The movie "Lovers" is generally dark in color, with a faint sadness. The whole film is elegant and quiet, filled with the decadent aura of aristocratic. Leung Ka-fai's slender figure, trembling fingers, deep eyes and dry skin are all frozen in his impression, making him a popular lover in the eyes of people from both the West and the West. After the release of the
movie, the reputation was polarized: the critics of who had a positive attitude towards the film believed that the plot of the whole film was not out of the cliché of romance, and what is worth appreciating was nostalgic and romantic mood, beautiful pictures, and the erotic scenes between men and women also made a hot and provocative feeling; the critics of the film who had a negative attitude towards the film believed that the protagonist was not as good as the supporting role, and the film was slow in rhythm, alienated in emotions, and lacked gripping. At the same time, Tony Tony's bold passionate scenes and nude performances in this film also caused a sensation and a lot of criticism.
The person who has the most say in the film is Margaret Duras, the original author of the novel "Lovers". After the film was released, she was negative. He believed that the heroine's image on the screen did not show the character in the original work. In the view of Duras , the brushstrokes in the novels understand some of the most fundamental and secret qualities in human nature, which urges people to think deeply; while the characters in the movies lack the expression of this qualities.
To understand the reason why Duras has a negative attitude towards the movie "Lovers", it is necessary to give an in-depth interpretation of Duras' original novel "Lovers".
It turns out that the prototype of the heroine "Jane" in the movie is Margaret Duras himself. When Margaret Duras was young, he met a rich child from China in Saigon, Vietnam, and a romance happened. Duras’ true Chinese lover, named Li Yuntai, is a rich child from China.
The novel "Lovers" is an autobiographical work that unfolds in a first-person narrative manner. It is set in the background of the life of French colonists in Vietnam. It describes the deep and hopeless love between a poor French girl and a wealthy Chinese son. Its brushstrokes deep and understands some of the most fundamental and secret qualities in human nature, which is urging people to think deeply. In the novel, Duras reveals the perception and reflection of sex between men and women in modern French society from different perspectives, reflecting different aspects of the emotional life of the Western world.
For the sake of narrative convenience, Duras appears in the following content is the "I" in the novel, and the Chinese lover of "I" is Li Yuntai.
1. The storyline of Duras' novel "Lovers"
Duras is a French, but he was born in Saigon, Vietnam, a French colony. He has two older brothers at home and his parents are teachers in the French colony. When Duras was 7 years old, his father died of illness. Mother Mary worked hard to raise three children and life was very difficult. As the saying goes, the unfortunate family has their own misfortunes. Mary is very fond of her eldest son Pierre, allowing him to act recklessly and abuse his younger brother and sister, leaving the family without any affection or warmth.
Dulas grew up in a cold and desperate family without fatherly love and neither motherly love. Duras has a beautiful face and a smart mind, but there is no matching love and warmth, which makes Duras lonely and sensitive since childhood, and becomes weird and rebellious when he grows up.
Margaret Duras's true first love happened in 1930. At the age of 15, he met Li Yuntai on the Mekong River. That indulgent and depraved love, his family's ignorance and even fueled the flames, will have an irreversible impact on Duras's birth, and will also make Duras the Duras who said that he "will be a prostitute if he didn't act as a writer."
15-year-old Duras has grown into a beautiful girl. She studied in a school specially run for the French outside the Saigon National Boarding School. She lives in a public boarding school at night, so she often has to travel between the school and home by car and ferry. Most of the students in that French school came from children from wealthy white families. Duras, a poor family, was marginalized in the school and almost ignored her existence.
Dulas, who has a beautiful face and excellent grades, was not loved by classmates and teachers, but was excluded. What Duras lacks most during his growth process is the warmth from the family and the care of others, which makes Duras, who is in adolescence, become more sensitive, inferior and rebellious. She wants to get love and money, both of which are very strong for her.
