The Law of Desire in Decameron

Sam 2022-01-20 08:01:46

The first time I saw Pasolini was "120 Days of Sodom" and Pasolini was "Decameron". After watching "120 Days of Sodom", "Decameron" can be said Warm and normal a lot. This time, "Decameron" has no scenes of eating shit, no scenes of sexual abuse, and no final brutal execution. The story of the book "The Decameron" may be familiar to everyone. Ten men and women get together for ten days, and each person tells a story every day. There are a hundred stories in total, expressing the people's desire to free themselves from religious shackles.

And Pasolini’s "Decameron" is to find several stories from the book to form a movie. The movie still maintains Pasolini’s bold description of sex. If the movie does not have sex scenes, it will become Unlike Pasolini's works, it also wastes everyone's expectations of porn masters. But this time Pasolini used a looser way to tell the story to everyone. When a painter finished the church fresco, he went to the people to find life materials and put the stories together. The stories are mostly carried out in some laughter, which is simply a mockery of religion when people satisfy their own desires.

Movie stories all take place on the ancient Italian peninsula. At the very beginning, I saw a beautiful girl who coaxed a boy to come home by acknowledging his relatives. The girl defrauded the boy of money and treated the boy like a thief. Drove out the door. This is reminiscent of what Master Gu Long said, the more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous it is. This is indeed the case. When men are confused by beauty and enthusiasm, they become like fools and deceive. The law of desire that men become bad when they are rich, and women become rich when they are bad.

A mute gardener came to the monastery. Because a nun had sex with the mute, each of the remaining nine nuns had to have another trick with the mute. The mute disagreed and said, "All ten hens For a rooster, ten men can’t feed a woman. It’s too tired.” The nuns cheered, “Mamami is dumb, a miracle has happened, you just stay here and you don’t have to do anything.” Every day. The nun who swears to the gods becomes a nun and crazy after enjoying sex. Pasolini not only teased the nun, but also the priest, letting the priest perform a trick on how to turn a woman into a horse. These God-given people also become greedy when they become sexually interested, exposing the hypocritical nature of the church.

When the landlord discovered that his daughter had a private meeting with the boy, he was very angry on the surface, but very happy in his heart, because the boy's father was a bigger landlord. With an angry expression on his face, the landlord was anxious to marry his daughter to this boy. His daughter was holding the boy’s little Nightingale, and he was about to grab more money. Could the landlord be upset? He will become a big landlord from a small landlord. This is the only couple in the film who is enviable and finally married.

On the other hand, the daughter of another landlord had a date with a male servant. The three sons of the landlord were unhappy. They felt that it was unacceptable for their sister to have a relationship with a low-social male servant. They humiliated the seemingly noble style of the family, so they sent the male. The servant was buried in the orchard. The landlord’s daughter could only find the dead servant, cut off his head and bury it in a flowerpot, making the flowers bloom more red. Two people who are also in love with each other truly love each other because of their different social classes, but the result of the love in exchange is so different. These are the vanity of the so-called nobility at work.

There are also many funny clips in the movie, the woman who sells water tanks while cheating, the wicked person who avoids confession before death, the brother who indulges every day but never goes to hell. All the stories in the film are told to everyone. People are greedy and have desires. Any moral theology and religiousism are false and deceptive. People live to make themselves happy, and human nature should not be completely imprisoned. . "Decameron" is a very entertaining movie.


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The Decameron quotes

  • The Madonna: This wine is bliss for us to piss!

  • Allievo di Giotto: Why create a work of art when dreaming about it is so much sweeter?