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Ed 2022-04-21 09:03:51
I've been eyeing the film "Elegy" for a while. The beauty plus the erotic movie itself is very attractive, and Lao Xu seems to have mentioned that watching this movie and crying. The beauties are indeed very fragrant, and the old man inside also finds it attractive enough. From the very beginning of the film, the old man has shown his possessiveness unspokenly. The relationship between the two people has developed smoothly from mutual attraction to mutual suspicion and worrying about gains and losses, to the inferiority complex of the old man who cannot face the promise. By an hour into the show, I felt like a lot had happened, and the movie could even end there. However, despite some shrewd words (such as "a man makes love with a woman as if he were taking revenge on everything in life that beat him"), the emotion I was looking forward to was still long overdue. Until the end, the heroine appeared again, hoping to relive the other party's appreciation of her body, hoping to retain her perfect youth. I am still moved. What is moved is not the loss of youth when a person is about to die, what is moved is that the bits and pieces between two people are often gone forever. There are so many moments we don't want to forget, but time often washes them away first.
Extended Reading
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David Kepesh: [interview on the Charlie Rose show] We're not all descended from the Puritans.
Charlie Rose: No?
David Kepesh: There was another colony 30 miles from Plymouth, it's not on the maps today. Marymount it was called.
Charlie Rose: Yeah, alright, you mention in your book...
David Kepesh: The colony where anything goes, went.
Charlie Rose: There was booze...
David Kepesh: here was booze. There was fornication. There was music. There was... they even ah, ah, ah, you name it, you name it. They even danced around the maypole once a month, wearing masks, worshiping god knows what, Whites and Indians together, all going for broke...
Charlie Rose: Who was responsible for all of this?
David Kepesh: A character by the name of Thomas Morton.
Charlie Rose: Aah, the "Hugh Hefner" of the Puritans.
David Kepesh: You could say that. I'm going to read you a quote of what the Puritans thought of Morton's followers: 'Debauched bacchanalians and atheists, falling into great licentiousness, and leading degenerate lives'. When I heard that, I packed my bags, I left Oxford, and I came straight to America, America the licentious.
Charlie Rose: So what happened to all of those people?
David Kepesh: Well, the Puritans shot them down. They sent in Miles Standish leading the militia. He chopped down the maypole, cut down those colored ribbons, banners, everything; party was over
Charlie Rose: And we became a nation of straight-laced Puritans.
David Kepesh: Well...
Charlie Rose: Isn't that your point though? The Puritans won, they stamped out all things sexual... how would you say it?
David Kepesh: Sexual happiness.
Charlie Rose: Exactly. Until the 1960s.
David Kepesh: Until the 1960s when it all exploded again all over the place.
Charlie Rose: Right, everyone was dancing around the maypole, then, make love not war.
David Kepesh: If you remember, only a decade earlier, if you wanted to have sex, if you wanted to make love in the 1950s, you had to beg for it, you had to cop a feel.
Charlie Rose: Or... get married.
David Kepesh: As I did in the 1960s.
Charlie Rose: Any regrets?
David Kepesh: Plenty. Um, but that's our secret. Don't tell anybody.
[laughter]
David Kepesh: That's just between you and me.
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George O'Hearn: Life always keeps back more surprises than we could ever imagine.