In this state of mind, Duras met Li Yuntai, a rich child from Northeast China, on the beautiful Mekong River. At that time, Duras, who was 15 and a half years old, had just finished the summer vacation and took a boat to , Saigon to go to school.
That day, Duras was dressed very maturely. She wore a rosewood men's hat, delicate makeup, a nearly transparent low-neck skirt, and a pair of fashionable high heels with gold bands. Two beautiful braids dangled on her chest. Such a dress undoubtedly made her the one among the people who attracted the most attention from others.
The hat of a male personality makes her unique, matching her slender body, making her look good. Later, she mentioned the hat and her braid, and she was always tired of describing her body, body, appearance, and dress. And these descriptions seem to have some relationship with the men's gaze.
Li Yuntai, who was on the same boat, was attracted by Duras' slender figure. He seemed to have developed a so-called "love at first sight" kind of favor towards this beautiful woman in an instant, and he walked towards Duras who was looking up at the railing. He trembled his hands, handed a cigarette over, and asked tentatively: Do you smoke?
Dulas did not take his cigarette, but did not leave either. Li Yuntai was wearing a expensive suit, emitting the smell of high-end perfume, and his luxury car was placed not far away. Without thinking too much, the smart Duras guessed his identity - either rich or noble. The man in front of her made her feel lonely and eager to be loved instantly stirred up. This is something that satisfies Duras. Is it brought by exquisite makeup or driven by the true thoughts in your heart? For Duras, maybe both.
After getting off the boat, Li Yuntai asked the driver to drive Duras to the boarding school, but Duras did not refuse. One day shortly afterwards, Duras saw Li Yuntai's luxury car waiting outside the church school . After she got in the car, the hero took her to a hotel in Chinatown (Bachelor's room).
Li Yuntai tried hard to make everything look respectful to Duras, but Duras said: "I hope you treat me like those women." This is a decision that will make her regret for life, because she is only 15 years old and will start using her body for material things.
Then, the two of them felt sex with their whole body and soul in the hotel. Afterwards, Li Yuntai invited her to have dinner. From then on, Duras became Li Yuntai's lover. Although Duras tried his best to hide her love affairs with Li Yuntai, their love affairs were finally passed on to Duras' mother.
Dulas's family was very angry at first when they learned that the two were dating. The mother angrily locked Duulas in the room, tore her clothes severely, pressed her to the ground and beat her, and even insulted her with extremely insulting words and language. What is confusing is that his mother did not let Duras cut off his relationship with Li Yuntai.
Dulas' mother accepted all the valuable gifts given by Li Yuntai, and even accepted Li Yuntai's request to invite Dulas's family to attend the dance. The reason for this is intriguing: Because Duras's family learned that Li Yuntai was from a wealthy family, they acquiesced to her behavior.
The reason why my mother beat and scolded Duras was not because Duras was unpredictable, but because she was worried that Duras would lose her value in the marriage market because of dating Chinese people. The mother looks at her daughter with a patriarchal perspective, and regards Duras as a commodity, and cares about the exchange value of her daughter in the marriage market.
Dulas wrote sadly in "Lovers": "This little girl (referring to Duras when she was a girl), she has also grown up. She may know how such a family can earn money in the future."It is precisely this reason that the mother allowed her child to go out and dress up like a little prostitute.
In Duras' novel "Lovers", such scenes are everywhere: "I" need his money to treat his mother who is ill in bed, I need his money to help her lewd and shameless brother to have fun, I need his money to change her financial situation. This yellow-skinned lover takes our whole family to high-end restaurants and nightclubs to satisfy our sad vanity and self-esteem.
Duras maintains a lover relationship with Li Yuntai, but they all know clearly that there will be no future between the two: She will return to Paris with her family, and he will marry the woman of another family according to the wishes of the family. So she went to the hotel to go to him almost every day after class Dating, sometimes she doesn't even go to church school to spend the night.
