From our worldly eyes, from any angle of 360 degrees, Harford’s home is perfect and impeccable. It is the happiness we strive for: a respectable doctor profession, a mansion, a beautiful wife, a nine-year marriage and a seven-year-old lovely daughter, High-class elite gathering... But when they hugged and danced at the prom, only weak fatigue and sorrow were revealed in their careless eyes, as if they were mechanically performing a task assigned by the boss and fulfilling a duty entrusted by God. . Marriage has lost its fun, freshness and passion, leaving only the so-called "sense of responsibility", which becomes the only carrier for contacting husbands and wives in a reasonable and ironic sense. Even sometimes, even this last Noah's Ark seemed so precarious and precarious in the surging river of desire.
Alice and Bill had a total of three interesting conversations. The first time was the truth confession between the two after they knocked the medicine. Alice recounted one of her deviant mentalities. Then and where, she could give up "You, the child, and the fucking future" and just ask for one night stand with that navy officer. Under the depressed night, facing her husband's pulse and affection, she is delicate, fragile, meditative, and struggling. Although struggling to grasp the almost unresolved illusion, the real danger suddenly came when the husband and wife even the last bit of hypocrisy and privacy were naked and honest. .
The sound of the phone broke Bill's last remaining faith, and started his first adventure, wandering in the endless darkness of New York City until the second conversation between him and his wife. In this uninhibited adventure, he almost tried all kinds of famous and unnamed sex: sex with friends, sex with prostitute, sex with teen, gay sex, group sex... At the same time, he was enveloped all the time In terror: verbal attacks by street hooligans, HIV positive for prostitute, warnings from unnamed naked women in suffocating masked secret gatherings and remarks from the red cult leader... He is brave and cowardly, persistent and suspicious, angry and rational; He was full of curiosity but wanted to do it and stopped. He was full of fear but moved forward courageously; he could not get rid of the illusion of infidelity to his wife in his mind, but miraculously he retreated from the brink and stopped abruptly for some inexplicable reason before each betrayal. Was it the conscience discovery of the prodigal son? Or is it secretly obstructed by external unpredictable factors? Or is he finally tired of chasing and drifting about this tasteless desire? During the journey, the lively and lovely Babylonian wind teased him and tempted him, making him more and more unable to extricate himself from the devil. Knowing that he was in the trap of a mirage, knowing that the road ahead is a catastrophe of no return to hell, but like a revolutionist, he is firm, smiling, and striding forward with passion. Back home, even he was confused. Is this a dream or reality? If all the adventures experienced are true, why does the wife have such a dream of the same destination: "We were in a deserted city. Our clothes were gone. I was terrified and felt ashamed..." The situation is the same when asked about the entry code. Could it be that the woman who redeemed Bil at a critical juncture was his wife? And the one who saved Alice from the nightmare was her husband? When both of them are indulging in the swamp of desire and unable to extricate themselves, they suddenly realize that only the other side is the sanctuary of the soul and the place where the desire ceases? But the ridiculous thing is, isn't that exactly the starting point of the journey of desire?
If the night before is a dream, then we have to be amazed at Bill's adventure to investigate clues the next day, or maybe this is just the continuation of the dream, the continuation of the nightmare. Would you believe the answer given by Ziegler at the end: the second code, the mysterious woman, the fearless redemption... all these are all designed, just for intimidating purposes? Perhaps there was no murder, no conspiracy, and no secret religion. Last night, it was just a dizzying stupid boy who accidentally hit and broke into an upper-class slutty party in New York that has existed in the past and will continue in the future. If we are trapped in the causes and consequences of this fantasy story that may never have happened, I am afraid it will be another journey of desire without beginning, end, and process. But it doesn't matter, because it's dawn and the dream is over.
The ending dialogue seems positive, optimistic, and healthy. Is not it? Alice said something wrong, "I think we should both be grateful that we have come unharmed out of all our adventures, whether they were real or only a dream..." Qiangyan smiled. Don't ask forever, the word is too heavy and too light. I just hope that the next adventure of both parties can be postponed later or appear more secretive. Because they all understand that the short-lived briskness, excitement, freedom and lasting pain, fear, and heaviness that adventure brings are not the true meaning of happiness. A plain fuck is a plain life. Desire does not fend for itself because of a sense of responsibility. Desire is born from the heart, and the heart is safe.
Kubrick’s last work during his lifetime is full of his independent and special style from beginning to end: characters, scenery, dialogue, music... Whenever Dominic Harlan’s Musica Ricercata No. 2 shakes the bone marrow, the camera sweeps across the face. When the horrible strange mask, your horrified soul is not alive; when the characters are confused and mocking in the slow rhythm, your brain is thinking fast; when the scene of sex, whether beautiful or nauseous Yes, when one after another is in front of you, you will feel numb at all, because the thread has already surpassed the physical body, as if you are reading an obscure and awkward philosophical masterpiece: Obviously it is a familiar Chinese character, so it makes people feel even more fascinated after being stacked in such a way. strangeness.
Kubrick never gave the audience cheap answers. He always hoped that one person could get a hundred answers after reading it ten times. So if you are not here for the passionate scene of Tom Cruz and Nick Kidman, you have seriously thought about the relationship between sex and love, and you have a certain experience or knowledge of marriage, this film must not be missed. You may not find the correct answer, but you may be a little closer to your answer.
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