Chapter 19 they don't cross the bridge

The novels "Bridge of Madison" and "Bridge of Madison County" were translated into various languages, and sold well in bookstores all over the world.Clint Eastrend and Meryl Streep were voted by the American audience as the most attractive lover idols in 1995. Even a park in Beijing recently set up a covered bridge in imitation of a movie scene , many middle-aged men and women deliberately come here for a stroll, to experience a sentiment that can only be felt but cannot be expressed in words. Middle-aged love, although it has been described and performed in novels and dramas in the past, it is not as fierce and overwhelming as this time.

It is not only the sophisticated middle-aged people who are moved, but even young people with dreams are also captured.Two middle-aged men and women from different worlds meet in a hot and lonely farm, and they inevitably fall in love. This love is so passionate and lingering that it must be met with all body and mind.However, the fate of the photographer is to wander to the end of the world constantly, but the housewife must return to her husband and children, unless they elope, and they choose to leave.After the parting, the yearning continued, and they finally used death as a union.The old woman asked her children to scatter her ashes under the bridge because her lost lover was waiting.

The unforgettable love, the sadness of parting, and the eternal covenant that will not be forgotten until the end of life, how can it not convince the hearts of all loving men and women in the world? In my opinion, the hardest part of the relationship was the parting.In the original novel, the heroine struggles several times, but the reason why she can't leave is that she can't hurt her husband, a simple and honest man. Moreover, the young son and daughter grow up quickly, and the scandal of their mother spreads in the small town, which will affect them. lifetime.She can't, it's based on moral considerations and the result of being constrained by external environmental norms.

In the movie, Mei Li said something more profound. If she leaves with the photographer, then the beautiful experiences and memories shared between her and her husband will be torn apart and collapsed.And the love between her and the photographer has been implemented in life, and the once romantic and beautiful feelings will gradually disappear under the abrasion of reality.This is purely based on love itself, using restraint to ensure a unique love that can only be once in a lifetime. It's not that she can't, but she doesn't want to. This is the touching part of middle-aged love.Young people have passionate impulses; middle-aged people have temperate powers.Impulse can destroy the beautiful things in life; temperance can stabilize precious qualities.

In the last scene of the movie, the urn was opened and the ashes were flying. I heard the resonance of the wind and the ashes in the bottle, hum... like a song, gentle like a sigh, echoing in the universe. They didn't cross the bridge because they had their own way.