"Broken Blue Bridge" is known as one of the three most poignant romance films in film history, and after more than 80 years, it is still moving. Its greatness is not only love and friendship, but also the reflection of war on the destruction of the good life of mankind.
Watching this movie many years ago, I saw that love was destroyed, and now watching this film, I see that the greatest damage that war brings to humanity is the despair of residual wounds.
Mara, a ballerina, and Roy, an army captain, were just walking onto Waterloo Bridge when the air raid sirens sounded and everyone took refuge in the bomb shelters. Mara dropped something on the bridge in a panic, and Roy picked it up and went to the bomb shelter to take shelter together. After a short time together, the bright Mara was deeply imprinted in Roy's mind, and Mara also had a good impression of this handsome officer, and gave Roy his amulet before leaving, hoping to bless him safe. As Mara turns to leave, Roy decides that Mara is the girl he was looking for, and he reverses his promise to have dinner with his boss and goes to see Mara perform.
Mara finishes her performance and receives an invitation to dinner with Roy. The wife of the ballet manager did not allow the girls to associate with the GIs, and forced Mara to reply and refuse the invitation. In those war years, everyone couldn't see the future, especially the GIs, many of whom had today and no tomorrow, and they would have an affair with the girl*** Madame didn't want her girl to lose her virginity or become a widow because of this, and the girl thought she was **old**.
Mara is also excited to meet Roy and tells her friend Katie. During the show, Mara sees Roy and tells Katie Roy to come and see the show. Roy's eyes only saw Mara dancing alone the whole time, and Katie felt that the two were a good match and decided to help Mara go to the appointment. Mara returned to the residence in the early hours of the morning, where Madame noticed and warned Mara not to make another mistake.
According to the original plan, Roy should have set off for the battlefield today, and was temporarily notified to take a 48-hour vacation in place. Roy went to look for Mara again, and he stood in the rain outside Mara's house waiting for Mara to come out and meet her. Mara and Roy were also very melancholy when they were separated, lying on the window pane and fantasizing that Roy was walking to ** now, and just happened to see Roy outside. Roy decided to use the day to propose and get married, and he wanted Mara to live with his mother after the marriage, which would be more secure for Mara in the war. The Captain's marriage required the approval of his superiors, and he took Mara to go through a series of formalities, and when he arrived at the church, it was already after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and the bishop told them that the marriage after 3 o'clock was not allowed by law, and that they should go again tomorrow at 11 o'clock.
Mara goes back and tells her friends that she is going to marry Roy, and everyone wishes her well. The endless war makes the girls lack freedom and love, and only harsh dance performances. During the war period when all industries were in recession, Madame's dance troupe was able to make a living, which was also due to Madame's strict requirements, and the girls did not see it that way. When everyone is about to go to the show, Mara receives a call from Roy, Roy's troops are about to leave, the train is about to leave in 25 minutes, and he wants to see Mara. Mara rushes to see Roy, who has already started his train, and the two of them just take a quick look and go their separate ways. Mara delayed the show, and the harsh lady fired Mara. Katie spoke up and was expelled for colliding with her wife. When the two of them are in dire straits and are about to starve, Katie wants Mara to write a letter to inform Roy that he is unemployed and asks for help, but Mara's self-esteem doesn't want Roy to know.
After Roy leaves, he writes to arrange for his mother to come to London to find Mara, who feels shabby in her accommodation and arranges to meet her at a café. Due to the delay of the train, Roy's mother arrived late, Mara was bored and flipped through the evening newspaper, saw Roy's name on the death list, fainted sadly, woke up and met with Roy's mother, the faux pas, gaffe made Roy's mother confused and disappointed, Roy's mother got up and said goodbye. The two couldn't find a job, Mara fell ill again, Katie wanted to put down her pride and begged her wife to take her in, and the dance troupe also went to the United States to perform, and the two of them had no life at all.
The cruelty of the war and the recession in all walks of life have caused many people to lose their jobs, and many people have fallen in order to survive, and Katie has also chosen to fall in order to support herself and Mara. Mara has lost the love of her life, her life is meaningless, and she is depraved like Katie. Since he has no courage to die, he can only live as a walking corpse.
The tragedy of life is often a thought, and their tragic life certainly has reasons for war, but also for character reasons. Katie was calm and calm at the time, at least she could keep her job, and the two of them would not have no place to live. If Mara hadn't been too face-conscious and had received Roy's mother at her place of residence, both of them would have survived well. Level-headedness and seeking truth from facts are important to a person's life, and it is extremely necessary to think twice.
Mara and Katie sold their bodies to live, and they often went to the train station to pick up the GIs who had just returned from the front. On this day, Mara went to the station to pick up passengers as usual, and she saw Roy walking off the train. Roy isn't dead, he's alive. Roy recognized Mara at first glance, and he was surprised and overjoyed again. Roy was about to take Mara back to his native Scotland as he had left.
Mara was in great pain, but Roy was still the passionate, pure lover, and he had been living in the mud for a long time. Roy tells Mara that he knows she has suffered a lot and that he wants to make it up to her as long as she still loves him. In the midst of the brutal war, it is no longer easy to be alive, and how tempting is such a beautiful love, Mara decides to start a new life.
Mara followed Roy back to the country, and found that Roy was from a noble family, his family was rich and decent, Roy's mother was kind and kind, and her relatives and neighbors were very well-bred and decent. She was ashamed and had no self-confidence, Roy had been reassuring her, everything was over, she didn't have to be sensitive, and she enjoyed life well.
Roy's mother apologizes to Mara for not bringing her back, and she later realizes that Mara's gaffe was due to seeing the news of Roy's death, and she went to look for Mara again, but she didn't find her. Mara can't stand the preferential treatment and sincerity of Roy's family, she confesses everything to Roy's mother, hoping that she will forgive herself for leaving here, and also hopes that Roy's mother will not tell Roy the truth.
Mara leaves that night, and Roy returns to London to find Mara. Mara commits suicide at Waterloo Bridge, where Roy first met them, and where she first fell into depravity.
Will Mara forgive Roy if she confesses that Mara keeps deceiving Roy about whether he can live a good life?Roy came down from the most brutal battlefield, the appearance of war, the appearance of life brought by war, how could Roy, as a soldier, not know?As soon as Roy got off the train, he saw Mara wearing heavy makeup, and if he didn't think about the joy of being reborn and meeting his lover after the catastrophe, he couldn't judge the clues of all kinds of things as an officer who won the highest honorRoy, who has experienced the cruelty of war, has the courage to live and live his deepest desire for life. Roy knew that what he loved was loved by his mother, and he was not worried that his mother would not accept Mara. Roy asks the Duke, the most prestigious uncle in the family who is also a soldier, to dance with Mara, which is to express the Duke's acceptance and affection. Roy has been reassuring Mara that she doesn't have to be afraid of anything, that everything is over, and now she is ready to live her life.
Mara survives in a hopeless life, but Roy's new life is too perfect. Roy was able to accept her, regardless of her past, Roy was a soldier, his subordinates, colleagues, and relatives might recognize her, and Mara couldn't bring shame to such a perfect family, which was what made Mara truly desperate.
Roy has experienced life and death, all honor is a floating cloud, and protecting his relatives and giving them happiness is what Roy cares about. Mara lost her life, and Roy lost the love of her life. Perhaps the belief that sustained Roy's tenacity on the battlefield was to be able to reunite with Mara, and Roy has never married since then.
"Broken Blue Bridge" is not only a poignant love story, but also a story about the destruction of all good things by war. No matter who wins or loses the war, it is cruel to both sides, and may mankind cherish life and cherish all the good!