Tell me where it hurts

Erica 2022-04-22 07:01:41

After watching this film, I found that the plot in the film is somewhat familiar, and suddenly found one of my favorite bands, Garbage's classicThe MV is a tribute to this movie.
When I watched the MV at the time, I thought it should be a woman's story about lust and sadomasochism. I just guessed in my heart, and now the mystery is known.


In fact, Deneuve is better than Shirley Manson in the MV The appearance in the film is more noble, intellectual and elegant, and the interpretation of rock and roll is rude. The heroine of the film is more reserved, even if there is a little less debauchery temptation, but as said, it is like a pearl. The soft light that welcomes and refuses to come.


The plot of the story does not seem to be a gimmick today in this three-vulgar world. But in the 1960s, even romantic French people felt that this was a gimmick that transcended the moral framework. Our
heroine Belle is a rich middle-class wife with a handsome doctor husband, and lives a comfortable and somewhat boring life. She is a reserved woman, but she cannot get the satisfaction she wants in her married life. She started fantasizing some bizarre episodes, fantasizing about being abused and raped. Until finally she couldn't help but voluntarily incognito in a hidden brothel to be a prostitute


and a woman driven by desire and loneliness to indulge herself. It seems to be commonplace,
we When Belle, the beauty of the day, received her first guest, she could not help but hesitate and resist when she saw his fat body and vulgar words, but after it happened, she found that she was slowly getting used to it. So she made the second and third time Every day she comes to the brothel while her husband is working.
She sees her female colleague beating up a good-looking medical professor like a queen in the hole in the wall; being hurt by a client who doesn't understand the language; going to the duke's mansion to dress up as His dead lover was lying in the coffin. After the ceremony, the servants drove out the door...
Those bizarre and erotic things made this woman more and more addicted to it. She seemed to have forgotten her usual rich and glorious identity, And she really regarded herself as a lowly, contemptuous bitch who sold her body for a living. The clients of whore loved her because of her noble temperament. She also enjoyed it. It seemed that she could no longer suffer because of her inner desire and long-term loneliness. Emptiness.
When women see sex with different men as commonplace, there is actually no guilt.
The last killer. Handsome and young, narcissistic and paranoid. At first, I wanted to reject Belle because of a small birthmark, but in the end I loved her so much that I wanted to monopolize her (I think sensuality is the majority here) , the rest is still our Belle's remnant of the Virgin's light at work), and
finally he found Belle's real home, and this is the part of this rich lady who doesn't want to be known.
He paid for his impulse.


Belle Don't even be ashamed of being a prostitute, her shame stems from the fact that she really realizes that she is in the play. Deviating from the track of her life. A wealthy life brings her material enjoyment, but knowing that she is drinking poison to quench her thirst She probably regretted it when she couldn't save herself, but pushed herself into a deeper abyss? Or not. Or she felt that it was much better to be thrilled than to be painless.


Then again, why are there many lists? Put this movie into the ranks of the third-level film?
In fact, the women in the film are not overly exposed, the erotic scenes are taken or even taken directly, and the female ketone body appears pure and beautiful in the film. We have to blame Belle Is she delusional? She longs to be abused or even raped by someone else. The whole movie may even be the downright lewdness of this rich lady. The film lays the groundwork and makes it a more dramatic epitome of women struggling for their own desires.
I'm reminded of Kathryn Brea's Romance, which is also a story of a lonely woman. But the film is more Explicit, more revealing, and even has a shocking and bloody ending. I am thinking that this unique female director is always trying to make a web of eroticism in the world of women, but this play is similar to that of the sixth century of the last century. "Beauty in the Day" by Buñuel in the 1900s, is it a tribute or a mere crash?


With this kind of feminism, I still feel that it is not surprising that a lonely woman does anything. When you are by her side, Maybe you don't know what's on her mind. Maybe those things are more filthy than the things that men's bodies can't help but cheat on.
Illusions are not just the patent of men, women also have sexual fantasies. And people will restrain themselves and know how not to fall, if they fall, there is no way to go.
For the happiness of your life, please spend more time with your other half Communication, to achieve a certain degree of harmony in both the spiritual and physical aspects, is the way to maintain this occasional illusion and try not to derail.

As for why Belle was so lonely and went to become a prostitute. I think everyone It's wrong.
Men are busy with work, women can't learn to be independent, and life is exaggerated and empty. So look for some stimulation and comfort.
People are really untrustworthy animals. You clearly love someone, but you still betray him physically.
Even yourself It's not trustworthy anymore, I don't know what else to trust.
Of course, men and women can also say that they are all indulgences except you. You can always justify yourself.
It's endless like the Penrose ladder, just like human nature A perpetual paradox. No one can articulate it. I can't articulate it either, so it's been a bit incoherent all the time.


Tell me where it hurts? To hell with everybody else, all i care about is you, and that's the truth.
They don't like me, i can tell. But you do, so they can go to hell.

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Belle de Jour quotes

  • Monsieur Adolphe: [singing] I like ham and sausage, I like ham when it's good, But I like even more a nice pair of thighs.

  • Monsieur Adolphe: It wasn't cold enough. Champagne over 46 degrees taste like tea.

    Madame Anais: Sorry. If I'd known, I'd have put it in the fridge.

    Monsieur Adolphe: You knew I was coming.

    Madame Anais: But not that Belle de jour was.

    Monsieur Adolphe: [toast] To the person I care most about - - me!

    Madame Anais: And to Belle de jour.