From the beginning of boys learning to write novels, they settled in the deepest desire of human nature. Such a script would have been refreshing.
What is even more valuable is that it expresses every desire vividly but entangles them like a rope: voyeurism, achievement desire, sexual desire, possessiveness, jealousy, etc. can be found in the movie. living presence. Dazzling, but expressing a theme very clearly: man is a collection of desires.
The story begins with voyeurism. For voyeurism, Freud said, it stems from childhood curiosity about one's own life and origin. It is an instinctive drive of human nature, but often, our society cannot satisfy our desire, so in adulthood we still like to gossip and spy on other people's privacy.
Teen Claude's depiction of classmate Raphael's family sparks the voyeuristic interest of his teacher Gilman. One side is the development of the plot, the other side is the ethics. Gilman fell into the expectation of the development of the story step by step. From the beginning, he was worried, and finally he resigned in order to let Claude complete the peeping at the end of the paper. Why does this expectation have such a huge magic power?
The reason is Claude. This ghostly-tempered boy is feminine, treacherous, and has a pair of sharp and breathtaking eyes. What's more, he also has a perfect handwriting and a deep understanding of human desires and darkness. This makes him like Satan, manipulating his poor voyeur, as well as his teacher, the first reader of his work.
And the old Gilman, ordinary, gentle, this is a little less gifted French teacher. Claude's bold move and precocious talent heralded a possibility for him from the beginning, a possibility to satisfy his desire for achievement through him. This behavior often occurs when parents treat their children. "Hopeful to become a dragon" is actually a typical psychological compensation mechanism. It imagines the child as possible himself, enriches his life with the achievements of others, and compensates for his unrealized glory. Perhaps it was this desire that made Gilman uncontrollable.
How to make the plot more real and how to create a plot with ups and downs. Claude has been trying as Gilman intended. His boldness and talent are not found in Gilman, and his voyeurism, desire for control, desire for achievement, etc. are all satisfied in Claude's pen. So he naturally became Claude's best helper. Stealing papers and humiliating Raphael happened smoothly under his own sanity.
"Desires are stimulated with age." This line in the movie is very good, from the mouth of Gilman's wife.
But she didn't say that desire will burn everyone at a speed that no one can imagine.
Before meeting Claude, Gilman was also indifferent to this mundane teacher life, but in the end he lost everything because of what he did. Claude originally just wanted to write about the life of a middle-class family he peeped, but gradually fell in love with Raphael's mother East. This confident, talented devil-like boy also lost to his own desires.
I can't stop. He said. When his articles are getting more and more crazy, maybe each of them can't stop spinning.
In the end, what we see is destruction and reconciliation. Claude was beaten, Gilman was suspended, and his wife abandoned him. When their desires cooled down, they sat together again, and at the same time in this world, other desires were being staged.
Schopenhauer said: The essence of man is will. This film may be the best explanation for this sentence.
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