Big brother Pierre even encouraged Duras to maintain his relationship with Li Yuntai to gain benefits. Duras's mother even Li Yuntai paid off their debts and funded them to return to Paris. In fact, her mother was extremely distressed about Duras's relationship with a Chinese man much older than her. On the one hand, she looked down on Li Yuntai, but on the other hand, she hoped to use his money.
Li Yuntai agreed to pay for Duras's money, and even asked her father to turn off the original marriage, marry her for a year before making plans. However, the father of the protagonist would rather die than agree to him marry a "white woman".
Racial discrimination and apartheid in the French colonies in the 1930s were very serious. The white world refused to accept a young man from the East, and the Asian family also rejected white girls. In the French colonies at that time, white people and yellow people were in love. For white families, it was shameful to have such an abnormality.
Li Yuntai obeyed his father since childhood, and was unable to resist his father, and even less able to resist his father's money. He was forced to marry a rich girl from his hometown Fushun . As Li Yuntai's marriage approached, Duras's relationship with him became more and more crazy. Li Yuntai gave Duras the family ring to Duras, which was discovered by her family. , very angry.
Li Yuntai asked Duras to tell him that she just slept with him for money from beginning to end. As a condition, Duras asked him to agree that he would go back to the hotel to meet her after marriage. On the day of the marriage, she watched him marrying the bride's sedan chair, but he did not go back to the hotel after marriage, and only the heroine waited alone.
After the school year, with the support of Li Yuntai, the 18-year-old Duras family will take a boat back to Paris. Before parting, Li Yuntai treated Duras like a lover for the first time, gentle and considerate, with deep affection. They hugged each other and cried bitterly, and cried desperately together. Before parting, Li Yuntai said to Duras: "I can never get you again, and I will never have you again in the future. "
On that day, Duras was looking at the river bank, trying to find Li Yuntai. The boat ticket was bought by Li Yuntai, so she asked her to go back to France. Duras's family was too poor to afford a boat ticket. This was the last thing he did for her.
However, Li Yuntai never appeared. It was not until the ship slowly started, she leaned against the railing on the deck and looked at his black luxury car. She knew that he was in the car. The boat gradually left the shore, and the car was invisible, the port disappeared, and the horizon in her sight became sea level. At night, she listened to her younger brother playing the piano, and she was sad. She took No The sadness and infinite loss returned to France with the ship.
One day after half a century, Li Yuntai and his family came to Paris. At this time, he was old and knew that this was the last time he came to the city where she lived. But he didn't dare to see Duras, but he couldn't help calling her.
Although he hadn't seen him for so many years, Duras still heard his voice as soon as she heard it. She had been waiting for this voice for more than half a century. On the phone, he said to her: "Like the past, he still loves her, and he cannot ignore her at all. He said that he loves her and will love her until he dies."
The past came to my heart and was vividly remembered. Duras suddenly burst into tears, and he didn't even notice that the other party hung up the phone. After a long time, she sat at the desk, picked up a pen and wrote on the manuscript, "I am old, one day... he said to me, "I know you, and I will always remember you. At that time, you were still very young, and everyone said you were beautiful... I think you are more beautiful now than when you were young... I love your now tortured face more."
Since he dared not come to see her in reality, then meet in the novel. Then let everything that happened has been reproduced in "Lovers". I wasted my whole life and looked back and realized that I truly loved the person I first met. So Duras picked up the paper and pen again and began to create the autobiographical novel "Lovers".
Dulas was already seventy-one years old when he wrote "Lovers". The novel tells the story from the perspective of the elderly, writing about his attachment and nostalgia for his lost youth. At the same time, Duras's feelings about the fleeting time have been throughout the article. Looking back on his youth in such a situation can resonate with readers, making this young and exotic love seem precious and endless aftertaste.
