The blue sea, luxurious cruise ships, the story begins here.
Nigel and Fiona are a British couple who took a boat to India to find new passion for their marriage. They met Oscar in the dark sea, an American writer who was paralyzed in a wheelchair, and his young and beautiful wife Mimi. Nigel was attracted by Mimi's beauty and approached them involuntarily. Oscar used Mimi as bait and asked Nigel to listen to their story:
Many years ago, Oscar met Mimi on a Paris bus. He was so enamored of her beauty that he traveled all over Paris and wanted to meet her again. Finally, at a dinner party, he found that the waitress standing next to him was Mimi who had been searching for a long time. Thus, a romantic and crazy love has begun.
However, the crazy love almost burned the emotions of the two. Mimi's nearly perfect body gradually lost its temptation to Oscar. He exposed his selfish and cruel nature, exhausted from the intoxicating enjoyment of sex, and began to yearn for freedom. And Mimi's love is stubborn and scorching, no matter how painful she is, don't leave Oscar. Oscar began to abuse Mimi, from physical to emotional, torturing her like a slave, a slave of love.
Mimi had an Oscar child, had an abortion infection, was cut off from the uterus, and almost died. Oscar tricked the weak Mimi into the plane. He was fortunate to finally get rid of Mimi and start a free and corrupt life again. After a night of partying, Oscar was in a car accident and was admitted to the hospital. Mimi suddenly appeared in front of him; driven by strong hatred, she dragged him off the hospital bed and left Oscar disabled for life.
Mimi is living with Oscar again. Mimi takes care of him, but then abuses him like he abused her before. They are close to each other and love each other deeply, but the only way to express love is to insult and abuse each other madly.
Nigel was shocked by the depth and extreme of Oscar and Mimi's love. At the same time, Fiona was completely tired of their pale and indifferent couple relationship. At the Christmas ball, Fiona and Mimi embraced and danced in Nigel's surprised eyes, seeming to find new sparks in same-sex love. However, Oscar pulled the trigger on Mimi, who was sleeping soundly in bed, and then committed suicide.
Fiona and Nigel hugged each other in the bow, as if they had survived the disaster.
Passion is always short, no love can last forever. When Oscar and Mimi burn out their passions, one of them will burn out first.
Oscar broke up first, and Mimi stayed like a child. She is willing to be imprisoned by his love, lose her freedom and lose her personality.
He successfully abandoned him and enjoyed his freedom ever since. When she finally recovered, she destroyed him.
"There is good news and bad news. The bad news is: you are paralyzed from the waist down. The good news is: from today, I can take care of you." Hearing these words reminded me of that little Azi. They use the same method, seeking a body to stay by their side forever.
Of course, she doesn't stop there. Finally she gained the upper hand, from the abuser to the abuser. She made him unable to take care of himself, and she wanted him to watch her fall in love with other men, and even enjoy same-sex love. She tortured and avenged him with this deep sense of weakness and frustration.
He finally couldn't stand it, and on that Christmas Eve, he pulled the trigger on her. Then, he chose the same method for himself as Hemingway he liked.
As the listeners of the whole story, Fiona and Nigel almost made the same mistakes. Faced with such a story, who would dare to find the love that burns oneself?
Finally, the little Indian girl came up with her clear eyes and said every word: "Dad said, let me wish you a happy new year." Only then did I see a slight hint of lightness and warmth.
Later, I checked Polanski’s life: his mother died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, his wife and children were killed by mobs, and in 1974 he fled back to Europe in embarrassment because of a relationship with a young girl... Finally understand why he was so distorted and distorted. Violent lust. The innocence of the tram encounter is very similar to some pale idol dramas, and then, it is a heavy blow one after another, and finally loves to pervert and can't bear to read it. In the painful struggle, is there also a director's deep and shallow footprints?
Compared to the similar "Last Tango in Paris", "Bitter Moon" is more distorted, but more beautiful in its handling.
In the raging sea, the thin, crooked bright moon was printed backwards, as if it was about to be swallowed. How much madness in human nature is hidden by such a profoundness?
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