oscar said "there's only room for a hypocrite in this room". Does Oscar consider himself a hypocrite? Didn't he stay with Mimi at first because of passion and then abandoned Mimi because of passion? He didn't want to get Mimi like Nigel and pretended to sympathize with Oscar, why is he fake, he is completely based on the truth of emotion or sexual desire Act, he will never think he is hypocritical here. Therefore, it can only be explained that he thinks that his behavior is actually indulging himself to cover up a truth that should not be covered up—oscar may have recognized such a value in the later period: there is a certain kind of temperance in human nature (in the In Plato's theory, temperance is the highest good), and he had it, but he "hypocritically" obliterated it (this is brought about by the writer's stereotype: it is the writer who should be sexually promiscuous, and seek sexual encounters without restraint) , which is verified by Oscar's last sentence before suicide: "we are too greedy". In this way, nigel is really just a variant of oscar (notice oscar in the mirror talking to nigel).
nigel
Nigel's hypocrisy is so obvious that it has a certain comedy. The appearance of husband and wife nigel and fiona can be described as polite, at least on the surface of the ceremonial action level, it will give the impression of "moderation", even after Nigel shows "greed" towards Mimi, it is still "moderate"— —If any sexual pursuit outside of marriage is defined as greed. But we can still define it differently, Nigel's sexual pursuit of mimi is natural, and his pursuit of this behavior is undoubtedly temperate - without Fiona's knowledge - there is no indication that Nigel will abandon Fiona as a Get mimi for the price.
fiona
What about Fiona? On the surface, the theme of nigel and fiona is to find the lost passion, which is the premise and the logic of the story, but what is actually presented in the film (about nigel and fiona) has nothing to do with passion. Note that it is irrelevant here, not nothing. The film doesn't talk about their "search for passion" at all, but about the maintenance of marriage and its scale. I mentioned earlier that the premise of nigel cheating is that the premise of marriage is not touched. What about Fiona? It's easy to think of her as a lurking "witch" who just waits for a scheduled event, and she drops her temperate middle-class appearance to join the "witch" (see Fiona's appearance at the New Year's ball with Mimi). The stunning effect of the dance and the gay plot that follows), but the ending of the film is somewhat too bland: Fiona is crying on Nigel’s shoulder, and Indian kids come to wish them a happy new year. This undoubtedly shows that fiona and nigel are back on their original track, and it is easy to suggest that their relationship is better after the storm, and may also learn the lesson of the ancient tradition (represented by the Indian and his daughter): life A child strengthens the marriage. Apparently, Fiona's infidelity in the film doesn't touch on their marriage - homosexuality with ambiguous values is interpreted as not jeopardizing the boundaries of marital morality - noting that there is also an Italian man who may have jeopardized the boundaries of fiona's marriage and is knocked down by a sudden fight local scene.
Mimi
Mimi is on the surface an image of an innocent girl turned into a vengeful witch by emotional hurt, but her vengeful witch image is incomplete, and her handing the gun to oscar means that she gives up the complete image of the vengeful witch, that is, she gave up ultimate power. We can see that the burning of the mimi hatred flame is episodic, but it is also lurking and unpredictable at any time. Thinking of Oscar's final verdict "we are too greedy", is Mimi really that greedy? If Mimi's greed is true, then the only reluctant explanation is that she loves too much, but this explanation is reluctant after all, so Mimi's greed is just oscar's perspective in Mimi.
After the vengeance begins, oscar and mimi have a marriage ceremony that echoes the structural theme of nigel and fiona's marriage. We can clearly see that this marriage ceremony is meaningless in terms of the logical content of the film. First of all, in terms of feelings, Oscar and Mimi's love and hatred are at their peak; in terms of reality, Mimi is already Oscar's guardian. So what's the point of this plot? The marriage between oscar and mimi is neither based on sex nor love, nor does it involve money. It can be said that there is no boundary between entering and exiting, and it is a symbol in name only - it has lost its meaning ( Can a sign without a signified still perform the function of a sign (can it be a sign)?
The mirror at the beginning of the film has already suggested that this narrative is a mirror-in-mirror narrative, with multiple mirror images. nigel and oscar are mirror images of each other, and fiona and mimi are mirror images of each other. There is a scene where fiona says to nigel, "If you cheat on me, I will retaliate twice", which is symmetrical with mimi's revenge. Because Nigel's desire for Mimi was unsuccessful, Fiona's revenge was not established, but Fiona and Mimi "melted as one" in sex, which is also proof of their mirror-like structure.
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