Geroge, a middle-aged businessman, sold his factory and came to an isolated island with his young and beautiful wife Teresa, raising chickens and painting. However, life in paradise cannot stand up to any scrutiny in essence: if it is an unclaimed betrayal to say that the youth next door, who is about the same age as Teresa, drives a yacht to the island for a tryst all day long, then the intrusion of the robber Richard will completely destroy it. balance of everything.
The plot of two men and one woman reminds people of "Knife in the Water", including the fact that the male protagonist who has been weak in the end kills the intruder, but is abandoned by his wife. Richard was waiting for the rescue of his companions on the island, and Teresa was also waiting to escape from this depressing and dull life. She used ambiguous eyes and body language to lure every unfamiliar male who appeared. At the beginning, the teenager, Richard, and even came to visit Geroge's guest. When she finds that Richard is not interested in women's sex, she gradually transfers control to him, while constantly angering him, and then seeks Geroge's protection. This bizarre act is not from her desire for her husband's protection, on the contrary, it is her resistance to the life her husband has given her, she doesn't love anyone in the show, she just wants to escape from this island, this is his heaven, but hell for her.
Polanski put the discussion of human nature and gender in a place far away from the hustle and bustle, without the rigid and dull urban heavy industry, without the luxury and debauchery of the drunkard, it seems to return to nature, but the origin of our human nature is not calm and peaceful, contemporary Lubin Xun is destined to be a person who enjoys the loneliness that is too noisy. Once he establishes a balance with others, he may see more false happiness and artificial harmony. No matter deep in the city or in the wilderness, it is always difficult to escape the disguise. ending.
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