The best scene in the whole film is naturally the quarrel at the beach.
On the first day of the wedding, after a long period of repression, testing, and avoidance in the hotel for the first physical intimacy, the male and female protagonists went directly to the beach to hurt each other in a tsunami-like manner, ending their six-hour marriage.
At the beginning of the quarrel, the male protagonist said something that impressed me a lot. He blamed the female protagonist for not learning about sex to make him disgraced, but he had no chance to know that the female protagonist had read a sex education book. The Lord's zipper begins to close the channel through which the heroine and he begins to really get to know each other. The male protagonist just wants to immediately possess the beautiful ketone body of the female protagonist. His inner inferiority complex is vividly reflected in the sentence "You are so beautiful that everyone desires, now both body and mind belong to me", and getting the girl of his dreams satisfied him of vanity. The difference is that the female protagonist is full of fear and resistance to sex. The scene where they make out in the hotel is embarrassing and uncomfortable. The female protagonist is so nervous that she is almost suffocating. Her fear is finally detonated by the semen of the male protagonist. The reason for the sexual conflict stemmed from the father's sexual assault (it may also be indecent, the director did not give a more specific explanation).
The director's expression of this hidden plot is very cryptic. I saw some film critics say that this film is about pure love and sexual indifference. In my opinion, it actually tells about the inability to overcome class differences and the harm and treatment of the original family, the relationship between the male and female protagonists. Innocence will stay before the collision of each other's family, like a castle in the sky without shadows.
The male protagonist is a kind and ordinary boy. The family has a father who follows the old tradition but loves his wife, and a mother who has artistic talent but brain damage. As the eldest son, he loves his family and feels that he is different from them. A first-class degree is his honor. His way of thinking is simple and direct. He has a strong desire to win and lose. He likes to use strength to express himself and is narcissistic. Even if he is an adult, he uses fighting to attract the attention of the other party. The way he handles problems is unlikely to be seen. He understands the inner reefs of other people's relationships. When he played tennis with the heroine's father, the heroine's advice was good, but he still used a game to refute his father-in-law, who had a stronger desire to win. The father-in-law passed his anger on to his daughter. Lord, that tennis match was like a confrontation between two rivals in love, the heroine's father's abnormal desire for control and possessiveness, the heroine has her own way to deal with it - being a good girl on the surface to protect her father's face, but in fact she is also anti-controlling each other. It's a pity that the male protagonist can't understand this hidden reef by himself, and the female protagonist didn't tell him why. Instead, it was his smart and sensitive mother who saw through the female protagonist from the beginning and knew that her son would be crushed by the female protagonist. . The male protagonist's anger at the beach is right, just change to a simple girl, and he will not encounter so many life problems. He is not suitable for the female protagonist.
The heroine, with a wealthy family and a delicate and sensitive heart, is obedient to the patriarchal power and is actually very eager to escape. The marriage with the male protagonist is an expression of her resistance to her father, and she deliberately chose a bad boy who does not match her family. Because she is too eager for inner freedom, so the short-term end of the marriage is inevitable.
The conversation on the beach is very beautiful, it really shows how angry the couple who can't communicate with each other is. The male protagonist blames the female protagonist for the reason of his self-esteem, so as to maintain his narcissism, and the female protagonist does not say the real reason is only Blindly trying to solve emotions, you can use it as a classic quotation on invalid communication.
When the male protagonist was more mature, he learned to reflect and knew that the female protagonist said absurd things because of love, and the female protagonist met someone who could see through her essence at a glance, and she could also have children and live an ordinary life. , get rid of the shadow of the father. The male protagonist is quite sympathetic. Although he truly loves each other, the male protagonist will eventually wake up because he cannot support the depth of the female protagonist.
A young couple who quarreled on Chesil Beach, but themselves, who will remember decades later?
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