Once the poet's story is made into a movie, it is definitely different from the general biography. Because the history of a poet, to some extent, is the history of a poet's soul and flesh. . In fact, there should be many versions of the story of Wei Erlun and Rambo. After all, movies are popular things, so the poet's love, especially the love between two men, will be very popular. However, there are also poetic interpretations in the film, especially the beautiful sea and sunrise.
This film is a biographical film about two great French symbolist poets, Wei Erlun and Rambo. These two poets not only left a good story in the poetry world, but also left a scandal that declared them completely confused. 1870, Arthur was only 16 years old. Rambo sent his poems to the French symbolist poet Paul. Wei Erlun. Wei Erlun wrote back and said, "My poet, come here." From then on, two strange geniuses in French poetry began their legendary friendship and betrayal. Based on this true event, Total Eclipse shows the feud between the two most outstanding poets in French history.
Most of the content of this film is based on real historical records. Rambo has won the recognition of a large number of readers for his unique personality and poetic style. Wei Erlun can accurately predict his talents and achievements before he became famous, which also shows that although Wei Erlun is secular, he still has a pair of eyes. Wei Erlun is a great discoverer and a shameless parasite. He discovered Rambo, brought him into the world of poetry, and gave him great appreciation and support for his style that was incompatible with the mainstream society. He seems to see hope from Rambo, his new life and his use value for himself. His affirmation of Rambo's talent and self-confidence in his eyes also show his uniqueness, but unfortunately, he is not Rambo, he is old, and he has neither Rambo. He was delusional and parasitic in Rambo's spiritual world, but Rambo ruthlessly expelled him. In fact, before Rambo, Wei Erlun had a reliable parasitic place-his wife's house. But when he met Rambo, he was attracted by Rambo's character and talent. Although he hesitated, he finally abandoned his family and boldly followed Rambo, and maintained his relationship with Rambo with the family property. Only poets can lose their minds like this? The film didn't answer whether Wei Erlun's time with Rambo helped Rambo or unnecessarily consumed Rambo's talent. The homosexual plot of this film is not the focus and key point of the film narrative. The director didn't explain why Rambo had a homosexual tendency, nor did he give enough comments, but the plot has extraordinary commercial value. This film has a typical European delicate style, and the colors in the picture are as light as water and are shrouded in a faint fog. These lines also have different meanings.
At the dawn of the new century, Agniska Holland of female directors aimed at these two poets in the European poetry circle in the17th century. What is the reason? Rambo once solemnly declared to the real world: "If everyone's life is unique, let's live unique." Seeing Rambo, we have a feeling of deja vu in today's society. Perhaps Rambo in that era has a connection across time and space with today's society. Rambo's rebellion and fearlessness are like rebels in today's society.
Character interpretation
Rambo people
First, high-quality beliefs.
189 1 year1month, a woman in Marseille invited a priest to pray for her brother for the last time.
However, the priest found that the man on his deathbed was a blasphemer. However, when he heard that this man had an extraordinary poet experience, he still solemnly said to the woman with infinite respect, "Son, your brother has faith, don't you think?" He has faith, a high-quality belief that I have never seen before. "
This woman's younger brother, Rambo, is a talented French poet who attracted great attention in the19th century.
Second, children who run away from home.
Rambo was born in Chaville, a small town in northern France, which is barren and desolate and full of bourgeois low tastes. Rambo was hostile to the city since he was a child, and his disgust was also reflected in his early poems. "The old city where I live is the most ignorant city in other provinces." Rambo's infatuation with the naive fantasy of "living elsewhere" is probably formed from this. Of course, there is another reason that cannot be ignored, and that is the misfortune of the family. Rambo's father is a professional soldier, who has been stationed in other places for a long time and has a bad relationship with his wife. Rambo divorced his wife when he was six. Because of this, Rambo's mother became arbitrary and mean. She was extremely strict with him, almost cruel. All mother's wishes can't be violated. The limitation of hometown and the misfortune of family make this smart and sensitive child "hungry" and eager for "distant place" and pursue the feeling of being a guest in a relaxed, strange and unfamiliar foreign country.
