I downloaded it with the original intention of watching pornographic films, and then I lay in the hard drive for half a year, and I didn't find it until today. Just after watching it for a while, I faintly felt that this movie was good, so I gradually put away my frivolous mentality, and began to taste the camera and lines until the end, when I saw the director’s name, Kubrick...this name seemed a bit familiar. , Fog grass! Kubrick! Then I re-drawn the film with respect. Of course, I did this entirely out of respect for the director, not for the purpose of seeing the white flesh again.
Although the author at this time still has a lot of ignorance and confusion about the hints and metaphors in the movie's plot, I still want to try to interpret this magical film and share my impressions.
1. The film as a whole can be divided into two levels: the surface layer and the inner layer.
The so-called surface layer can be understood as appearance. The appearance is often unreal. It is a false illusion that appears after the truth has been distorted and whitewashed. The inner layer is the essence of things, the real world, real stories, and real rules. For example, unspoken rules, although unwritten, are more effective and true than written regulations, and are tacitly followed by everyone. They reflect the more real logic of this society. The author believes that there are two worlds on the surface and on the inside in the whole movie, such as sex and power, such as reality and dreams, such as Christmas balls and masquerade parties. In the movie, the distance between the surface and the inner layer is infinitely close, perhaps only separated by a door, or only separated by a mask.
2. The outer layer is sex, the inner layer is power
On the surface, this film shows the male protagonist's various amorous encounters, but the film's display of sex can basically be understood as a white depiction of power. Kubrick is using sex as a metaphor for power, using erotic pictures to show a picture of power. In essence, in class society, sex is also a resource, and it is also distributed by power. (This power is not only political power, but also the power of capital. The head of Goose City in the water, Master Huang in iron strikes)
The power that the movie shows through sex is as follows: A. Bill's power over his wife. The wife is a vase, and Bill has control over his wife. The male protagonist thinks that his wife’s loyalty to him is justified, but his wife asks, "Why can a man fool around, and when it comes to a woman, he must talk about loyalty and responsibility?" This kind of questioning of power is not allowed by power, so the male protagonist I'm impatient directly. In the following plot, the male protagonist once questioned Victor in this way, asking him the truth of the night, but Victor, like the male protagonist at this time, directly impatiently gave him a rough and crude answer. Therefore, the wife's questioning of the male protagonist and the male lead's questioning of Victor are echoes before and after each other. The wife is attached to the male lead, and the male lead is dependent on the powerful and powerful like Victor. Dare to question one's dependent objects is a challenge to power and cannot be tolerated.
B. The power of the rich over the poor. For example, the male protagonist opposes the street girl, such as the daughter of the owner of the rainbow clothing store and the benefactor. Especially for the latter, the boss noticed that his daughter was still very angry when she was messing around, and threatened to call the police. However, when the protagonist meets the boss again, he realizes that the boss has acquiesced to his daughter to fuck with them, and even hinted that the male protagonist can also fuck his daughter, as long as the price is right. How much money you have, how much power you have, and how much money you have, you can go to any level of women. Here presents a clear social hierarchy . The highest level of power in the film is those big people who participate in the two parties, and the sexual resources they enjoy are various supermodels. The male protagonist is attached to them, so the sexual resources they enjoy are much worse. Some even have risks, such as AIDS.
C. Victor Ziegler's power . Victor held a Christmas ball, which was actually a meeting for the distribution of sexual resources . The male protagonist was attached to Victor, so he was invited to participate in the ball, and then he was embraced by the two girls, even though the male protagonist did not make peace. They launched practical actions, but there is no doubt that the male protagonist gained the right to share sexual resources by relying on a powerful person like Victor. The prom is divided into two roles: hunter and prey. Victor is the hunter and Mandy is the prey; the Hungarian is the hunter, and the wife of the male protagonist is the prey; the male protagonist and the two beauties are both hunters and prey-the male protagonist wants to be both of them, and they also want to be the male The Lord took some benefits, so the two beauties were very active. If it weren't for the supermodel Mandy to faint by taking drugs, and ruining the hero's good deeds, the three of them would have been happily together. Mandy's naked body, the division of hunters and prey in the ball, all of the above are to tell the audience that this Christmas ball is also divided into surface and inner layers. The surface layer is a dance party, and the inner layer is a sex party, a replica of a mask party. It can also be said that the surface layer is a Christmas ball, and the inner layer is a mask party.
D. The power of masquerade parties . Needless to say, the masquerade party is a sex party on the surface, but it is full of various orders and rules of power structure. This is not so much a field of sex as it is a field of power.
In summary, sex in movies is actually a metaphor for power, and different sexual scenes are different aspects and types of power. The masquerade party can be directly regarded as a power field
3. The outer layer is a dream, the inner layer is real. The outer layer is love and morality, and the inner layer is sex and excitement. The outer layer is the male lead, the inner layer is the female lead
The male protagonist’s wife confessed to the male protagonist that she had derailed an army officer. After that, the image of the wife and the officer lingering in the male protagonist’s mind. On the surface, this plot seems to be a narrow-minded fantasy of the hero, but is it really just a fantasy? His wife is a beautiful vase, beautiful enough to attract prom bosses to hunt it, and it can even be said that she is beautiful enough to be eligible for a masquerade party. Therefore, as long as the wife wants, the officer will not refuse. The wife has this charm and ability, and the male protagonist knows it. Then the wife said that she loves the male protagonist, so she only derailed mentally and not physically. Is that credible? I think this is untrustworthy. The male protagonist also said that he loves her in front of his wife, saying that he has a professional ethics and will not mess with other women, but is the male protagonist really as he advertises? So the conversation between the male lead and the female lead was very interesting. Neither of them spoke the truth. They spoke only superficial things that could be on the stage. But the inner layer doesn't think so. The hero didn't have anything to do with the two girls, just because an accident happened at the prom, which ruined the hero's good deeds, not because of other noble reasons.
