无可救药爱上你2002

我一直讨厌格温妮丝帕特洛，冲着Jennifer Ehle把她忍下来了，没想到还有Toby Stephens和Tom Hollander作为惊喜和囧....

Jennifer Ehle的眼睛真是太美了，当他们终于决定再次见面，穿着披风穿过人群的Christabelle如同从中世纪的油画里走出来一样，脸上神秘温柔甜蜜的笑容，害我一直质疑这个电影难道说的是中世纪的一对恋人，让我想起爱洛伊丝和阿拉贝尔，他两的相爱同样不能公开，同样“唯美”。

当然如果用天涯标准来衡量，这爱情绝不美好。伤害的人除了Christabelle的同性恋人，还有Ash的妻子。不过电影有个细节让我觉得很囧，那就是，MS Ash跟他老婆都没xx过？说什么physical 的，我搞晕了，英语太差劲了...

爱依然是美好的，我如果是Ash，也一定会一头栽死在jennifer Ehle的眼睛，和诗歌里.............

我喜欢那个结尾，Maya小朋友真太美了，英语说的那么好听，最后来一句我希望我能记得，结果真给忘了，弄的我都有点唏嘘..........

    Possession: a romance is often considered as a complex suspense novel regarding history of literature and love. The story starts with a twentieth century dead-in-wood scholar Roland who spends all his time studying a poet Ash from the nineteenth century. It appears at the beginning of the novel that this book focuses on the position of males, particularly Roland and Ash, in different social background. However, new highlights are brought into the novel when Roland discovered the love letters between Ash and Christabel, another poet at that time. The author portrays Christabel and Maud Bailey, tow ladies from different times who change to fight for their freedom to discuss the roles of women through out the history, and how the talent and freedom of women was suppressed.

       Both Christabel and Maud are described in a somehow negative manner when they first appeared in the story. Roland describes the photo of Christabel as “no clear impression of anyone in particular; it was generic Victorian lady, specific shy poetess” (Byatt 44) Similarly, Maud is described as a very ordinary figure. “At first he did not identify Maud Bailey, and he himself was not in any way remarkable” (44). Thus, it can be clearly seen that both Christable and Maud were not considered stunning based on how they looked. Roland even has the impression that Maud “smelled of something ferny and sharp. Roland didn’t like her voice” (44). This shows that most people in the society didn’t appreciate women’s beauty at first sight.

     Byatt makes lots of hints and metaphor regarding the fact that people didn’t realize the talent and importance of women. Maud Bailey’s hair is blonde and metallic, a gold that might have existed before the discovery of precious metal: As she unbinds her mane "Roland saw the light rush towards it and glitter on it, the whirling mass, and Maud inside it saw a sea of gold lines, waving" (296). This represents Maud’s stunning beauty and talent; however, She wears it covered with a scarf, symbolic of repressed Victorian sexuality. Although Christabel’s hair color (like Maud’s hair and the scintillating waters of the fountain) is metamorphic in hue, we have seen that it contains pale loops of silver-gold (301). Gold – the color of charm, confidence, and power linked two women together in reflecting an essential element of their feminine nature—fertility, confident and attracting.
“Mine the bright earth
Mine the corn
Mine the gold throne
To which you’re born
Lie in my lap
Tumbled with flowers”
This is the song of the gold lady who wears a "queenly crown of gold, a filigree turret of lambent sunny gleams and glistering wires above crisping gold curls as heavy with riches as the golden fleece itself" (169). Based upon these parallels, we can conclude that in Possession, women’s wealth — their power and energy — lies in their hair. Even though Christabel’s and Maud’s beauty and power is not recognized, their natural female characters still exist and shine just like the sparkling gold lady.

The connection between Maud and Christabel serves also to connect the past to the present, the Victorian to the Post-modern. Feminism is an important aspect in each time period of the novel. Maud is a modern feminist, attempting to balance her identity as a woman with her identity as an academic scholar, and Christabel is trying to overcome her femininity by living as a recluse with another woman before she met R. H. Ash. Similarly, Maud is a withdrawn person, wary of men, and distrustful. Christabel is doing what many women of her time were doing, that is, struggling for masculine freedom in a world that was very limited for a woman. Maud is doing what many women today are attempting to do, that is, trying to reconcile and accept her femininity in an academic, typically male, environment. Byatt plays up this feminist view of literature and society by choosing to base Christabel's poetry on the strongly feminist poetry. She and Maud are living the liberated version – living on their own, being away from the secular society. These all indicate the ways that women fight against the social pressures and choose their own liberate styles to live.

