Excursiveness About the Loves in the Quiet American

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“An older British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.” That is the introduction about The Quiet American and it attracted me so much. The 2002 adaptation of Graham Greene’s best-selling of the same name was directed by Phillip Noyce with the starred Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, and Do Thi Hai Yen. Besides the political problem, the movie is also a pretty and intriguing story about love as the introduction above Love is not only the most favorite topic of creators but also the most attractive interest for audiences; and I am an audience, of course. I have read a lot of books and watched many movie in which love is the main inspiration for the works; however, the relationships between lovers in The Quiet American is the most exciting and strange I have ever known. It does magnetize me. Perhaps the reason is that the movie is about Vietnam and it gives a sharp impression to me or maybe it is because of the love in the movie itself, the triangle love. Actually, if I am asked about that love, I do not hesitate to say that when we love someone, we want to have them by our sides and that love, if considered clearly and carefully, is possessive. That Fowler tells lie to Phuong is his selfishness; he really wants to keep her as his lover. That Pyle comes to Fowler’s apartment, giving Phuong a proposal to be his lover is also another kind of man’s selfishness in love. People always proudly say that if the person they love or like is happy, they will be happy, too. And, both you and I know that it is a lie to ourselves because in love we are all selfish. And that is the reason why I do not look down on the loves of the two men but I do not think that their love is noble. Although I consider them as a normal situation in hundreds and thousands love stories, there are still two things I should remember and make them my

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