The background of the story is Paris in the early 1930s. As the mistress of Henry Miller, the author of "The Tropic of Cancer", Anais Ning uses her handwritten diary as the content, and extends from the perspective of women. A story of desire.
I like to find relationships between characters in movies, and I always find the details of the connections between people the most interesting.
Annie's erotic enlightenment started from a picture of a Japanese ukiyo-e, and her longing for love came from the textual descriptions of Freud and Lawrence.
Parisian avant-garde girls like to arm themselves with other people's minds, imitating other people's experiences to explore their own lives. It's edgy and fun, but also fraught with danger.
When she talks to a greasy male publisher about her views on eroticism, he throws her down. In this regard, Anne's half-hearted explanation is, "I am purely out of sympathy."
She didn't think it was sexual harassment. In the 1920s, everyone in Paris was very civilized and tolerant of various views and cultures. Anne's explanation for this was that she comforted the lonely, cold, old man who had never tasted love.
When material desires are satisfied, the spirit will feel particularly hungry. Tired of her routine with her banker husband, mentally she thinks Hugo doesn't understand herself at all.
So when she met Henry Miller, a writer who was different from her own class but had the same three views and thoughts, she was quickly confused by him.
Fascinated by his unscrupulous evil spirits, naked desires, and undisguised bottom-level manners, it seems that he can see another self from him.
At the same time, his wife, Joan, also fascinated Annie.
It is here that the most interesting relationships unfold.
Anne met Joan through Henry's narration and was curious about Joan's story experience.
In a conflict between Joan and Henry, Joan took Annie to a same-sex bar, and when she talked about her feelings, she seemed to cross the gender boundary. all experience.
As Henry's wife, Joan, dissatisfied with her husband's distorted description of herself in the article "The Tropic of Cancer", she decided to leave Paris temporarily, and asked Anne to take care of Henry before leaving.
Annie, who left Joan, fell ill. After recovering from her illness, she seemed to find the secret of liberating her freedom overnight. After she danced in a barrageous temptation, she was caught by Henry's desire to indulge in her heart. A sensual journey of indulgence.
Based on her pity for Joan and her admiration for Henry's talent, Anne often visited Henry to discuss literary creation and human love, and then she couldn't help practicing it.
If this is attributed to love, it is better to call it an adventure of desire.
The word "pure" appears many times in the film . Some people think that abiding by ethics and being pure in body and mind is called "pure", so when Annie repeatedly mentions her innocence, she will feel a little ironic.
Obviously, in Annie's heart, the unity of body and mind, and following her own heart is called "pure".
It's kind of like "I smoke, drink and get tattoos, but I'm a good girl."
Henry, as Annie's guide to love, tried various scenarios, but it was obvious that Annie was dissatisfied with this. An overly polite husband bored Annie, so she asked Hugo to imagine her as someone else, and to take Hugo to watch various performances. Happy to put these into practice.
Annie's gradual transition from a spiritual adventure to a physical one.
This kind of desire relationship comes and goes quickly. Love comes from a look and a word, and the disappearance of love begins with the disintegration of lies.
For example, Henry told Annie, "What's the money?". He despised money, but he had to rely on Joan's godfather to get the money to continue writing.
Turn around and write what Joan did in Tropic of Cancer, casting her as a mean bitch.
It's okay to say love words, express love for Annie, and then explain to Joan that "they're just Annie's boring pastime."
And Annie left because she felt that Henry had blasphemed his relationship with him.
The separation of Annie and Joan was also very interesting. The two planned to go to bed without Henry, but they were afraid that Henry would hear, but Annie explained that after Henry fell asleep, the sky fell and he couldn’t wake up.
Joan hums softly, isn't it ?
The affection between the two is short-lived and subtle, the three attract each other, cheat and conceal each other, and once one side breaks this balance, jealousy immediately makes the relationship between the two women fall apart.
Joan is also interesting to analyze.
She thinks that she sells herself to make money for Henry to write books, and Henry should know how to be grateful and make her an image of noble redemption in the book, so all her immoral and crazy behaviors are noble and reasonable existences, and feel that she is in her heart. is "pure".
And obviously, Henry didn't think so.
Once the image created in the heart is exposed, there is no reasonable explanation for everything that is done, and people collapse along with it, and the ugliness of desire has nowhere to hide.
This topic seems to be a taboo, parents will not tell you what desire is directly, and the chat between the same sex will not be so in-depth, the opposite sex is more dangerous, and the slightest carelessness will be regarded as an invitation.
The source of experience can only be various literary films and male friends. It's obviously more fun and dangerous to explore on your own than what you'd get with a man.
Not every woman has to sink into this adventurous world like Annie. Although the effect of this film is beautiful, it is not worth chasing and imitating.
But sometimes when this adventurous spirit emerges, don't think he is dirty and shameful, you can appease him, restrain him, but don't exclude him or ignore him.
Purity is not knowing less, but holding on to more.
Annie's eyes are so beautiful, the curves of her body and her eyes seem to be intertwined, silently expressing a kind of temptation. Joan's actor, Uma Thurman, is mysterious and glamorous in appearance. If Annie is the temptation of introverted exploration, she is the seduce of outgoing publicity.
Although it is an erotic movie, the effect of the filming is not disgusting.
Put some pictures to feel it.
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