said goodbye, Robert said to Francesca affectionately: Many people have been searching for this kind of feeling for most of their lives and have not found it. This kind of feeling only happens once in a lifetime.
remembers the first time I watched "The Last Dream of the Covered Bridge" when I was in middle school.
When I was a child, I didn't understand love and marriage at all, and I couldn't understand the meaning of "Covered Bridges". Now, after many years, I have already stepped into the shackles of marriage, and I really understand the meaning of this movie.
01 Meet Robert
Robert said: I am the road, the far traveler, and all the ships that go to sea.
Francesca said: There is only one man like him in the world, there is no second. On the day
met, Francesca was sitting under the porch of her house drinking tea when a man asked her how to find the Roseman Bridge, and she stood up to meet her. It was this time asking for directions that opened the four-day fate between the two, and also opened the lifelong love of the two.
Robert is a photographer by profession. He is withdrawn by nature, has no friends, and is alone every day. He had a short-lived marriage, but his wife eventually left him due to long-term travel.
Francesca is an Italian woman, born and lived in Naples, the romantic capital , , majored in literature at university, and likes Yeats 's poems the most. She is married to Richard, an American veteran, from Italy. Arrived in the United States, became the hostess of the farm, and gave birth to a son and a daughter for her husband.
Husband Richard is honest and pragmatic. He gives Francesca a home and a stable life, but he doesn't understand style, Yeats' poems, or his wife's inner romantic needs.
saw Robert, a certain string in Francesca's heart was plucked, she volunteered to take Robert to Rothman Bridge, just a glimpse, she had a strange feeling about the lonely man in front of her.
Robert Kincaid like some other species, intruding into Francesca's quiet backwater life.
On the first night, the two went for a walk after dinner, and Robert looked up at the sky and recited two lines in his baritone: silver apples of the moon/golden apples of the sun. Francesca heard that it was Yeats' "Song of Wanderer Angus" that she liked.
Robert summed up Yeats' poetry in five words "realism, conciseness, sensuality, beauty and magic", which are exactly what Francesca had in mind but failed to express.
Francesca, who has been emotionally lonely for a long time, and her spiritual emptiness, was finally understood. She suddenly saw her heart beating, and the feeling of meeting a soulmate in high mountains and flowing waters. This is a coincidence and a necessity.
A poem links two hearts. At this moment, Robert and Francesca have a heart-to-heart connection. The 45-year-old Francesca and the 52-year-old Robert fell in love at first sight.
02 Four days together
When the white moth spreads its wings, if you still want to have dinner, you can come over tonight when you are done, anytime.
This is the note that Francesca pinned to the head of the Rothman Bridge overnight in his drive to the Rothman Bridge. This is also the note that Robert has kept for a lifetime. Their love started with this note.
During the day, Francesca went to buy a light pink dress with thin straps that accentuated her figure, bought two bottles of Italian wine of good quality and brandy in a narrow-neck glass bottle. Then go home and cook a hearty dinner.
When Francesca walked into the kitchen that night after showering and putting on her new clothes, she was pleased with her feminine appearance, feeling light and warm, bathed in Robert's gaze.
Robert said: OMG! I mean it, you are a beauty, Francesca, in the purest sense of the word.
Francesca enjoys the joy and triumph of being admired by a man's gaze, and every pore is bathed in comfort and wantonness. Then she fell in love with Robert Kincaid in an instant.
The two danced, drank, chatted, and had sex. For the next four days, the two of them were sticking together like this, showing off their personalities, chatting, having sex, and having sex in all parts of the house, with beautiful scenery.
At dawn, Robert raised his body and looked into Francesca's eyes and said: I came to this planet not for photography, but to love you. I've been falling off the edge of a wondrous place from a high place for a long time, many more years than I've lived through my life. I've been falling for you for so many years.
These are the best love words a woman can hear. To this, Francesca responded: You already have me, I am not sitting next to you, but in your body, belonging to you, willing to be a prisoner.
In a sense, women are asking men to be poets and fierce and passionate lovers at the same time. And Robert Kincaid fits Francesca's best vision of a man.
However, Robert was leaving soon, and the two ended up talking together. What should the two of them do?
03 Let go because you know it
Time is always passing, and it doesn't stop for anyone. The fastest time is the most beautiful time.
Four days of life are over, Robert has finished his job, and Francesca's husband and children are going home soon. The two face the choice of leaving or staying.
