No wind without waves, no smoke without fire

Kennith 2021-12-10 08:01:47

In high school, my head teacher, in order to prevent male and female students from falling in love on the college entrance examination, separated boys and girls from far away. At that time, it was a large class with eight rows, while girls were sitting in two rows against the wall. He once said clearly in his class: There can be no waves without wind. No smoke, no fire (this is the English term).

Regardless of whether falling in love affects learning, in terms of results, this approach is practical and scientific.
People can't resist temptation. I once doubted it, because there are always many stories to sing the strong will of love. However, one argument is that it is because the temptation is not big enough. The Chinese say that human desires are dangerous, and many people mistake their lives here. Foreigners say: Don't test me. I can't stand the temptation. It's all the same thing. Loyalty, love until his death and accidental derailment are not contradictory. From the source, it is all love, primitive desire. People are greedy (not necessarily greedy) greedy for material things, vanity, and the love of others.

The cleverness of "Infidelity" is that it expresses the original sin of human beings---may be firm in will, but honest in body. Crossing the shackles of morality, setting family responsibilities, living a rich life, and taking risks, just to taste the forbidden fruit again and again, even if the fire burns, everything will fall into the abyss of pain and regret in a blink of an eye.

There is a very intriguing scene at the end. The heroine Connie imagined that she stopped the taxi and arrived home smoothly on a windy and rainy day, so nothing would happen. I have stayed here for a short time to think, is her derailment inevitable or accidental? Inevitably, it means that today does not happen and tomorrow will happen, either this handsome Italian book seller or another business elite. But accident means that because of the rain that day and the mood at the time, I couldn't stop the taxi and ran into a handsome guy, so something unexpected happened. Without a condition, it will not happen.

Later I tend to understand it as: accidental.
As I said before, there is no smoke and no fire. If it is not too close, there will be no romance.

The director is a veteran, and only a few shots outline a housewife. American movies are used to large kitchens with nice views, husbands who eat breakfast at the table in pajamas and read newspapers, and naughty children. Outside the window is the warm sunshine, and then the old public car takes the children to school and goes to work by themselves. There was a large and unused empty home left, and she sat idly by the window looking through old pictures, or was busy in the garden in front of the door. Pass the long day after day.

The life of the middle class, even if everything is satisfied, is too bland and boring. However, when the pen is changed, her life is actually quite rich and colorful. Apart from accidents, her husband maintains a good figure, loves family and children. Mom, my husband naturally stopped and said that you are waiting for me, go out to comfort the children, not the wife, it can be seen that it is accustomed to), and quite emotional. He put the declaration of love in the base of the crystal ball he gave to his wife, waiting for her to discover by accident (he would not have thought that this crystal ball would be his weapon to kill the male junior) everything was so perfect, and it highlighted the theme: everything It's all caused by accident.

No young woman can refuse a handsome and passionate young man, who is so good at flirting, he is simply a young woman killer. Her fall is not unexpected, she repeatedly regrets and blames herself, and she obeys her body's call again and again desperately, even if she finds out that this handsome guy is hooking up, and there are younger and more beautiful women, she is still jealous. Can't resist the body's desire. By the way, there is no suggestion in the film that her husband is physically old. They have only been married for ten years. Everything is curiosity, freshness. It's just a fresh body, with a smirk, speaking French accented English, like doing it in the cinema, in the coffee shop bathroom, like a variety of postures. Cheating is always beyond the normal pleasure, and the orgasm will come very fast, especially dripping.

No man can stand the derailment of his female partner. Russell once actively advocated open marriage and experimented with himself, but in the end he couldn't overcome his jealousy. God creates people with paradoxes everywhere-he is happy when he cheats, but he can't tolerate cheating.

The calm husband wanted to make big things smaller. For the young man, he hated his wife's self-love and didn't know how to cherish it. The killing was caught off guard. Finally had to continue to sit down, destroy the body and continue acting. But finally couldn't face each other. The car stopped in front of the police station, an open ending. Will they move to Mexico as Connie imagined, and live incognito, or will they surrender and go to jail for half their lives? The audience imagined it for themselves.

In this drama, the woman is romantic and flirty, and takes responsibility very lightly, but it's just a derailment. Even, in the end, I felt that I was dead, so let's run away. The man was heavy and calm with a deep sense of responsibility. He looked at the sleeping child in the back seat. He said to his wife, can we escape ourselves? How do we explain to the children?

However, from the eyes of my wife, I saw her answer: we can escape ourselves. Just don't talk about it or think about it.

This is a film about responsibility and accident, heavy and light, in fact, it is suddenly upside down in many cases. The sex scenes are no less than tertiary films made in Hong Kong, which are stimulating, bold, and arousing erotic desires. It must be interpreted like this here, because only with enough excitement can the pleasure be greater than anything else. If you indulge in the indecent love, all responsibilities and the future will be naturally forgotten.

Every married person may wish to think about the issues that the film tries to explore. Many times, we have heard and witnessed a lot of business trips, office romances, and family breaks, but they are actually the same. If it were not for a long-term business trip, and they spent a long time alone and were boring, maybe she would not cheat. After all, she has a happy family and a successful husband. Many affair are because the time is ripe, coupled with a little fatal curiosity in human nature, the pursuit of fresh and exciting vanity.

How can there be so many past and present promises, love lasting forever. All is because the temptation is not big enough and the timing is not ripe.

Only by seeing through this level can you really understand love and grasp the present. Cherish the present. But if you really want to be loyal, clean and love yourself, a gentleman does not stand a dangerous wall, knowing the danger of human desire, the fragility of moral ropes, and the weakness of self-will. The strange handsome guy puts medicine to shelter from the rain at home, then nothing will happen.





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  • Paul: [reading from a Braille book] "My mother makes me chicken. Her chicken makes me cough. I wish that when she made it, she at least took the feathers off."

  • [First Line]

    Charlie: Dad, look what I can do. I've been practicing

    [Makes fart noise with armpit]