"Don Juan", released in 2013, has a neat but vulgar Chinese translation: "The Lover", which seems to be quite "creative" in connecting the title and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I'm not sure about Joseph's original intention - although it looks like a three-vulgar comedy, I'm discussing the issue of love with you seriously. The simple English title "Don Juan" explains the level of the film, and naming it after a famous British romantic poem is obviously not something that "The Lover of Love" can match.
Speaking of British Romantic poets, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats and others are well-known, but Byron was the one I admired the most. Without it, a poet who is passionate, cynical, and fights for ideals, how can such a poet not attract young children. In his short life, "Don Juan" is undoubtedly one of the most representative works. It can be called a treasure house of art that accommodates European social customs, characters, and famous landscapes. Goethe praised it as "a masterpiece of genius." ".
The character "Don Juan" was originally derived from a Spanish novel, a womanizer who satisfies male vanity by possessing female flesh, and was later used by Molière, Mozart, Byron and others in the creation of literature and music middle. In Byron's poetic novel "Don Juan", the protagonist Don Juan has grown from a romantic and immoral youth to a person with a persistent pursuit of love and freedom. "Love" to "spiritual union". In this sense, the film "Don Juan" is connected with it.
The protagonist Xiao Huanghuang is always in a state of lust and hormones, and his three major hobbies are "fitness", "sister flirting", and "watching porn". As a bartender in a nightclub, it has already been "close to the water floor, first get the moon", so that it has become a common practice to bring her daughter home after get off work for a shot. However, for Huang Huang, who has an extraordinary sex addiction, real love is still not as exciting as watching porn while masturbating. In his opinion, the girls in porn movies are not only top-notch, but also able to meet the needs of various postures and positions, which are not like real women who can neither do this nor do that. Which is better or worse is obvious.
Although "Don Juan" is dressed as a sexual comedy and attracts attention with erotic scenes that are staged every few minutes, it seems that the three vulgarities are overflowing and the integrity is broken, but in fact, the things to be said are quite serious. through. In the setting of the film, Huang Huang comes from an Italian-American family and goes to church every week. In particular, Huang Huang has to go to the confession room every time to confess his "unmarried sex" and "handjob" to the priest. sin. Even if he just sees this as a routine and doesn't really regret it, the film's right and wrong views have already been decided.
The more serious aspect is that "Don Juan" discusses the concept of love and value orientation. The film shows Huang Huang's two love experiences, the first being Barbara, who is young, beautiful and curvaceous. Barbara played by Scarlett Johansson is of course the goddess in Huang Huang's mind, but her ideology is very traditional, such as getting to know each other and even seeing both families before going to bed, and her sexual behavior is also reserved and rigid, and she likes He imposed restrictions and constraints on Huang Huang in all aspects, and finally parted ways because of the continuous discovery of Huang Huang watching pornography.
The second is Esther, a single woman who has lost her father and her son. From an ordinary point of view, Esther, played by Julianne Moore, who is in her sixties, is really unattractive, but this "old woman" who doesn't mind watching porn and is willing to cooperate with Huang Huang's car shock instead uses Gentleness and thoughtfulness make up for his empty spiritual world. Esther's analysis of Juan Huang is piercing: the way you love is one-way, which is why you love porn more than sex, but since you want to lose yourself in sex, you have to let each other get lost in each other in the opponent's body.
It seems that "sex" is the main reason for the separation between Huang Huang and the two women, but the root cause is whether the values are in harmony. The protagonist's sister, who has only one line in the whole film, revealed the key: "She (Barbara) has her own plan, she doesn't care about Huang Huang, she doesn't care about his life events, she just wants a right The man she obeys." It can be seen that the true appeal of men and women from sex to love is still based on "unity of spirit and flesh" as the highest level, and even if they cannot reach this level, they must at least have similar views on love and values. Otherwise, just based on Esther's age and appearance, she would never be able to conquer "Love Saint" Xiao Huanghuang.
Don Juan is a film written, directed and starred by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The great god Christopher Nolan once warned Joseph not to take such a challenge lightly, but Joseph, who had direct experience in short films before, still completed this feature film debut well and received positive reviews. In this film, there are undisguised real "feelings" and real "colors", as well as bold performances that do not match the past images of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Julianne Moore. The most successful is to use self-deprecating ways to remind us that we must take into account our instincts and soul. As the saying goes: a small slap is happy, a big slap hurts the body, and a strong slap will be wiped out. You guys who love lunatics should take it easy and save some tissues.
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