Judie, who shouted about Western civilization, and Jone C, a cowardly peacemaker, invited the selfish and indifferent Christoph and the fake Kate, the parents of the "violator", to their home to discuss the countermeasures for the aftermath of the incident. At first Judie was well-armed: a conscientious wife and mother, a caring parent (when Christoph objected to "armed with", Judie quickly changed "armed with" to "carried" with a smile, for fear of causing unhappiness). At the same time, Kate tried his best to be cooperative, but he didn't actually think his son should take all the responsibilities, but since he didn't lose two front teeth, he didn't have to show a victorious attitude. Christoph, who has acted the most out of the way from the very beginning of the film, is the most authentic among the four. He obviously didn't realize that his son was at fault. The 11-year-old child was offended and did what he could do best. The nature of two teeth knocked out is the same as that of just punching the other party, and the nature of the event cannot be determined by the degree of the other party's injury. As for John C, of course, swaying on his wife's side for a while and the other side for a while, his only purpose is to keep things from getting out of hand.
That's how the two families go in and out. Kate complimented the tulips and the pie against his will, falsely saying that they were a good couple, Christoph agreed, and took the call, drinking whatever he wanted, eating the pie with nothing to eat because he was hungry. Judie, who held high the banner of Western civilization, was irritated little by little by Christoph's indifferent attitude, and Kate, who had been wanting to leave as soon as possible, finally couldn't help but vomit. (Hahahahaha)
At this point, Western civilization began to collapse little by little. Everyone began to slowly take shape.
We are so engrossed in responsibility that we cowardly dare not take it. We randomly jump for joy, like John C, when our childhood memories come to mind. His cowardice is that he doesn't really care about the mess between the two children. He is afraid of hamsters, afraid of conflicts, and just wants to be safe. But the conflict always exists objectively, it is as slow and hidden as the movement in the depths of the earth, no matter how fierce and passionate it is inside, as long as the surface is still calm, he can still turn a blind eye as if nothing has happened live. There is an inherent tension in John C's performance, and the characters he plays are all but different.
Work, life, and marriage are full of falsehoods. Kate showed it just right. She perfunctory the so-called victim's parents like she perfunctory work, life and her husband, until she can't bear the other party's characterization of the incident. There are so many things in her life that are kept out of her faux pas, she disguises herself too well. Everyone is at peace, and the peaceful and cumbersome life is not so bad under the mask.
Compared to Kate's falsehood, Christoph's selfishness and indifference are real and annoying. He bluntly stated that he did not visit voluntarily and that a time-wasting afternoon would cost him an important client. His meticulousness and unscrupulousness as a lawyer can be seen from the content of his phone calls. He didn't smile from the start, and it wasn't until Judie broke down that he started to feel a little funny. He held a glass of wine and watched the vomit after the collapse of "civilization". He sneered in the face of other people's dissatisfaction with his marriage, but he didn't know that his own marriage was also run like a dog. Uncle Watts' dark humour comes into play again. I can't help laughing at each of his madness: the Nazi smash madness, the dentist's cool madness, and the lawyer's lost book madness. (After the phone was soaked in water, he sat in the corner and was so angry and anxious like a child, it made me laugh to death)
Finally, the performance of Judie, the representative of Western civilization, is simply... You can think that she is trying too hard, but in fact, the collapse in life is probably like this, with a little helpless and full of atmosphere, and then she can't say anything and cry. Let others be overwhelmed, and a little bit dumbfounded. She holds too many grudges because she knows too much. She couldn't ignore this "little" thing like them, but she was obviously aggrieved to fight alone, to marry such a man, and a little aggrieved to be called a "writer". Let's tear up the hateful face of civilization!
You think cowardice, hypocrisy, selfishness, and being trapped in civilization are written on the four of them, but in fact it is written on each of them, written on each of us, and written as the black humorous tragedy of life . In the end, it turns out that the problem you want to solve is never a problem: kids are all right. And our nature is exposed so bafflingly. The best thing about Polanski is that the four of them did not say hello to each other from beginning to end, nor did they say goodbye to each other, and there was no music in the middle of the story, which came quietly and stopped.
Too bad it's a film based on a literary work.
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