Presumably many people came for the prosperous beauty of the heroine:
She prefers her skin as white as fat, and her eyebrows are curved, and those eyes are simply seductive. Any lens to shoot, it seems to add a layer of unreal filter. How can there be such a strange woman in this world!
But I still want to talk about something else: lust and machinations in the age of religious wars.
In the conflict between Calvinism and Catholicism, people are crazy, and few people stay awake. (I can't help but think of the lyrics of "a lifetime of war") In this environment, the French court was chaotic and corrupt, the Medici regency, the oppression of Protestantism, and the brutal repression.
The night of St. Bartholomew is vividly shown in this film. The cruelty and blood are intertwined. It is a moan of despair. How can the French get rid of it?
Among them, Margot met the new priest, who was also her lover, and for the first time she was freed from her erotic desires trapped in shackles, instead of becoming a plaything for her aristocratic friends. (However, it's interesting that Margot seems to have said before that she doesn't want to have sex with Protestants.) Under the repression of religion, she ran around for this love, regardless of the world, and searched up and down.
The male protagonist Henry is the long-term bullseye of the conspiracy - the target of the Medici. Marrying a beauty was a booby trap, nearly killed by the Countess's love drug, and then hidden in a book. With Margot's help, he defuses these disasters, but he is also forced to reform to protect himself. After bumping and bumping all the way, finally returned to China and regained freedom.
/*Interjection, I feel that the legend of the film is still too strong, Henry seems to be not very witty and decisive, except for his early hope of forming an alliance with Margo, he is still immature, not as awe-inspiring as Henry the Great in history, not quite in line with the contempt of the people */
After watching this film, there is more sadness. The struggle of the court eventually resulted in the corpse of a million people, bleeding and drifting. Religious wars, a thing that does not exist in Chinese culture, may inspire reflection in my generation.
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