Is it necessary to deal with the devil in order to achieve the pinnacle of art? Human self-exploration and spiritual independence is actually a further communion with sin. Sade's erotic novels are truly astonishing to look at from an artistic point of view. At that time, his novels were not only erotic novels, but more like experimental novels that shocked both the mind and the vision. But if you look at it from a moral level, it is so unsightly and disgusting. This movie and Natalie's Black Swan made me think strongly: The world of art is half ruled by God and the other half by the devil. If you want to be better, you have to deal with the devil, and even agree with the devil's concepts and temptations.
The director of the film, Kaufman, vented his challenges and dissatisfaction with the supreme power in the film. This power includes imperial power and theocratic power, especially theocratic power. In it, "Do you mean your cruel God? Let your son be crucified like a piece of veal, and I tremble at the thought of what he will do to me." It's like a resentful child cursing fiercely that he was not born by his own parents , and more like a viper to lure the audience away from God. The shaman is portrayed with a devil-like face, rejecting God, mocking theocracy, advocating self-salvation and spiritual indulgence, and as he says, he loses. In contrast, Kaufman's portrayal of priests is extremely religious. Whether it is his attitude towards Sade or towards the Madeleine he loves, he faces it with a redemptive mentality. But I can't understand why it ends with him inheriting Sade's madness. Perhaps, the director is saying that there is a gray path between right and wrong, black and white, which is actually moral. But in my opinion, black and white should not be confused, so-called gray areas do not exist at all.
Madeleine is a very lovely girl, she is the defender of the faith, but she chooses an unconventional method "Reading has saved me, seeing the strangeness of the world, it is difficult to find anything that interests me, I Bring yourself into his story, otherwise, you can't be a good girl in reality." From beginning to end, she left her most chaste pure land to her beloved priest. Now there are too many girls like this, who have no scruples, have experience, and knowledge, but their most precious belief is to defend and cherish with their lives.
Imagine if Adam and Eve did not eat the fruit of the tree of good and evil, their eyes were not bright, and they would not have a sense of exploration and independence in thinking, maybe we could live forever in the art that God controls.
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