The first half of the film is no different from Cinderella, Snow White, and every other romantic prince and princess love fairy tale - a deeply charming prince meets an ordinary but beautiful girl, they quickly attract each other and fall in love madly ... The difference is that the fairy tale ends abruptly after the prince and princess fall in love, while "Bitter Moon" shows their future.
It turns out that all romantic love stories end after the hero and heroine get married or get married, because it is not romantic or even scary if they continue to play; it turns out that love has a time limit and is so short; No matter how perfect a person is in front of the person they love deeply, they will lose themselves, and even become ugly and ugly; it turns out that there are only two results after the hot love - torture each other for a while, or torture each other forever.
I thought love was divided into two parts, and the first half was similar, as in every romantic drama: the hero and heroine meet, attract each other, and finally get married after a series of love and hatred - this is a cliché, It is also the constant theme of every romance film, but it is only the first half of love, not complete, like a comforting pill, numbing the hearts of every viewer, making people unable to see the whole picture and truth of love, only to see Romance and beauty in the so-called love drama. But marriage life dramas and romance films are two different things. The hero and heroine are no longer young and beautiful. They are carrying baskets to buy vegetables, ordinary, quarreling over trivial matters, cheating, divorce... Their lives seem to have nothing to do with love, but in fact they are also From the "love film" period, all the films focus on describing the first half of love or the marriage period, omitting the second half of love. And "Bitter Moon" is undoubtedly a cruel film, which truly deduces the second half of romantic love, which is shocking.
The film begins on a luxury ship, where Oscar, a middle-aged man, tries to tell a young Hugh Grant's love story with his wife Mimi. He looked ugly in a wheelchair. No one thought that in his story, as the protagonist, he was so different from today. He used to be so handsome, full of deep and calm charm, so that it was hard to believe that he was an actor. played. His acquaintance with Mimi is like all love stories, the handsome writer and the beautiful waitress in the restaurant fell in love at first sight, as he himself said: "I saw a corner of the kingdom of heaven, like Adam ate an apple." So he couldn't write, he couldn't sleep, he couldn't have sex with another woman—he fell in love with her. He took her out of the restaurant, and the two fell madly in love and lived together. They began to indulge their desires, almost every way.
The lust is like a tide, but there is always a time to fade, as Oscar said to Hugh Grant, to the effect that "the strongest love should be given up when it is hottest, than it is better to wear each other down."
That charming On a hot summer day, the sun shines on Mimi, the maid in the restaurant, making her as intoxicating as spirits. She got on the No. 96 bus, and Oscar, who had just fallen in love with her, was running behind the bus, chasing her, and she turned her head and gave Oscar an affectionate look. Later, they lived together. In the morning, she drank milk without a cup. She was innocent and evil like a child. She spilled milk on herself naughty and sexy, which made Oscar unable to stop.
Later, Oscar gradually got tired of all this, and even disliked Mimi drinking milk in the morning without a cup. There is a scene where they are sitting in the same place to eat, and they are already inseparable. Above them, in the center of the picture, there is the billboard of the Route 96 bus that Oscar used to chase. It is so mocking.
There may be many manifestations of deep love, and one of them is losing yourself. Mimi is an example. She, who was once so beautiful, gradually lost herself because of love, and even cut an ugly and somewhat ridiculous short hair for Oscar's sentence "You should change your hairstyle", and for him "What's wrong with your face? What's growing? Something?" And ran to the bathroom and threw a heavy powder on her face, and when she came out of the bathroom and reappeared at Oscar's party, the woman with ugly short hair and eccentric white foundation had lost all the previous Brilliant, became unbearable.
When I saw this moment, my heart was sad, and tears flowed all at once. Maybe everyone has this experience, maybe you were Mimi at that time, maybe you were Oscar at that time.
The film is very depressing. In the end, the male and female protagonists end up torturing each other - the woman has an abortion, the uterus is removed, the man is disabled and sits in a wheelchair.
The Hugh Grant couple is another line of the film, reflecting the opposite of Mimi and Oscar's fierce love - the dull married life. But because they got on the tanker and met Oscar and Mimi couple, Hugh Grant had an inexplicable desire for Mimi after listening to the story told by Oscar, and spiritually betrayed his wife. At the end of the film, his wife unexpectedly had sex with Mimi under the influence of alcohol. When Hugh Grant found his wife lying naked next to Mimi sleeping, their peaceful life was shattered - the husband and wife who have always respected each other Relationships and the image of a decent, moral middle-class family crumbled in an instant. When Hugh Grant had just discovered all this, Oscar rushed in and shot Mimi, then committed suicide, awakening Hugh Grant's wife and stunned Hugh Grant, who was already speechless... In the
early morning of the next day, Hugh Grant was on deck. The couple stood together in despair, their lives changed overnight, and the beautiful illusion created by painstaking efforts was destroyed, as if they had experienced a temptation by the devil, and finally ended in Satan's victory. Maybe they don't go to India on this ship, they go by plane and everything will never happen, maybe they don't foresee the Oscars and everything will calm down forever. But maybe there are not so many "maybes", if you are lucky enough to catch up with an "exception", many people can't stand the test and temptation of desire after all, people are too fragile, this film is too cruel.
The last scene of the film gave a little light to every audience who had been discouraged by watching the film. The middle-aged Indian man who appeared at the beginning of the film appeared on the deck with his daughter. The little girl was so innocent and cute. Indians say to Hugh Grants: "You should have a baby too". He is like a prophet, a revelator, who speaks the truth in one sentence - the child is the bond that saves and maintains the marriage, and the family is the destination of a love metaphor. The smiling faces of the children make people feel warm, the temptation is over, and what is not over is the shadow that will never be erased in their hearts.
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