Here is a story about a very virtuous housewife who met a doctor by chance and developed uncontrollable feelings. Although involuntary, this sneaky relationship also made her feel dirty and shameful. But she couldn't help but slide into the abyss. Finally, the doctor realized her mentality and decisively left, making their relationship hold the last line of defense.
If it is postponed for 50 years, this can also happen in China. It seems that the gap between China and the West is fifty years. In these fifty years, people's concept of sexual relations has really changed tremendously.
Such a story has a similar expression in Rousseau's "New Heloise" in the eighteenth century. The two had a sincere and uncontrollable passion, but for the happiness of the woman, the man left at self-sacrifice and kept the woman innocent.
But the film handles this process tortuously and euphemistically, and the emotional response is very in line with the mentality and emotions of the parties involved, and it is indeed very good.
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