李朱元
发表于5分钟前
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:宝钗去看宝玉,宝玉梦见黛玉来看他,晚上送帕给黛玉试探,黛玉在帕上题诗。袭人道王夫人出诉说对宝玉的担忧,王夫人很赞赏,给了她妾的许诺。薛姨妈,宝钗错怪了薛蟠,薛蟠说出宝钗金玉良缘的打算来气宝钗,宝钗委屈。螃蟹宴后,刘姥姥再进贾府,受到贾母款待。贾母带着刘姥姥游大观园,并要求惜春给刘姥姥画大观园图。鸳鸯和凤姐撺掇刘姥姥出丑给贾母作乐,众人其乐融融。一行人来到藕香榭喝酒行令,黛玉无意中失口说出《牡丹亭》中的词句。刘姥姥在藕香榭宴席上暴饮套杯美酒、莫辩茄菜何料,笑得众人前仰后合。妙玉登场,超凡出尘,竟胜宝黛,令宝玉出离神往。刘姥姥吃坏了肚子,醉眠怡红院。当夜,宝钗借黛玉行白天酒令之事,深情劝诫“女子不可看杂书”,黛玉深深感激。贾母为凤姐大办生日,学小家子凑份子,举府眷仆,纷纷迎合,尤氏总理。凤姐实仍暗中操控。小小“份儿钱”,暗藏大家族各路玄机。庆生当日,亦是金钏儿忌日,宝玉却全身缟素,茗烟快马奔至水仙庵,深情泪祭,唯黛玉心知肚明。贾琏与鲍二家的在房内白日偷欢,凤姐闻之撒泼大闹,更加罪于平儿。平儿委屈不尽,以死相向。贾琏恼羞成怒,拔剑威胁。凤姐向贾母求救。宝玉深情无限,抚慰平儿,平儿受宠若惊。在贾母微笑监督之下,贾琏、凤姐、平儿重修旧好。三人回房,惊闻鲍二家的上吊自尽。新年将至,庄头乌进孝来宁府交租,因旱涝之故,上缴的租子银两并未达到贾珍预算。租子的一年不如一年引发贾珍不满。管理家庙的贾芹去贾珍处领年货,反遭贾珍一顿数落。除夕夜,贾母带领众多儿孙去宁国府宗祠祭祖,履行两府每年的传统。元宵晚宴上,黛玉不顾体统,众目睽睽之下让宝玉代其喝酒。因女先儿的一出《凤求凰》,贾母掰谎,批才子佳人。凤姐连说两个“散了”的笑话,预示着盛宴必散的结局。
李雅微
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:It has been said that most great twentieth century novels include scenes in a hotel, a symptom of the vast uprooting that has occurred in the last century: James Ivory begins Quartet with a montage of the hotels of Montparnasse, a quiet prelude before our introduction to the violently lost souls who inhabit them.Adapted from the 1928 autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, Quartet is the story of a love quadrangle between a complicated young West Indian woman named Marya (played by Isabelle Adjani), her husband Stefan (Anthony Higgins), a manipulative English art patron named Heidler (Alan Bates), and his painter wife Lois (Maggie Smith). The film is set in the Golden Age of Paris, Hemingway's "moveable feast" of cafe culture and extravagant nightlife, glitter and literati: yet underneath is the outline of something sinister beneath the polished brasses and brasseries.When Marya's husband is put in a Paris prison on charges of selling stolen art works, she is left indigent and is taken in by Heidler and his wife: the predatory Englishman (whose character Rhys bases on the novelist Ford Madox Ford) is quick to take advantage of the new living arrangement, and Marya finds herself in a stranglehold between husband and wife. Lovers alternately gravitate toward and are repelled by each other, now professing their love, now confessing their brutal indifference -- all the while keeping up appearances. The film explores the vast territory between the "nice" and the "good," between outward refinement and inner darkness: after one violent episode, Lois asks Marya not to speak of it to the Paris crowd. "Is that all you're worried about?" demands an outraged Marya. "Yes," Lois replies with icy candor, "as a matter of fact."Adjani won the Best Actress award at Cannes for her performances in Quartet: her Marya is a volatile compound of French schoolgirl and scorned mistress, veering between tremulous joy and hysterical outburst. Smith shines in one of her most memorable roles: she imbues Lois with a Katherine-of-Aragon impotent rage, as humiliated as she is powerless in the face of her husband's choices. Her interactions with Bates are scenes from a marriage that has moved from disillusionment to pale acceptance.Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory's screenplay uses Rhys's novel as a foundation from which it constructs a world that is both true to the novel and distinctive in its own right, painting a society that has lost its inhibitions and inadvertently lost its soul. We are taken to mirrored cafes, then move through the looking glass: Marya, in one scene, is offered a job as a model and then finds herself in a sadomasochistic pornographer's studio. The film, as photographed by Pierre Lhomme, creates thoroughly cinematic moments that Rhy's novel could not have attempted: in one of the Ivory's most memorable scenes, a black American chanteuse (extraordinarily played by Armelia McQueen) entertains Parisian patrons with a big and brassy jazz song, neither subtle nor elegant. Ivory keeps the camera on the singer's act: there is something in her unguarded smile that makes the danger beneath Montparnasse manners seem more acute.