The open and even anti-ethical life style of the Laurent family makes the mother-son incest at the end of the film a natural occurrence. As a 15-year-old boy in a state of sexual enlightenment, sexual curiosity and fantasies are ubiquitous in life. Mothers are the first women that men come into contact with, and in most cases, they are also the women who have been with each other for the longest time in their juvenile stage. From the skin-to-skin relationship in infancy to the keeping of distance under the rules of human relations in the future, the mother's identity as a woman has always been a special existence in the boy's heart. A boy's sexual fantasy about his mother as a woman is shameful and immoral under the norms of human ethics, which is the rational and moral manifestation of the reason why people are human. However, sexual desire as the id is uncontrollable, and sexual fantasies are spontaneous, physical and psychological activities that are not bound by morality. As long as they do not act, no one will know. This is original sin and requires repentance, so the priest will ask Laurent if he has any evil thoughts. Religion, with its concept of recognizing original sin and pursuing perfection, has added another layer of protection to law and ethics. The absurdity of repentance can be found in Religious skeptics have always looked like chicken ribs. After Laurent confessed his evil thoughts, the priest found a lame reason to touch Laurent's thigh. As the spokesman of God, the priest became a pedophile and homosexual driven by sexual desire, and Louis Malle was really fat.
Laurent's life in the film is full of sex at every moment. Compete with the two older brothers to see who's ji ji is longer, and the three of them show ji ji to tease the housekeeper. Laurent witnesses a free-spirited mother cheating on her father. Even my father, who had always been serious at home, worked as a gynecologist. When his parents are not at home, the third brother will invite a female classmate to hold a "promiscuous" party at home, and Laurent dedicates his first kiss to the female classmate. The brothers hired prostitutes for Laurent to help him. When alone, Laurent would masturbate while reading a book. Of course, in his heart is always the sexy and charming mother. The mother in the film does not spontaneously maintain the behavior and image of a mother like the mother in reality. Laurent's mother has always been very caring for Laurent, and her actions are intimate, and she doesn't care about physical contact like a baby. In the second half of the film, the time when the mother and son were alone in the nursing home room made the two people's unscrupulous ambiguous way of getting along with each other vividly. Laurent peeped at his mother taking a bath, and his mother helped Laurent take a bath. The two danced intimately at the National Day party, holding hands, just like a couple. Mother flirts with another underage boy, plays tennis Laurent gets jealous, mother breaks up with lover Laurent comforts her like an adult. Laurent would help her take off her clothes and bra while her mother was lying in bed drunk, and finally they crossed the taboo that night. The mother's infidelity and the act of dating and flirting with Laurent's boys were the biggest driving forces behind Laurent's eventual action on the Oedipus complex. When the image of the mother is no longer high, ethical boundaries collapse. The end is a scene of everyone laughing, this is only one time, and there will be no more this night. This is Laurent's coming-of-age ceremony, as well as a mother's coming-of-age ceremony.
Louis Mahler turned the despised incest story into a flirtatious, intimate, playful and lovely "love" story. The ubiquitous jazz and philosophical discourse exudes Louis Mahler's personal aesthetic from the middle class.
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