          Not surprisingly, the light that gold emits cannot be covered up. Eventually, the free soul broke out and the courage pursuing liberty and love beat the fear of being different from others. Christabel and Maud both changed, as they could not reserve their true feelings anymore. In Victorian tradition, it was the man who 'owned' the woman, his wife. Yet in this modern Victorian work, that becomes twisted. When Ash attempts to 'claim' Christabel on page 308 by holding her and making love to her, the act of possession is switched around. He is trying figuratively to grasp her, and 'she was liquid moving through his grasping fingers, as though she was waves of the sea rising all round him.' He tries to take her all in, to know her, and her womanhood eludes him, as personality always will. Byatt's message seems to be that a personality cannot be taken or possessed by someone else, that individuality always remains, even in Victorian situations of female oppression and domination by males. The same love story that defines Christabel and Ash in the 1860's also describes Roland and Maud in the 1980's. Roland gradually changed his impression about Maud and found her extremely charming as a serious scholar and a beautiful independent woman. As two hearts got closer and closer, Maud finally chose to be her true self. She told Roland about her relationship with Fergus, and the reason why she reserved beauty. Then she was convinced to uncover her hair. “The segments of the plaits were like streaked and polished oval stones, celandine yellow, straw-yellow, silvery yellow, glossy with constricted life. Roland was moved—not exactly with desire, but with an obscure emotion that was partly pity, for the rigorous constriction all that mass had undergone, to be so structured into repeating patterns. If he closed his eyes and squinted, the head against the sea was crowned with knobby horns.” (291) This was how Roland felt when he saw Maud’s hair. The incomparable stunning beauty shocked Roland. “Life is so short,” said Roland. “It has a right to breathe.”(291) The courage and desire for love and freedom made them decide to give their love the right to breathe.

          Through the two love stories, sexuality is also discussed. On page 6, there is a passage on R.H. Ash's poem representing Proserpina, an ideal Greek woman, as 'gold-skinned in the gloom..grain golden… bound with golden links.' This is an example of idealized fertility and sexuality in Victorian women. It represents sexuality as something that can be conquered and possessed, like gold or grain. The suppression of sexuality in the Victorian era is a theme throughout the book, in both time periods, as is the sexual freedom that both couples eventually reach. The sexuality in Victorian society can be traced in Possession.

        Byatt successfully displays the change of the roles of women through out the history by shifting from the 1860's to the present. The romances are so similar that it is often difficult to tell which couple Byatt is writing about in any given situation. The way this romantic narrative fits both couples and time periods seems to suggest that not so much has changed, and romance from one time to another is not so different as we thought. The characters mix the old and the new; Maud wears a brooch once belonging to Christabel, and another Ash scholar, Mortimer Cropper, carries Ash's pocket watch. In the end of the novel, the last love letter written by Christabel enables Maud to finally enjoy the value of love in the present, and give her trust to Roland. The cyclical time frame of the novel provides an interesting contrast to the normal, stifling, linear time frame of typical literature and everyday life.

         Possession, a novel with lots of feminism color, does a good job in portraying two female characters from different times to call for the respect and attention for women from the society. Christabel and Maud are two respectable females who set an example for women to be who they want to be and gain respect and love they deserve.

以真爱为名，出轨不叫出轨叫浪漫，那个受了严重心伤而被自杀的女同志啊，人民已经把你遗忘

本来以为是一部穿越体电影，原来是一部跳跃体，在古今来回切换的画面里，有好莱坞勉为其难的英式矫情

bbc《傲慢与偏见》的女主角（我记得我曾及记得她的名字），在这里笑得好苦。。。。
格温妮斯，我爱你

没字幕的，我下载了，我看完了，我胜利了！

演女诗人的那个演员就是95的《傲慢与偏见》的女主角，她浪漫，优雅，自信，独立的气质真是让人印象深刻，先看的这个电影才然后才看的95的《傲慢与偏见》的，当时看见傲慢与偏见的时候就觉得这简直就是我心中的Elizabeth,两段感情都让人觉得浪漫而美好，是个不错的片子！

  On account of lacking enough time, I meant to watch this film instead of the original work. But now I determine to appreciate this book,since I believe the plot will be complete and meaty that engages me more.
  In the typical English romance, for me what the two protagnists talked with each other sounds like a song lingering on my ears.

    they say that women change
  'Tis so,
  but you are ever-constant in your changefulness
  like that still thread from the falling river,
  one from source to last embrace in the still pool
  and ever renewed,
  and ever moving on
  from first to last,
  a myriad of water droped
  and you-
  i love you for it-
  are the force that moves that holds the form

  These things are there. The garden and the tree
  The serpent and its root, the fruit of gold
  The woman in the shadow of the boughs
  The running water and the grassy space.
  They are and were there. At the old world' rim,
  In the Hesperidean grove, the fruit
  Glowed golden on eternal boughs, and there
  The dragon Ladon crisped his jewelled crest
  Scraped a gold claw and sharped a silver tooth
  And dozed and waited through eternity
  Until the tricksy hero Herakles
  Came to his depossession and the theft.
 
