The Cement Garden Comments

  • Maiya 2022-08-21 06:00:31

    made me wanna have a son now it makes...

  • Allan 2022-06-13 23:16:19

    who wants to analyz? please raise his hands. Too many intentional things, confinement space, brother-sister incest, cement, Oedipus complex, patriarchy, fog in dreams, kites in the sky. But don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's not ugly at all, the phrase "seems natrual to me" sums it up. The sound of hitting the cement at the end should have been longer. A little...

  • Alysa 2022-06-13 21:58:12

    Another taboo complex hidden deep in my...

  • Cameron 2022-06-13 16:56:43

    Like a girl's brother, like a boy's sister. The four children live in a cement-built Garden of Eden, nothing but love. The ending is really cruel, the flashing police lights from the cold reality indifferently shone on the nudes of the two brothers and sisters like oil paintings. After all, ethics and law tore apart the dirty and pure aesthetics of transgression. Red kite, ocean, insects, wasteland. The most beautiful is "It seems natural to...

  • Terry 2022-06-13 15:03:51

    1. The awakening of desire is accompanied by the death of the father, and the death of the mother after the budding of incest. It must be said that there is some kind of metaphor in it. 2. Japan's "Who Knows Innocent Heart" is a pure version of "Cement...

  • Britney 2022-06-13 11:07:29

    McEwan, the most serious popular fiction writer. Under the good-looking gimmicks of hiding corpses in cement and incest between brothers and sisters, there are still many things worth pondering. Jack as a girl and Julie as a boy, after losing their parents, they finally became parents. They used each other's union to defend the integrity of the family and find their true self. However, is this a mystery? In the underworld, there is some kind of reincarnation, such as their parents and younger...

Extended Reading

The Cement Garden quotes

  • Julie: Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, because it's OK to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, because you think that being a girl is degrading. But secretly you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? What it feels like for a girl?

  • Commander Hunt: There is nothing ugly, I never saw an ugly thing in my life, for let the shape of an object be as they may: light, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.