Young Rambo ran away from home three times. The first time I escaped, I was even put in jail as a fugitive teenager by the police because the fare was not enough. Thanks to my mentor Samba, I was released on bail. After two escapes, Rambo had to walk because he had no money to buy a ticket. For the last time, I arrived in Paris successfully, because I met Wei Erlun.
Third, the eloper forever
Strong desire to express, this is Rambo's biographer Graham Robb's description of the poet's legendary life. He believes that Rambo is not afraid to provoke the public with the most evil and shameless gesture in order to gain people's lasting attention. This genius relies on: the talent beyond age, the mixture of strangeness, charm and cruelty brought about by gender uncertainty, ready to get rid of the past self at any time, so as to become the "other" in people's minds forever. That makes sense.
Rambo's sexual characteristics are not even sure about himself. Such people are doomed to be unable to live in harmony with women and men in this world. Rambo, a boy of 17 years old, specially selected some works with homosexual tendencies and presented them to Wei Erlun. He seems to have anticipated the reaction of this restless Parisian prodigal son. Miss Mathieu, who just married Wei Erlun, realized that Rambo was deliberately destroying her family happiness. She always vented her dissatisfaction on Wei Erlun.
Therefore, Rambo urged Willem to leave Paris and go abroad with him to seek development. At that time, although Wei Erlun was very cultured in Paris, he felt very uncomfortable because of the unsatisfactory climate in Paris at that time. At the same time, he was deeply impressed by Rambo's charm and cruelty, so he resolutely left his beautiful wife who was just married and pregnant and eloped with him to Belgium. In Belgium, there are two poets who teach and write poems at the same time, but their lives are quite miserable. So, they went to London, England, but they still lived in poverty and hardship, sometimes interacting with tramps and sometimes taking part in social activities.
However, it was in this "elopement" period that Rambo's poetic creation reached a climax. His poetic style was manifested as a genius with general inspiration and impression. He began to think more deeply about the philosophy of life, even approaching the awakening of a madman, and gradually reached the level of metaphysical thinking about dreams and reality, instantaneous and eternal, tangible and intangible.
At the same time, the contradiction between Rambo and Willen gradually reached an unmanageable level. Rambo made up his mind to part ways with Wei Erlun. He didn't want to live in such an endless misery. However, at this time, the relationship between Weilun and his family broke down, and he had an abnormal love and attachment to Rambo, and he felt extremely indignant and desperate about his intentional betrayal. 1873 In July, Willem tricked Rambo into Brussels, Belgium, and tried to threaten him with a pistol. He accidentally injured Rambo by fire. Wei Erlun was sentenced to two years' imprisonment by Belgian authorities.
Rambo bid farewell to this "elopement" career and wrote the famous "A Season in Hell", expressing his inner pain. From the perspective of my bones, I am an animal (a season in hell, bad blood)! This is his most powerful and crazy sober understanding of the time of his fall. At the same time, he also expressed his lofty wish: "Don't I have a lovely, brave and wonderful youth to write on the golden pages?" What crime did I commit? What mistake did I make to get this powerless retribution? You asserted that the beast was howling in pain, the patient was desperate, and the deceased failed in his dream. Then please talk about my depravity and my sleepiness. "
The poet Rambo has fallen asleep. In the face of poetry and real life, he feels that everything seriously restricts him and makes him a limited thing. As a result, he had an idea that ordinary people could not have, to try a new lifestyle of "living elsewhere" and to achieve the reputation of "poetry martyr" (Haizi language).
Fourth, live elsewhere.
Rambo's life as a poet is extremely short, only five years. 1875 19-year-old Rambo studied German and other languages in Germany and began a crazy roaming life around the world.
