One night on a snowy night in France, a stunner man and a woman were alone in a room, as if something should have happened, but in the end nothing happened. In our old Chinese saying, "it is erotic but only ceremonial." This "li" is, after all, the Catholic "li". Behind the "ceremony" is a secret surging lust, balancing each other, playing games, half pushing and half - the process itself is exciting enough, and the result is naturally irrelevant. One Night at the Mauds is the most famous and critically acclaimed of the Six Moral Tales. There are almost no serious themes in Rohmer's films, no value judgments and moral condemnations, and no clear distinction between right and wrong. The hero and heroine in the play are often ambiguous, swaying, and indifferent. Religion and human nature, morality and desire, the themes that Gide repeatedly and solemnly portrayed were brought to the screen with ease and gentleness by Rohmer, and the audience laughed. I am quite fascinated by the "Rohmer-style" love, which is light and impermanent. Men or women, they can be at ease, come and go freely, lingering but not sticky, and there is absolutely no such thing as a bitter and bitter love - from the perspective of oriental love, this is simply unimaginable. The heterogeneity of Chinese and Western civilizations determines that we have to constantly encounter cultural "others" in various aesthetic experiences - otherwise, how can foreign civilizations continue to attract and seduce us? Back to the topic, I really like the hero (louis) and heroine (Maud) in this film, they are all such lovely people, just like you and me. No matter how ironic the ending may be, this is life - life is not doctrine.
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