The film Sense and Sensibility gives us the enlightenment of sense and emotion.
Sense and Sensibility is still the consistent theme of Austin Style: the love-hate entanglement between a beautiful young poor woman and a gentle and rich gentleman still describes her best love and marriage life. The two heroines in the story, Eleanor and Marianne, are holding the ends of reason and emotion respectively, stumbling in the most splendid flowering period and resolutely opening up.
This excellent film, adapted from Ang Lee's masterpiece, realizes the wonderful combination of director, actor and script in the magnetic field. Ang Lee, as a native of China, added some oriental philosophical thoughts to his understanding of this original work. Ang Lee's films have always been silent and forbearing. However, we can feel the desire to come out of generate under the skin of forbearance. He explained the elegance and reserve of British classical culture with the conservatism and reserve of the orientals. Although emma thompson's plays were given to Ang Lee by Columbia Company, he never read any novels by Jane Austen.
The choice of actors is almost seamless with the original work. Emma thompson's sister Eleanor was rational and calm. After her father died, she took the initiative to take on the chores at home. Marianne played by Kate Winslet is like a sunflower burning for love. She is cheerful and lively, and shines on everyone around her with her enthusiasm. Different from my sister's calm and self-sustaining attitude towards love, my sister is always looking for the other half who has the same hobby as herself. When she and Willoughby were in love, they chatted happily about poetry and roared past happily in a carriage, all kinds of sweetness. However, the good times did not last long. Later, when it was learned that Willoughby had married a wealthy woman, Marianne Sunflower was finally bent down by the storm of reality and even lost her life.
As for the screenwriter emma thompson, this talented British woman is also the actor of Eleanor in the film. She chose the reason as the main beam, which is quite good. Eleanor's reason was so restrained that onlookers were moved. Even when they met Edward for the first time, they both fell in love with him secretly, but the emotional communication afterwards flowed quietly, like moonlight shining quietly on the treetops. Therefore, my sister always feels that this feeling of "respecting each other like ice" is really not an emotion. Her ideal emotion is "burning like fire, like Juliet, like Olivia, like eloy". What Marianne can't understand is that the face of love in this world is not just passion. Since there are no two identical leaves in the world, since everyone is born different, how can the type of love be narrow to her ideal one? Romeo and Juliet, butterfly lovers, and naturally the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Simpson, Scarlett and Rhett. Only the diversity of love can achieve the eternal theme of human beauty. Moreover, the temperature of love should be the same as that of a place suitable for human habitation on the earth. The heat should not be too high, let alone too low. Only constant temperature can make love everywhere and everywhere in the field of love.
Eleanor knew this well, so when Marianne was addicted to Willoughby and joy, Eleanor was always a little worried about Marianne's emotional love: "I didn't mean anything by it, but we don't know him yet." Marianne disagreed here: "Why should he doubt me? Why should I hide my feelings? " The length of time does not indicate the degree of understanding. Some people can't get to know each other for seven years, while others only need seven days. I think I already know Mr. Willoughby. If I were not an emotional person, I would hide like you. "
In fact, didn't Eleanor ever want to release all her emotions without reservation like Marianne? But Eleanor is Eleanor. She is the eldest daughter of her father's late dashwood family, the sister of Marianne and Margaret, the left arm and right arm of her mother, and has multiple overlapping identities. The whole family was forced to move out of the spacious house and retreat to the embarrassing situation of the country farmhouse. All kinds of ups and downs in the world taught Eleanor to be calm and self-sustaining early. When Miss Steele revealed her secret engagement to Edward to Eleanor and asked Eleanor to keep it a secret, Eleanor was shocked but didn't lose her temper on the spot, just a little sad in her eyes. When the secret of Steyr's engagement to Edward was finally revealed, Marianne who heard the news questioned Eleanor:
"You are always patient and obedient, always rational, cautious and responsible, Eleanor. How do you feel? "
The forbearing Eleanor broke her cold shell at this time. She staggered in a chair and said with trembling pain:
"How do you know how I feel? What else do you know besides your own pain? That engaged man ruined all my hopes, and I had to put up with her smug look again and again and admit that there was no chance with Edward in my life. If I don't have to keep a secret, I will be more sad than you. "
Reason is gradually disintegrated. At the end of the film, when Eleanor heard Edward say that she didn't marry Steele, she couldn't help herself and burst into tears. Endured the pain and emotions for a long time, and heard that Edward was not happy to get married, and thousands of emotions emerged together. The mask of pretending to be rational and calm was finally broken by this indulgent crying.
In the film, Eleanor and Marianne represent different personalities, different values and emotional orientations, but it is not correct to criticize their reasons or emotions or to make a strong comparison between them. Reason and emotion, reason and sensibility are two flowers in themselves, which are two sides of human nature. Being too rational sometimes makes happiness slip away, while being too emotional is easy to get emotional, and sometimes others will lead you by the nose without you knowing it. Find a balance between reason and emotion, and don't be happy for things or sad for yourself.
Ang Lee has the most say in this. When talking about the Chinese name of this film, he mentioned: "I think strictly speaking, it should be translated into Intellectuality and Sensibility. Intellectuality includes sensibility. It is not limited to the two sides of rationality and sensibility, but discusses sensibility in intellectuality. Therefore, the play naturally falls on emma thompson, and the rational sister gets the most romantic ending, while the younger sister has a rational understanding of sensibility. The reason why people are moved is not the contrast between my sister's rationality and my sister's sensibility, or who is right or wrong. Man is an organic whole, very complicated and subtle. This is connected with China's "Yin and Yang". Everything has two sides. In fact, many westerners may not easily understand Jane Austen's dual nature. On the contrary, China people are easy to understand. "
Life needs rational blessing and examination, and also needs a little romance occasionally embellished.
When love comes, are you rational Eleanor or emotional Marianne?