Back to the topic, this episode is "Love Commandments", and it is as famous as the previous episode "Kill Commandments". Later, I also made a lengthened love short film. The beginning of this episode is a bit different, and the subtitles are typed after the feature film appears. Let me just imitate it and mark the subject after the text appears:
DECALOGUE 6
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY
Commandment 6 You must not commit adultery.
Love is the eternal theme of the movie, but love is divided into categories. Maybe the original meaning of love is more like classical Hollywood movies of the times, forever handsome men and beautiful women, speak elegant and humorous language even if they are not British accents, and are always well-dressed-think about it, Gable is just not wearing a vest in his shirt, and Ken Russell is just using an active bra. Cause such a sensation, and then after a little twists and turns, kiss at the end of the movie-it can be long or short, even if you look like a "beauty", don't come for a wet French kiss. However, when sex has become much more convenient than going to a movie theater to watch a movie, all the hypocrisy of the classical era, whether it is reserved, are all swept to the corners that no one knows. Although Laoji is not a Taoist, but Laoji’s sense of smell Still keenly discovered this, so this is-love commandment.
A boy working in the post office has been peeping at a woman older than him on the opposite floor. The woman—in the boy’s words, is “beautiful and likes having sex.” He not only spied on her, but also dialed her phone, but not Talking, give her milk every morning and send her a forged money order so that he can see the woman at the counter of the post office. He even peeped at the woman’s letter. Although it is too much, it is obvious that he loves Fucked her. I don’t know if you think about Benino, the male nurse in "Speak to Her". The boy is a little bit shy, but when he does something disgraceful for this woman, he doesn’t feel guilty at all. ——Because his heart is clear and pure. By the way, the telescope he was spying on was also stolen.
Once, when a woman was in a bad mood, she received a fake money order from a boy. She went to the post office and was taunted as a liar by the post office. you. The woman just smiled contemptuously. 当天晚上，女人故意在男孩的偷窥下和情人亲热，然后告诉愤怒的情人有人偷窥，结果男孩被愤怒的情人揍了一顿。
When the milk was delivered the next day, the woman molested the boy again and asked him what he wanted, kiss? Make love? The boy thought for a long time: May I ask you to have an ice cream in the cafe? With a positive answer, the boy pushed the milk cart and ran into the garden downstairs excitedly. He accidentally splashed water on the person next to him—yes, it was the god-like man. He was happy to see the boy. Smiling for the first time in the series, but soon, the put away smile turned into a consistent compassion, telling us that there is still something to be said.
In the cafe, the boy was asked by the woman to stroke her hand. He was very blunt and still looked embarrassed. When she arrived at the woman's house, the woman was very revealing and wanted to tease the boy. "Did you masturbate when you peeped at me?" "I used to have it, but then I didn't." "Haha, you also feel guilty." "..." "You said you love me? The world is basically There is no love." The woman said in a nonchalant tone, and at the same time she led the boy's hand down her lower body. The boy's hands were trembling, but his face was full of pain, as if he was struggling with himself.
He failed. When he bowed his head tiredly and his face was still painful, the woman indifferently dropped a sentence: This is love. You can go to the bathroom and clean it up. The boy ran to his house in pain, without looking back. When passing downstairs in the long-distance lens, the person who passed him by, seemed to be the mysterious man again.
When the woman calmed down, she felt a little cruel. After a while, an ambulance appeared downstairs, and the woman was anxious. She hurriedly pulled out the binoculars and looked into the boy's window-it was pitch black. The woman ran to his residence, and the mistress of the house, an old lady, calmly told him that it was no big deal for the boy in the hospital.
It is the woman who is crazy now. She peeped through the boy’s window every day, but everything was calm. She received the same silent phone call as before. She was so excited but there was still no sound on the other side of the phone. She asked the boy. The old lady delivering the milk, but received no news. At this time, that attractive woman suddenly became much older. Finally, she saw the boy again on the curtain illuminated by the light of the opposite window. She was very excited. The next day, she went to the boy's post office and told the boy: You are right. The boy just said calmly: I'm not peeping at you anymore.
If you are looking for keywords, peeping is the number one keyword in this movie. And it forms a role transition very symmetrically, with the boy peeping at the woman in the front, and the woman peeping at the boy in the back. The lens setting of the film is also based entirely on this keyword. The first half is mostly from the perspective of a boy, but as the voyeur changes, the second half becomes the perspective of a woman. In fact, it’s a little bit cold to think about it. A little sincere communication between people cannot be achieved in an intimate setting like the bed. On the contrary, it can only be maintained through two pieces of glass and a phone.
The boy may have just been curious at first, or he may have some instinctive desires. These are natural, and they are also innocent in the boy, because he has not realized it himself. And when love came to his perspective, he was ashamed of his behavior like Adam who had eaten the fruit of wisdom. This still shows the boy’s innocence—whether it’s a little reckless innocence in his behavior, or his love for love. Simple understanding. The woman is obviously a veteran of Qianfan. The film uses her unhappy emotional life to reveal that she may have the same simple past. Although she cannot be said to be debauchery, she is at least open to this. The director did not condemn it. What the director cannot agree with is just one thing. In her eyes, there is sex but no love.
This is why I said that Keishi is not a Taoist. He is only worried about the sexual behavior that has taken away the spiritual core, but when love comes, people are fragile and vulnerable. They can only keep a distance without holding them in their arms. People, there is only love above everything else. When a woman completes the salvation of the lack of self-love, the boy is like ending a task. Can love only succeed one after another? Keishi's eyes still flashed with kindness, but more helpless.
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