Essay Call for Inscriptions in Hot Summer

Article | Lin Ting

The first time I watched the movie "The Bridge of Lost Dreams", I was attracted by the unforgettable love of those four days; the second time I watched it, I was attracted by Francesca was moved by her bravery in love and responsibility in marriage; when I watched this movie for the third time, I became very interested in the leading actor Robert Kincaid, and I always felt that he was the star of this movie. He is a soul figure, but the movie showed too little about him, so I looked for the novel of the same name and found out that the author, American writer Robert James Waller, devoted a lot of writing to Robert.

Robert Kincaid's life is as legendary as the love in the novel. His IQ and talent were reflected in his childhood, and he seemed to have a natural sense of distance from the world around him. His mother said: "I Know he's my son, but I sometimes hane the felling that he came not from my husband and me, but from another place to which he's to return. It feels like he does not come from my husband and me, but from another place that he is trying to go back to)"

He goes his own way, likes adventure and travel, and likes images and words. This may be true. That's why he later traveled to various places to take pictures.

At the age of eighteen, his father left him, and he spent four years in the army. By chance, he embarked on the path of photography. Sometimes you can't tell whether fate and circumstances created a person, or whether he had such fate and circumstances because of this person. I tend to believe the latter. Robert is independent and lonely. He does not follow the crowd or follow illusory romance. He is just firm, persistent, and does things according to his heart without being afraid of hardship. This is the temperament of an artist.

He doesn’t like fashion photographers and thinks that kind of photography demeans him. After his mother passed away, he used all the savings she left to buy a set of good photographic equipment. He did battlefield photography and felt the cruelty and fear caused by war. After he was discharged from the army, he began to travel to rivers, deserts, mountains, and lakes. He photographed places that could express his spiritual world. Make love to lonely women.

He was married once, to his wife Marianne, a singer, who left him after five years because he never stopped wandering. After a photography trip in Iceland, Robert came home and saw a note: "Robert, it didn't work out, I lift you the Harmony ruitar. Stay in touch. (Robert, it didn't work out, I lift you the Harmony ruitar. Stay in touch.) I will leave you a special guitar as a souvenir. Keep in touch)" Robert was 42 years old at that time, and he was truly alone from then on, living a life like a "ranger", with a car named "Harry" and the guitar accompanying him. .

He lives in his own spiritual world like this, and his job at "Geographical Magazine" can barely support his life. He could lie in bed and read "The Green Hills of Africa," drink a glass of beer, and smell the smell of the local paper mill. Get up in the morning and run for forty minutes, do fifty push-ups, and use your camera as a small weight to complete your daily exercise. He has his own pursuit of art, and he confessed to Francesca:

(I don’t just photograph objects as they are, but turn them into something that reflects my personal consciousness and my spirit. Stuff. I try to find poetry in images. The magazine has its own style requirements, and I don't always agree with the editor's tastes, and that's their problem most of the time, I guess. They know their audience, but I wish they would try other possibilities sometimes and I annoy them by suggesting that)"

He believes that the market kills the passion for art more than anything else. It is "mass market" and designed for average taste, but it will be very restrictive.

He said that he is the last cowboy and has his own world where computers and robots will rule everything and humans will control them. Machines do not require courage and strength, nor do they need to run fast, be strong and agile, be daring, bear hardships and endure hardships, etc. However, his profession (travel photography) is the free space he wants to keep. He said that he is obsolete. The species is a terminal point in the evolution of species, a dead end.

At this time, I have fallen deeply in love with this traveler like Francesca, and I prefer to believe that he is a lonely person. For a traveler, photography is just an image that expresses his inner world. He said, "I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea." a ship launching into the sea).

All the paths he has taken, all the qualities in Robert, have brought him to Francesca, and Francesca’s simplicity, passion, bravery and girlhood dreams have also deeply touched her. Attracted Robert, he seems to have met the same kind of people on the road to the end of species evolution.

"The Bridge" is Waller's first novel and his most famous work. The movie adapted from it is even more classic. Until now, people can still find it in the movie*** Ming and shocked.

The Robert he writes should have his own shadow, because he is also a photographer and musician. He wants to express his dissatisfaction with the times and a luxurious life through Robert.

The social state of the novel's author Hanler: with the rapid development of modern science and technology, information can be transmitted instantly, and the world is becoming smaller and smaller. However, highly developed industrial production has led to a more sophisticated social division of labor. The competition for survival makes people work hard but there is a relative lack of social activities. The struggle for economic interests makes interpersonal relationships increasingly tense.

Does this social situation seem familiar? Is it similar to the social situation in China today? In this state, the author created Robert and a lifelong love at first glance. This is a "utopian" "daydream".

Why do I feel that many people are vigorously practicing Robert's path? At least if someone lives like Robert, he is very popular in China, and maybe he can become an Internet celebrity, or be called "Literary youth".

Robert must be the earliest and oldest literary young man, because he maintained this kind of living state until his death, mentally pretending to be the woman he loved deeply, destroying those unaccepted photography works, and there was a person around him. Only dog ??for company.

I believe there is a group of real Robert who live lonely in this world with the pursuit of art and exploration of the spiritual world.

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