Everyone in "The Cocktail Party" is a protagonist, with different feelings, different angles of observation, different values, and different behaviors. My line was broken by the old professor's "Why me?", and there is another question here: "Why not...".
Recalling the beginning of the film, when the old professor announced the news of terminal illness, his friend said in his ear: "You need to listen to your inner voice." (His wife's reaction and changes are temporarily not shown, and it is also very interesting. )
Unexpectedly, he chose the invisible person "Marian" who never appeared in the film, and this lady was another person's wife, and his husband was also there.
People always like to talk about the person who was not present at the party, didn't they? What is the relationship between Marianne and the professor? Why do they have a relationship in a utopian idealistic house? There is even a lesbian who is pregnant with the professor's test tube child! And the last person who knows this is something that often happens to ourselves, that is, the professor's wife himself. Why?
Back to the professor's ontology, he explained his life as a rationalist. This line is very classic, and almost constitutes all the values of the rationalist.
What's interesting is that in the time when there is only the afterglow of his life, he chose to "follow the feeling". For this feeling, he did not hesitate to quarrel with the other's husband, and the content of the quarrel rose to the level of metaphysics and realism, and strongly expressed: "She choice me!" Of course, Marian's husband can't quarrel with the professor. , Had to give him an "upper punch", which symbolized a kind of confrontation, a kind of breakthrough.
Why he didn't realize it when he died: From the very beginning, I decided to choose Marianne, just as I chose cancer...
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