"Why?" is a common question for first-time viewers of the film, and so do I.
Then after a morning and a noon thinking, it seems to understand more.
From her birthday in the summer of 17 until she was finally approaching 18 in the spring of the following year, Isabella's 17-year-old was a 17-year-old who kept looking for herself.
Her first night, taken away by her German boyfriend Phyllis, is a beginning, a liberation. Just like Floriana in "Daffodils Blooms" wants Mary to help her break the virginity, the virginity is like a hurdle, and after the past, it is another world.
At the age of 17, she confirms her own existence through physical and sexual means to explore life and gain self-awareness.
There is a section in the middle of the movie where the students discuss a love poem together. Everyone came up with exactly what the teenager had in mind about love, and Isabella said nothing. In another episode, her best friend slept with a boy she liked, and found that reality and imagination were too different. Isabella comforted her, but she dismissed her because she thought Isabella was a virgin. All kinds of things in the school are interspersed in the film, forming a sharp contrast with Isabella's experience, which further highlights the theme: the exploration of the unknown, the search for self-awareness, and the pursuit of maturity.
A joli jeune, with the deadly charm of youth, seeks the unknown experience of maturity.
Not so romantic.
Perhaps it is this that attracts the old man, the seduction of the young body to the old man. Can't help but remind me of "Sleeping Beauty" by Yasunari Kawabata. Old people choose young and beautiful girls because she can make them feel young again. Perhaps this is also a contrast, the old man sees the world, and Irabella is a newborn calf. She craved not just his caress, but the self-gratification and self-identification that sex brought.
At the end of the film, she lies on the bed he left and finds her true self.
The beauty of the heroine is the beauty of natural relaxation, which has a natural and refined meaning, and seems to be a common feature of French beauties.
She is also a young actress. Compared with Eva Green who was filming "Dream of Paris", I prefer the heroine of this film. The reason is unknown.
The atmosphere of this film is properly rendered. In my opinion, it expresses the oppression unique to youth vividly. And the heroine is a vivid color in this oppressive gray, which ignites the romantic fragrance.
This film should not be called pornography.
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