I wondered: "If I cryptic to them, can they understand what I mean for a well-behaved woman"? But at this moment, I have a strong desire like a pregnant woman... There is a terrible desire, you know, it is the kind of desire that everyone can't resist! I sometimes have this desire. You say this is stupid or not! In my opinion, we women must have ape-like minds. Besides, a doctor once confirmed to me that the brains of monkeys are indeed similar to ours. Therefore, we always have to imitate others. In the newly married honeymoon, when we love our husband, we imitate the words and deeds of our husband; then, when our lover, girlfriend, and confessor priest are all nice to us, we also imitate everything about them. We learned their ways of thinking, their manner of speaking, their manners, words and deeds. What a foolishness. (Translated by Maupassant's Code, Tan Lide)
Unfortunately, in the 20th century, the spearhead against middle-class families was still directed at women. In 1967, Bunuel and Godard both launched a movie about middle-class housewives in prostitution-"Day Beauty" and "Two or Three Things I Know About Her." The former focuses on mental distress. The heroine Severina is led by an unknown curiosity, and she starts her sales activity from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. From the initial resistance and resistance, to melting of the ice, to being handy, and even to a cool guy named Marcel...Through this process, Sevelina claims that she and her husband are getting closer and closer. , The understanding of her husband is getting deeper and deeper. When she is recognized by her husband's friend, the soothing and depressive tone of the entire first half of the film will also convince us that there is no fluke in the ending of the story. Everyone has their own daydreams, and Roll-Playing is a very deep and broad topic. It’s just that the first daydream at the beginning of the film has revealed Severina’s SM tendency, so to be honest, I don’t think she has any innocent reasons. Using Faye’s lyrics to illustrate this point: After wind and rain, there may not necessarily be a beautiful sky. If it is not sunny, there will be a rainbow. So your look of innocence does not mean you are ignorant.
As for "Two or Three Things I Know About Her", the housewife's reason for selling herself is quite solid-making ends meet. Godard used this to criticize the hypocrisy and sordidness of the capitalist material society, etc., to flaunt his paranoid political orientation. Many writers and directors resort to sex in their accusations of life and society. This is really hard to say. Indeed, in addition to daydreaming, people are facing the threat of betrayal at all times, not just the flesh? From another angle, is betraying the flesh more filthy and sordid than betraying anything else? Asking ten people, maybe eight out of them will choose the culturally correct position, but speaking and doing are totally different things. I am not flaunting my pessimistic tendencies, but I am increasingly discovering this is the case.
Attached to the poster text designed by Godard himself:
She is the cruelty of neo-capitalism;
she is prostitution;
she is Paris;
she is a bathroom that 70% of the French do not have;
she is the terrible building of large buildings Laws;
she is the physical aspect of love;
she is today’s life;
she is the Vietnam War;
she is the modern call girl;
she is the death of modern beauty;
she is the dissemination of ideas;
she is the structure Gestapo!
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