The three separate Maupassant stories, connected by the narration of the storytelling, also show some connection. The narration is humorous and poetic.
"Mask": love and happiness. The sad man dances and revels all night under the mask for indulging in the vain past of his youth, and the sad woman feels revengeful joy that the sad man finally needs his own care. A long shot of the dance scene depicts the atmosphere of youthful pleasure-seeking very well.
"Talier's Mansion": Love and Purity. The gentlemen who can't play as usual bored arguing in the moonlit night, and the young ladies who were accustomed to feasting and feasting couldn't sleep because of the deafening tranquility of the countryside, and a pure love was born in the ritual of the sacred religion, the beautiful French countryside. Picking flowers and sincere talk, flowers decorate the lonely return carriage and the lively tavern. Every time I see this kind of scene where I suddenly catch a glimpse of a pure flash under the smog of the world, and I leave behind a lonely back after a moment of joy, it is always hard not to bear it. The first long shot of peeping into the tavern from outside the house is beautiful ("The Smell of Green Papaya" must have learned this one!); The boring evening of the gentlemen without the ladies is very well paced and very humorous; the satirical depiction of the ladies on the train The characters are very three-dimensional in contrast to the chaste country tales that followed, coupled with the worldly indulgence of returning to the tavern.
"Model": Love and Death. A woman who is trapped in love, a man who is trapped in a woman; the description of the sweetness of love and the boredom after passion is ordinary, but the sudden piano accompaniment of a man's friend makes the vulgar rhetoric unique. The window where the woman goes up the stairs and turns into a subjective shot is powerful. He has a marriage, a reputation, a career, but he doesn't seem to be happy, there is no joy in happiness.
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