"My love for her is against common sense, hinders the future, loses self-control, destroys hope, destroys happiness, and is destined to experience all the frustrations and disappointments. But once I fell in love with her, I couldn't help but love her. She." This is the monologue that Dickens designed for Pip in "Great Expectations", more like the inner portrayal of Dickens in marriage when he meets Nelly.
Compared to her postpartum out-of-shape, increasingly sullen and indifferent wife, Nellie is young, beautiful, bright and intelligent. If these appeals to a great writer are a little superficial, then Nellie's inner freedom and appreciation for him, readability He was probably drawn to Dickens' soul. This attraction made him feel that it was a debt not to be able to give her marriage and status. This kind of indebtedness made him not hesitate to hurt his wife, and unilaterally declared a peaceful separation with her to stop the rumors and protect Nelly's reputation.
Nelly naturally loves Dickens, loves his talent, and sympathizes with his loneliness. Loving a person is not the most irreversible, and pity for a person is hopeless. She regretted that he couldn't give her marriage, and at the same time hated his cruelty towards his wife, and the most difficult thing for her to accept was his view of love: "A true lover cannot have indifference, disgust, doubt, unkindness, and half fire and half ice. "To love him is to become a part of him", this is the reason why Dickens casts his love on his wife, and it also becomes the expectation and shackle of Nelly.
Maybe it's easier for someone who lacks ego to be part of another, and Nelly obviously isn't. Nelly hates being a woman like Wilkie's lover who waits forever to get the life a man wants. Nelly is not a hot-headed, irrational woman, she knows that the sweetness of a secret lover is short-lived, so she proposes to separate from Dickens again and again. However, in the face of his retention, in the face of his words "the real lover can't live without the person he loves, he lives a life of two people and half a person", her pity pulled her a step. Step deep.
Maybe it wasn't until the train accident that Nellie desperately found herself or love's place in Dickens' life. The train derailed and overturned, and Dickens staggered to find her, and when the staff recognized Dickens and asked if he was on the train alone, with Nelly's tacit approval, Dickens said, "I am alone, this lady needs help", Turn away. Nelly was stunned for a moment, because Dickens resolutely chose to protect the image of public figures, but also because of his insincere encouragement to his words. And Dickens subconsciously picked up the manuscript of the novel and heroically went to feed the wounded with water, which made her heartache more than the loss of her son.
In the end, she became the person she hated in this relationship. Standing in the dark room, raising the curtains and looking at the castle not far from the clear sky, she no longer has the freedom he loves. "Will you come to see me?" "How many times a week?" "How about on weekends? When you can"... The sunshine outside is so bright that there is nothing that can shine into her heart. And this darkness actually haunts Dickens years after her death and Nelly re-enters her marriage. Under the frozen seaside in the cold winter, under the infinite expanse, she ran over and over again, as if she was about to break out of some kind of prison...
At the end of the film, Nellie said to her husband, "I'm back." How much I wish this sentence was the beginning of Nellie's soul regaining freedom, but seeing Nellie who was distracted and wryly smiling while watching the show, she couldn't help feeling distressed. Also suddenly understood the sadness of the title of the film. How can the "invisible woman" be so simple as a secret lover, such as Dickens' wife, such as Wilkie's lover, such as Nelly in the big house where you can see the castle outside the window... These are lost in the shadow of man's glory The victims of their own light are all "invisible women".
And in this love relationship where one party sacrifices to achieve the other, it's not easy to judge who. It is said that Dickens and Wilkie are scumbags, and whether or not they are "pioneers" in their relationship as Wilkie said, at least they do treat their feelings sincerely. I'm wrong maybe they can't see themselves, maybe they're not as dependent on love as they think they are, as Dickens's wife said "You have to share him with the public, they are everywhere. You never know what he loves the most. One, I'm sure he doesn't know it himself." And maybe they're not some famous admirer, but the more formidable word of mouth, name, prestige.
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