I read a poem by Baudelaire in the past two days, which reminded me of the heroine in this movie. Here is the statue in the poem: I love the last stanza of that poem: "Pain because of being alive." At first, I thought that the pain caused by "living" was the oppression of life, but later I thought of another interpretation: the reason why living is painful is because there is no real life, just like the heroine of "Eclipse". I remember a scene in the middle of the movie where the male protagonist just felt sorry for his car after knowing that the drunk drowned in the water with his car.
The hostess asked: So do you only care about the car? The female protagonist should mind the male protagonist's ruthlessness, but the next second she starts flirting with the male protagonist, as if she didn't care at all. Maybe she really doesn't care. There are also many scenes of the heroine laughing happily in the movie, such as when she finds a puppy that has been lost by her friend. But I don't think she was really happy at that time, not the kind of happiness that filled her heart, but she was trying to make up for the emptiness with a happy appearance, just like the woman in the statue who covered her pain with a mask. I am reminded of the last three stanzas of Baudelaire's other poem, "To the Reader": "Bored" is rendered "tired" in another translation. "Bored" can swallow life with a yawn. Perhaps it makes "being" more terrifying and unbearable than actual pain.
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