Watched the VCD of EVITA this evening. First time watching it seriously from beginning to the end.
Evita had a glamorous life. And glamorous death. But speaking in terms of life and as a person. Her death was bitter.
Due to unfair treatment by the middle class family of his father by birth, her early life was sheltered under bitterness and hatred to the privilaged. She had always wanted to take revenge to the privilaged by over-ruling, over powering them and "be a part" of the upper class.
In shadow of such mentality, most, if not all of her life was themed under the sole target of becoming the top in the "big apple". She betrayed people around her and used whatever means she could to reach her goal. She "represented" the peasants not due to her idealology but because she would like to take revenge by overpowering the privilaged class by overthrowing them on behalf of the less previlaged. She extablished charity and visited people not out of her kindness but becuase all in her life she was heading for the goal of becoming the cream of Argentina. That was why the lyrics kept saying Eva wanted more and more. It is true that it is "not the money and fame", but it was a mentality from childhood that created her character and her tregady.
But Webber and Rice are after all not ordinary musicians/artist. They gave Evita a bitter ending. What beat her down at the end was not her enemy, but her own body. Webber gave her a very sacarstic ending by beating her by physical illness.
Ar, this is so true. No matter who you are and how good you are, after all, you will suffer from your own body. No matter how glamorous you look, how good an actress you are, you die one day! So why all these revenges? Why all these hatred? Che, the story teller of the whole thing, has actually spoted very precisely and accurately that: But that's all gone now/As soon as the smoke from the funeral clears/We're all gonna see and how, she did nothing for years. No matter how rich her life may seem, no matter how glorious her life looks, she did nothing for years that ("But in the end you could not deliver").
Dunno why the image of Pricecess Diana and a lot of other prominant public figures jumped out when I was watching the film. I thought the whole thing brought up a very hard yet very true message: You gonna die anyway, so instead of spending your life glamorously and leave like an ash, do something that is self-satisfying and makes a difference--that you will not regret, and people will remember you for the difference you have made.
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On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars
Plays for evermore
In the glow of those twinkling lights
We shall love through eternity
On this night in a million nights
Fly away with me
I never dreamed that a kiss could be as sweet as this
But now I know that it can
I used to wander alone without a love of my own
I was a desperate man
But all my grief disappeared and all the sorrow I'd feared
Wasn't there anymore
On that magical day when you first came my way
Mi amor
On this night
On this night
On this night of a thousand stars
Let me take you to heaven's door
Where the music of love's guitars
Plays for evermore
-- Nice lyrics :P
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It's not how the world remembers us, but what we've done for the world...
well said well said.
I think that's why Evita gave me such a bitter feeling. She seems to be welcomed and adored by a lot and she has lived all her life under the admiration and appreciatation upon her. But that was only the superficial side.
The hard truth proved that both she and Peron have failed to deliver what they promised.. They have "decorated" the whole thing like people are all standing by them. But they have overlooked the miserables who cannot go to the scene to protests.
haha, this reminds me of political make-ups...
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