Back then, he had broad shoulders, a thin waist, long legs, tight jeans, a tight T-shirt, dark skin, white teeth, and thick hair. The corner of his right mouth rose slightly when he smiled. The eyes are not focused, a little arrogant evil. Different from the quiet and delicate academic bully, he has a deadly primitive sexual attraction, and in the classroom with high hormones, there is a suffocating atmosphere. Girls from other classes often come to look at the door of the classroom.
And now in front of us is a thin man whose back is no longer tall and straight, and his stature has shrunk significantly. There was a sullen look between his eyebrows, but he was not confident. The head is half bald, shiny, with protruding edges and corners, and exposed blue veins. From the male protagonist to the anti-number one. He sat quietly, hands clenched on the armrests. Don't look at anyone, don't laugh. When he realizes that others are looking at him, his eyes are alert and drifting.
There is a legend among the classmates that after graduating from high school, he made a living by repairing TVs and strayed from one woman's bed to another woman's bed. Now his business is to install TV set-top boxes. We have scorpion wine sponsored by him on our table, a whole scorpion soaked in light brown wine, the effect is aphrodisiac.
This is what Dorian Gray will look like many years later. The first change of the portrait in Wilde's original book is "a wicked look at the corner of the mouth", which is not the same as a maggot crawling out of the corner of the eye in the movie. It is even more unreasonable that the film later treats the portrait as a late stage of leprosy with a face of bullae. Dorian Gray is fighting against the years, and all his transformations are within the grasp of reason. Dorian Gray in reality wants to stay young forever, and Dorian Gray in the portrait is responsible for the erosion of time, showing lust and sin. The film treats him as indulgent and lewd at the instigation of Lord Henry, a total villain, lazy, and a simplistic simplification of human nature.
There is a saying that "the face after the age of forty is shaped by oneself". Some people deduce that a peaceful and quiet face must have a harmonious and stable mood, while an aging and fierce face must have done nothing good. There seems to be nothing wrong with this for the male gods of my class. But how can the years be so simple, how far is the distance between the face and the heart, who can say clearly? In the movie, Dorian Gray finally fell in love with the daughter of Lord Henry, and wanted to change his mind and redeem himself with love. In the original book, he awakened himself, let go of the women who came to his door, and redeemed himself with kindness. Neither succeeded. But different from the setting of being swallowed by evil souls in the movie, I think the original book is more human: he thinks that he has done a good deed, and with a good heart, the face of the portrait will be changed, and his behavior will be affirmed. But it wasn't: "He didn't see a change, just a sly look in his eyes and a false wrinkle in the curve of his mouth."
Time is linear. Although quantum physics has developed to the present, the study of time has become more and more in-depth, and the direction of time is not always the same, but in the world we live in and perceive, time is only linear. The portrait of his aging, even if he could feel his repentance, could not resist the arrow of time. The heart is so good that it will bloom, but the face will continue to age day by day. Man cannot conquer the sky. No matter Dorian Gray, or the male god of this class.
Dorian Gray is played by the unreasonably handsome Ben Barnes, who is said to be very similar to Wilde when he was young. Thinking that such a beautiful beauty will also fade away in spring, I couldn't help but listen to Daiyu's words of funeral flowers like Baoyu, "falling down on the hillside".
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