I can't imagine why I fell asleep the first time I watched this movie two years ago, and it would be so shocking to watch it again today. There is no need to repeat the wonderful scene scheduling, long takes and camera movement, I believe that after watching it, we just want to put aside all external forms and focus on the deep and vast meaning it contains. Before the story reached its climax, we all thought that this film was a farce satirizing the upper class society of the bourgeoisie. It was not until the last half hour that we slowly discovered that the greatest irony was actually human nature. We found that every character in the film has his two sides, which is completely beyond the scope of simple criticism. The relationship between people may be lovers, friends, lovers, and what is all this based on? That is selfishness. Everyone takes themselves as their starting point and abides by such "rules of the game", in order to fulfill their own and others' dignity, which is accompanied by lies. "The scary thing in this world is that everyone has his reasons." This kind of person is actually very nihilistic, it represents the social atmosphere of the whole era, and this belief deeply stings Renoir and thus that drove him to make this film. As his character in the play said, "Everyone is lying, why don't we simple people lie?". The film's relevance is still resonant today.
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