He became a revolutionary (non-revolutionary) poet and went to poetry itself. As his early poem Feeling (1870) revealed: "I don't want to talk or think; But infinite love rushes to my soul. I want to go to a distant place, a far, far place, and be as happy as a woman with nature. " This idea of "living elsewhere" is also revealed in a letter to his beloved rhetoric teacher George Zamba, "I am confused, painful, manic, stupid and fascinated; I hope to bathe in the sun, walk endlessly, rest, travel, take risks, and finally travel around the world ... "
Rambo started his wandering career from 1875, which is beyond the imagination of other poets. His life itself is an adventure, just like a charming poem. His pursuit, whether writing poetry or pursuing life, is a kind of strangeness, strangeness and excitement of "being elsewhere". During his wandering career, Rambo worked as a circus translator, an agent for food distributors and a mercenary for Dutch colonists. He experienced all kinds of roles in the world and became the "other", not just a talented poet in the Paris literary world. He seems to be a knight looking for the holy grail at the ends of the earth. In the meantime, he returned to his hometown due to illness at 1879 and took a nap at Roche Farm for a while. 1880, he worked as a small foreman of 50 people in a British Far East company, but resigned because of his low salary and poor treatment, so he went to Egypt and wandered around the Red Sea coast looking for opportunities. Finally, he arrived in Aden and worked for a French company. Since then, I have lived an adventurous life, dealing with robbers in the desert.
It was not until February 189 1 that his right leg developed gangrene due to African fever and arthritis infection, and it became more and more serious, and he stopped this life of "chasing the footprints of the wind". Some people say that Rambo's wandering life is not the strange and pleasant poetry of "living elsewhere", but the poverty and mediocrity of life. While enjoying the exotic customs, he endured great mediocrity and triviality for basic survival. More importantly, in the face of the great contrast between ideal and reality, the poet is no longer suffering, but more numb. In the desert of Africa, he wrote home and asked his mother for books about how to become a craftsman. Because he has to support himself, he doesn't mention poetry at all. Maybe "poetry" made him feel sad.
Whether Rambo regretted it or not, after all, he was a real poet who died on the road and a real "poet martyr".
Therefore, Isabel Rambo said ... I absolutely believe that he also has such a lofty intention: to cover the earth with suspicious colored cotton, so as to better prove to people that their rebellion against eternal power is futile. "
Living in front of "other places" proves that people are limited things and cannot find themselves completely. People always die on the way to find themselves! However, Rambo is looking for more than just ordinary people, his gender, his beliefs and his life. ...
Film interpretation
This is a gay movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio when he was less than 20 years old. It tells the romantic love between Rambo, a talented French poet, and paul verlaine, and a bright and decadent past. Strictly speaking, the focus of the film is not homosexuality, but a poet's life choice.
Rambo (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) is a poor boy in the countryside, only 16 years old, but he is already brilliant. The poet Wei Erlun (played by david thewlis) was shocked by his outstanding talent, so he invited Rambo to Paris to make a breakthrough in poetry. When they met, Wei Erlun was attracted by Rambo's amazing beauty and unrestrained temperament.
Rambo looks naive, but he is insightful. He was educated by Ke Yan family, but he was always dirty and presumptuous. He is sometimes gentle and sometimes cruel. He is eccentric and bohemian, and is despised by celebrities. He is sharp-edged and unruly, making fun of those conservative defenders at will. He is not ignorant, he knows all the rules of this society, the virtual and tail snakes between people, perfunctory and muddle along. However, he was unwilling to compromise. As he himself said, "I decided to be a genius, and I decided to create the future."
Wei Erlun fell in love with Rambo almost immediately. Because of the romance of poets, they love all the beautiful things in the world, the same sex and the opposite sex, just as they love the sky and running water, and love can give them all the passion and impulse. He loves Rambo's unique soul and his incomparable beautiful body. He abandoned his beautiful young wife, eloped with Rambo, spent the night in the wilderness, drank and had fun, and wrote beautiful poems with Rambo under the stimulation of fanaticism and passion. However, Wei Erlun is weak and indecisive, and the differences between him and Rambo are getting deeper and deeper. In the poor and wandering life, they depend on each other but hurt each other. They can kiss and fall in love, or they can hurt each other's body and soul with sharp knives and words.
