about marriage

Jeffrey 2022-04-20 09:02:49

The most ideal and stable marriage still needs the existence of love. The more solid the foundation of love, the more happy the marriage will be. I don’t think marriage will be a hotbed for cultivating love. The sense of responsibility and restraint it imposes on people is contrary to the spontaneous power of love. People who are not so loving will still be less loving when they enter marriage. Love still needs to be cultivated and grown naturally before entering marriage.

The heroine in the movie has been walking along the perfect path that the world thinks since she was a child, being a lawyer, marrying a man of status, living a decent life, and creating an illusion of happiness, and the hero has always cooperated with him. He has been holding back the contradiction, and finally he can only release and break out through extramarital affairs. This actually corresponds to the sentence "The victim of an extramarital affair in a marriage is not necessarily the victim of this marriage."

Of course, the film also exposes the dark side of men and women in human nature. Men seem to think that women once belonged to him will always belong to him, and women are good at manipulating men's shame and self-esteem through the status of the weak.

The last sentence summarizes: the fight should be quarreled, and the peace should not be whitewashed. The battle should still be fought, and the naked reality needs to be faced directly.

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  • Marianne: I felt inadequate at work and at home, and I was a washout in bed too. I was hedged in by all the griping and endless demands! Goddamn you! Was it so strange that I used sex for leverage? I was outnumbered, having to fight you, both sets of parents and society! When I think about what I endured, I could scream! I tell you this: never again! You sit there whining about conspiracies. Well, it serves you right! I hope you'll have it rammed down your throat that you're a useless parasite.

    Johan: You're being utterly grotesque!

    Marianne: So what? That's what I've become!

  • Marianne: Sometimes you ask such goddamn silly questions.

    Johan: Sorry. Are you angry with me?

    Marianne: I'm not angry, but I'm on the verge of tears. The trouble with me is that I can't get angry. I wish that for once in my life I could really lose my temper, as I sometimes feel I have every right to. I think it would change my life. But that's not the point. You spoke earlier about loneliness. That bit about being strong on your own. I don't believe in your gospel of isolation.I think it's a sign of weakness.

    Johan: What's wrong, Marianne?

    Marianne: It's so... humbling.

    Johan: What's humbling?

    Marianne: I think about you... and I think about myself and about the future. I can't see how you're going to cope without me. Sometimes I think in desperation, "I must look after Johan. He's my responsibility. It's up to me to make sure he's all right. That's the only our lives will be worthwhile."

    Marianne: I don't believe people are strong all on their own. You have to have someone's hand to hold.