A person is in love with a certain movie, it is like she is in love with a person. From this movie, she can see her own shadow, her dark thoughts and indulgent lusts deep in her heart, she and the movie's characters. The characters have the same experience, and the actions of the characters can evoke her deep memories and inspire her distant and unknown feelings.
The "Last Tango in Paris" that I understand focuses on the soul and the flesh.
I always thought that the soul and the body can be separated, it's like you can sleep with other people, but you don't have to love him, we have the right to enjoy the pleasures that life gives our body, the right to feel other Human temperature, we do not have to be responsible and guilty for this.
Paris in the movie has always been gloomy, just like Paul's cold face, Jeanne stepped out of the Paris train station and walked into the small apartment that was deserted and shrouded in yellow lights, and the strange waiter gave her an apartment The key, she went in and met the mysterious man Paul, the apartment was shrouded in a strange atmosphere, they looked at each other, and then he pushed her against the wall to make love, and then they lay on the floor panting again. This is their first day.
It is worth noting that the apartment has always been a claustrophobic space in the movie, it seems that their eroticism can be maximized in the closed space, what do they feel during sex? isolation from the outside world? The light and heavy of life? I know, however, that their souls did not merge when they went deep into each other's flesh.
Do we necessarily need to meet souls in the pleasures of the flesh? This is too heavy, and it is too sacred to the most primitive instincts and desires of human beings. More often, we just need to feel our own existence through another body, prove ourselves, vent our emotions through the collision of the body, and experience orgasm The emptiness and despair of life.
Jeanne and Paul fully released and experienced this emptiness and despair in that claustrophobic apartment. Jeanne's boyfriend in reality is a paranoid director. He filmed their relationship as a documentary. When the camera was on the two of them, whether he was acting on Jeanne or in his world, life itself is a show?
Paul's experience in reality is more complicated. His wife committed suicide. The reasons are extremely complicated. He has an unbearable experience of depravity. For him, life is a movie that should have ended but could not be finished.
The closed apartment is as simple as a mattress, which can bear the weight of their bodies and the passion of their collision, but cannot bear the weight of their souls.
They didn't talk much every time they met. Jeanne wanted to tell Paul about her life several times, but Paul refused, claiming that he was not interested. His approach was correct and smart. What they could meet was only the flesh, not the body. Soul, even if the two are powerless in reality.
The body is light, but the soul is heavy.
We will never only have sex with one body in our life, but there are very few souls who can merge with it. When the soul can be merged, the body becomes insignificant. This is the so-called "Platonic love". The reason for the appearance is that once the two souls are entangled, it is difficult to unravel and cannot be released until they are exhausted. The entanglement of the two bodies is erratic, empty, and light, and it can be cut off at any time without any effort. The relationship between Jeanne and Paul belongs to the latter, so although their relationship is closed, it is relaxed and carefree.
Don't easily send your soul to the body that meets you, let alone accept the soul sent to you by the body that meets you.
Some people's relationships are destined to be limited to the body. You can exchange ideas, but not souls. It's like one melody can never be integrated into another. The barriers of the body can be broken through, but the soul can never break through the encirclement. This is not the sadness of life, but the necessity of life, because people are destined to have the dual substances of body and soul.
When the relationship that is destined to only be connected to the body, suddenly transmits the soul, it will make people unprepared, overwhelmed, and even destroy the relationship, making people feel fearful and want to escape, so when Paul finally confessed his heart to Jeanne , the reason why Jeanne fled in fear when she disclosed her experience and said "love her".
Even though the two people have similarities in their escape from reality and loneliness, they are two souls that cannot be combined, and two melodies that cannot be combined.
Is it shameful to meet the body without soul communication?
Thomas in "The Unbearable Lightness of Life" has been dealing with different women. He regards the meeting of the body as an indispensable part of life. However, in the realm of the soul, he has never opened up to any woman. But, aside from his wife Teresa, I've always thought of him as a devoted husband and a graceful lover, which is at least much more than being in a body with a lover while the soul is galloping, thinking of another woman to be courteous.
We can bear the lightness of the body, but often we cannot bear the weight of the soul.
by Colleen
2011.8.1's
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