ROME" (translation: "Room of Rome"), adapted from the 2005 Chilean film "In Bed", turns the original one male and one female protagonist into two women, telling the story of the female designer Alba from Spain and Russia. The girl, Natasha, met each other on the last night of their stay in Rome. After several conversations about greed and greed, whether true or false, after dawn, the two found that their feelings for each other were not limited to a single greed. Due to the selection of the film's characters, this film is widely regarded as a lesbian-themed film. However, since this film is adapted from a film in which the protagonist is a man and a woman, its coverage should be wider than that of ordinary gay films. First of all, the film does not discuss the social status or social attitudes of homosexuality. From the beginning to the end, it is only the entanglement of two people about love; at the same time, the title of the film already shows the unconventional - "Rome" room, the story takes place in Rome, a religious and Where the cultural significance is deep, sexual orientation may be restricted by tradition, but love is free and not afraid to happen at any time. What this article attempts to analyze is the interpretation of love made by the film. 2. 1. Natasha and Alba The summer solstice night is the shortest night of the year. Alba met Natasha in a tavern in Rome. Alba is a lesbian, and Natasha was attracted by the way Alba looked at her, and followed Alba to the hotel where she stayed. Before going upstairs, they stood on the road studded with elegant mosaic tiles, looking up at the room where Alba lived, which the title refers to. Alba told Natasha that the room without the flag was hers and she asked Natasha to raise the flag. After returning to the room, the two stood on the balcony and asked each other's names. Under the shade of the street lights, they had their first physical contact. Alba took Natasha's hand and kissed her. Natasha hesitantly stated, "I Not a (gay)" and then tried to break through herself and asked Alba to help her take off her dress, but after a short intimacy she still couldn't accept having sex with Alba, so the two women lay quietly on the bed for a nap. Natasha stroked Alba's cheek, and Alba slowly fell asleep under her gentle gaze. This is the tenderness that is unique to women, delicate and warm, and has nothing to do with desire. After Alba fell asleep, Natasha got dressed and left, saying to herself, "It's better if you're asleep so we don't have to say goodbye." She decides to leave, letting this little secret of "almost a one-night stand with a woman" sleep with Alba together. . Natasha will follow Alba back to the room, not only because of Alba's voluntary admiration, but with Natasha's beauty, she should have long been used to others expressing love to her, and at this time she should also be interested in a woman like Alba who is full of Spanish passion , and even a subtle heartbeat, but she couldn't break through her own heart. 2. The secret Natasha in Rome's room left in a hurry, leaving out her mobile phone, and when she returned to the hotel to get her phone to face Alba again, she couldn't say no more. They tried to get to know each other. With the help of a map of Rome, they talked about history and culture. The yellow lights flickered on and off, and at this time, a baked golden honey color lingered on their faces and skins. This time Natasha took the initiative to take off. She got off her dress and let Alba kiss, touch and even enter. Their first sex was full of maddened passions, and the low and slightly hoarse moans of the two filled the confined space. While Natasha has always been a passive character in the process, there's no denying that she's starting to let go of herself in front of Alba. Heidi once said in the book that women are best for masturbation, because they prefer to know themselves, which seems to explain why the sex between women is more perfect. After the passion, Natasha closed her heart again. She couldn't break through herself, let alone the worldly prejudices. She made Alba swear to keep this secret. Alba was surprised to find that "Natasha" was not even a real name. Still, Alba began to tell her own story, telling Natasha that she was sold by her mother to an Arab sheikh at the age of 16, that she was pregnant and fled to Athens, and that to avoid the sheikh, she chose to lose her daughter and that she gave the child to her Named Alba. After listening to the story, Natasha asked her, "Is this the story of you becoming a lesbian?", Alba replied, "This is the story of me becoming a woman." The seemingly inadvertent sentence began to reveal the director intentionally or unintentionally. The intention is that this is not just a story about lesbianism. Whether it's Alba, a born homosexual, or Natasha, the so-called "straight", they are just ordinary women, they are pure and complete individuals. Perhaps because of the differences in different encounters, it has strengthened the curiosity to understand what is completely different from my own experience. Natasha owes Alba a story, so she tells Alba that she is a single actress who came to Rome to audition. Alba didn't Doubt Natasha's claims, but just show her the Arabian island she once lived in. In this subsection of the story, the hotel waiter Max appears as the representative of a man, and the meaning he symbolizes will be highlighted in the following plot development. 