A photo exhibition about bridges

Ten years ago, I saw a beautiful love story when I watched The Bridges of Madison County. Kincaid and Francesca fell in love for only a moment and only got along for four days, but they will never forget each other.

At that time, when I read that they fell in love at first sight, my heart surged and I wondered if there would be such a fierce spark if two dust in the universe collided.

Later, talking about this book with others will always be associated with words like marriage and love. Everyone can imagine what would happen if Francesca and Kincaid left, leaving her husband and children behind.

Really, as Kincaid said, two people can have sex on the beach in the desert, drink brandy on the balcony of Mombasa and watch Arabian dhows sail in the early morning breeze? The answer should be: not necessarily.

So Francesca, the wife of a farmer in this small town, will really keep her passion for Kincaid in her increasingly dull marriage life? The answer should also be: not necessarily.

So some people say that love without marriage is worth remembering for a lifetime.

Ten years later, I read The Bridges of Madison County again and was deeply impressed by the author's superb writing skills. Many sentences in the book are full of poetry, such as turning blue at night and fog blowing across the meadow.

When they were cooking in the kitchen, their descriptions were also wonderful.

The sun changed from white to red, just falling in the corn field. Looking out of the window, she saw an eagle soaring in the evening breeze. There are seven o'clock news and market news briefings on the radio. At the moment, Francesca is looking at Robert Kincaid across the yellow veneer table. He has come a long way to her kitchen, a long way, more than miles!

At the same time, in addition to love stories, I also saw the author's extraordinary skill in shaping characters, as well as his careful thinking and calm reflection on the times.

This passage is from a letter Francesca wrote to the children before she died. This is her understanding of the love of her life.

Judging from Kincaid's image, this novel is no longer a romantic love story. But in the era of mechanical reproduction, a travel photographer's desire for traditional power and social order.

How does Kincaid evaluate this era? He said this to Francesca when he was filming the covered bridge.

In Kincaid's words, the author expressed the rapid development of science and technology and the gradual degradation of mankind.

In 1960s, human society entered the "post-industrial era". In this highly developed information society, people have entered a new stage in the ideological field, which is now called "postmodernism". In the era of new technological revolution, works have a common feature, that is, deconstruction, breaking the current single order and inertial thinking, highlighting the true impulse of human beings and venting "ID".

Whether highly developed science and technology will cause human alienation is also a question raised in this novel. The "alienation" referred to here is not "people become inhuman" as mentioned in Kafka's novel Metamorphosis, but mainly manifested in the isolation between people, which makes people lose their instinct of love, their emotions and nature are suppressed, their passion and creativity are lost, and their physique and intelligence are degraded.

In the first few pages of the book, there is such a passage. It reflects the indifference and lack of human emotions and the desire for natural primitive life under the social environment of rapid development of science and technology industry.

In this book, the author also puts forward the conclusion that the market stifles artistic passion through the mouth of the protagonist Jin Kai.

When Kincaid and Francesca were washing vegetables in the kitchen, Kincaid mentioned that he liked taking pictures rather than taking them.

Why can't there be thinkers like Plato, Socrates and pre-Qin philosophers at present, but only scientists and billionaires? Why are there more and more industrial replicas? Kincaid or the author's answer may reflect some problems.

In addition, there are still some paragraphs that I still can't understand and explain.

There is also an article written by Kincaid to Francesca, because there is a back zone in the knowledge system, which I can't understand.

In addition to these new discoveries, I also found several very beautiful jokes.

Kincaid followed Francesca to the covered bridge. When he went to her house for tea, there was an interesting remark.

Watching her take off her boots that day was the most sensual moment in his memory. Why? It doesn't matter. This is not his attitude towards life. "Analysis undermines integrity. Some things, magical things, just want to keep integrity. If you look at it part by part, it disappears. "

The work describes the physical love of two people, which is also very beautiful.

All the tiny footprints he walked on the desert beach, the mysterious boxes on the ships that never anchored, the faces that hid behind the curtains and watched him walk on the winding streets of the dark city-all the meanings he finally understood. Just like an old hunter who came back from a long journey, when he saw the light of the bonfire at home, all his loneliness suddenly vanished. Finally, finally ... he came all the way, all the way. So he sat on her in the most perfect posture, immersed in his whole-hearted love for her life. Finally!

At dawn, he looked her in the eye and said, "That's why I came to this planet at this time, Francesca. Not for traveling photography, but for loving you. I understand now. I have been falling from the edge of a wonderful place high for a long time, many years longer than my life. And I have been falling to you for so many years. "

"I think we all entered the body of another life, and we created this body and called it' we'"

This is a reading note I wrote when I reopened The Bridges of Madison County. Although this book is a best seller, the length is not very long, but there is not a nonsense in the book, whether it is characterization, narrative structure or reflection on the times, it can be called a masterpiece.

I also hope that after many years, when I open this book again, I can have a new feeling. The most important thing is to break the blind spot of cognition and understand the paragraph of "zero space".