Dec
15
Nicole-Kidman
Generally I don’t watch romance and love movies. But this movie in particular always attracted me. Jude law, Nicole Kidman and the sweet Renee Zellweger produced a magic in every scene of that movie.
At dawn of American Civil War, the men of Cold Mountain, North Carolina, scuttle to join the Confederate army. Ada (Nicole Kidman) has vowed to wait for Inman (Jude Law), but as the warfare drags on and mail goes unreciprocated, she ought to find the motivation to stay alive. At war’s conclusion, hearts are dashed, thoughts rewarded, and the vigor of the individual courage hardened…but not broken!It is one of the movies based on novel which I watched before I read the book. The novel Cold Mountain is written by Charles Frazier.
Cold Mountain is a real mountain in Haywood County, North Carolina America located in the Pisgah National forest However, the Village of Cold Mountain as referred to in the movie did not exist. W. P. Inman (his first name was William Pinckney, was a real person from Cold Mountain who served in the Confederate army, from which he desolate twice, and is reputedly buried in a local memorial park. His offspring still live in the area. The real Inman served as a confidential in Company F of the 25th North Carolina Infantry. He was the great great uncle of the novelist, Charles Frazier, and his regiment did contribute in the warfare in the Siege of Petersburg, together with the Battle of the Crater. Frazier, a native of western North Carolina, very loosely based the award-winning novel on his ancestor’s story.
Kidman (Ada) plays the part of a urban lady lately shifted to the countryside farm, named Black Cove. Just after she reaches, her father who is the minister of countryside dies, parting her unaided on the farm and among little hope for aid, as the youthful, able-bodied men are off at war. She is totally incompetent at managing the farm, having been raised to become an urban woman and is fraught to carry on at the farm. She manages to survive with the kind help of her neighbors, one meighbor finally sends Ruby (Zellweger) to her, a young woman who is adept for a hardscrabble living and is skillful at the farm duties needed to run the ranch.
Ruby lives at the farm with Ada and jointly, they take the farm from a state of failure to working order. They form a close friendship. Swangers, who live down the road from Black Cove is also their friend. At the Swangers’ well Ada “sees” Inman coming back in the snowstorm and a flock of crows comes with him. All through the war, Ada and others suffers several tense encounters with ruffian men who are members of the confederate home guard. Even though the home guards had the purpose to protect the south and its citizen population from the North, they becomes vicious vigilantes who hound and often kill deserters from the Confederate army and terrorize people they believe are housing/helping the deserters.
Inman experiences many battles and losses of friends, and as he is recovering in a hospital from a battle wound, decides to set off on foot for his home on Cold Mountain, in North Carolina, and to the woman he loves. On his journey, he meets a crooked preacher (Hoffman), an old and wizened woman, and a youthful widow (Portman). In the course of these people, he becomes capable to carry on his passage back to Ada and finds a little out about himself.
I specifically liked the encounter of Inman with that young widow woman. Her desperate try to live and save her child made me feel like crying. The way the corrupt soldiers tried to devastate her and use/loot her and threatened her of killing her child showed how inhuman man could be at the times of war. I wonder from where such psychosis comes in human behavior but I surely know that what was depicted in the movie was not at all impossible or ridiculous. Anyhow, the movie brings to me a deep sense of mixed feelings of integrity and appalling character of human.
How wonderful is to be human can be easily understood by that movie. A human can actually be a devil incarnated while human also comes forward to save the victim from any danger like an apostle. The horizon of darkness and light is the human.
And when Inman reaches Ada, the love they feels, the warmth by which they devours each other, makes them complete. However, the Oneness does not last for long, although it remains forever.
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