The tragedy in "The Bitter Moon" is extremely cruel. For this reason, many people regard it as the opposite of the so-called love. It is a problem to love to the extreme. In fact, there is no problem with love itself. Just a desire to indulge in the name of love. Oscar loves Mimi, so at first he indulges sexual desire and possessiveness in Mimi in the name of love, and when he gets bored with Mimi, he goes around looking for pleasure under the bondage of love. Mimi's greed is manifested as possession. At first, she prayed to possess him. When she was tortured by Oscar, she used his disability to make her greed manifest in a fierce and tough way.
Many people wondered about the appearance of the silly *British couple in the film from beginning to end. Yes, it was abrupt at first glance, but when Oscar shouted "We were just too gready, baby" before his death, everything should have been solved.
It is not difficult to find that the British couple faced the seven-year itch. They had agreed to travel to divert their attention in an attempt to save the life of their marriage, but they could not resist the temptation of each other. Nigel is fascinated by Mimi, and Fiona seems to want revenge, but is actually driven by desire to be ambiguous with the Latin man.
So, in fact, this British couple is the reflection of the Oscar couple. Their plight is the plight of most couples, but there are very few crazy and extreme situations like the Oscar couple in daily life, which makes most of us suffer. Greed and lust lack drama, and are even extremely subtle. Therefore, our greed and its consequences are not serious, so Polanski arranged for the British couple and the Oscars to take care of each other. The destruction of the Oscars highlights the seriousness and gives The British couple is a wake-up call, and we are alerting ourselves through their actions.
To be honest, the eager entanglement of the two women at the end was confusing at first, but if we think about sexual concepts, homosexuality, etc., we will never understand. Here, I personally think it is more appropriate to regard this scene as a deliberate arrangement by Oscar. He didn't invite Fiona to the banquet to see a couple ripping off their faces. What he wanted to see was: Fall! The fall of every man in the face of excessive lust and greed. It's not difficult to find that the couple has been relatively restrained before, at least not as indulgent as Oscar and Mimi, so Oscar's deliberate arrangement is to see how crazy, how unbearable, and even disgusting people can be in the face of greed. After the sex scene between the two women, his sentence "Did you ever see such an allegory of grace and beauty?" is a sarcasm, and grace and beauty satirize the disgusting and unbearable scene. The latter sentence "Fiona was a revelation." How interesting, can people sinking into greed not be "refreshing"? It is already a beast, and it has broken through all human ethics.
Oscar sees his own play, so he kills Mimi, kills himself, and ends this absurd farce.
No tears without a coffin, the British couple represented us, Oscar showed them and us a dead end that no one can walk
This is worth watching for every couple and couple, and it is also worth watching for every teenager who is just beginning to fall in love. Love is neutral, at least it always separates itself from the beast. When you fall into the abyss of greed, this concept has no connection with you.
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