pre-modern and modern love

Jevon 2022-09-15 16:40:18

I actually watched the last of the six moral stories first. I can hardly get the beauty and charm of the heroine, and I even find it ugly in my aesthetic system, but this has nothing to do with evaluating the artistry of the movie. It’s about two years old to start thinking about whether marriage is an anti-human operation, beautiful. The love that exists but is also short-lived, long-term love and marriage generally need to add some condiments, such as moral constraints, such as the spirit of contract, which are all products of civilized society. In the end, the male protagonist seemed to be mad and ran home and eagerly confessed to his wife. This is not a good sign in my opinion, because he has experienced several struggles, and it may not be love that sent him home. Chloe sees these things. It is thorough, but it is also too casual and meaningless (leading to her strong suicidal thoughts). The rational inhuman instinct is of course highly vulnerable, and some people cultivate it to be strong, while others have a more romantic will. Falling in love with the same person over and over again throughout your life, instead of loving many people at the same time, is said to be the most romantic, but it is also the most courageous. (Interspersed with Chinese love) I like the conversation between Han Sanming when he found Ma Yaomei, sitting on the pier, wearing the simplest clothes that the world can have, and countless faces that have been slapped by the spring breeze and summer rain. Ask, is your current husband good to you? You are much darker than before, how are you now? I am so good to you that you have to run away. This is the most emotional place for me. They basically didn't experience love and went directly into marriage. They don't know what romance is, and they can't say that I have missed you very much for 16 years. In Sanming's eyes, if you meet this woman, you will love her for the rest of your life. What's the problem? The power of passion is shorter and stronger than reason, otherwise there would be two consecutive world wars. In love, I prefer to fall in love with the same person repeatedly, from the heart. Either burning or deep still water is fine. Therefore, Rohmer's answer is not very clever in the framework of love, but helpless people are just a moral story. . In addition, I will remind you of the contradiction in my words. If we say that the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie is manifested in the fact that the male protagonist repeatedly emphasizes that he loves his wife when he enjoys the afternoon time with his lover, then why is Han Sanming looking for the youngest sister after 16 years? ? Where did he go in the intervening years. (The best guess is that Yaomei was bought and then rescued by the police. Because of this, Sanming got rid of the burden many years later and started to find his wife. Is that so?)

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Love in the Afternoon quotes

  • Frédéric: I think some element of mystery is essential for people who live together.

  • Chloé: You make me laugh. You really do. Why this insistence on proving you love your wife? If you don't love her, or less than at first, it's not a catastrophe. It's normal. It's normal not to want to always be tied to the same person. Marriage makes less and less sense these days.

    Frédéric: I don't love her because she's my wife. I love her because of who she is. I'd love her even if we weren't married.

    Chloé: No. You love her - if you really do - because you're supposed to. I couldn't stand being loved like that. But then I'm an exception. I won't accept compromises.