1 The appearance of
love Love can be seen in the Ten Commandments. Love is like a milk bottle in a woman's hand, which can be knocked down and shattered by accidental anger and impulse. At the beginning of the film, the woman always holds her, but treats her as an object outside her life. The boy Tom took the initiative to take over the milk delivery job, hid the milk bottle at her door and knocked on the door. He also hid the love in his heart and sent messages to harass her. When the woman agrees to the ice cream date, Tom happily runs downstairs dragging the milk bottle. The crisp voice cares for pure love. And once the crush becomes clear, painful encounters are inevitable.
This kind of love is not accepted by women who have experienced many worldly events. The woman repeatedly asked Tom what he wanted, but scoffed at the boy's "I love you" answer. She said firmly and quickly that without love, love does not exist.
So love was finally destroyed by a woman's easy judgment. The woman stroked herself with Tom's hand, provocatively telling him that this was love. Tom, whose abstinence was broken, shivered and ejaculated prematurely, so pure love was destroyed. The spiritual possession he cared about was broken by carnal desires. The woman's incomprehensible behavior finally gave him the heaviest blow.
2 voyeuristic love
Although voyeurism is immoral, it can sometimes be equated with the extreme of secret love. This nineteen-year-old boy has done too many bad things: stealing binoculars, tricking women into going to the post office, and harassing her life with big phone calls. But we still sympathize with him and understand his behavior. This is because his original intention is extremely simple, which makes his behavior extreme. For the first half of the film we look at this woman from Tom's voyeuristic perspective. What kind of woman is this? Tom shyly expressed his friend's opinion in the chat with the woman: a beautiful woman who likes to have sex. In the subjective perspective of the first half, we see a woman who is a little lonely, walking around the house and dancing alone, and crying alone on the table after a quarrel. This is another presentation through distance and perspective. This kind of seeing is private, and what we often get is the person himself after taking off the way of life.
The expression of love in this form of voyeurism is also reminiscent of American Beauty. Jenny, who apparently hates voyeurism, actually protects her self-esteem by being peeped. Because some people are willing to appreciate beauty, those who have beauty will know their importance. When Jenny undresses for the looming camera, true beauty is in a sense detached from the body and born of love.
3 The rational model of love
Plato once believed that the world is dualistic, we live in a world that relies on the senses, and all phenomena in nature are only eternal forms, the shadows of rational models. He used a myth of watching reflections at the mouth of a cave to try to prove that what we only see with our senses is just a shadow like a shadow play. The real world is perfect and eternal, and it is another existence beyond the sensory world. When we see something and vaguely think of the same thing in the ideal world, there will be a desire to return to the original realm.
This longing is also called love, and henceforth the body and the whole world of senses are imperfect and insignificant. And in the form of voyeurism provides the perfect conditions for a certain type of love: distance, gaze, and intimacy. This single gaze does not even require any kind of looking back and answering. It can be said that this kind of gaze is like secretly turning back from time to time when watching a shadow puppet show, and spied into the real and perfect rational shape.
4 The Destruction
of Love One of the Ten Commandments about love is not to commit adultery. Women have learned to have fun and stop believing in love. And the punishment for her is to destroy the purest love that could have been unchanged in front of her in this wrong way.
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