For the first time in my life, I saw Rohmer, one of the six moral stories, one night at the Mauds' house, which was sold at a low price before the scene. Thirty percent of the film is about Pascal, the philosopher, mathematician, and physicist who writes that man is a thinking reed, arguing that we must bet on the existence of God, even if the odds are slim. If God really exists, those who believe in God will gain infinitely, and if God does not exist, they have nothing to lose.
The male protagonist likes to study probability theory every day, spends Christmas in church, and often wraps his Catholic blanket tightly. He had already chosen someone to marry, but he couldn't resist the glamorous Maud, and he called it friendship. When people start to talk about morality, they have already been defeated by temptation. Clermont is so small, and Rohmer's story is so small, morality is often washed away by instinct to the point where there is not much sand of reason left.
Coincidentally, Akutagawa Ryunosuke feels that people are good at self-deception, making decisions that abandon rationality under the guise of "accidental" and "God's will". He also said that morality is an alias for expediency, something like "passing on the left". Ryunosuke and Rohmer were probably both loyal readers of Pascal.
As soon as I walked out of the theater, I immediately sent a message and took away the Spring Story, Winter Story and Afternoon Love of the person who issued the ticket.
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