Tuscany and my spring

Casey 2021-12-23 08:01:29

I always look for the harbingers of spring in the tail of winter. Maybe it’s not a big deal when spring comes, as it does every year, but before we meet, I still have some worries in my heart. On the calendar card, spring has been here for a long time. In this city, spring seems to be just a distant legend. The grass is yellow and the branches are gray. After a winter of cold wind erosion, they can't help but show some. Listless exhaustion.
The air is still very cold, and I will protest in my nose and throat when I go out in single clothes for a while. I saw a few photos of the south on the Internet, peach blossoms blooming by the water, and there are endless rape blossoms. I think spring is really here, but it's still far from here.
I saw "Under the Tuscan Sun" in the video store I often go to. I felt that the name Tuscany was very familiar. After thinking about it for a while, it turned out that it was in a book-"One Must Go in One's Life" "50 Places", it is said that those 50 places are recommended by senior travellers from National Geographic magazine. Of course, the places are all good places. However, more than 90% of Chinese people will not be able to go all their lives. I happen to be here. % In. I bought this disc, and it’s okay if I can’t go to see it. Diane Lane smiled so brightly on the cover, and there is a bunch of yellow sunflowers beside her. The window behind her looks out of the green mountains, which makes me feel involuntarily. The ground stretches in the sun, that is exactly the mood of spring.
When I was young, Diane Lane was the young lady among the stars of that era. There are very few foreign films that will be shown publicly. Our knowledge of foreign film stars can only be obtained from a few limited magazines such as "Popular Film" and "Movie World". The appearance rate of Diane Lane in the magazine is quite high. In my young heart, it is like a little green in the slope of withered grass, which turns into a few reveries in the spring breeze. The first time I saw her in a movie was "Angels in the World" starring French actress Emmanuelle Bea. Emmanuelle was born as a model. Her face is very sculptural and feminine. She is radiant in front of the camera, almost It is the best interpretation of the word angel, and Diane Lane unfortunately played a stupid contradictory character in the movie, making a lot of laughter, which made me disappointed. Since then, Emmanuelle has been ranked first among the lovers of my dreams.
In "Under the Tuscan Sun", Diane Lane is the same person as her in reality until middle age. She was calculated by her husband who is also a writer. He lost her house, marriage, and happiness in life. A kind friend arranged for her to arrive. Traveling in Italy, in Tuscany, she saw an old house that was for sale. I think it was a meeting with fate and a narrow road. There was no reason. She spent all her savings and bought the old house. Life has since turned around.
The plot of this fictional film is adapted from a true story—a chapter in a novel published by Francis Meyers in 1996—"Under the Tuscan Sun·In Italy s home". The plot is plain, and there is nothing profound, but this movie is like its name, allowing you to bathe in the spring sun, warm, and supported by the breeze. The old house that Meyers bought was called "Smoothing the Sun." Since then, she has three wells, an ancient Roman road, an ancient Etruscan wall remains, an underground passage, 117 olive trees, and 20 trees. Plum trees, as well as countless other fruit trees and flower bushes, can also be eaten on a long table covered with linen outside the house, eating tortellini filled with sage from the garden, knocking on the side of the road The picked cones and the pine nuts are used to make the fragrant old grandmother's pie...
"Looking for the sun" is too old, just like the old grandmother who will fall asleep at any time. Meyers led the four Hungarians to start a vast renovation project, as if to repair the broken life they had been injured. Tuscany is like a landscape postcard, an endless field full of sunflowers, a path leading to nowhere, on both sides of the road are tall and slender cypress trees. Every morning, an old man walks along the road through the courtyard wall of "Satisfying the Sun", putting down a bunch of newly picked wild flowers in the hole of the wall, throwing away the withered wild flowers of yesterday, he never knows where to come, wearing a hat, wearing Overcoat, he put down the flowers, not knowing where to go.
In a person’s life, it’s great to be able to meet such a healing place, a strange country, a strange neighbor, a strange old house with a history, a decision like a flying fairy from the sky, crazy, absurd, 100% unreasonable, so full of The taste of divine will. The past was like a sudden sinking island in the sea. It disappeared suddenly. The new life is concrete, brick by brick, carved iron beds, portraits on railings, freshly mature olives... In the 19th century, Browning and Mrs. Browning eloped to Tuscany. Mrs. Browning wrote: "The air here seems to penetrate your heart." I heard that the Commercial Press once published "Under the Tuscan Sun." I saw an excerpt from the text, "The bakers in Cortona use a wooden oven, and they bake perfect crusty bread.... I get up early. I will serve coffee and bread. To spend an hour on the terraces, read a book, look at the rows of dark green cypress trees against the sky, look at the olive terraces on the hillside in the distance; these scenes...have been like this since the Middle Ages. "
Shortly after I watched this movie, it rained in my city. It started at noon and stopped for a while in the afternoon. The sun was about to come out and it went down again at dusk. The next day, there was still some coolness in the air, but the sky was very clean and the sun was incredibly bright. I think it's like spring at last. Standing on the balcony, I saw that the spring flowers on the side of the road not far away had a hazy greenery. When I went to work in the morning, I walked through a row of lilac trees, and on the low branches, spores with large rice grains appeared, swelling up. In the morning, I received a text message from a friend in the same city. She said that the peach blossoms in Baiyun New Village were blooming.

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  • Alexandro 2022-03-27 09:01:11

    It has nothing to do with the book, the neurotic American woman and the lover Italian man still didn't get together in the end, the wish of a wedding and a family still didn't come true for him, and the ending was happy. Ah ah ah, Italian man~~~ Let me marry one~~~

Under the Tuscan Sun quotes

  • [at the Flag Festival]

    Patti: These are straight men.

    Frances: In tights. Waving Flags.

    Patti: Fantastic.

    Frances: Yeah.

  • Frances: But, please tell the contessa that this is what I got for my house recently, in dollars, minus the work on the place, um... hammers, buckets, men,

    [under her breath]

    Frances: chocolate, and a rental car to drive off a cliff when this all turns out to have been a terrible mistake. That's what I can pay.