Desire vs Morality

Imelda 2022-10-19 00:17:42

1. This is a war about the inner desires and morals of men.
2. Two lines: The man rents a small apartment with his lover and is a history professor.
Married man, wife 6 months pregnant, considers himself an actor.
3. The derailment is a fact, and he returns to the family under the moral condemnation, but the inner desire is difficult to suppress, the inner war between heaven and man, and a split personality is derived.
4. The line that feels cheating is just a memory.
5. The wife knew that he cheated and chose to forgive, but the man imagined that he was an actor and always said that he had fans, and the wife responded with sneer every time she heard it. Later, the wife realized that there might be something wrong with him, and when she went to see him at his work, she saw that the man couldn't recognize herself and lived with another personality, and the wife began to break down.
6. Living with his wife is an actor role, he is playing himself. And living with a lover is living as a professor of history. Desire is real, but reality is acting.
7. The scars on the body are caused by the car accident when breaking with the lover, so the sequence of the movie is to go on at the same time.
8. After a man breaks up with his lover, although he returns to the family, he still has the key to the sex club. Therefore, his desire is still uncontrollable, and heaven and man are at war.
9. Desire and morality, red roses and white roses for men. The surface returns to morality, and desire is the truth.

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  • Anthony: Control, it's all about control. Every dictatorship has one obsession and that's it. In ancient Rome they gave the people bread and circuses. They kept population busy with entertainment but other dictatorships used other strategies to control ideas, the knowledge... how do they do that? Lower education, they limit culture, censor information, they censor any means of individual expression and is important to remember this, that this is a pattern, that repeats itself through out history.

  • Teacher at School: Where There's a Will There's a Way.

    Anthony: It's true.

    Teacher at School: No, it's a movie, I saw it a little while ago but um... I remember it was... I liked it.

    Anthony: Hmm. Where There's a Will There's a Way.

    Teacher at School: Yeah, that's it. Local film, if you...

    Anthony: I'll keep it in mind.