Desire is a powerful cause of moral dilemma, but the morals of this middle-class diplomat uncle are inherently fragile. The first half of the film talks about his entanglement with Lola. When a writer friend told Lola his love for him, he said calmly, it was a little girl and I was getting married soon. But for the next week, with Lola's innocent enthusiasm, he was still on a poetic hillside, hugging and kissing her like a lover. Describing his psyche to his writer friend, he also admitted that he didn't see her as a little girl at that moment.
This is the first time in the short three weeks of the film that he has touched the boundaries of morality. Here the hero has neither love nor desire, but he is successfully seduced.
But he soon encountered a stronger shock and temptation, that is, Claire, the owner of those delicate knees. Claire is a beautiful and innocent girl, as Yi Shu said, "beauty is beautiful, without soul". But straight legs and unfocused eyes, who says it's not a man's dream? At least the male protagonist was immediately struck by lust, fascinated by that godlike knee, and tormented by jealousy for Claire's blind love. At this time, the "love is not possession" he said to Lola has been forgotten by him.
Morality is inherently weak, desire is like a heavy rain, and morality catches a cold after it pours. He kept telling his writer friends, as well as himself, that he would not accept this girl, and that he would definitely reject her if she came to him. However, in the pavilion by the lake, the uncle finally had to fulfill his wish: he taught the ignorant girl to seek greater love, and then when her tears were raining, the bearded uncle was carrying each A beautiful fantasy stroked her knees. When he was quietly releasing his desire, the girl was still grateful to him in embarrassment.
As an adult, as a man of status, his morality sneezed, okay. He went back to the writer's room and told his friends what had happened, and how he had dressed up. As for those delicate knees, he should have kept in his heart the pent-up excitement of touching them, like Humbert will always remember Lolita's smile in the garden, but he will not be like Humber To love this little girl just as madly, not only because he has a fiancée, but because he is a "virtuous" man—or rather, a hypocrite.
We don't know how to define morality, and in art we don't even know how to evaluate morality. If it is not Rohmer but Nabokov today, then true love that violates morals, even if she is a loli, even if he is a married man, what is in line with love is moral, and what is against love is against morals.
And we are talking to Rohmer, and we see that the so-called "morality" is weak because it is an acquired addition in itself, while love and desire are innate. We cannot live without morality, because morality is the so-called "right" rule, and we would rather be alienated by it. But human nature is so weak. The mural of "Don Quixote" that appeared in the film. There is a classic short story in this novel. The fiancé wants to test his wife's loyalty, so he asks his friend to seduce his woman, but unfortunately this dangerous little game succeeds in making his friend and his fiancée fall in love. Cervantes then said that the morality of most people is not indestructible. Since people can't stand temptation, then don't tempt human nature easily, otherwise there is a great chance that you will be deeply disappointed.
It's a French-elegant version of an unworldly Austen-esque groceries. Because there are only a few people, it can be so delicate. The self-proclaimed mature Lola always wears dark clothes like mature women and speaks like an adult, one with love and the other with rebellion. Her mother's two divorces set her apart from her precocious maturity in love and marriage. Claire is a careless 16-year-old beautiful girl, except for the sad black dress in that scene, she will always appear in various shades of bright blue. The countryside where time seems to be dozing off lazy, like a female writer's laboratory, staring at these emotional turmoil with half-open eyes, knowing that it is only the ripples in the middle of the lake to calm down in the end.
The ingenuity of literature can be seen in female writers. When she started describing her novel, she talked about the man who fell in love with the little loli on the tennis court, and in fact, the hero noticed Claire's knee on the tennis court. This is Claire's secret sexual attraction, and it is also the secret place of desire in the hero's heart. By touching this knee, he establishes a secret and ineffable relationship with Claire in his own heart. Without a lot of self-disclosure and lingering footage, we probably wouldn't know that either, because desire is so secretive, and morality is so quick to put on a hat and go back to its place.
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