In this film, which follows the unity of three and has a strong sense of drama, the audience did not find it boring at all, but in just one short afternoon, two men, two women, and two families suddenly pointed out various problems. In the first place, politics, human nature, Western values, and the cognitive level of modern civilization; in the deepest way, men, women, families, mid-life crisis, and marital conflicts. These questions are covered one by one in the conversation and are touched upon. I have to say that Polanski is really a genius, even in this full of rhetoric and dramatic movie, he still did not lose his humor and laughter, the several stages of the dialogue, the small climaxes in the stages, the climax of the whole dialogue has ups and downs , the beginning and end of each stage are moderately heated, and the audience will always be kept fresh.
In the fierce dispute between the four people, the most prominent or the most thought-provoking thing for the audience should be the doubt and refutation of the two cognitive concepts of civilization and brutality by Westerners. At the same time, it is also a collision of American values, whether it is killing or peace, heroism or silence.
Children are the fuse of this debate, children are the seeds of the future, and the value orientation of the adult world has begun to emerge in an afternoon of debate. Is civilization a fig leaf in the real world? Chaos and confusion are issues that Westerners who express their own opinions should think about, because they already have the conditions and time to think about them. The middle class represents the mainstream voice and values, and the dialogue of the four adults unfolded to us the attitudes of the American middle class towards such issues.
The moral height of idealism and the moral view of realism will never be reconciled. The perpetrator and the victim will never be able to negotiate on the same plane. The so-called morality and civilization may just be a mask of real violence, and this mask is very easy to fall off. As Mr. C said, everyone has a god of killing in their hearts. Killing is human nature, and civilization has become a hypocrisy. In fact, everyone wants to be a perpetrator, and the height of morality is always only within the relative scope of an interest group. Just as the parents of the children who were hurt in the play put themselves on a moral level and consider themselves to be symbols of civilization, so they put on tulips and pies to forge a peaceful and civilized peace negotiation situation. But in fact? They always have differences, they still have dissatisfaction and resentment, what they hope more is not peace talks, but throw away Nancy's bag like Penny did at the end, and use violence to solve the dissatisfaction in their hearts. On the other hand, the Carren family did not feel any kind of guilt from their hearts, maybe they did at first, but deep down they still didn't feel that there was anything wrong with them, they just had to apologize and negotiate due to the shackles of "civilization". And when the four people could never talk to each other, the attitude of each stage began to reveal their true thoughts, and the alcohol even awakened the "God of Killing" in their hearts.
Nancy's gentleness and penny's polite restraint all collapsed. In the play of these two women, they are eloquent on the issue of conflict, and they hit it off on the issue of men and family; conversely, the same is true for the two gentlemen. , they are at odds with each other when it comes to children, and they seem indifferent when it comes to women and families, and they prefer to talk about whisky or smoke a cigar. This reflects the attitudes of men and women in family issues and how men and women view each other.
Four of them's perceptions of society reflect Americans' views on politics and several existing mainstream value orientations. Penny's idealistic morality, Penny's husband's classical values, Nancy's feminist way of thinking and her husband's secular values are fully demonstrated. During the few hours of this afternoon, in a middle-class home in Brooklyn, New York, all the illusion of civilization is gradually being torn down. Are we seeing what we are?
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