Oscar met his angel on a Paris bus, long blond hair, a red dress with white dots, and those white sneakers. She sat there, calm and pure, until the conductor walked over to check the ticket. Oscar secretly gave her his ticket to help her get rid of the predicament of fare evasion, but he was driven off the bus by the conductor and was fined. The moment the car started, he saw her cast a concerned look in the car, "then he was thrown on the street." In his later words, "Heaven opened the door in front of him, but it hit him hard in the face."
Oscar is an ineffective little writer. Because he admired Hemingway Miller, he came to Paris, the capital of dreams, from the United States. In addition to constant love affairs, there are only three unpublished novels and no-data manuscript letters around him.
He began to become confused. He searched for her on the bus over and over again, and even the bus driver knew him. Finally, they met at the restaurant where she worked. The enthusiasm between them was on the verge of breaking out, staying in his apartment all day and all night making love, and tasted all kinds of ways, abuse, and games. . . Satisfied with indulging in the kingdom of lust and senses, they couldn't extricate themselves, and they overspent each other's desires and needs, and finally came to the brink of bankruptcy of sex. When all relationships reach their apex, they fall. He knew this very well, he was tired of her. What attracted him at the beginning has become the reason why he hates her now. The plump flesh on the bed no longer tempts him. After quarreling, even fighting, he drove her away. When she knelt down and begged him for the first time, she was actually destined for their future position in this relationship. In order to be with him, she allowed him to do everything he wanted to do, which aroused his potential for abuse. He scolded her, yelled at her, humiliated her in public, and leaned on her to call other women's names. She was tortured by him in a non-human shape, her figure was out of shape, her face was aging, and the erythema on her skin formed into patches. He asked her why she didn't continue dancing, and she replied, "Dancing is from the heart, but my heart is broken."
She was pregnant, but he had no plans to end his debauchery. When he went to the hospital to visit her after an abortion and lay on her weakened hospital bed, his heart almost softened for a moment. He told her that when she got better, they would walk away and leave this life together. At the last moment when the plane was about to take off, he escaped and watched the plane finally took her alone and flew to the unknown island. He felt unprecedented ease and a long-lost freedom.
He became more and more presumptuous and indulged in sensuality, wandering from bed to bed, not letting go of any affair in front of him.
Two years later, he suffered a car accident, but fortunately only one thigh bone was broken. She appeared suddenly while he was lying on the hospital bed to spend his days on the TV. She is no longer the sloppy and humble woman two years ago, and she seems to have regained the brilliance she had before knowing him. He drove her away again, and she dragged him from the hospital bed to the ground. His lower body was paralyzed forever. She stayed with peace of mind. While taking care of him, she abused him doubly. This puzzled him, and no one would get pleasure from hurting an unrelated person.
Now, he is completely in a wheelchair. He has become a waste person who will pee his pants as long as she leaves one night. He has to climb out of the cold bathtub alone or watch his beautiful wife flirt with other men. Make love. She didn't have to worry about pregnancy anymore. The operation two years ago had already disabled her ability to become pregnant. She had a serious illness on the island before her body recovered and almost died.
They finally got married, twisted together like vines, slowly getting accustomed to each other's torture and hurt but still reluctant to leave each other.
This is the story between a man named Oscar and a woman named mimi.
The reason Oscar told all this to Nigel, a man he met on the boat, was because he read Nigel's desire for mimi from Nigel's eyes.
A strange couple. This is Mrs. Nigel's evaluation of Oscar and Mimi.
In fact, this couple, who looks very decent, elegant and very decent in the eyes of outsiders, are experiencing the seven-year itch of their marriage. In order to save the increasingly numb and cold relationship, they decided to take a long journey.
Nigel is a stock exchange trader. He has a stable and decent career. He speaks mildly and politely. He has all the characteristics of the middle class. Therefore, he was derided by Oscar as a hypocrite. He was obviously eager for mimi, but pretended to be indifferent. .
Oscar's story is gradually coming to an end. Nigel finally made up his mind to have a showdown with his wife. At this time, the most dramatic scene appeared. In fact, the wife had already seen everything in her eyes, and she had left Nigel contemptuously, walked off the dance floor, and danced close to Mimi, seeming to prove the phrase "whatever you can do Yes, I can do anything better than you (anything u do, I can do better)". Seeing the scene of two women sleeping together naked, Nigel was about to collapse in shame, which was exceptionally beautiful and pure in Oscar's eyes. Perhaps, the world without lies, deception, and men is simple and beautiful.
At the end of the movie, Oscar slowly took out the pistol that Mimi gave him as a birthday gift, squeezed the trigger on Mimi, and committed suicide, leaving only the sentence "We are too greedy, baby".
The crew carried out two bodies wrapped in white sheets. Nigel and his wife hugged each other in the wind and rain, with mixed feelings. The little girl came over to wish them a happy New Year, as if suggesting that the girl’s father suggested that he should have a child, and he could bring the two people together again.
In fact, no one knows whether the lives of the Nigels will change due to this opportunity, whether a child can really save a relationship that is on the verge of bankruptcy, because the child not only did not play a positive role in saving the relationship between Oscar and Mimi, It even brought a devastating blow to Mimi's second half of his life.
So when all passions and obsessions are slowly retreating, when the relationship reaches its peak and inevitably declines, should a relationship continue to be maintained, or how to maintain it? Roman did not give an answer, only told two stories. Love is hot and naked, because the most direct and primitive attraction comes together, and asks for Oscar and mimi; and the middle-class Nigel couple who wear decent masks, love decent and careful.
Roman's movies always spare no effort to show the dark side of human greed, sexual desire, extreme self-expansion and extreme demand. He tells you how love and desire make a person feel as if they are in heaven, and how they can completely destroy all of a person’s will and dignity; once the enthusiasm of love is inseparable from each other's lovers, how did they become each other in the end Nightmare and hell. He eagerly digs out all the glamorous relationships, but in the end he presents all kinds of distortions and ugliness, and even the unspeakable pleasure brought about by it.
Perhaps this is closely related to Roman’s life experience. This man who escaped from the concentration camp by chance, but whose parents died in the camp, has experienced career improvement. His wife, who was eight months pregnant, was at his home in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Unfortunately, he died of 16 swords in his body. Later, he fled back to Paris in embarrassment because of the rape of an underage girl in the United States. To this day, he is wanted and cannot personally set foot in the United States to receive the Golden Globe. The controversial man and director may be because of these experiences and Circumstances have made his perspective and lens towards this world stay in those secret, dark worlds that cannot be said to be able to be exported?
In any case, thanks to Roman, in his infinite darkness and secret exploration, he gave us more opportunities to understand ourselves and think.
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