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Chislowski's "Love Ring" is to reverse the case for such peeping, so that this behavior, which has been infamous for thousands of years, can be understood and even praised by the world. The film is about a big boy who has just woken up physically and mentally, falls in love with a mature woman in the window of the opposite building, peeks at her with binoculars day and night, peeks at her beauty and passion, loneliness and pain. When the woman found out about this, she first looked at him with contempt. Fortunately, this is a kind woman, and kindness made her see the piety of the big boy. But she still thought it was just sexual sprouting and thirst, and that she could use sex to rescue him. But when she really did, the big boy was in so much pain that he fled in panic, so much so that he cut his wrists to commit suicide. why? Because his expectations go far beyond sex! His expectations, of course, would not be without sex. Its physical and mental awakening is like just stepping out of the Garden of Eden, feeling temptation, loneliness, and love—this is the comprehensive and huge appeal of the soul! Sex is only a part of it, how can the part replace the whole? Sex is even more alien to the whole, and even hostile, especially when it serves only as a liberation. He couldn't tell the big boy, but he clearly felt it. His soul was longing for access to the vastness of the music, but there was a conspiracy—a conspiracy to rescue the complex heaviness into the simple lightness—destroying the full symphony of the music.
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Of course, this big boy will mature day by day, just like people will go further and further out of the Garden of Eden. In the future, he may still remember the total deliverance that the soul expects, sex thus becoming a servant of love, and the part will look to the whole forever. But perhaps he will forget the whole and indulge in the pleasures of the parts; like the mature woman who thinks that sex will save those who are cast out of the Garden of Eden. Anything is possible in the future. But now, for this big boy, the appeal of the soul is coming full circle, and it is impossible for him to be satisfied with partial happiness. Fortunately, at the end of the film, the mature woman was also shaken by the boy's confusion and struggle, as if she heard something again.
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Zhaoxue should be rehabilitated for such a peek. In addition to framed peeking, there is also a kind of "peeking" in the world, such as writing. To write is to peep at other people and one's own soul, under the siege of social virtue. Therefore, such writing must be "considerably isolated from social virtue." Such a peek should be praised, or at least respected, as a reminder of one's loneliness, a call to one's openness, and a prayer of love to take on one's wholeness.
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