As a handsome bartender in a nightclub, Jon has no shortage of girls around him, but he never wants to maintain a stable relationship. He indulges in pornographic websites and lives a life of "AV plus right hand". He only cares about a few things, his vintage car, fitness, partying with buddies, and going to church with his family. Until one day, he met a blonde girl in a nightclub. He decided to catch the beautiful girl and make her his girlfriend. After some hard work, Jon finally got his wish. But his own life is also quietly changing, alienated from his old friends, forced to go to uninteresting night school in order to find a stable job, and more importantly, he can only watch AV secretly. But his behavior was discovered by his girlfriend. This standard middle-class girl looks stylish but has a closed heart. She can't accept all this. Break up with Jon. Jon finds celibacy seems to be the life he wants, and his life quickly returns to normal, but he's ready to finish night school. At school he met Esther, a woman older than him. From disgust to acceptance, he and this woman gradually came together. This experienced woman led him to gradually give up the illusory pleasure and know how to get along with his real partner intimately.
Objectively speaking, this film has many flaws. For example, the second half of the film suddenly becomes loose and lacks control. For example, the female character Esther lacks the most basic foreshadowing and background explanation, and the script is obviously full of study-colored bridge settings and segmentation rhythms, but Born in 1981, the directorial debut of "囧Joseph" has already revealed the director's ambition. He invited the "Goddess" Scarlett as the heroine, and tried to speed up the pace of the story to ensure the entertainment of the movie, but at the same time, he obviously did not stop with this, he wanted to express more attitude towards the conservative inner heart of the middle class. Disdain; mockery of the city girl's princess disease; mockery of the hypocrisy of the church, etc., but most importantly, he wants to discuss about love and being loved, loneliness and warmth, selfishness and giving. Thomas Lacker, a professor of history at the University of California, Berkeley, refers to the "AV plus right hand" state as "solitary sex." This is a wonderful paradox. Sex is originally the most intimate human relationship, and it forms the most real social interaction through the medium of the flesh. But virtual pornography de-emotionalizes sex into an act that can be accomplished by an individual. Love requires effort, patience, and even a price, and "loneliness" only requires one-dimensional acquisition. It's a sign of selfishness. And the girlfriend played by Scarlett represents another kind of demand and selfishness. She regards Jon as her ornament and is unwilling to listen to and share his life. Relatively speaking, the older woman Esther is a real "person". She is willing to share love, face a person's imperfections, and give her body and mind to each other. Their relationship is a real meaning. It's about people-to-people interactions, not people-to-things. In fact, this film has no intention to oppose AV or to vindicate it. Erotic culture is just a medium, and what the director wants to reflect is still interpersonal relationships.
If Jon is a lonely stone, an indifferent and materialized person in modern society, and a beautiful ex-girlfriend is a symbol of urbanization, a symbol that seems to have love but is still material, then in the end, the director The solution given is still to go back to man himself. Finding a real person who can communicate with each other, accepting each other's imperfections and unique personality, willing to give for each other, and learning to love and be loved is the real way to restore humanity.
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