Polanski's human insight and ability to create dramatic conflicts in a single space through very few characters in his debut work is amazing. Later, "Immoral Trial", "Killing" and "Venus in Fur" performed this skill to the extreme.
A middle-class couple. The husband is middle-aged and the wife is young. During the driving, the two are expressionless and occasionally communicate, but they still exude a sense of alienation. This is a typical, unpassionate, seemingly divorced marriage that is visible to the naked eye. Young men got in their car, a young intruder, this is a dangerous signal, and the jealousy between women also applies to men. The husband needs to find his superiority in the young people. Class, rights, experience, maturity, the spiritual Viagra of these middle-aged men is also mixed with the sadness of the passing years. So he is doomed to fail, and what he wants to challenge is time that cannot be challenged. Sailing is the behavior of a mature man, so the husband invited young people to board the sailing boat. He did not want young people to enjoy going to sea, but to show off. The more angry the young man, the more excited he is, the more fulfilling, the more attractive and the more attractive he is. Can rekindle the passion of his wife.
Young people have no money, no cars, and no boats. Power, status, and strength are far from her husband. He is so weak that only a young skin and a knife are left. He is a hiker, he said he can't swim, life on land is very different from life in water, so he is nervous, anxious, and at a loss, yet he tries to climb the mast to prove his courage. When the couple went into the water to swim, the young man was at a loss and embarrassed in the face of the out of control sailing boat. Everything must be obeyed by her husband, be called, be a beast, be ridiculed, and satisfy her husband's lost sense of superiority. The wife always plays the role of a bystander, just occasionally reminding the husband who is too serious and helping the young man to stop the sailing boat and so on. But in fact, the wife is at the core of the contradiction. With the combination of two men and one woman, women are always the source of war and the final trophy. The three of them play a game of bamboo sticks in the cabin, which is a paragraph in which the relationship is reversed. The three were engrossed in playing the game, and then the wife sang a song about disillusionment of love. On such an occasion and at such a time, this song was quite provocative.
Early the next morning, his sleepless wife sat on the bow and smoked, and the young man climbed up the mast to repair the broken halyard. This scene was seen by her husband. The young man who didn't know anything was repairing his sailboat at this time, which slowly eroded her husband's superiority. So he again began to order the young man to work, just as his master ordered a servant. His wife told him not to be so fierce, but when the young man was about to enter the house, he had to save himself. He threw the young man's knife into the water and pushed the young man into the water during the fight. He showed his strength and advantages, but he lost because anger just proved his inferiority. After searching to no avail, the husband and wife scolded each other and swam back to the shore, while the young man sneaked back to the boat and had sex with his wife who was alone. At this point, the husband came ashore, but the young man who could not swim swims back on the boat. The situation was completely reversed, and the wife was given the opportunity to taste the young body. The husband lost everything, and the three-person wrestling reached its climax and abruptly. end. After the incident, the young man quickly disembarked and left. He was rewarded with growth. He pierced a hypocritical middle-class marriage like a dagger, and then disappeared like a knife in the water.
In the end, the husband who thought he had drowned the young man planned to go to the police station, but the wife told him that the young man was not dead. The husband always emphasizes that he is not afraid at all. He is still showing or fictionalizing his bravery and masculinity. The obsession of a man is sometimes so cute. The car parked at the bifurcated road to the police station never started. It is no longer important to go or not. The husband overestimated himself and caused a mess, which is a death sentence for him.
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