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My Watch Book: "Blissful Feast"
Mikel 2022-03-16 08:01:01
When the most primitive desires of human beings are infinitely exaggerated and satisfied, they will eventually lead to disgusting destruction. An example of the latter is The World of the Senses, and a typical example of the former is Blissful Feast. Five elite characters from various fields, stripped of their usual sanctimonious appearances, stuffed food into their stomachs like lunatics, and kept eating, even if they stinked and couldn't stand up. He didn't stop talking, as if he had gone crazy, he only knew how to fill himself up mechanically and then die one by one. Watching such a movie, the audience sometimes feels like an envoy, looking at the common people under their feet with compassion, those people desperately filling their desires without knowing how to restrain, and in the end they are nothing but a stinky mess. God's corpse.
Extended Reading
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Ugo: Wanting to be Marlon Brando is vanity.
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Marcello: You should do a special menu. "A dinner offered by four Burgundian gentlemen to three nice Canterbury whores!"
Philippe: Ah, so they're whores, eh?
Michel: What did you expect?
Philippe: I've got a great menu idea. "The Whore Menu"! A sauté of fat and lean given by four gourmand gourmets, epicures for three young ladies, in twelve courses.
Marcello: That's it.
Philippe: Crayfish à la Mozart on a bed of rice à la Sully, with Sauce Aurora.
Marcello: Not bad.