   Ash must be a fabulous poet who wrote such spectaculous words that really moved me. I can understand the conflict in Belly's heart. On the one hand, she loved the man who was always resisting to
admit his feeling, and longed for develop further relationship with him. On the other hand, she was scared. She was reminded of the relationship and the pathetic ending of Ash's true love, all her own love affairs and others. All love turns out to be ashes of time.
  
Even though a man's flame burns up his lover, even he makes her breath-taking, when they are confronted with the fierce reality, they have to choose to sacrifice or make a compromise.

把636页的书改编成90分钟的电影，必然会造成这样的结果：节奏加快，分支人物删减，长篇累牍的文本或对话直接忽略。在有的作品里，这样的处理还尚能接受，而在有的作品里，可能就会导致剧情“看不懂”，或者魅力迅速减淡、内涵大幅丧失。比如《达芬奇密码》，主角将几个核心密码一一破解的曲折过程，本就是小说的精华所在，也是读者很享受很受吸引的部分，但是在电影中，解密就像演员赶通告一样，这个场子跑完赶紧飞奔去下一个，简直变成了跑男参加定向越野。

把小说《占有》改编成电影《无可救药爱上你》也遇到了类似的问题。电影提炼了“主要情节和线索”，一条线索发生在十九世纪中叶，一位维多利亚时代杰出诗人艾什（有妇之夫）爱上了女诗人克里斯塔贝尔，两个人却只能体验“曾经拥有”，无法享受“天长地久”；另一条线索发生在一九八六年的现代，研究艾什的研究助理罗兰，为了调查艾什的隐秘恋情，邂逅、恋上了研究克里斯塔贝尔的莫德·贝利博士。

为了剧情的合理发展，电影保留了必要的分支配角——（现代线索中）布列克艾德教授（男主罗兰的BOSS）、弗格斯·沃尔夫（女主的前男友）、克拉波尔教授（男主及BOSS的学术对头）、乔治爵士夫妇（关键信件的主人），其他则一律删去，包括男主罗兰的女友瓦尔，都人间蒸发了。而随着这些分支人物共同蒸发的，还有作品独特的味道、特殊的视角和文化厚度。

电影《无可救药爱上你》，正如这个俗气的译名所做的，将原著浓缩成了2个发生在不同时代的言情故事，加了点儿悬疑为辅料，再抹了点文艺和学术当调料。

可是，很不幸的是，原著《占有》正好是那种不怎么适合改编和浓缩的小说，因为小说遍布大量的日记、书信、学术著作、诗歌、传说，可以说，整部作品就是靠这些文本支撑起来、丰富起来的，而且每种文本都有其存在的价值和魅力，它们用不同的体裁，或陈述、或抒情、或议论、或暗喻。

在小说中，艾什和克里斯塔贝尔的故事基本就活在文本中，在不同文字资料的被发现、被重新解读中，他们的故事也串连成线，逐渐浮出水面，而一段故事在不同角色笔下（比如艾什夫人爱伦、比如克里斯塔贝尔在布列塔尼的表外甥女莎宾）的陈述，本身就很有意思。而且在这些文本中，大量文学课题也被一一抛出，比如神话传说对文学的影响，比如女权主义思潮在文学研究中的利弊等等。

其实，电影版也努力节选了一部分诗歌、信件，以还原《占有》的风格和意境，然而碍于电影的时长和形式，这种节选只能是东一鳞西一爪，浮光掠影般的，来不及领会和读懂，就嗖的一声过去了。比如，艾什和克里斯塔贝尔这两大诗人，只因为参加某次上层社会的聚会就一见钟情了吗？艾什堕入情网，难道只因为克里斯塔贝尔朝他抛了个媚眼、放了若干伏电？如果没有细读他们频繁的、长篇的信件，又怎能明白这两大高手之间的心有灵犀和惺惺相惜呢？如果没有阅读过艾什夫人爱伦琐碎平庸的日记，又怎么能比较出爱伦和克里斯塔贝尔两位女性角色根本上的不同，以及对艾什的意义呢？

《占有》这部小说为何能拿下“英语文学最高荣誉布克奖”？我们不妨先来关心一下作者是谁，作者A.S.拜厄特，和一般作家不同的是，她原来是专门研究英语文学的，她毕业于剑桥、牛津，在伦敦大学学院教文学教了10多年。所以，在《占有》中，她对文本的解读、对文学体裁的驾驭、对学术领域的透析都是熟稔、自如和深入的。她仿佛从容行走在文学的果林中，对悬挂在枝头的各种水果了然于胸，信手摘下。在《占有》之前，偶没有读到过一本小说，是建筑在类似这样的厚实地基之上的。

