In "Bitter Moon", everything happens on a huge cruise ship. The sea is as thick as blue-black ink. A young English couple who seems happy but uninterested meets another strange couple, the female suffering. The ground fainted in the bathroom. The man sat in a wheelchair, telling the English gentleman their twisted love story with a narcissistic intoxication and a hoarse voice.
It is better to express the ending of some kind of sticky tragedy. The so-called “sticky” is something that is entangled and chaotic. This is exactly the case in this film. Thus, from the time Oscar began to tell his story, an atmosphere of gloom, depression, and suffocation lingered in people's minds. The story begins with a romantic encounter, which shines with light and becomes stronger and stronger, then slowly sinks and dims until it is completely dark. The story is told in sections, which is reminiscent of François's "Love Appreciation Period", the difference is that the cruelty of this film is deeply unbearable. Passion-fade-boredom-hatred-hurt-death. This seems to be an unavoidable and tiresome cycle in the relationship between men and women. A sense of absurdity and paleness, doubts about the meaning of life, and questioning the essence gradually unfolded as the plot deepened. They can't get rid of and can't solve it, because they are part of it all. Human nature is like the vast ocean, unfathomable, mysterious, terrifying, and miserable. Life is a boat drifting on the ocean, and it is in danger of being overthrown by fate at any time.
The two couples are emotionally polarized, extremely passionate and extremely rational. Passion can be enthusiastic, but it is cruel, love can be transformed into the same concentration of anger at any time; reason seems to be polite, but superficial and hypocritical, and love is pure, and India, Buddhism and meditation cannot save it. shallow.
The environment in the film is cramped and narrow. Close shots and close-ups are often used. A dilemma of being trapped in it and having nowhere to hide appears. The British couple are trapped by rules and ethics, and their passion is suppressed; while the transitional indulgence of Mimi and Oscar has become mutual harm. Mimi gave him a pistol on Oscar’s birthday, actually telling him: he should end his life and at the same time end the endless painful torture. On the other hand, she put her life in Oscar’s hands. , Love and hate bind the two people together in this way.
Then, the passion of the British wife was suddenly aroused by a quarrel and a dance. The doomsday mood of the film reached its climax when the two women embraced and danced, and the ship was shaking in the storm. The gunfire sounded, and the cycle ended. In the early morning, the rising sun dyed the calm sea red.
"Bitter Moon" is full of strong apocalyptic emotions and inescapable pain. People do not belong to this world. People are separated from the world by glass, running on a narrow corridor. The huge gap between the extremes is compromise and mediocrity. An Indian and his lovely daughter greeted them at the end of the film, their figures blurred. Love and life are both too complicated issues, because human nature itself is too complicated.
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