Beautiful life

Author: Duan Hongxin
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: A good movie is like a key. Every time it opens a door, a story drifts out from the dust of memory, pulling people back to a specific space in a certain year and month, making them momentarily dazed. It feels as if time has never passed, and the world has never changed. once wrote a song, which was sung by Yǐnéngjìng with a cunning voice across China——《I Am a Cat》. From then on, Yǐnéngjìng became a cat, a white and plump cat, an ordinary cat. She didn’t want to explore how high the sky was, she just wanted to sunbathe and yawn on sunny days. She knew how to enjoy the happiness of life, she was a happy cat. A female writer in the UK painted a self-portrait titled "A Cat with Nine Lives"—on it was a small monster with sharp teeth and claws, no longer beautiful or docile like a cat, but with an invincible arrogance. She was a magical cat. Vivien Leigh was also a cat, a cat with astonishing beauty. But she didn’t have Yǐnéngjìng’s happiness, nor the vitality of the female writer. In the hallucinatory world of light and shadow, this "Cheshire Cat" only lived for thirty years. Vivien Leigh was born in India. When she was very young, her parents sent her to a church school in England, hoping she would cultivate an extraordinary and refined temperament there, and then settle down as a lady, living an ordinary life. That way, she could enjoy the carefree life of Yǐnéngjìng’s cat, or like the female writer’s cat, see the world with eyes as magical as a fairy. But a child’s dreams are always at odds with their parents’ expectations. Vivien Leigh planned her life for herself at a very young age: "I want to be a great actress." Real happiness is the sunrise and sunset in the daily necessities of life, and only an ordinary heart can match an ordinary life. For an unwilling woman who finally achieved eternal fame and was not content with mediocrity, her entire life journey was not just heaven but also hell. Personality controls destiny, and her life changed from then on. At the age of nineteen, Vivien Leigh entered the film industry. During her thirty-year acting career, she portrayed many vivid characters and won the Academy Award twice for her extraordinary skills. If Vivien Leigh had not died young, Catherine Hepburn would not have been the only woman in history to win three Academy Awards. Vivien Leigh was born for the cinema; her life belonged to the cinema. In the several key films she starred in, Vivien Leigh experienced a rebirth like the phoenix’s.