Everyday above ground is good

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In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.

Karen Blixen, a Danish woman, marries a friend for the title of Baroness and they move to Africa and start a coffee plantation. Things unfold when her husband begins cheating on her and is away on business often, so she's at home alone, working on the farm and bonding with two men she met in her first day in Africa. She eventually falls in love with the one, Denys Finch-Hatton and goes on safari and whatnot with him. Later, she begins to want more from him than the simple friendship/relationship they have and pushes marriage, but Denys still wants his freedom. By the end, she's gained a much better understanding and respect for the African culture than when she came.( from IMDB)

里面有一首诗是这样写的:
If I know a song of Africa...
of the giraffe...
and the African new moon
lying on her back...
of the plows in the fields...
and the sweaty faces
of the coffee pickers...
does Africa know a song of me?
Will the air over the plain quiver...
with a color that I have had on?
Or will the children invent a game...
in which my name is?
Or the full moon throw a shadow...
over the gravel of the drive...
that was like me?
Or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills
look out for me?

Karen 不仅仅是在写对 Africa  对她的意义, 也同时是在追忆那段她始终抱有遗憾的感情, Denys 的确爱他, 但 他更爱自由.  就象Karen在他的葬礼上说的, He is not ours, He is not mine.她的坚韧,聪明, 从容, 善良以及美丽可以说是电影里最大的浪漫. 自然, 葱绿, 蔚蓝, 清新的非洲更是唯美的衬托.

想着将来也能在一个这样葱绿, 蔚蓝, 清新的自然中经营农场, 开着飞机, 飞遍所有美丽的地方, 再拿上三把来福枪, 和一个留声机以及莫扎特的音乐, 打猎. 一个人自由自在. 就像Denys一样. 无所谓世俗.

最近在看一本书, 永远的普罗旺斯, 作者Peter Mayle 在纽约麦迪逊大街的广告业打拼了15年之后,隐居在了法国美丽的普罗旺斯地区, 也是个世外桃源, 满山坡紫色的熏衣草, 蔚蓝的气候, 加上做工讲究的美食. 很适宜一个人的生活.  就这样,  每天打水,劈柴,喂马, 做饭, 画画, 弹琴, 看书, 写字, 跑步, 打球, 喝葡萄酒, 听音乐. 是多么惬意的人生美景. 想必也别无他求了.