《Ammonite》 - Half fossil, half ember
At the end of the journey, I didn't think that the metaphor of canary was publicized, and the class and concept gap that the two people had consciously ignored were suddenly blocked in the original intimate atmosphere like a door that was dropped. The butterfly, who appeared in Charlotte and her husband's hotel window sill, imprisoned under the glass cover, and the same kind of butterfly who appeared to die in winter over Mary's dusty fireplace, were not born without any of them. A month of living together, from reluctant care and companion between the two sides, has developed into a lifetime unforgettable encounter. Two lonely people warm each other, mingle with love and desire for recognition. However, the reality of the barren after burning out of candle fire makes the path of the two people split up bright and clear, and the open end of the desperate look has actually shown the fate of the choice: finally, one person returns Back to the whistling shore, one was still imprisoned in a delicate and fragile doll house.
Compared with the former God state, the description of female consciousness and class gap is much more obvious than the dark emotional play. The highlight of women's dilemma in the background of the times was given high light at the beginning: the head bones of the ichthyosaurs discovered by Mary at the age of 11 were displayed in the British Museum, among which there were numerous archaeological discoveries. However, her achievements are insignificant in the eyes of the male power world as a label that can be abandoned at any time. She is an intruder in the field of science dominated by men. Therefore, her findings can be easily changed, and her existence can be erased at will. Finally, only the name of male donor is left in the history book. Like the clean women workers who were initially ordered to dodge, Mary, even as a scientist, had the same place in the male power world as any female worker, and the museum's record of all historical favours had nothing to do with them.
The narrative of husband after leaving the office returned to the field of pure women. Unlike the female burning picture which the audience can not avoid comparing, it is constructed in a similar isolated island environment, which makes the feelings of two different people warm up. The class contrast in the women's diagram is very inconspicuous. It can be said that after consciously removing these factors, a vacuum environment is created, focusing on the internal female emotion There's no clue. The inulin stone did not have such dust-free treatment, class factors dominated most of Mary and Charlotte's time, and at the beginning they were destined to be unable to resonate at the soul level.
When she was forced to sell her beloved "our" composite stone, the unspeakable Mary could only make a firm statement of her bottom line. Charlotte's sudden intervention in a clever recommendation was not only a sincere respect and appreciation of Mary's work, but rather as the product of her class's careful cultivation. The plot of the concert undoubtedly pushed the invisible interval of class silence to the extreme. Uneasy, invisible Mary and Charlotte, who were shuttling around town celebrities like birds, were bound to be divided at this point. In the formal music performance after greetings, Mary who consciously sat in the least visible corner is like you and me who are afraid of in modern society. What hurts most here is the speechless barrier caused by class. Charlotte was unaware of Mary's embarrassment and fear, and still spoke to new acquaintances to laugh and Yan Yan to enjoy the elegant music they had been taught to enjoy in the front row. Now, Charlotte has long been part of that class for Mary, who was neglected by her only companion. Leaving the isolated environment, only the intimate company of each other was broken in a moment. The spy across a wall and rain curtain is a verdict that outsiders can never be among them.
The role of doctor is another incarnation of false and false courtesy of patriarchy. When Mary refused to take care of Charlotte for a very good reason, the doctor gave him the so-called sister friendship that he thought was not to be rejected. One woman can take care of another completely unfamiliar woman without reservation. Such a scene is taken for granted in the male thinking, as if any woman in their imagination could switch to the role of caretaker born with maternal color in a flash. And after the treatment, he was suspicious of Mary's kindness. If the invitation was originally sincere, but in such a social situation, Mary did not show a little bit of retention or even regret when Mary escaped obviously because of her embarrassment. His common class with Charlotte rejected Mary to the other side of the invisible wall, and the presence of heavy rain only made the confusion more concrete.
Mary was always resistant and alert to the natural insurmountable estrangement of the class. But in the process of getting along with Charlotte from forced to harmonious, the color of class has been gradually weakened consciously. The main story is from Mary's perspective. The view presented to the audience is how Mary is melted in the center of her companion with Charlotte, and the lines of the corners of eyes and mouth are pulled to show a difficult smile. The close-up of the ointment and the beach sock removal tells Mary that Mary was attracted by Charlotte's young body before she was moved by her serial show of kindness and took off her guard. A series of feelings between the two are Charlotte's passive attitude to crack Mary's passivity, which is the opposite of her lamb's sacrifice attitude when facing her husband. Charlotte's presence is like a candle fire in a harsh winter night. It was a light Mary studied in the light of candles on countless lonely nights. Now it is a living angel on the side, young and white, not only respecting the value of her work, but also seeing her beauty and sex as a woman through the shackles of the secular layer. The scene of the kiss and frolicking in the sea, the shackles on their backs are removed like clothes, which makes people feel that at this moment, they are in the same mind. The burning emotion under the cold tone is as short as the sunshine penetrating the sea. Love and warmth are true, but the reality of a moment is so illusory in front of reality.
London's reunion suddenly changed from the cold coastal scene that she had used to to to the prosperous city, and it was a kind of unreal feeling from Mary's psychological portrayal level. Because of her yearning for Charlotte, she has selectively ignored the grass-ash snake lines that herald different roads, and it is only a dream to collect the memories of the two people to resist the trend of fantasy. All the appearances of London remind her of the fact that the cultural potential rules contained in her environment as a rural, as a lower class and unmarried old woman are incompatible, but Charlotte's joy of running towards her like a spring light and the fact that she finally saw the fossil as her personal achievement was finally moved by a handwritten label returning to the original owner on the signature, and again made her retract her call The suspicion of desire.
Bad signs are fulfilled. The unilateral surprise is the same as the charity that Charlotte husband did not ask for in Lyme's shop. The heart has a sharp imaginary bubble to break the ground, leaving behind coarse sand. Mary's work is more important than being a woman or even life. In Charlotte's eyes, it is just "suffering on the beach". The cruel truth that Mary has been accompanied by is that the understanding and respect of understanding have never been really established. Looking back at the nights Charlotte had been with and helped Mary work, she showed only shallow curiosity and good intentions, and she never tried to approach the core of Mary's most cherished. Based on this understanding, she naturally thought that it was a leap in material life and a transition of class to make Mary a boarder in her family in an obscure way. If Mary accepted the grace, she would be like a mistress, but another subordinate nested by the enslaved wife under patriarchy became a fossil specimen displayed in the Canary cage for appreciation.
Mary's complete soberness and Charlotte's still unconscious contrast have said a farewell to the final. When she came to the end of this trip, the British Museum focused on her own, and her choice and persistence were only under the current of the times