Excitement tends to be shorter and stronger. For example, love can go as easy as it comes. The hateful thing is that after low tide, the beach will change, and beer bottles, plastic bags, dirty sticky seaweed and other dirty trash may be left behind.
Love is the same.
Attitudes towards love There are two kinds of people in the world. One kind keeps the best things for the end, a little bit like a sip, for fear of an oversight and wasting the right opportunity at the wrong time, so he waits carefully and patiently. accumulation. Like me, like the Hugh Grants in "Bitter Moon." And often they themselves don't know what is the best time, so they miss what they have left to the end while waiting. Just like when I was a child, I had a pair of beautiful shoes. I couldn’t bear to wear them. I looked at it every day and guessed which day I would look best. Waiting for pants, tops, friends, mood, friends, waiting for me. I can't put on those shoes anymore. For love, many people also lose because they look around. The same is true for life. They are mediocre, calm and passive.
The other kind of people are different. They are born with a fire filled with oil, burned regardless of the cause and effect, and live as hard as the last day of life. For example, the writers Oscar and Mimi in "Bitter Moon". They may stain their new shoes because of the muddy rain, but the moment of joy they put on has all realized the meaning in their eyes. Their regret is to use too much force. For love, too much desire is not necessarily a good thing.
I have no intention of agreeing with anyone who denounces others, I just want to tell you a story about these two kinds of people, "Bitter Moon". I like this translation. There is a saying that your food may be his poison. So is the moon, different people will have different feelings in different places.
The story begins on a luxurious ship, you hold your breath, you can see the sea, hear the whistle, and the thin moon...
I don’t know if you have discovered that every movie has a narrator. The person who tells the story can be the person involved or the bystander. In short, he is the clue for the movie; he is the witness for the story. The narrator in "Bitter Moon" is Oscar. In his wheelchair, his desire erodes his face, his body, and his yellow and parted teeth like sulfuric acid.
The Hugh Grants, who are in the midst of a seven-year itch, travel to India on this ship. They are typical British couples, ladies and gentlemen, respecting each other like guests. The United Kingdom is such a country in my mind: humble, temperate, restrained, aristocratic, cold and arrogant. They first met the woman, Mimi, with a strong body and blurred eyes that remind you of a small beast in estrus, just like a snail crawling over and leaving traces of moisture. She also leaves the smell of desire when she walks by, making you involuntary Want to find her.
"Bitter Moon" is the work of French director Roman Polanski in 1992, but like his "The Pianist", he likes to use extreme things to express his thoughts in movies. Extreme things are often close to death.
When we see Oscar in a wheelchair in the movie, we can smell this kind of death.
He asked Hugh Grant if he wanted to have sex with Mimi, straightforwardly. The gentleman didn't know how to answer, but Oscar just wanted to find a suitable audience. The story of him and Mimi needs to be written down.
Oscar inherited a large amount of inheritance, so he moved himself from the United States to Paris. It is said that writers love Paris with hypocrisy, and he is no exception. He writes all day, but never publishes.
Until he met a girl, on the bus, the wind brushed the girl's hair, she had a baby-like face and a mature body. He said he saw a corner of the kingdom of heaven, like Adam ate an apple. He can't write, can't sleep, can't have sex with other women. He started looking for her every day at the 96 station. Naturally, he found her.
They did not leave the house for three days and three nights, and they depended on sex and croissants to make ends meet.
Oscar told Hugh Grant all the details of sex. This is something this gentleman can't bear. He doesn't understand how a person can tell a stranger the privacy of his wife.
I always think that when a person is eager to get what he wants, his heart should be empty, without any important emptiness. The most important time is the process with expectations.
Obviously Hugh Grant was curious about the couple, but because of the gentleman's face, he doesn't want to hear this story. We may not appreciate how embarrassing a stranger can tell you about his sexual details, but we can still understand him.
