Luis Buñuel's film "Beauty in the Day" is very similar in plot to D.H. Lawrence's novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover". The heroines of the two works cannot get sexual satisfaction from their husbands, thus embarking on the road of cheating. In terms of the theme, the similarities between the two seem to be inspired by the heroine's husband: the two husbands should be said to be extremely successful in their respective careers, but one of them lost his sexual ability due to an injury. The other is suspected of being frigid, and beyond that, they don't seem to care enough about their wives. On the one hand, both men seem to symbolize the rational spirit of modern society, which encourages people to make utilitarian and scientific calculations to achieve their respective goals, while ignoring people's natural nature and people's emotional components, overrationalization The result is the dehumanization of human beings-because rationality suppresses human nature and feelings too much, the heroine symbolizes the call to human nature and the salvation of human beings through the pursuit of her own sexual satisfaction. On the other hand, the "deviant" behavior of the two heroines has fundamentally aroused people's thinking about traditional sexual morality. One focus of this thinking is that when marriage cannot provide happiness for people in marriage, people can What qualifications do you have to do what?
Unlike the novel "Lady Chatterley's Lover", "Beauty in the Day" has a bolder imagination. As the heroine, Severina (played by Catherine Deneuve), after her own sexual desires are not satisfied, He has already chosen an exciting way: acting as a prostitute. Stories of a well-to-do middle class who went to work as a prostitute were rare, if not in the 1960s (of course, "prostitute" has to be defined in a narrower sense). The imagination of Luis Buñuel is truly astonishing. The story carries strong hints of satire on middle-class life. At the same time, the idea that women act as prostitutes is simply about money is rejected. Sexuality is capable of being a motivator. The value of this element is no lower than that of money.
It can be imagined that the shooting of "Beauty in the Day" has a lot to do with the sexual liberation and rebellion in the 1960s in Western countries. At the same time, the director's plot at the end of the film (everything that happens about the departure from morality is the heroine's fantasy) shows that the director is a bit of a family.
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