinary people." Wilde, who was moth-to-fire, began to leave home for various reasons to spend with Percy (real life). They do work together in the movie, but they are not so serious in the movie.), and even wrote the famous drama "Mrs. Wen's Fan" under the nourishment of love. However, there is an old saying "good times don't last long". As mentioned earlier, Percy was addicted to lavish entertainment, more often like a little lover who never knew satisfaction, trying to make Wilde spend every penny to buy him gifts and spend every minute to accompany him; however, when he was ill When he fell on the bed and didn't even have the strength to hold a glass of water, he said, "You sick middle-aged man looks disgusting." (Percy in real life can be quite unreasonable sometimes. The veracity of the act is corroborated by a detailed account in one of Wilde's letters, which is almost entirely true.), and at the same time despises him for being stingy and conceited, "love yourself only." Wilde's assessment is surprisingly forgiving: " Percy he just doesn't know how to love and be loved...he has the shadow of his brutal father in him." Although Percy was kicked out of the house, as soon as he heard that Percy's brother committed suicide, he immediately muttered in his mouth and lost his eyes: "How miserable he must be.", so he opened his arms again and took him into his tear-stained face. That "he".
In the final episode, Wilde sued Percy's father for slander and slander. However, what sounded in the narration at this time was a sentence from "Garden of Giants": "No, no one hurt me, that is the mark of love." "Mourning for his misfortune, anger for not fighting" - when a person gets up with a determined heart, he is so willing to be tortured.
The real Percy in history once translated Salome's original French book into English, which was a contribution in academics, but the movie portrayed him as a somewhat willful, impulsive, and childish lover. Weakening, but sharpening the dramatic expression: "Percy" is more like a dream, a dream that makes people not want to wake up once they jump in. He in the movie may have fulfilled people's beautiful imagination of him, and at the same time, it also made those who admire Wilde feel that his devotion has a dreamy but more acceptable explanation: sometimes, complex psychological analysis, serious The basis of reality is far less powerful than a fairy tale.
By the way, Jude Law who plays Percy is one of my favorite actors, but he's not in my "good acting" category. The love for him belongs to a situation that is elusive in a dream, and difficult to judge by objective standards; in fact, it is similar to Wilde's feelings for Percy in the movie: every move of his hand makes people want to go through fire and water for him. Jude, like Percy, is beautiful, as beautiful as a Greek sculpture, I once said, "He can never seem to fit into some characters, especially ones that are too realistic, because what he does best is to play a symbolic 'self' ', in addition, any of his images have some shortcomings outside the body."
In him, there seems to be confirmation of Wilde's wit mentioned at the beginning of the article: you can't get him, it's a kind of Tragedy, you got him, only to find that he is not of this world, this is also a tragedy.
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