Don't watch this movie with moral evaluation, just feel it

Dahlia 2022-04-21 09:02:54

This film mainly tells the story between two men (Zhan, Zu) and a woman (Catherine). From the young people in their early twenties, they met, and they went through a war in the middle. After the war, they reunited again. Zhan Zhong made a choice, jumped off the broken bridge to commit suicide, Zhan sat in the co-pilot, Zu watched them commit suicide from a distance. The characters that appear are: the hero No. 1 Zhan (a tall man), Zhan's girlfriend (Jiao Bei), an anarchist girl who plays with a cigarette as a steam locomotive (the male protagonist's friend), the heroine Catherine ( Free and unrestrained), her husband, the hero No. 2 Zu (a shorter man), their daughter (a young girl with a round face), and Albert (the object of Katherine's occasional affair).

The theme of this film is free love, and the women in it are dangerous, unpredictable, moody, neurotic, who are ignored by men and get up angrily and leave for men to chase, and are free and unfettered. , The subject who will leave the man at any time to go to other men, disregard the universal morality, the man is the object who waits foolishly in place, forgives and accepts the woman at any time.

This is a representative work of the French New Wave. It breaks the creative skills of Hollywood. The director focuses on ordinary people and advocates personal expression. He picks up the camera and creates like a writer picks up a pen.

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  • 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.