更新时间:2019-08-20
水之木 • 卡萨诺瓦:杂感
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DT真是一个好深情的人（看到了10th Doctor的影子）
So is to say Casanova
But Love is a business somehow difficult to define.
Casanova loved Henriette the best of all the girls he had a chance to meet.
Romance, marriage, sex and love...
Are they all utterly at odds with each other, or just entwined, inseparable?
And how? Why?
Do they really have to?
Those are the questions that I was trying to find out while watching this 3-episode story.
Casanova had all his love based on sex, (or perhaps vice versa)? But it had proved a trouble when encountering Henriette and Edith.
There was no sex, just charm and attraction, which was a little bit hard for even the genius Casanova to understand.
Love at first sight, and being particularly true with one's feeling. It was dangerous.
Casanova knew about human nature, and knew the best of all the animal instinct in human beings, summed up in 3 letters: s-e-x.
But Casanova must know there is difference between sex and love, being as clever as he was.
He knew well of disguise and camouflage, and could earn and lose money with a flip of hand.
But loving too much and too deep has always proved his downfall, one that he fell prey to again and again that notorious, disgusting, despicable, pathetic, cruel and ultimately coward Grimani.
He had the physical form of Henriette of course; he had the nobility, security, name and practically everything she wanted as a qualified husband, but he failed on one critical matter--soul. Henriette didn't love him, and as he kept provoking Casanova, he would never win Henriette's heart. (there was no back, her heart had never been there in the first place.) But never mind, Casanova couldn't have his love either. Was it fair? Was it even? Or was it all the tricky little tricks played by the green-eyed monster? A revenge against the originally no-name for his deprive of the heart of a woman because she had a nobility for a fiancee? That was ridiculous, childish.
But, yes, Grimani enjoyed the play, that filthy scum, a fool of a man. He lived in hatred and misery and asked his wife which he loved (possessively and hypercritically) to suffer with him. Idiot. A Selfish IDIOT. Unworthy as the enemy of Casanova.
Does he know love? No, he knows nothing of love, but he knows something that possible more important than love -- state, honour, a peaceful environment, all that Casanova does not have, but would be willingly to give up his freedom and liberty for.
Can Casanova be counted as what our modern day believed as "渣男"（a man taking pleasure only in the sexual intercourse）?
As far as I am concerned, the answer is "NO".
Love≠Sex. Casanova knew that.
Sex is the desire, one fundamental desire of human being. Casanova indulged on this desire to a scale that most of us found unacceptable. But he is the one that feels and cares about people. Equipped with a wide knowledge as was his, Casanova saved people. He had a gold of a heart, glittering with the enlightenment of humanity, and not distained by his peculiar interest in sex. Casanova had a conscience. He didn't put that on sleeves. He'd never do that. But he had his character, that show-offish vanity, that ego. His virtue couldn't cover up his sin in bedding with 2 nuns. But neither did his sins bury away his true love, that touching emotion to Henriette, and his tender, gentle heart, a heart of innocence and kindness.
Indeed, he was a man of much controversy, but he will be remembered, or at least by me.
The actors, young and old, played it well. And I admired Edith, a brave girl, you are.
DT真是一个好深情的人（看到了10th Doctor的影子）
So is to say Casanova
But Love is a business somehow difficult to define.
Casanova loved Henriette the best of all the girls he had a chance to meet.
Romance, marriage, sex and love...
Are they all utterly at odds with each other, or just entwined, inseparable?
And how? Why?
Do they really have to?
Those are the questions that I was trying to find out while watching this 3-episode story.
Casanova had all his love based on sex, (or perhaps vice versa)? But it had proved a trouble when encountering Henriette and Edith.
There was no sex, just charm and attraction, which was a little bit hard for even the genius Casanova to understand.
Love at first sight, and being particularly true with one's feeling. It was dangerous.
Casanova knew about human nature, and knew the best of all the animal instinct in human beings, summed up in 3 letters: s-e-x.
But Casanova must know there is difference between sex and love, being as clever as he was.
He knew well of disguise and camouflage, and could earn and lose money with a flip of hand.
But loving too much and too deep has always proved his downfall, one that he fell prey to again and again that notorious, disgusting, despicable, pathetic, cruel and ultimately coward Grimani.
He had the physical form of Henriette of course; he had the nobility, security, name and practically everything she wanted as a qualified husband, but he failed on one critical matter--soul. Henriette didn't love him, and as he kept provoking Casanova, he would never win Henriette's heart. (there was no back, her heart had never been there in the first place.) But never mind, Casanova couldn't have his love either. Was it fair? Was it even? Or was it all the tricky little tricks played by the green-eyed monster? A revenge against the originally no-name for his deprive of the heart of a woman because she had a nobility for a fiancee? That was ridiculous, childish.
But, yes, Grimani enjoyed the play, that filthy scum, a fool of a man. He lived in hatred and misery and asked his wife which he loved (possessively and hypercritically) to suffer with him. Idiot. A Selfish IDIOT. Unworthy as the enemy of Casanova.
Does he know love? No, he knows nothing of love, but he knows something that possible more important than love -- state, honour, a peaceful environment, all that Casanova does not have, but would be willingly to give up his freedom and liberty for.
Can Casanova be counted as what our modern day believed as "渣男"（a man taking pleasure only in the sexual intercourse）?
As far as I am concerned, the answer is "NO".
Love≠Sex. Casanova knew that.
Sex is the desire, one fundamental desire of human being. Casanova indulged on this desire to a scale that most of us found unacceptable. But he is the one that feels and cares about people. Equipped with a wide knowledge as was his, Casanova saved people. He had a gold of a heart, glittering with the enlightenment of humanity, and not distained by his peculiar interest in sex. Casanova had a conscience. He didn't put that on sleeves. He'd never do that. But he had his character, that show-offish vanity, that ego. His virtue couldn't cover up his sin in bedding with 2 nuns. But neither did his sins bury away his true love, that touching emotion to Henriette, and his tender, gentle heart, a heart of innocence and kindness.
Indeed, he was a man of much controversy, but he will be remembered, or at least by me.
The actors, young and old, played it well. And I admired Edith, a brave girl, you are.
