Love - through death
Their feelings flashed unexpectedly. Against the background of suffering and mass death of people, they managed to carry it through. Maybe it saved their lives? In honor of Valentine's Day, we publish the top 5 the most powerful films about love during epidemics.
"PAINTED VOIL"
(2006, directed by John Curran)
Is it possible to fall in love with a person if you have not felt feelings for him? Yes it is possible and it will very strong - the film answers.
This is a story about young spouses, aristocrat Kitty (Naomi Watts) and microbiologist Walter (Edward Norton), who were not married out of mutual love. She gets a lover, Charlie Townsend (Lev Schreiber), whom Walter learns about. To take revenge, he offers her a deal: either she demands that he propose to her, or leaves with him to a small Chinese village, where a cholera epidemic is raging.
They face harsh reality one-on-one and this is what really helps them to get closer. Seeing how Walter helps people, she herself gets involved in the work and gradually imbued with respect for him. The first and last passion flares up between them. Walter dies of illness and Kitty has a baby.
"Painted Veil" - this is a drama that love can change everything at the very last moment. The picture is a film adaptation the eponymous novel by British writer Somerset Maugham (1924)
"LOVE DURING CHOLERA"
(2007, directed by Mike Newell)
Do you think that first love is fading away? No, she lives her whole life - tells us a film based on the novel of the same name by Gabriel García Márquez (1985).
This is a beautiful and adventurous story of two young men in love, Fermina Das (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and Florentino Arisa (Javier Bardem), that fate has parted. She rejects his feelings and marries a rich man, and he continues to think about her and do everything for their future together. The heroes meet only many years later and understand that the feelings have not gone anywhere, they have only become even stronger.
"How long are you willing to wait for your love?
51 years, 9 months, 4 days “I've loved you for so long,” says the hero of Javier Bardem.
"Love in the Time of Cholera" is a picture that little hope and faith are like sparks of warmth that eventually turn into a flame.
"LAST LOVE ON EARTH"
(2011, directed by David McKenzie)
What if people have lost all senses? Try to keep your own or succumb to the general chaos?
This picture, rather, is not about a physical, but a mental pandemic. In humans, gradually sense of smell, taste, hearing disappear. Everything that was so dear disappears with them. Everyone falls into strange states: anger is replaced by wild happiness, hatred - love to euphoria. The world is on the verge of collapse and there are two heroes in it, Susan (Eva Green) and Michael (Ewan McGregor), the only ones who still want to love. Will they stay together when everyone is slowly going crazy?
"OH BREAD NEW WORLD"
from the trilogy "Chronicles of the End of the World"
(2012, directors Kim Ji Un, Im Phil Son)
Can zombies love? Of course yes - answers the film of South Korean directors.
This is a philosophical reflection on the fall of man, but in modern realities. Instead of Eden - Seoul, a thriving world with new technologies, instead of Adam and Eve - two young lovers who turn into zombies after eating a rotten apple with bacteria. A real zombie apocalypse begins from them, but the monsters turn out to be not so bad and also have feelings.
"DECAMERON"
(2015, directors Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)
What if a plague is raging in your city? Run away from her, wait somewhere far away, and to pass the time - tell interesting stories. How did the heroes of the picture, based on several short stories from the work of the same name by Giovanni Boccaccio (published in 1470).
Five different plots (about heroism and generosity in relationships, about jokes made by a man and a woman, about tragic and comic scenes love). All this is filled with a good portion of humor, sarcasm over the clerics (this is in the era of the Early Renaissance!) And cheerfulness.
"Decameron" - this is, first of all, the love of life and freedom to express one's opinion, which is very important now.
Text: Natalia Pushchinskaya