Is this bells and whistles love?

Elroy 2022-04-19 09:02:33

"Jules and Jim" ("Ancestors and Zhan")

To be honest, I went there for the brand of my schoolbag from the beginning, and I always wondered what the movie was about.

It can't be said that it is too vulgar, it is a vulgar love story anyway.

A group of French and German literary and artistic youths who gradually lost themselves in the pursuit of true love and freedom.

It may be that France is too open-minded, that French literary and artistic youth believe too much in true love, or that our ideology is too different. In short, I don't quite understand the feeling of loving someone to the core and humble to the dust.

They are all selfish people, even the ancestors. He allowed his good friend Zhan to fuck with his wife, and it seemed that he had fulfilled their true love, but in fact, it was also to keep Catherine from leaving him. They are all selfish!

Catherine is very self-willed and selfish; Zhan seems to be smarter and more play boy than Zu, but he still loses to the weakness of "can't think in front of Catherine"; Zu is a gentle and sincere person, and he finally loves Catherine because of his weakness. And let go of the bottom line of "a woman must be loyal", as if she has lost her dignity as a husband. Zu and Zhan's repeated forgiveness did not bring Katherine's stability, but made her indulge herself even more.

All of them are sorry, Zhan is sorry for Zu, Catherine is sorry for Zhan and Zu, Zhan is sorry for Jiaobei, Catherine is sorry for everyone including her daughter. They lost the purest friendship and the opportunity to love someone seriously. They even lost their own lives.

They rush forward and then lament the loss of innocence; they are anxious about the future while ignoring the happiness of the present. Therefore, they live neither in the present nor in the future. They lived as if they would never die, and after they died, they seemed to have never lived.

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Jules and Jim quotes

  • Jules: The most important factor in any relationship is the woman's fidelity. The husband's is secondary. Who was it who wrote, "Woman is natural, therefore abominable?"

    Jim: Baudelaire, but he was describing a certain world.

    Jules: Not at all. He spoke of women in general. What he says about a young girl is magnificent: "Horror, monster, assassin of the arts, little fool, little slut. The greatest idiocy combined with the greatest depravity." Wait. I'm not finished. This is marvelous: "I'm always astonished they allow women inside churches. What could they possibly have to say to God?"

    Catherine: You're both fools.

  • Jim: I understand.

    Catherine: I don't want to be understood. It's almost dawn.