巫山梦断
(1955)The End of the Affair
2023-07-16 更新 2018-11-01 创建
导演: 爱德华·迪麦特雷克
主演: 黛博拉·蔻儿
上映时间: 1955-02-23
又名: 巫山梦断肠 / 恋情的终结
剧情简介
1955英国剧情爱情片《巫山梦断》由爱德华·迪麦特雷克导演,黛博拉·蔻儿主演,影片讲述的是:
The novel focuses on Maurice Bendrix a rising writer during the Second World War in London and Sarah Miles the wife of an impotent civil servant Bendrix is based on Greene himself and he reflects often on the act of writing a novel Sarah is based on Greenes lover at the time Catherine Walston to whom the book is dedicated
Bendrix and Sarah ...[显示全部]fall in love quickly but he soon realises that the affair will end as quickly as it began The relationship suffers from his overt and admitted jealousy He is frustrated by her refusal to divorce Henry her amiable but boring husband When a bomb blasts Bendrixs flat as he is with Sarah he is nearly killed After this Sarah breaks off the affair with no apparent explanation
Later Bendrix is still wracked with jealousy when he sees Henry crossing the Common that separates their flats Henry has finally started to suspect something and Bendrix decides to go to a private detective to discover Sarahs new lover Through her diary he learns that when she thought he was dead after the bombing she made a promise to God not to see Bendrix again if He allowed him to live again Greene describes Sarahs struggles After her sudden death from a lung infection brought to a climax by walking on the Common in the rain several miraculous events occur advocating for some kind of meaningfulness to Sarahs faith By the last page of the novel Bendrix may have come to believe in a God as well though not to love Him
The End of the Affair is the fourth and last of Greenes explicitly Catholic novels