In 1984, Margaret Duras's "Lovers" won the highest award in French literature - the Goncourt Award. Gongoll Award is the most important literary award in France. It was established by the 19th century French writer Edmund de Gonguer for his young brother Jules de Gonguer. The 10 members are responsible for it. Every year, the academicians of the Goncour College select the best novel published that year and give a bonus.
Goncourt Award has a high prestige and great influence in the French literary world, even surpassing the novel award of French Academy . Proust 's "Alongside the Gorgeous Girls", Malro 's "The Fate of Mankind", and Simone de Beauvoir's "Grandmen" are all famous works introduced to readers through this bonus.
2. The narrative technique of "Lovers"
Margaret Duras is a famous French female writer, famous for her rebellious, alternative, and boldness. Her novels often use their own unique and unique experiences as the storyline. They speak freely and express themselves freely and deeply reveal the inner world of women, and at the same time explore in-depth issues such as men and women, self and society, life and survival, spirit and desire.
Dulas has a very colorful love life, and she herself never mind exposing her experience to readers, and even intends to let readers know that the heroine of the novel is herself. Some people scold Duras for "always describing the world of tycoons", but Duras said bluntly: "If I hadn't been a writer, I would be a prostitute."
In the novel "Lovers", Duras tells the story of love between himself and a rich Chinese child from a vicissitudes of perspective and a straightforward tone, and also involves family and society. The content of the story is shocking, and it also changes Duras's life.
"Lovers" unfolds the stories one by one in the jumping narrative time and space. The article begins with flashbacks, accompanied by narratives and flashbacks, and these narrative techniques intersect each other and change back and forth, breaking the narrative chronological order of traditional novels. Duras wrote two faces in this way, one is the face of an elderly woman who was destroyed by time, tobacco and alcohol, and the other is a face of immature, ignorance and without these experiences. The entire novel is completed under the alternation of these two images.
novel breaks the chronological order and proceeds with a jumping mindset. At the beginning of "Lovers", Duras writes about the experience of "I" taking a boat at the age of fifteen and a half. His clothes, skirt, shoes and men's hat at the time, and then describes the situation of "my" family. Then he begins to reflect on his current life, and instead describes his mother's misfortune, then turns to the Chinese lover to appear.
Dulas transforms from the present imagination to the memory, and many past and present scenes are inserted between the Memorial River Ferry and the lover. This plot seems to be as good as you want, but the essence is carefully planned by the author.
Each scene change reflects the author's psychological changes and adds more content. The narrative slowly unfolds. The readers also shuttle back and forth in the past, present and future time and space as the author's thoughts flow. The narrative in the text does not unfold in the order of time and space, but there is another logic as a clue, which is Duras-style writing technique.
3. The deep connotation of "Lovers"
"I am old. One day, in the hall of a public place, a man came to me. He took the initiative to introduce himself, and he said to me: 'I know you, I will always remember you. At that time, you were still very young, and everyone said you were beautiful. Now, I am here to tell you, to me, I I feel that you are more beautiful now than when you were young. At that time, you were a young woman. Compared with your appearance at that time, I love your now devastated face more. ’”
This is the classic beginning in "Lovers". It uses flashbacks to recall a young emotional experience. This narrative method enhances the vividness of the article, makes the article suspense, and is more fascinating and attractive to readers. At the same time, it can also avoid the monotony of the narrative and the structure.
The beginning of this classic describes a woman who longs for a past lover to come out of the crowd who has already expressed indifferent to her aging self when her face is destroyed, expressing that love that transcends time, giving people a helpless sense of vicissitudes.
Duras' novel "Lovers" breaks the structural model of the traditional novel's one-way linear development in plot arrangement, and replaces it with two-line development to form a unique structural model of multiple-line development. Duras' novels usually arrange two narrative levels, each with an independent theme, and events that occur around this theme. On the surface, the two things on the two levels of
have nothing to do with each other, and the narrator also tells them in parallel, but when the plot develops to the end, these two things are combined at the same point, and the plot structure of "Lovers" is the same.