Almost intimidated and lured, Hugh Grant sat again in Oscar's room. Oscar said that he is a personality adventurist, he said that they have tasted almost every way. It was like a big fire, how fierce it was, but the fire could not last long, his enthusiasm for her began to cool down, like two goldfish in a fish tank, they need to change the environment. He was tired of her body, and resentment was the most unforgivable sin in love. They began to quarrel, and began to dislike it. Mimi fell in love with him and thought he was his tiger. Mimi has an adult body, but she has childlike dreams. She wants to be with him, get married, have children, and stay together for life. Oscar believes that love should be given up when it is like fireworks, rather than waiting for its inevitable retreat. He drove her away, as calm as when he brought her here. Mimi left and went back and forth, and finally she knelt down and begged for her to stay, she could do anything. He flirted with others in front of her, he leaned over her and called out other people's names, he scolded her, beat her, she was willing to live in hell.
She miscarried him, and after he said hello in her ear, we left here and went to a place far away, just the two of us, to see the sea, the little girl laughed. For this she reluctantly beat the child and fell asleep sweetly. However, on the plane, Oscar sneaked away, leaving only the poor little girl on the plane to go to a place she didn't know where. The moon was like poison outside the window of the plane, but it was wine for Mimi and Oscar at the airport. He is free, drunk, wandering, making love, no longer writing, and living a profligate life. Everything has a price, it's just a matter of early and late.
He was in a car accident, lying in the hospital like a mummy, Mimi came back to see him radiantly, pulled him off the bed when saying goodbye, and the second operation... After that, she said good news and bad news, below your waist. All paralyzed, Oscar said, tell me the good news, she smiled and said, that is the good news, and the bad news is that I will take care of you from now on. She said it was earned by her.
They will always be together. She did all the things he had done to her... She still loved him, like the red charcoal after the fire. Some people say that there is no hate without love, and the hate is as deep as love once was, but it was too anxious. For Mimi, happiness fell from the sky and hit her head fiercely. Too anxious love starts with lust, and will end with lust. How big is the body, the heart is broad, and it is inexhaustible. Does Mimi love Oscars? She said: "you are my tiger." There is danger in this sentence, not love.
But who can tell clearly what love is, what sustains two strangers when they meet and stay together? sex? Appreciate? worship? vanity? Heart-to-heart? When I was a child, I believed in love, had the courage to take care of everything, and believed that a stranger could take me away, even I didn't even know why I wanted to escape? Later I learned that everything needs a reason, and the cost is proportional to your gain.
The story is not over, we continue.
As the story goes on, Hugh Grant thinks he is in love with Mimi, and this love becomes stronger because of not getting it. Oscar said that he could no longer bring happiness to Mimi, and he hoped that others could give him. The happiness in the eyes of Americans is different from ours. There was a dance party on the boat, everyone carnival, Hugh Grant and Mimi danced together, he said love, but he suddenly raised his head to see his English rose-like wife standing noble not far away.
The ending of the story is this:
two women hug, kiss, fall asleep deeply, Oscar shoots his own Mimi, and then commits suicide.
Waste paper, vomit, wine glasses, wine bottles are left from the dance party, a mess.
Hug Grant and his wife hugged in the wind and waves on the deck, and a little Indian girl came over and said Happy New Year.
The characters in Polanski have obvious traces of nationality, Britain, the United States, and France. But it is very harmoniously combined with the story.
I can't even think of what I can say about this movie. After watching it, I felt very confused. I just thought of the junkyard after the carnival and the carnival. I think of some love legends. In these legends, I don’t get bored. They usually talk about princes and princesses living a happy life. I only discovered that the people who tell these stories are very smart. They don't involve the subsequent torture, boredom, washing and cooking. They only pursue aesthetics, and those who listen to the stories believe that aesthetics is true. Zhang Yuan's movie "I Love You" only talks about the subsequent torture and the unbearable life. The husband and wife quarreled the most violent, only the mouth that kept moving, no sound, and the background music rang. When I watched "I Love You", I had deep fear in my heart. When I watched "Bitter Moon", I was numb, watching love, watching desire, watching boredom and abandonment, watching the camera fluctuate and splash with the sea Full of water droplets, thinking may be the same thing, the most life is boredom, desperate for everything when you like it, and desperate for everything when you don't like it.
I remembered that the captain said to the Hugh Grants that the child is left with all the trips. You should try it. This is a good way. I smiled, and my heart warmed up when I saw it. In this movie, there is such a little Indian girl who is as warm as a fairy tale.
If life is really like this, I choose either you can't get me, I can't get you, or hold hands and die when we are most brilliant. But I think movies are mostly just magnifying a phenomenon. Existence is existence. It exaggerates it to make us pay attention.
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