Never thought "A Streetcar Named Desire" would be such a movie. At the end of the movie, I suddenly heard the line I knew many years ago: No matter who you are, I rely on the mercy of strangers. I would rather she die and leave this indifferent and filthy world. There really isn't much to miss in this world.
Because of life's changes and vanity, she became the kind of woman she hated, living a pompous and despised life. But she still had good things in her heart. Some letters were shaken out when her suitcase was rudely searched. She said his hands had stained them and she was going to burn them. She said everyone has something they shouldn't touch. It's heartbreaking to see these.
She told her sister to let her leave the man: he was a vulgar man. I hope you didn't forget that you were educated. There was absolutely no gentlemanly presence in him. He was like a wild animal, rude, and even had the behavior of many wild animals. Thousands of years have passed, and there are still people like him who stayed in the Stone Age, eating raw meat and hunting for a living, and you, still waiting here, maybe he will come to beat you, maybe kiss you, People always have to make continuous progress, just like art, like poetry, like music, people always have to keep enriching their inner self in order to achieve perfection. Never step back and degenerate into a beast.
She said: A woman with beauty and intelligence at the same time can add luster to a man's life, that's what I have, and no time can take it away. Although the external beauty is no longer there, I have the inner beauty, spiritual wealth, and a gentle heart. Not only has it not been taken away, but it has become more and more mature. Oddly, despite all my wealth, I am still considered poor.
When she was sixteen, she met Ellen and learned what love is. She said it felt like a light was lit in front of a person who had lost his light and brought her the whole world. But when she and Ellen got married, she began to complain that he was timid, cowardly, and clueless. She doesn't understand a person who can write good poetry, but can't do anything and is forever unemployed. One day, she said to him: You are very useless, I look down on you and spurn you.
After listening to her, Ellen shot herself. She felt that the light that illuminated her world had gone out, leaving only a dim light. After Ellen died, she kept dating strangers to fill the void in her heart. That emptiness made her seek protection from the impossible. All this reminds me of a sentence, someone said: how vulnerable a woman's loneliness is.
I don't know why she keeps talking about the pursuit of inner beauty, but she would say such cruel things to a poet. Probably her vanity is at work. Except when she says those words in the play, she is a vain and pompous woman who wants everything materialistic and wants to live by a man. She said that weak people depend on strong people to live. After her hopes were dashed, she was still fantasizing about a rich man to rescue her. Fortunately, she also knew that some things were unforgivable, and deliberate insults were unforgivable.
She is awake. She said: "It's about desire, animal desire, like that street car, going through the narrow alleys, I sat in it, and came to this place where I was not welcome, where I was ashamed to stay. She said: The other side of death is desire. Perhaps it is because of this that she has realistic demands on a poet and blames him for not being able to give her the life she wants. Only after seeing the faces of the other men, I still want to seek their shelter, and I want to use them to live a peaceful and easy life. Therefore, it will end up in such a tragic end.
In this movie, what I like more, what makes me not hate her is her pursuit of inner beauty, her attitude towards those love letters and the poems that boy wrote to her, she cherishes them so much, and treasures them like a treasure for many years, Don't let others touch it. She even wanted to burn them after the nasty ones flipped. I like her saying: I don't want to face reality, I want miracles. However, what is wrong is that she should not ask those people for miracles, miracles can't be asked from anyone. A miracle is the beautiful and simple meeting of your heart and your dreams in your strong desire.
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