haawiki.blogg.se - Pastiche of the lover duras

The film is also about life in South Vietnam, under French colonial rule. The story illuminates one and one-half years in the life of the adolescent Duras (Jane March), as they are recalled by the seventy-year-old writer.

As such, the story is driven by the remembrances of the events in her life, rather than a formally constructed story.

One cannot speak of "the plot" of the film in the usual sense, since it is the autobiographical story of Duras.

The synopsis below may give away important plot points. But both began to think that there was the possibility of a future "them", driven by their passion and desire. They talked openly to each other about their non-existent future, as she could never marry a Chinaman, and he was already betrothed to a woman from a wealthy family, she who he would not even meet until the wedding ceremony. Her family disapproved of what they knew she was doing, while still savoring the Chinaman's showering of money at them. As time progressed, they were more open to the world at least about having a relationship. They entered into their sexual relationship nervously if only because of the taboo associated with a relationship between races, and people of their respective ages (she telling him that she was eighteen, he telling her he was thirty-two).

He was western educated in Paris, came from a wealthy family and as such money was no issue for him, and had never worked a day in his life. That year, she began a relationship with a Chinaman, who she met on the Mekong River ferry.

The girl and her younger timid brother secretly wished he was dead. The girl had an uneasy relationship with her family, largely because of her mother's inexplicable favoritism of her eldest brother, who was selfish, egotistical and thieving. Her mother and her two brothers lived in the house that came with the mother's poor paying teaching job, while she, across the Mekong River, lived in a boarding school dormitory in Saigon. The year of that story is 1929, the place southern Indochina. An elderly French authoress, while writing her memoirs, is narrating the story of her first love.