Life and death meet, in addition to that, there are other times. Coincidentally, or deliberately arranged, this happened several times when Veronica and the man went about their business. Povi looked at her picture on the wall and thought of an alter ego somewhere, for her, an alter ego witnessing her relationship with her lover. When Favey appeared on the scene, she suddenly felt the sadness of "losing something" in bed, and finally looked at Povey who was looking at herself in the photo while having sex with Alexander. If there is any non-accidental bridge between the two Veronicas, it is sex. Sex makes life and death relative. And the moment where life and death meet is death itself.
Kieslowski is not the only one trying to prove the close connection between sex and death, Sontag's "sex and death" thesis is one of the reasons why she has been regarded as a "vindicator" by many people. "Despite being tamed in ordinary times, when it erupts, sex is one of the forces of human intoxication and evil, driving us closer to taboo and dangerous desires that encompass sudden violence against another practicality, as well as a sense of longing for oneself Disappears in an instant, in other words, longing for death."
Sex is death, and love, is it not the same despair? In both stories, love ends just after it happened. Povie's ruthlessness toward "Blonde Boy" isn't limited to "one-night stands," as seen in her excited remarks to her aunt, but she chooses not to connect with him, is careful, and perhaps is idealistic about love. But not long after she took her lover's gift and realized her mood, she died. And Favy, her love seems beautiful, but later found that everything is built on the curiosity and utilization of men. Even after revealing our love to each other, we thought that love could begin, but found that what a man is willing to share with her is only the bed, not sadness, let alone life-her life is just to provide him with better artistic material.
And, let's not forget, it was Alexander who pointed out another Veronica for Veronica. He showed her the opposite of her, and he proved to her that death exists. The occurrence of love is the beginning of knowing death. The absence of the role of the mother of the two Veronicas (she explicitly mentions the death of her mother in the French story) also seems to depict love and death, which makes love impossible. Maybe love is impossible in the first place.
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