A middle-aged man's adventures that stop at his knees

Colleen 2022-09-15 01:22:43

The film tells the story of a diplomat and three women. One is an old friend of a writer about his age, they are close, talk about everything, have too many friends and not enough lovers. Diplomats will show physical intimacy, old friends do not refuse, but they do not actively cater to them. When the two reached the point, neither of them pierced it.

One is a cardamom girl who is obsessed with him. Her beauty has not yet been opened, green, like a child. An old writer friend wants to write an Electra novel, asks the diplomat to play the love object, practice, or preview her novel. The diplomat accepted the game, saying that it was to provide material for an old friend's novel, or maybe he was just around the corner himself. The cardamom maiden's love, however, is utopian and possessive. The diplomat was just enjoying the girl's infatuation and didn't want to get caught up in it, not to mention she wasn't very attractive to him. So the diplomat backed away.

One is the older sister of the cardamom girl. Her beauty is just right, and the petals are dripping with dew. The diplomat confessed to his old friend the writer that he was seduced by the girl's knee when she climbed the ladder. He wanted to get close to the girl's sister several times, but the girl's sister had a handsome boyfriend who liked to open his clothes to reveal his two youthful chests, and he was polite and indifferent to him. In an accident, he and his teenage sister took shelter from the rain under a pavilion by the lake. He confided to the teenage sister, saying that the boyfriend with two youthful bosoms fucked her behind his back. When the girl sister was crying sadly, he put his hand on the girl sister's knee. For the cardamom girl, he used the material for the writer as an ambiguous excuse, and for the girl sister, at this time, he deliberately confused the comfort of friendship with the impulse of desire, and put his hand on her knee. The girl sister couldn't tell the difference for a while, she didn't respond, and continued to cry.

Yet that's it. They went back when the weather cleared, and the diplomat left a few days later, he was here just for vacation. He kept saying that he was going to get married soon. His fiancée, has always been in the background.

Knee, up is the thigh, down, is the calf and foot. Those places are taboo. The middle-aged man is tempted by the girl's knee, or maybe, the knee is beautiful, and then sexual; or maybe, the knee is just a "borrowed generation" above and below it; or maybe, the middle-aged man doesn't want to distinguish so clearly, he adventure, and it ends at the knee.

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Claire's Knee quotes

  • Laura: I was born to be unhappy. But no, I won't be unhappy. I'm very happy. I only think of positive things. People are unhappy because they want to be. When I feel down, I think about how there are happy times and that crying does no good anyway. I think about how marvelous it is to be here and how much fun I'm going to have.

    Jerome: What do you call having fun?

    Laura: Having fun is being alive. For instance, today I'm very happy. Tomorrow I may be sad. So then I make myself think of something else. I concentrate on one specific thing and how fantastic it is, and I'm happy for the rest of the day.

  • Aurora, the novelist: I find all men attractive. That's why I can't pick one. Why one and not another? I need a reason to choose one specific man. Since I can't have them all, I prefer to do without any.