After lying in bed twice in a row last night, I watched "Afternoon Love" by Rohmer, the representative of the French New Wave. This is the second Rohmer I've watched. This one appeals to me. Delicate presentation of topics in the emotional realm of both sexes. Rohmer has been photographing this subject all his life, making himself a master. This film captures the wildness of a man's obscenity and the helplessness of reality. How a middle-class married man gradually approached a young girl outside of marriage and gained the long-lost romance and passion in marriage. But in essence it was just a mental infidelity. The flesh is still on its way to the abyss, but it hasn't really slipped in yet. At the last moment, when the extramarital seducer's jade body lay on the bed, his rational bank collapsed, and when he was about to take off his clothes to complete the substantive breakthrough, he saw in the mirror how he took off his clothes, and he was playing with himself at home. The appearance of the child overlapped, and he suddenly remembered that he was a father. Immediately, he quickly dressed and ran away, escaping back to marriage, looking at his wife with new eyes, feeling remorse for his loss of control, and his lost passion and romance seemed to return in an instant...
The film rips open a hole in middle-class sexuality and emotion, giving us a glimpse of what's on the inside. This film is one of Rohmer's "Six Moral Stories" series. I haven't seen other stories yet, so I don't know if he is a bit similar to the "Ten Commandments" in the Bible, trying to summarize some of the precepts and rules of the bisexual world. From what I see, the "fall" of man is almost inevitable, and "freedom from the fall" can be called an accidental event, or a helpless act. The final return to the family, in my opinion, is not a victory, although even if he ends up sleeping with the woman who seduced him, it is definitely not a victory. Each has its own difficulties and troubles. There is a cage on one side and an abyss on the other, and people's choices are nothing but tossing between the two. So the seemingly comfortingly sweet ending just made me laugh.
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