Is it really hard to be just ordinary? I watched this film " Orient Express" at the Cinema Europa showing at Shangri La, a film from Romania, and the main character, a Prince named Andrei, is being accused by his friends of living, well...like royalty - being aristocratic, aloof, cold, a manipulator.
But how come some ordinary mortals act as if they are not mere mortals, like us? They pamper themselves with illusions of being hunted down by the entire populace, of being chased everywhere they went, of not being able to love the way ordinary citizens do?
It is hard to deal with extraordinary human beings, if you are a commoner. You are not like them. You are down there, and they are way up up there. They look down on you with scorn and disgust.They talk a different language, they have to be loved differently, they act a certain way.
The Prince in the Orient Express, though adored by many women at different times in his life, and even at his advanced years, was not happy in his life. He said it himself - I don't think I have ever been happy.
He was offered love by an ordinary woman, Isabela - the only woman whom the Prince ever loved, yet he denied this feeling to himself and to the woman.
Throughout his life, he wanted to die while living a full life - surrounded by mistresses and money.
He died a very sad man, in the end.
If you are falling in love with an extraordinary, spectacular woman, be ready to encounter a Prince-like character. Be ready to die innumerable deaths in her hands for she will deny herself and you of the tender feelings she has.
If you plan to fall in love with a spectacular human being, ask the other character in the Orient Express, Bob the nephew of the Baroness, who was the fiancee of Ana. Ana, a twenty year old girl succumbed to the charm of the Prince and killed herself when the Prince rejected her.
Bob was the rich heir who acted ordinary - who abhorred artificiality and the ways of the aristocrats, and who was brave enough to tell the Prince of his faults or vanities.
Ana asked the Prince many times - have you ever loved a woman and have you ever been happy? Then we mortals, should ask Bob, tell us then how to act in front of the aristocrats or the aristocrat-likes. How to fall in love with the spectaculars, the geniuses in arts, in poetry, in literature?
Maybe like Ana and the first love of the Prince, Isabela, we ordinary people, shall suffer the same fate. Doom.
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