salt and pepper

-----------------------------------1.Aug.2017

This is the final installment in Eric Rohmer's "Six Moral Tales" series, about a married man's afternoon fantasies, rambles about his extramarital affair, and delicately depicts him in the face The inner fluctuations of this peach temptation.

The hero Frederick, like all the middle class, maintains his own elegance and restraint and considerable hesitation and softness. From a universal perspective, his wife is beautiful and docile, his job is decent and appropriate, and his life is happy and boring.

Sitting in a café one weekday afternoon, he thought of the women who passed him on a walk, and concluded philosophically: "I said to myself, these beauties are just An extension of my wife's beauty, they enriched her beauty and got some of her beauty. She is the proof of beauty and vice versa. When I embrace Helene, I embrace all women." And now, passing by the window These women, indifferent, hasty, hesitant, busy, accompanied, lonely, he fantasizes that he has them all, the device around his neck can kill other people's free will, these women are the best test Taste. They had different temperaments in Frederick's imagination, but in the end they all fell under his jumper. Only a hurried little girl refused resolutely and asked him, "Why should I go with you? You can't answer, can you?"

Chloe's appearance is an unexpected encounter. Unlike his wife, this woman is a "woman who does things on impulse", a woman who "needs to keep a safe distance". Frederick responds nonchalantly and nonchalantly, starting out as a flirt with the same beauties at the office, and because of old acquaintances, "can go deeper." The experience of long-term travel and love has given Chloe a certain spicy temperament. Her irresistible romance makes it difficult for Frederick, who feels his life is boring, to hold his own.

But when Chloe offered to date in the evening, Frederick said, "Oh, no, we can only arrange to meet in the afternoon." She was always just his afternoon nap, a seasoning of his dull married life. In his moral setting that he has always swayed and never crossed the thunder pool, afternoon and night are not only the difference between day and night, but also the difference between inside and outside the besieged city. Chloe is just like a flannel shirt he was persuaded by the clerk to buy before. It is fresh and beautiful, and his wife Helene is his pullover that has not changed all the year round. When he gets tired of wearing the same style, he has to change it. And Chloe's provocation is more naked each time, and Frederick hesitates two steps forward and one step back. Finally, when he was just one step away from the door, the action of taking off his jumper reminded him of his infant son. Reason triumphed over passion, so he left his lover and fled.

As Frederick's partner said, he didn't bring his wife to dinner so he could accost strange beauties. They're all tied up in happy, boring married lives, so they always expect attractive, irresponsible flirting beyond the bland. Here they refer not only to these married men, but also to married women.

The details of the lines before and after the film suggest that Frederick's wife, Helene, is nothing but his mirror. On the afternoon Frederick refuses her lover to come home, her emotional breakdown reminds viewers of Helene's off-camera private life that she may be the one who failed to resist the temptation. He comforts her and kisses her, and everything goes back to the same.

As at the beginning, Frederick, who is used to avoiding the usual mealtimes, sat in the cafe and enjoyed the superiority of staying away from the world. A friend he happened to pass by said to him: "You're not the only one... You think you're special, but there are thousands of people just like you."

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