In this love, Rambo will always be the leader. He smiled gently at Wei Erlun, just like absinthe melted a glacier and Wei Erlun's "rusty soul"; When Wei Erlun tried to return to his wife, Rambo appeared, and a pair of understated eyes stole Wei Erlun's soul; Rambo's rude words can make Wei Erlun suffer. However, such vacillating Wei Erlun will not be Rambo's choice.
The film's title "Total Solar Eclipse" symbolizes Rambo's lifelong pursuit. Either burn completely or destroy completely. "I will never go far enough ... I need sunshine, do you understand? I need sunshine ... "When he loved, he indulged his emotions and willfulness, joy, jealousy and madness, and he gave everything; Once he decides to let go, his eyes are like ice and he will never look back.
"Either don't hurt others, or do it cold. Don't insult those who have been hurt by you by apologizing. "
"The only thing that can't be tolerated is that everything can be tolerated."
In his dreams, he always muttered, "Go, go, go …" All his life, he was always moving forward and never looked back. Rightly or wrongly, he is as always. Before 19 years old, he wrote all the poems of his life, completely divorced from poetry. /kloc-After he was 0/9 years old, he left Europe, traveled all over the world and did business in Africa until cancer overwhelmed him. Persuaded by his sister, he converted to Catholicism and sought salvation. However, Rambo cannot be redeemed. His life is uncompromising. Once compromised, he will only perish. In the end, Rambo chose to run away and stop breathing in the sun.
Rambo is really a rare genius. His poems broke the system of old poems and changed the pattern of modern poems forever. He fulfilled his oath, he created the future, and he opened an era. Although he died young, he didn't have time to witness this great change. The best part of the whole movie is Rambo played by Leonardo, so young and beautiful. Although he soared from Titanic 1997, it blurred the hearts of countless girls. But the Leo in Total Eclipse is a natural, uncut and naked beauty. At that time, he was immature, immature, pale and delicate, but he was still radiant and hard to stare at. There was such a sad expression on his beautiful face when he stood on the dock and cried to his dead lover for his return. It turns out that beauty is also lethal. Leonardo da Vinci's acting skills, which were not deliberately cultivated, and his natural multi-temperament of alternating light and dark can interpret Rambo's tragic fate so touching.
Q&A between Wei Erlun and Rambo
He repeatedly proved to Rambo: "I have never loved anyone as much as I love you ... tell me, do you love me?" Answer me, this is very important to me. "
Rambo was noncommittal: "You know I like you very much. ..... Do you love me? "
Wei Erlun nodded softly and feebly: "Love you."
Rambo stared at him: "put your hands on the table ... palms up." He gently stroked Wei Erlun's hand with a knife, and then inserted the knife into the palm of that hand. Young, he may want to burn his existence into the other person's soul through physical pain.
At the end of the movie, Wei Erlun learned of Rambo's death and ordered two glasses of absinthe they drank together. The green wine pulp seems to reflect the smooth cheeks and stubborn lips of a teenager kneeling opposite. He still asked him, "Tell me, do you love me?" He smiled and replied, "You know I like you very much ... Do you love me?" Wei Erlun is still a slow-witted teenager: Yes's palm is spread out on the table, and the teenager glides gently with a knife, holds his palm and prints a deep kiss.
"After his death, I dreamed about him every night, and we have been very happy together. Happy forever. "
In Wei Erlun's heart, he would rather believe that the boy has been loving him tenderly. The marks he carved on his palm and heart, like two tumors born on his knees, will never disappear. This is a highly toxic and incurable drug. He is the dream of spring that he doesn't want to wake up, the sorrow that he enjoys, the wound that he will never heal-and the despair that he hopes for. There is no tomorrow, only despair. In the dream, he was still the thin boy, smiling at him and moving forward. It is his great and glorious sin to be young and beautiful forever.
"I found it." The boy's voice whispered in the wind, "That's the sun at the junction of the sea and the sky." He turned around and smiled, spreading in the warm and bright sunshine. "This is eternity."