First of all, judging by the performance of the actors, they are not even the main characters in this film, regardless of the seasoned performances of Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas. Peter Coyote's performance in this film is definitely not worse than Al Pacino in The Scent of Woman. And Emmanuelle Seigner can perform a woman's various stages in love - from the pure goddess, to the SM queen, to the poor maid, to the romantic girl - so vividly It's a shame to win several film festival gold awards.
Furthermore, from the script, the original novelist Pascal Bruckner is definitely a past person with real life experience, and the monologue of the script and Peter Coyote in the movie tells the story, sonorous and powerful, yet fresh and true, showing its profoundness power.
Most importantly, director Roman Polanski tells a story in this short 138 minutes:
this is the sexual psyche process between men and women.
That's how the love works!
---Phase I Ascend Period---
1. Attract. Original movie: Oscar: A glimpse of the heaven.
This kind of temptation is the source of power that can make a male mantis/good person, even if it is eaten by a female, it doesn't matter, "life is precious, and love is more expensive".
If it ends here, it will only be unrequited love. Many of us have experienced it during adolescence.
2. Pick up a conversation. Oscar helps Mimi get out of the dilemma of fare evasion, but he is kicked out of the car by the conductor.
If it ends here, it will only be a failed encounter. Everyone has experienced it.
3. Public Appointment get along again. Oscar asks Mimi to have dinner together.
At this stage, Male will suddenly have a Boost in physical strength, intelligence, talent and other aspects. Maybe it's a human instinct. This Boost is a source of "inspiration" for poets, painters, and other artists, and why they can't help but switch girlfriends.
If Female gets pleasure or stimulation (commonly known as High) at this stage, she develops a "call" to Male, "romance" begins, and Female's rationality begins to decline rapidly. Maybe it's a human instinct.
4. Develop "tacit understanding" from "calling": pay attention to the details of Oscar and Mimi's meal
5. Private Appointment alone. Oscar and Mimi change to a more private place, drink and chat together
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. Option : get married.
7. ML. Oscar makes the hot chocolate, while Mimi makes the fire. Then, they make love. "The way to a man's heart is through the stomach, and the way to a woman's heart is through the vagina."
---Phase II Honeymoon Period---
8. Oscar and Mimi, the love aspect is sweet in any activity, and the sex aspect feels perfect in any way.
Oscar: Nothing ever surpass the rapture of that first awakening. I might have been Adam with the taste of apple fresh in my mouth. I was looking at all the beauty in the world embodied in a single female form and I knew, with sudden blinding certainty, this was IT!
---Phase III decline---
9. Passion wanes until the "n-year itch" occurs. Oscar and Mimi, the daily chores of love began to conflict, and the sexual aspect gradually became familiar and tired.
[Solution 1:] Drag it hard, just let it go. Chinese families are for face, European traditional Catholic families are for faith, many of them are like this. Oscar: We were developing a narcotic dependence on television - the marital aid that enables a couple to endure each other, without having to talk.
[Solution 2:] Have a baby. Polanski himself became a father for the first time when he directed the film. Polanski's own experience of fatherhood by the time the film was made, is that a stable family life is infinitely superior to the instability of bachelorhood and risky erotic experimentation.
Various attempts:
A. Second Honeymoon / Another clue to another environment movie: Hugh Grant and Kristin Scott Thomas. This method is generally ineffective.
B. Try other methods, like Oscar and Mimi start SM
SM also one day will be boring to the end.
=> n times [cheating => recovery or breakup]
Oscar: In the eyes of every woman, I could see the reflection of the next.
=> Boredom - quarrel - mutual hurt - numbness
[Solution 3:] Break up. Everything back Step 1.
[Solution 4:] Destruction.
Oscar and Mimi no longer have the ability to choose between Solution 2: have a baby or Solution 3: break up.
So, all they have left is to choose Solution 1: Live by or Solution 4: Destruction
This is a story about a life time experiment of uncontrolled love,
no! To be precise, it is a "reincarnation";
a "reincarnation" that you can describe with the oriental "color is extremely empty";
a story that is too scary: a "reincarnation" that is obviously "scarred" but can't find the antidote:
A very true story: countless men and women around me, the "reincarnation" that has been experienced in the past, present and future;
perhaps, the poster of the movie, the one-page boat driving in the boundless darkness, is the best footnote to this endless cycle of life. .
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