而电影的改编使得原著这种标志性的特征被削弱得几乎消失殆尽，实在是一种遗憾。正如中译本《占有》的腰封上对占有的解读——“爱人想要完全占有自己的所爱；研究者想要占有知识和信息；收藏者想要占有珍奇的藏品；诗人想要占有他们描绘的意象和主题”。也就是说，“占有”这个关键词，在原作中是有多重含义和指向的，然而到了电影中，占有这片小树林，被砍伐得只剩“爱人之间的占有”这棵小树苗了。

不过，必须要承认的是，电影还是有不少可取之处的，比如画面剪辑很流畅，古今之间的切换自然舒服；演员选得也无可挑剔，不管是演艾什和克里斯塔贝尔的杰瑞米·诺森和詹妮弗·艾莉（艾莉就是95年BBC版《傲慢与偏见》里的女主），还是演莫德和罗兰的格温妮丝·帕特洛和艾伦·艾克哈特（想想《莎翁情史》和《洛杉矶之战》），都和原著角色很神似，顺便说一句，连配角、克里斯塔贝尔的女伴都是《权力的游戏》里的太后瑟曦；在讲述19世纪的线索时，维多利亚时期浓浓的英国古典氛围也扑面而来。

所以，尽管它把绿茶硬生生做成了抹茶冰淇淋，不过还是一支做得相当不错的冰淇淋。

 《国王的演讲》大热，詹妮弗艾莲（Jennifer Ehle）和科林费尔斯（Colin Firth）的那点旧事又被拿来炒作了。两人当年因《傲慢与偏见（1995版）》结缘，共谱恋曲，最后没能像伊丽莎白和达西那样结局圆满。不过在《国王的演讲》中两人有几分钟的对手戏。看了片花不由让人感叹，女人已老，男人却正当年。从95版《傲慢与偏见》时我就开始关注她了。她没有我心目中的伊丽莎白那样灵秀聪颖，最多是个端庄娴雅版的，黑发贴头的卷发并不适合她，她是金发的。不过她有一种说不出的气势，一下子在我的脑子里占据了一席之地。我时常关注她和她的电影。她是美国人，在英国学习戏剧，获得的嘉许和赞赏也都在英国，典型的实力派，有演技却不怎么有名气，不知有没有海伦米勒和朱迪丹奇这么好运，上了年纪还能风光一把。岁月流逝，昨天我突然在电视上认出了她，真是不可思议。
长假里向来是日夜颠倒的，午夜我窝在沙发里，在一大堆零食的包围中百无聊赖的翻着遥控器，东方影视频道在放一部叫《迷梦情缘》的片子。先吸引我停下遥控器的是大美女格温妮丝•帕特洛 Gwyneth Paltrow和大帅哥艾伦•艾克哈特 Aaron Eckhart（他的那部《感谢你抽烟》简直让我顶礼膜拜），然后就看到了詹妮弗艾莲（Jennifer Ehle）和杰瑞米•诺森 Jeremy Northam，我不由放下遥控器，给自己泡了杯茶。再看下去让我想起了《隐之书》。我真不知道这部书被拍成电影了。然后翻翻豆瓣，原来这部片子叫《无可救药爱上你》，我放在“想看”这一栏中，估计想看也是冲着派特洛去的。原来绕了一大圈子，就是这部片子呀。詹妮弗艾莲也是女主角之一。在我看来女诗人本就不是同性恋，在那个女人被压抑的年代，有才华的女人只能用特立独行的方式来与社会抗争。她和她的女友都是那个时代下不得志的人物，空有一身的才华，却得不到世俗的认同。她们只能相依为伴，惺惺相惜。只是女孩间的友谊总是充满了些占有欲。呵呵，这才是她该演的角色。
当然小说写更得好，不然不会一版再版。套用几句歌词，“想爱不能爱才最寂寞”，“将爱进行到底，温柔尚在，寂寞永生”。这样的爱情不是传说，很真实，真实得可以印成铅字，流芳后世。
但遗憾也不少，本来会是一部很成功的小成本电影，不能立刻抓住你的眼球，却也犹如一杯清茗般温馨隽永，但大牌美女帅哥的演出，让这部片子显得有点不伦不类。着实可惜了那英式田园风光。
一定要去看看《国王的演讲》，为了点八卦精神，更为了詹妮弗艾莲那几分钟的演出，看看一个女人如何在她曾爱过的男人面前魅力四射的。