Lust and Madness
There are two main contents of the film, one is the background of the Netherlands at that time: "speculation and sale" of tulips. Trade tulips like stocks and play silly games. And simply the epitome of modern stocks. There is also a story about a rich man who "bought" a young girl who never had children. He found a little painter to paint for the couple, but the little painter had an affair with his little wife, and even set up an elopement. The key to how these two are intertwined is desire.
The rich man always wanted a boy to inherit the family business. Before his wife gave birth to a difficult labor, he only thought about the child's life, but his wife and child died together, so he thought it was God's punishment. He "bought" a young and beautiful girl from the monastery (the monastery adopted a lot of little girls, if she could marry, she would marry, if she couldn't, she was called a nun), but she never got pregnant. The girl is also very grateful that he changed her destiny, so she is not willing to deceive him (going to borrow seeds from the doctor to have a child), but she cannot avoid the arrival of love. The rich man found a painter on a whim to paint a portrait of himself and his wife. Obviously, it was the second best thing. He was afraid that he had no evidence of life in this world, and he had to leave a portrait if he had no children. However, the young wife and the young painter were attracted to each other, and they fell in love while the old man went out to do business. And he also came up with an idea to buy the doctor and use the pregnant maid's production to create a false impression of dystocia and death after giving birth to a child, and then the two eloped. Although they succeeded, the painter participated in speculating and selling tulips because he wanted to prepare the money to run away, not only losing money but also owed debts, while the rich man’s wife repeatedly said because of seeing the rich man: protect the big and not the small. He was also moved by seeing the rich man holding his child in a dreadful state of loss. He could not bear to betray his husband, so he left the painter and hid. After the rich man learned the truth from the maid, he also chose to give up his family business and leave.
The movie is actually a complete exposition of human desires. Young people's desire to love, old people's desire to leave traces of survival. The painter fell into madness out of desire, out of love. From another angle, it explains the real basis of the history of "Tulip" Bo silly - human nature. Human nature may not be greedy at the beginning, but it will also lead to a whirlpool of desire from a little desire, even pure love. The rich man bought a young girl out of desire, in order to have a child, and out of desire, he found a painter to paint himself, but in the end he fell into a scam.
Of course, what opposes desire is human kindness, or "religious belief." The rich man repeatedly shouted at the doorman, "Protect the big, not the small", which made the wife who pretended to be dead shed tears. Of course, we know that desire is closer to the essence of human nature. The reason why the rich man shouts like this is more because he believes in religion, and then he always feels that the reason why he has no children is because when his previous wife had a difficult childbirth, he only wanted to keep it. Child, he believed it was God's punishment. And when he found out that his wife betrayed and deceived him, he still thought of reflection: he didn't really treat her well. Religious beliefs have even become "self-consciousness" and "self-discipline" in the heart. And this self-discipline infected his wife. So eventually the wife returned to the monastery, became a nun, and did not elope with the painter.
Religion did not make human beings fall into the hell of desire, and it is here at all. 17.12.30
5uL\
View more about Tulip Fever reviews
