纯真年代 The Age of Innocence8.2

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• 来自网友【Dawn】的评论It seems to me the most beautiful story of love affair. I love all of the three characters, each with their own highlights, desires, bravery and weak points. They're so real and it makes me feel that life, humanity and love are so complicated and intricate. Conformity with tradtion, pursuit of freedom, decency but emptiness, charm but scandalousness, Archer, as an ordinary man, made his choice from all the intricate dynamics. l like how the film portrays love. People always try to glorify or purify love as so-called true love but actually love, often mixed with desires and balanced with individuality is not sacred. I think Archer indeed loves May. "I love her as much as a man can." "I don't mean to marry anyone." Love flows. It actually took some time for Archer to find out his feelings for Ellen. And it impressed me how his madness for her tormented him. It's so real that it's like all of us once experienced. I love the interesting turns of the story, first when Archer got close to Ellen but he instead turned to May to hurry their wedding, and then when Archer and Ellen confirmed their feelings for each other but suddenly knew that the wedding was advanced, finally when Archer wanted to confess but May told him she was with a child. Every step, Archer was walking farther away from his impulse and another pursuit. He is such a controlled man but so much tortured by his underlying desires and love. And in the end, so close to Ellen, Archer walked away. For him, the past, all he had missed was long gone. The ending is way better than that of Love in the Time of Cholera.