Discussion: What are the different outcomes of the competition between love, desire and morality?

Clementine 2022-12-14 00:09:09

The plot design of "Afternoon Love" is too sharp.

There are three naked women in the play, the wife who came on stage, the nanny who rushed out of the bathroom, and Chloe who was lying on the bed. A wife is someone who loves and lives together, a nanny is a person who only shows the flesh, and Chloe is someone who loves and attracts each other outside of morality. Contradictions arise from this: the contradiction between desire and morality, the contradiction between trust and distrust between husband and wife.

In the end, the husband panicked because he almost lost his mind because of desire, so why did the wife cry? Maybe she has a similar struggle? Is this a middle-class marriage?

Love, desire, morality, only those with firm beliefs can take it easy, no matter what choice it is based on.

But no matter which choice it is, there is its paradox, that is, no one does not desire love, no one has desire, no one can ignore social reality, lack of any one of them will bring pain to people, which almost creates All the contradictions between the feelings of men and women in real life.

Rohmer's narrative is sharp and spicy. Rohmer was probably in his 50s when he made this drama. With his delicate mind and keen insight, he was only narrating this reality, so there are no answers to these questions.

But if you think deeply, you can classify them according to different people's holdings of love, desire, and morality. For example, people who only hold love and desire are mostly engaged in moral self-struggle; people who only hold love and morality, Most of them will have a struggle with desire; and desire and morality are a pair of mortal enemies in most social realities, and those who have a strong sense of both are bound to be the most contradictory.

So who is the happiest person? One is a low desire person who has no desire and no desire, and they can truly achieve a peaceful life; the other is a person who can maintain passion in long-term intimate relationships, so that they will not face the challenges of desire and morality; these two situations You can truly save yourself. These two types of people cannot be said to be nonexistent, but they are rare among the living beings in the floating world. It can be seen that most of the living beings are subject to it, but the degree is different.

Of course, in real life, the surface is calm, and Rohmer describes the heart beneath each face. Rohmer's editor, MARY STEPHAN, said that when Rohmer shoots conversation scenes, he will give the footage to the listeners more often, and their expressions and reactions are often more expressive than the narrator, and "Beyond the Afternoon" is no exception. , look carefully.

I hope that the readers here are people who can save themselves from the three.

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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.