The famous Spanish director Buñuel once shot a film called "Beauty in the Day". With flexible artistic techniques and complicated film images, it jointly showed the struggle of a married woman's inner world. and agitation. The background of the story is set in France after World War II. On the one hand, the traditional order is facing disintegration and collapse, and on the other hand, the new order and values are still in the process of exploration and establishment. As a married woman in this environment, Sevna is pulled and restrained by both old and new forces. She is unwilling to face up to her inner desires, but she is also unable to resist, and eventually she goes crazy in the indulgence of her desires.
[1. Suppressed physical desires]
After Sevna married her husband Pierre, she never had sex for a long time. For the husband's pleasing sexual requests, most of them are politely refused, giving people a feeling of "cold beauty". Despite this, Pierre still loves her as always and takes care of her in every possible way in life; for this, she has tried to get close to her husband many times and expressed her gratitude, but in the end she could not put it into action. A casual chat with a friend, Sevna learned that a female friend was a prostitute when she was a child. She immediately expressed indignation at this behavior, and could not understand why women could sell their holy bodies for money. husband". In her imagination, this type of ancient occupation should disappear after the war, instead of hiding in the hustle and bustle of the city. She even has an urge to test it in person, in the hope of confirming or falsifying it. After returning home, she inadvertently asked her husband about the brothel, and learned that he had been to the brothel many times and gave a wonderful and moving description of it. She felt incredible and even annoyed. The husband wanted to show something, but Sevna wouldn't let him touch her body.
However, many people around her were related to the brothel, which still aroused Sevna's curiosity and scrutiny. In a conversation with Pierre's friend, Sevna learns the address of a brothel and embarks on a dangerous quest. Before entering the brothel, Sevna was in every way uneasy, or left temporarily, or stayed away. Even when she was about to enter, she was baptized as a child before her eyes, which prevented her from sexual desire. Too much investment in this taboo focus on. During her growth, Sevna received traditional Christian education, and sexual taboos were one of them. Christian culture emphasizes that everyone should serve God; high sexuality (or at least indulgence) is dangerous. Sevna, who lives in this cultural environment, will inevitably be influenced by this tradition. In Sevna's view, sexual desire cannot be discussed openly, and physical desires should also be suppressed. Only pure love is the key to maintaining a happy marriage. Therefore, the suppression of sexual needs, similar to pain, is "mandatory" , "To remove pain one must alter the injured organ or overcome the effects of psychological damage". However, this endless repression does not completely dispel Sevna's questioning and exploration of sexual secrets, but instead extends and spreads out in an alternative and indescribable way.
[2. Subconscious desire for masochism]
People in the real world have both a material life and a psychological activity at the psychological level. Mental activities include conscious activities on the one hand, and subconscious activities on the other hand. The former need not be described in detail, while the latter needs to be discussed in detail. As opposed to conscious activities, subconscious activities refer to certain activities that can produce all the results that everyday ideas can produce, but cannot themselves become conscious activities. The subconscious mind is mainly divided into two levels, one is the individual unconscious; the other is the collective unconscious. According to the psychoanalytic school, the prototype of the subconscious is repression, and "what is repressed eventually merges into the id" and becomes the "id" (the original, innate structural part of the subconscious, which contains It is an integral part of some of the instinctive impulses in human nature that are closest to animal nature. It acts according to the pleasure principle.).
In the movie "Beauty in the Daytime", a married woman, Sevna, has a rich but empty life after marriage. Under the influence of Christian cultural taboos, she and her husband treat each other with respect, and their sex life is almost zero. However, by chance, Sevna learned the address of a brothel from a friend Pierre who coveted her beauty and chastity, and eventually went there, and was named "Beauty by the Day" by the brothel's prostitute (because she always She picks up customers from 2:00 to 5:00 in the afternoon, hence the name), and starts to pick up customers, but almost no one can satisfy her cravings. Once, while having sex with a confectioner, Sevna found herself enjoying the process of masochism so much that she was having a lot of fun. However, when a masochist disguised as a waiter is used to torture Sevna, Sevna is disgusted and thinks the man is base. On the one hand, Sevna could not resist the excitement and pleasure of being abused. This seemingly contradictory behavior just shows Sevna's attitude towards subconscious masochistic desire, indulging under the drive of "I" and denying it at the level of "ego". The masochistic enjoyment of Sevna in the brothel was completely unsatisfactory for the gentle and gentleman's husband, which explained why Sevna first left the brothel and then couldn't help returning. Because the "self" she seeks is "first and foremost the self of a body".
[3. Dangerous Pleasure: Between Desire and Morality]
In a secret brothel, Sevna continued her "exploration" activities in the sexual field until one day, she met two dangerous and mysterious guests: Ipoli and Marcel. Ippolite is in good health and gives Sevna a lot of battered imagination; although Marcel has a sloppy figure, he is experienced and proficient in sexuality, which still gives Sevna an unprecedented pleasure. However, after sexual intercourse, Marcel "falls in love" and falls in love with Sevna. At this time, Yu Song, a friend of Sevna's husband Pierre, showed up at the brothel. Sevna was afraid that he would tell her husband the truth in exchange for satisfying his physical needs and hoped that he would keep her secret. However, what Yu Song covets is Sevna's loyalty and holiness. He has no interest in Sevna, who has become a prostitute, nor does he promise to keep her personal secret. Trapped in the whirlpool of desire and morality, the future is uncertain.
Sevna's admirer, Marcel, learned that Sevna had left, and through many inquiries, knew that there was a whistleblower behind him, and planned to shoot the whistleblower to protect Sevna. Unexpectedly, Marcel accidentally injured Pierre, causing him to Paralyzed, he was shot dead by the police on the spot. Sevna and her husband Pierre continued their prosperous life. However, her husband's friend Yu Song came to tell Pierre Sevna's secret, and Sevna did it by herself before confessing to her husband. a moral examination. Interestingly, at the end of the film, Pierre suddenly stood up from the wheelchair and was healthy, which made the audience reconsider whether the whole story was an unprovoked conjecture of this empty and lonely woman from the very beginning?
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