Perfection and Selfishness--The Strange Woman of Love

Loyal 2022-04-21 09:02:54

There are thousands of women, and you may just like her.

Catherine, this is an unpredictable woman, two good friends are obsessed with her at the same time, she is beautiful, smart, lively and naughty, and she is always ready to come up with new ideas.

She pursues freedom, although this freedom is a bit too casual, hurting everyone who loves her, no one can stop her, she wants to be her own complete master. When she was dissatisfied with the plain and contradictory relationship with Zu, she would walk away silently for half a year, she took the initiative to release the bait to the person she loved, and abandoned her lover at will, was wronged by one lover, and rushed to another lover to seek care. It seems that she is really a bad woman who should be in a pig cage.

But you have seen her painted with a beard and dressed as a man walking down the street with a cigarette in his mouth, the handsome man who lit a cigarette for the passing man who borrowed the fire; the handsome man who raised his pants and squatted down to race with the man; The seriousness of the book; the peaceful and loving mother's appearance when accompanying her daughter; the singing that she sang with her lover; the calmly wrapped pajamas and accompanied by her husband and lover to spend the night with another lover, but she behaved gracefully; driving under the lover's window Blindly turning; crying pear blossoms with rain suddenly raised a gun to Zhan's indifference... You wouldn't just scorn her, such an unpredictable and real woman.



She loves Zu and Zhan. Of course she still loves others. Her affection should be despised, but I don't despise her infidelity so much. Every lover is sincere and passionate from the heart, but they can't stand the flaws in love, bland, trivial, restricted, neglected, and extremely sensitive to small details. These flaws will make her dissatisfied and give up. I think in the end she must be mentally ill, tortured by the freedom and perfectionism in her heart, the rationality and departure of accounting have poked her weakness, she can come and go between lovers Free, but could not bear her lover to leave her, for which she sacrificed her life at the cost of a moth to the flame.



But no matter what, she can make three men dedicate their hearts to her. Zu married Catherine, but she couldn't control her, she could only tell her good friend, you want to marry her, I want to see her: "As long as I don't lose her completely, I'm willing to do anything, she's not particularly beautiful, smart, and sincere, but She is a real woman, a man's desire." And Zhan endured it in order to be a good friend from the very beginning. He got an "invitation" from his friend before expressing his love for Catherine. He kissed her neck and said, "I am the most The place where I love you is the back of your neck, that's the only place you can't see me looking at you." As for the man who played the guitar, I have no idea, let alone mention it.



At the end of the movie, when the subtitles are played, all I can think about is her wearing a loose sweater, black trousers, her hair in a braid, a newsboy cap, and the way she is walking down the street with a cigarette and her running attitude. As if there was a scent in the air that spread out after she ran past.

But I was not born in that era. Even if I admire this woman again, I still can't understand the fact that the three of them give up my wife to a friend and live happily and happily together. However, this kind of emotion does not seem to be a special case. I was already confused when I watched "Midnight in Barcelona". Is it true that love or sex can only be balanced on the basis of the peaceful coexistence of three people?

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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.