"Ultimo tango a Parigi" is the first popular film of Italian master film director Bernardo Bertolucci to achieve commercial success. The film has many elements that attract the public: sex, violence, celebrity, mystery, voyeurism and adventures. Although many propaganda regards it as a sex movie, the deep meaning of the film is to deeply analyze the bewildered mentality of modern people and reflect on the life style and life of the bourgeoisie through the behavior and psychological depiction of this unusual pair of lovers. The way of thinking is an in-depth exploration of the spiritual depression of modern people.
"Ultimo tango a Parigi" is director Bertolucci's first popular film to achieve commercial success. Due to pornographic content and naturalistic expressions, the film was boycotted in Italy, the home country of director Bertolucci. At the Venice Film Festival held that year, only fragments of the film were shown. Then the public opinion began to boycott this "obscene" film. The film was prosecuted in Italy under the law of obscene language and conduct. In the eyes of the Italian authorities and churches, "Ultimo tango a Parigi" is to instigate people to violate morals, which is incompatible with prevailing moral and ethical concepts. However, the film's release in the United States caused a sensation. The film first held its world premiere at the Lincoln Cultural Center, and then as the finale to pull off the curtain of the 10th New York Film Festival.
Bertolucci portrays the primitive and wild sexual relationship between Jeanne and Paul, a pair of men and women of different ages, with a cold sense of reality. In addition, the film also designed two other auxiliary relationships to provide a contrast for the theme of the whole film. Through the two sets of relationships between Jeanne and Tom and Paul and his wife, a deep analysis of family and sex is carried out. In the current society with highly developed material civilization, the human spirit has become poor and weak, communication between people has become extremely difficult, and the loneliness of the nervously fragile modern people is lingering. (
