Adult Pip with Kana
Lone Star Blood and Tears is a black-and-white film based on Dickens's novel Great Prospects, released in the United Kingdom in 1946. The film tells the twisty story of Pip, a poor child, who has helped a fugitive and lived a life of a superior person, and then broke down.
The vast public, chasing fame and profit, is like the ebb and flow of the tide, perseverance, never stop. Pip lost his parents as a child and was raised by his sister and brother-in-law, and after his sister's death, his brother-in-law still treated him as always, taking him as an apprentice, teaching him a skill, hoping that he could have a foundation in society. But since a mysterious man began to finance him, the elegant and noble life of nobility made him gradually lose himself, and he began to dislike his brother-in-law, the home that had blessed him and warmed him from childhood. When he dissected his own mental journey, he realized that it was because the poor and rude teenager met a beautiful and rich girl and had an inferiority complex, so he hated his own residence, hated his family, and hated his ordinary life.
Teen Pip
Evil thoughts are like flames, once ignited, it is difficult to extinguish, but sometimes the timing is not right, and you can only pretend to be a small Mars to lie dormant. When the conditions are ripe, the little Mars can expand several times in an instant and become a burning flame.
Miss Amise, imprisoned in her own paranoid cage
Near Pip's house was a wealthy Miss Amise, who disappeared on the wedding day after her groom left a letter, which deeply pierced the heart of the beautiful and proud maiden, and she sealed herself up ever since. Everything in the house was prepared for the wedding intact, and the wedding cake, the wedding feast, the clock, and even the wedding dress worn on the body were never removed. In order to get revenge on the man, she adopted a beautiful little girl and used her as a sharp weapon to hurt the boy's heart. Little Pip is used as a guinea pig to test the lethality of girlish charm. Before meeting the beautiful and proud Miss Kana, Pip had never been dissatisfied with his life. Even if his sister treats him rudely, he is still satisfied with the life in front of him, simple and happy. But ever since Miss Emissy, who had an ulterior motive, had called her to the ruined castle and seen the beautiful and wayward Kana, the discontent and desire began to take root. Every time Kana appeared in her heart, that thought was a little deeper in her heart. Dingdang was a little blacksmith who worked day and night, and he was increasingly silent, and although the thoughts in his heart tormented him, he did not have a glimmer of expectation for this feeling. Suddenly, one day, a lawyer came to his humble home and brought a shocking accident, and there was a rich man who wanted to finance him to live in London and give him a lot of wealth.
Pip enjoyed the elegant life of a london aristocratic youth, reading, dancing, fencing, boxing...his living expenses were getting higher and higher, and his life was getting more and more luxurious. In just one year, he faded the shabbiness and restraint of the little blacksmith and became a gentleman who was elegant and elegant. At this time, he felt that he was worthy of Miss Kana, and unconsciously began to alienate his family. When his brother-in-law, Jacka, visited him in London, he was full of disdain for his brother-in-law's dress and demeanor, and his disgust was overflowing. Kind Jacka didn't make much of a stop and left quickly. Everyone has their own dignity, and they cannot neglect others because of their so-called identity and clothing, especially that person has tried his best to raise himself as a brother since childhood.
Vanity and desire can confuse people and make their words and deeds go against their own hearts. Everyone has their own magic obstacles, some artificial, some artificial. In fact, the most pitiful and hateful in the film is Miss Amise, because of the absence of the groom, she suffered emotional betrayal and became the laughing stock of the people, she is a poor bride. But the bride was blindly immersed in self-hatred and self-pity, refused to let go of herself, built a cage for herself, and has been imprisoned in the darkness of not seeing the sun ever since. A young, beautiful, wealthy aristocratic lady who should have had a happy and normal life, but because of her own stubbornness, she became a "monster" with a twisted mind. He wears a wedding dress all year round, keeps all the items of the wedding banquet in the hall, and allows rats to climb and spider webs. In order to satisfy her own selfish desires, she specially adopted a beautiful girl and taught her how to use her beauty to hurt men's hearts from an early age. She not only ruined her own life, but also destroyed the life of another innocent girl with her own hands.
Ingrid Bergman said that the secret of happiness is good mood plus bad memory. Maintain a good mood, do not put irrelevant people and things in your heart, like a thick-skinned confused person life, the happiness index rubs up. Everyone encounters all kinds of dissatisfaction, and sometimes we can't do anything in the face of setbacks, and the only thing we can do is to let go. To let go is to liberate yourself, to turn this page over, to let your life continue to move forward. If you cling to the people who can't stay, you can't climb the peak, and the last thing you hurt the most is yourself. Miss Emissy is a typical example of self-harming others due to paranoia.
Teenage Kana
Pip's feelings for Kana are actually complicated. This feeling has both the admiration and attachment of the young man who has just opened his heart for the beautiful girl, and the surprise, envy and inferiority psychology of the poor teenager who sees the luxurious life of the nobility for the first time. Because of the encounter of her youth, Kana became Pip's white moonlight, representing the unattainable dream, representing the aristocratic life of the highest, representing the purest and cleanest desire. This feeling is not pure love, so it lasts longer than love. Whether or not the two will be together after that, Kana will always have a place in Pip's heart.
Pip is a man of conscience after all. He was ashamed of his hatred of the poor and the rich, and regretted his lack of gratitude. He also saw through the mercenary nature of high society, so when his patron died and his wealth was confiscated by the royal family and returned to the identity of a poor boy, he was not depressed. When he was destitute and seriously ill, it was the kind and simple Jacka and Betty who took him home and took good care of him. No matter how cruel the whipping of real life is, what people need most is the most sincere feelings. Whether you are rich or poor, healthy or sick, elegant or rude, you always care, love and support, which is actually a person's most precious wealth and a source of strength that motivates you to bravely face all repression and suffering.
Pip is actually happy compared to Kana. Although the living conditions cannot be compared, Pip has relatives who love him, he has been surrounded by kind and simple people since he was a child, and his soul has been most tenderly cared for. Although Kana grew up in fine clothes, no one really cared about her, and gorgeous clothes and delicious food did not really bring people a sense of happiness, or far less than the happiness brought by love and companionship.
Miss Amise dies in a cage created by her own twisted psychology, and Kana's life is full of twists and turns (Dickens gives the original two endings, one ending is that Pip leaves the dilapidated castle with Kana, the other ending is that Kana marries Bentney but suffers domestic violence, suffers a lot, and then her husband dies in an accident, she marries a poor doctor and lives on her property), and Pip returns to his normal life. The power of love is secret and great, and its power is not felt in ordinary times, but when danger comes, it is like a star, guiding people out of the night. Just like Harry Potter, because of his mother's love, he defeated the powerful Voldemort and became the only one who survived under his hands.
Having good thoughts, having hopes, and learning to let go is the light of life that you have accumulated for yourself.