Thus, the male protagonist and the female protagonist also form a pair of surface and inner layers. They are the same person, doing the same thing, so the dream of the heroine will be so similar to the experience of the hero that night. The male protagonist is attached to the dignitaries like Victor, the female protagonist is attached to the male protagonist, and may also be attached to other people, and her gallery may not be supported by her herself. The old Hungarian man at the Christmas ball was indeed the first to launch an offensive against the heroine. However, if you look closely at the dialogue between the two, you can find that the heroine’s answering is very skillful and ambiguous. If you want to reject it, you will even welcome it. There are even some languages like Provocative, like luring the other party to hunt. Even though he rejected the Hungarian before leaving, he still sent a kiss to the old man's lips.
Therefore, I think that the surface layer of the heroine is mentally derailed, and the inner layer is the officer who also derailed the body. The images in the male protagonist's mind seem to be hypothetical, but they are actually happening . So, is the dream of group sex that the heroine has really a dream? The outer layer is a dream, but the inner layer may be real. The heroine has enough charm, she can be favored by Hungarian dignitaries and Victor Ziegler, then she should be fully qualified to participate in the masquerade, she is qualified to provide services to the dignitaries. Of course, the female protagonist may not have attended the masquerade party in the presence of the male protagonist that night, but she may have participated in other masquerade parties . After all, the pianist said that the location is different every time. The elites are not the only circle in the party. Therefore, the heroine's dream about group sex should come from her real memory. Of course, there is another possibility, that is, she and the male lead participated in the masquerade party that night. So she knows what happened to the hero that night. Later, the male protagonist discovered that his mask was missing, which may have been stolen by the female protagonist, and then the mask appeared on his pillow, which may have been placed by the female protagonist.
4. The surface layer is a Christmas ball, and the inner layer is a mask party. The surface layer is a masquerade party, the inner layer is the real world rules
The Christmas ball and the masquerade party are two sides of the same coin , and the people who may even attend are the same group. The masquerade party has distinct class attributes, the threshold is very high, ordinary people can't enter, the male protagonist comes in purely by mistake, but he broke the true truth of the world and got a glimpse of the rules of the ruling group. And this is what the ruling group does not want outsiders to know. As mentioned above, the sex of this film is a metaphor of power. Therefore, the sex party and various strange rituals and orders that the male protagonist sees are actually the real logic and rules of power . It is obvious that the masquerade has unique rules and order, which is very different from the outside world. The metaphor here is that the core class of power has its own rules and order, and it is completely different from the rules and order prevailing in society . The group could not tolerate outsiders, so the male lead was kicked out. The power core group is highly closed. The male protagonist and Victor seem to be friends on weekdays, but it is not allowed to get the same status as Victor. Victor’s circle refuses to join the male protagonist. As mentioned earlier, this film seems to be talking about sex, but in fact it is talking about power, and sex is a synonym for power. Therefore, the sex party of the Masquerade is actually a feast of power. The rules and logic that operate in the party are the rules and logic of power, which are absolutely incompatible with outsiders. In the subsequent meeting between Victor and the male protagonist, Victor explained to the male protagonist: All this was deliberately acted for the male protagonist, to deceive him. Victor tells the male lead that what you see are all illusions , as if people in power keep telling you how democratic, fraternal, and noble they are. However, there is no doubt that what the male protagonist sees is the truth, and this film implies that what the male protagonist sees is the truth of the world of power, the world of power is the real world, and the world of the male protagonist’s life is whitewashed by power. A world full of false illusions. The world of power wants to conceal the truth at this time, the male protagonist must believe, even if he pretends to believe.
5. The surface layer is harmonious, and the inner layer is full of murderous intent
At the end, the dialogue between the male protagonist and Victor, Victor’s explanation is the outer layer, and the truth that the male protagonist realizes is the inner layer. Victor said that the pianist got on the plane and was sent away. Although Mandy died, it had nothing to do with them. He died of drugs. From the perspective of the male protagonist, both the pianist and Mandy should have been murdered. Maybe some people didn't understand this story. Amanda Curran registered in the hospital is Mandy who fainted at the Christmas ball. Mandy is Amanda's nickname . Because the protagonist rescued him at the Christmas ball, she later rescued the protagonist at the masquerade party. During the meeting between Victor and the male lead, Victor said impatiently to the male lead: "There is nothing to doubt! The door is locked, the police are very happy, the matter is over." Why are the police happy? Because the killer did a beautiful job, so that the police could close the case, and there was no need to provoke those backstages who couldn't be offended. This was the reason why the police were happy.
6. The last line-fuck . The whole film ends with the heroine's fuck, which is a pun . Some subtitles translate into sex, which should actually be "fuck". After seeing the truth of this world, fuck this world.
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