Robert asked Francesca to come with him. As long as she goes with him, anything will do. Wandering, lonely, and wandering all his life, Robert finally found a harbor where he could moor.
He wants to be with Francesca, he can't live without her. He is ready to face everything.
He said: I'm talking directly to your husband, . . . it's not easy, but I'll do it.
However, Francesca is conflicted. She also wanted to leave with her lover. However, she is not alone.
She has a family behind her and she has a lot of responsibilities. Richard may be insane, but he is a kind husband and underage children. If she leaves in spite of everything, how will he face people's comments, and how will the child live in the future?
Robert looked out the window, struggling to understand her feelings. He cried.
Eventually Robert understood Francesca, he knew that if he pressed her to go with him, she would not refuse. However, if he did that, she would not be happy in the future, and even these four good days would turn into sin. Guilt will stay with her for the rest of her life. Even with him he would lose his balance.
Robert is a strong man, the last cowboy, in order to fulfill his lover, for his lover's peace and happiness, he chose to sacrifice his feelings and leave alone.
As he left, he cried, tears streaming down his cheeks.
just like that, he left the lover who had merged with him.
He fulfilled the woman he loved by leaving.
In the years that followed, Robert continued to wander lonely and desolate; Francesca continued to take care of the family and be a good wife and a good mother. One thing
has in common is that they both miss each other hard.
Because he understands, Francesca sticks to it.
Robert left because he understood.
Who can do this without a deep understanding of the meaning of love?
05 Missing, to the death
After Robert left the town of Iowa, he only wrote a letter to Francesca in 1965, sending her photos and magazines, and never bothered her again until the last moment of his life.
He had every chance to go to Iowa to see Francesca again, but for the promise of the day, he did not disturb his lover's life and never went to see her again.
That's it, under the necklace, he engraved Francesca's name, and kept the small note that Francesca wrote to her when the two met for the first time in his life. He has no other woman.
was alone and wandered the world until death took his life. In his later years,
became friends with saxophonist player Cummings, and confided their story to a friend after a drunken session.
Cummings said: (Robert cried) Big drops, big drops of tears fell, the old mancry.
And Francesca worked tirelessly to take care of her husband, raise her children, and did all the responsibilities of a housewife, but she always had a lover in her heart.
Every year for her birthday, she rereads Robert's letter and recalls the four days in her life they spent together.
Smoltai said: All good things come from love. Love is a messenger of light and a happy passerby.
From this point of view, Francesca is happy because she has love. Although she and Robert have only lived together for four days, she has loved him all her life, cared about him, and missed him every time. He never left him every second. This is a pure and sincere love, a true love of life, a spiritual love that transcends the secular and noble.
06 Written at the end of
standing in a woman's position, we soberly see that Francesca's choice is painful, but her choice is undoubtedly correct.
Four days of romance, four days of beauty, what would happen if Francesca chose Robert? When
chooses Robert, he chooses passion, sensuality, romance, dreams and freedom.
What would happen if the two lived together?
Francesca said this to Robert:
You know, this home will change completely after I leave. No matter where we go, how far we are from this house, I always think about this, every moment of this home. I will blame myself for not falling in love with you and hurting so many people. In the end, I even felt that the four wonderful days we spent together were wrong and shameful.
Wait until the passion subsides, and gradually, the two will complain about each other, blame each other, and eventually ruin the relationship.
Of course none of this happened.
In reality, after experiencing the pain of tearing heart and lungs, Francesca is determined to bury love forever.
She chooses the family, chooses the husband, chooses the children, chooses to maintain the integrity of the family.
" watch the movie " magazine said: This film depicts an extramarital affair, but it is unexpectedly moving and unexpectedly sad.
Love and responsibility cannot be unified and coordinated most of the time, and sometimes even conflict with each other, but the reason why human beings are continuous, the reason why society develops, and the reason why family is complete, just shows that the meaning of responsibility is sometimes greater than love itself.
So, Francesca and Robert chose to make personal sacrifices for the self, for the big, for the family and for the society, and they were righteous, even noble. This also proves that the love between the two is true love.
Because true love is based on mutual understanding and respect, although Robert and Francesca chose to part with each other painfully, they really did it for several years, and finally realized the eternal love.
In this era when you can get divorced after three months of marriage and love is just a show, "Land Dreams of Covered Bridge" has indeed brought some inspiration to our desolate emotional world today.