The deep and hopeless love between the white girl Duras and the rich Chinese master is the main line of the article. However, the article does not describe a complete and comprehensive love story. The narrative of love stories is often interrupted, but it takes a lot of writing to describe a family that makes the author feel lonely, depressed, and intertwined with love and hate.
It is precisely because of such a family that the absurd and desperate love between Duras and Li Yuntai happened naturally. Duras himself said, "I have written a lot about these people in my family." The two clues of love and family affection go hand in hand, and these two clues in the novel change back and forth.
At the ferry where the Chinese man met, before the two sides talked, Duras interspersed and told about the situation of the family and the unfortunate experience of his mother. These two plots do not seem to be much related, like two parallel lines. As the plot develops, there are more and more conflicts, and the two parallel lines also have intersections. , a family that impoverished Duras was the main reason that prompted the love to begin, and white girls also reflected on their behavior through their family's attitude and reaction to this love.
The themes in Duras's works revolve around family affection and love. In the work "Lovers", these two themes are even described in amplified manner. "Lovers" travels back and forth between different clues around the development of these two main lines, making the narrative structure of the novel dynamic and the narrative theme layered, thus making the novel's expression space broader.
Dulas himself called "Lovers" "a story about crossing the river." The moment crossing the river and meeting a Chinese lover is a decisive step for the girl Duras to take a dull, cold and ruined family. Her physical traits are not yet fully mature, and her precocious consciousness is exaggerated with the help of clothing - she is eager for love, the love her mother cannot give.
Through the son of a wealthy Chinese businessman, she got what she wanted. But that was not exactly what she wanted, but another kind of love. Through this lover, the girl awakens her body, triggers the explosion of desire, and leads to emotional transcendence, becoming a full-fledged true woman.
You can see that the depression of love is a transformation of girls' dissatisfaction in real life. Her indulgence in ignoring all of her indulgence is obviously a way to break through the ties of the family and a release of psychological anxiety. She tried to relieve her nervous mental state in the wildness of the body, and used her sexual affection to get rid of the disgusting and repressing things around her.
In Duras' family, they have been covered by indifference for a long time. The mother, two brothers and herself, remain silent, maintaining independence and so-called self-esteem, and bearing the hardships of life in isolation. They are all rebellious, like stubborn stones, and hating each other.
"Lovers" seems to be just telling the experience of Duras on the surface, but it is not an ordinary realist novel , nor is it a biography or semi-autobiographical novel by the author. It is a work that starts from the perspective of women and thinks about life problems and human survival dilemmas. It discusses issues such as sex, love, poverty, freedom and death in depth, and has a profound ideological depth and thematic connotation.
4. Summary
"Lovers" recalls the love of youth from a vicissitudes of perspective, sad tone and beautiful language. It is like a beautiful and lyrical picture, and also like a sad elegy. Who has never had youth and who will not grow old? Recalling youth from the perspective of old age can arouse every reader's empathy with .
It is worth noting that in the novel "Lovers", the addition of "My" family life and colonial life is not irrelevant, it is both the background of the story. If I had not been born in such a poor family, "I" would not have shown up, nor would I have had sex with Chinese lovers for money. Maybe I fell in love with a Chinese lover in the end, but the beginning of things was not for love.
The comparison between the upper class and the lower class of colonial people can be used as the background music of the story, and can also reflect the author's observation of life. Everyone's life is not perfect, it is full of despair. There are many romantic events in the colony. The author writes about a noble lady, her lover who committed suicide in despair for her.
The confusing and desperate survival background, coupled with a desperate love, increases the depth and strength of the work. The author calmly writes these things, the main theme and background are beautiful, desperate and sad. This makes this love unusual and becomes a love in a specific historical stage and a specific social context. At the same time, this work does not fall into the rut of love stories, giving it a broader era and social significance.
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