The film begins with the bell of the carriage, with two well-dressed coachmen driving the carriage down a path covered with yellow leaves. On the roadside, Fatong towers to the sky, and each tree is golden. The long shot goes from far to near, the bell is ringing, the carriage is getting closer, and we see the protagonist Severina and her husband Pierre sitting side by side in the car. The first fantasy of the whole film starts from this. The conversation between Severina and her husband turned from sweet talk to a sharp turn. Pierre ordered the driver to drag his wife out of the car and hang him on a tree to whip her, and even allowed the driver to molest him after the whipping. Even as a fantasy, the plot is too cruel for a woman like Sai, yet in the humiliation, her moans seem to be out of pleasure rather than pain, and her facial expressions are enjoyable. Sai's masochistic tendencies are established as the first impression.
"I was thinking of you, the two of us." Jumping to reality, Severina answered her husband's "what are you thinking?" question. The two people who seem to be affectionate and affectionate sleep in separate beds, which makes people start to guess what the problem is. And it seems that it is not that Sai is "dissatisfied with his desires", but that Pierre was rejected.
Then the director expressed his beliefs through the mouth of the characters: Pierre and his wife talked about the difference between a magician and a hypnotist on the way to the appointment together: "A hypnotist can dig out the deepest secrets in your heart." Freud believes that , dreams are self-performations of subconscious psychological phenomena. Perhaps this will serve as the reason for Severina's "coldness" and "unsatisfaction". Sai's attitude towards Ha Sun has been conflicting from his first appearance, and I would like to group this natural resistance with Bai Niangzi's attitude towards Fa Hai. Of course, Hasson cannot be divided into simple "good and evil", he is more like a handsome and gentleman Satan. More on that in later episodes.
In the taxi, the female companion revealed to Xi the news that Heritt was a prostitute. Sai seemed shocked, but instead asked, "Do those places still exist?" This kind of question is curiosity and temptation from another perspective. In the process of Sai Leng stunned, I think she has made up her mind.
She struggled before drawing the line between Severina and Belle. First, I asked my husband about the brothel, and there were ten bells here. After a quick meeting with Herit during a game of tennis, Hassan told Mrs. Annes where she was. "I don't understand women like that," Severina said, just as she didn't understand herself. Outside Madame Annes' door, she saw Matilda, one of the prostitutes. She ran away in a panic, weeping on the roadside bench as the clock struck eleven. Before ringing the doorbell, a nun came downstairs, and she hurriedly waited for the elevator. After making an appointment with Annes, Severina intends to pass by her husband's hospital. All kinds of reactions are due to the "instincts" given to her by her social status, and desires are probably the real instincts of their own.
Severina finally turns into Belle, every afternoon from two to five o'clock. Her first guest was a confectioner named Edover, a fat man with big ears and a full face. Although Sai felt unwell several times and wanted to flee, he finally kissed the guest - Severina's hand stroked Edover's hair - which was certainly not forced body language. After rushing home, Sai hurriedly burned her underwear and lay dozing on the bed. After her husband came to visit, she fell into the second fantasy in the film:
Pierre and Hasson were grazing cows in the open pasture, and the bells didn't ring. absolutely. The soup was cold in the firewood-heated pot. Hassan took off his hat and prayed to the distant bell. "Do these cows have names?" Pierre asked. "That one is called regret, and after regret is atonement," Hasson replied. This sentence is clearer than all the images point to, Hasson predicted the fate of Severina. The pleasure of the masochist's fantasy is Hasson throwing at her a bucket of sludge, which Pierre has prepared himself.
Severina later experienced the pure M gynecologist who loves role-playing, the gentle S Japanese who exudes disgust (he is still a Kisser and likes to kiss like a child), and the ruthless Duke of necrophilia. Among the three, Severina undoubtedly prefers the Japanese. After he left the game, he was paralyzed on the bed like mud, and the old servant said sympathetically: "Sometimes it is very hard to do this." Severina raised her head and smiled tiredly and sweetly: "What do you know?" The buzzing bees (?) in the Japanese box amused Severina, as well as his handbell. The Duke has peculiar taste, Severina put on a black gauze and lay down in the coffin, but the Duke himself went under the coffin to DIY. He dedicated the lily to the lily, the lily that burst out from Eve's tears after Adam and Eve stole the forbidden fruit and were driven out of the Garden of Eden. There was thunder and cat meowing in the duke's castle.
All kinds of absurd experiences made Severina lively and happy. She came home and took the initiative to sleep in the same bed with Pierre, probably An Ran after releasing her inner demon.
In the third fantasy, after Hasson came to meet Severina and was rejected, Sai and Ha had sex under a small round table in the restaurant, with her girlfriend and Pierre in attendance. "He's giving her the envelope, and now it's the lily seed." Lily is really the unity of lust and purity.
Marcel, who fell in love with Belle, was a complete narcissist. He loves her, and the more he fears losing a shred of self-esteem (the self-esteem of these outlaws doesn't seem to be in line with professional norms). After getting a "like" response from B, he showed off how many girls were willing to go home with him. He didn't mind B's birthmark, he obviously had a long scar behind his missing teeth. The most important thing is that he needs to know who she is. He was furious when she disappeared and returned, and he wanted to take her for himself. Marcel stroking B's hand wears a huge ring, can take off the shiny patent leather boots, and the rusty red socks on the thief's feet show the entire heel - they obviously don't match.
The love with Marcel made Severina laugh loudly. She likes thieves and loves her husband more, which is different. The arrival of Satan Hassan is about to reveal the secret. Hassan's prophetic insight into Severina's mind, showing her the way, and now to overthrow everything. "I have a crush on you because of your virtue, you are the doctor's wife". Such Hasson hits the mark, he is the more advanced contradiction of the game Vagina.
Severina Fantasy No. 4: Hasson and Pierre shoot each other, he is tied to a tree, and his husband comes to kiss and comfort.
Marcel's wish was granted and he came to know Belle's true identity. After shooting Pierre, he was killed by police. Pierre got into the wheelchair he had noticed earlier.
What did Hasson tell Pierre to make him heal quickly? The bell rang again outside the window. "What are you thinking, Severina?" "I miss you." Pierre suggested taking a few days off to go sightseeing. The clock struck five, maybe it was just the end of Belle's time, and Severina woke up.
Outside the window came the carriage, the same driver, the two who had imagined before, the two who had taken her to the ducal castle. From Fontainebleau, to Fontainebleau.
There are also two childhood memories throughout the film: one is being molested by a plumber, and the other is refusing to be baptized. It also goes back to Freudian psychoanalysis, which I know very little about, surrealism and the theoretical underpinnings of ism. The images of cats, flowers, and bells are without exception spying on the contradictions in the subconscious of the characters. Belle (car bell) accompanies Belle's sexual fantasies, and flowers are the genitals of plants. Cat, if you try hard, pussy doesn't mean kitten anymore.
Finally, I thought of what the heroine recalled in Zweig's "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life" when she got old: A woman will not be controlled by her will at some point in her life, and she will succumb to some mysterious force without knowing it herself. , this is an obvious fact. To refuse to admit it is just fear of our own instincts, fear of the demon element in our nature, and want to cover up our inner fears... And I personally think that if a woman is free and full of passion It is much more honest to follow one's own instincts than to lie in the arms of one's own husband with his eyes closed, as is usually seen.
Instinct is an edible existence, but as a human being, it will never die from overeating like a young animal. Remain open to the adventure of experience. Dreaming is fine.
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