3. Cupid has sex for the second time, which is obviously different from the first time. The two were like lovers in love, stroking and teasing all the way, especially Natasha's eyes, which added a bit of desire to go beyond impulsiveness, and more and more language exchanges in the process of intimacy. Natasha candidly told Alba that he prefers the way men and women have sex. In order to satisfy Natasha, Alba asked Max to send a massage stick, and Max sent himself, and proposed to join the two beauties. The arrangement here is very ingenious and meaningful. The ideas of Natasha and Max represent the ideas of most people, especially men, who believe that a woman's sexual life must require the presence of a man to be complete and satisfied. In fact, sex is an act between people who love each other and are suitable for each other. Natural selection makes people pursue the satisfaction of sexual desire, and the choice of the object is indeed a process of inner self-selection. When a suitable person appears, sexual characteristics and other external conditions is no longer the primary issue to consider. So instead it was Natasha, who opposed Max's proposal more vehemently and let him go. "Usually, people swipe their lives according to the happiness of the society, like a paper knife." In ordinary life, people are more inclined to choose suitable objects through conditions. It is the conditions that make feelings like alcohol mixed with water. When people start to use their minds to rationally judge whether a person is suitable for them, whether the other party's conditions complement their own, and whether they can help their social status or life value to a certain extent. When it comes to ascension, the feelings themselves have been ignored. Natasha's choice just puts the focus of a relationship back on the relationship itself. In a secluded Roman room, when you don’t need rational consideration, you will naturally know more about what you need most when facing a relationship, and what you need to consider is the feeling from the heart or even the instinctive reaction of the body. nothing else. When contacting a person, the body will be more honest and make a direct and decisive response at the first time: like it, dislike it. Instead of using the mind to make rational choices that seek to avoid disadvantages. This choice is more pure, is to worship nature. The real intimacy felt by the body finally brought acceptance in the heart, and Natasha began to tell her own story. She speaks Italian, she has a sister named Dasha who is a tennis player, and Dasha has With a double degree in history and literature, she came to Rome with her. However, her relationship with Dasha was not good. After her mother died at the age of 13, Dasha accidentally discovered the unusual close relationship between Natasha and her father. Not only did she not thank Natasha for her rescue, but she felt inferior because she was ignored when her sexuality was budding. . In fact, this story is full of flaws. It is easy to see that Natasha is the sister Dasha in the story. It seems that Natasha is still hiding something, but in fact, she has already opened her heart to Alba. They began to get along more and more cordially and naturally, singing and dancing together, and then fiery hugging and making love. Alba looks up at the ceiling during this sex, Cupid's portrait is facing her, and before she knows it, she has begun to fall in love with Natasha. 4. Between fantasy and reality Under Cupid's gaze, Natasha began to take the initiative to get used to the so-called way of making love between women and women, soft kisses, delicate and tireless caress, bringing joy to each other. The two of them don't even need affectionate gazes. Every inch of their skin is talking happily, their bodies communicate without fear, and every thought in their brains can look for signals from each other's body like the most sensitive tentacles. Then they fit perfectly like gears, regardless of each other. This is the most mysterious ability that God has given people. It exists in the purest child in the form of libido, uses the body to find the body, and then obtains the purest of each other. If each other's bodies are so in tune, sex is no longer an ordinary lust, but a union of spirit and flesh. The so-called "Vagina is a shortcut to a woman's soul", but this shortcut is not easy, the soul is the key to open the heart, just like Scarlet wakes up after indulgent sex that the person he loves is Rate, which is based on Rate's many years Come to her tolerance and love, the sex point awakened her subconscious attachment to Rate's love. What is intriguing is that sex can sometimes lead to sincere feelings, just like the relationship between Wang Jiazhi and Mr. Yi, the momentary thought of "he loves me" is the accumulation of a long-term warm stalemate and entanglement of limbs. In contrast, there are many examples of relationships that lose sex tend to break down more quickly. The most fundamental reason why Platonic love is difficult to achieve is precisely the characteristics of love itself: possessiveness, intimacy and uncontrollable passion. After calming down, Alba told Natasha that her mother was the protagonist of the story she had told earlier, the baby girl in the womb who was not strangled. Her real life is to take care of each other with her mother, and she has an ex who loves deeply. In an accident, her ex's child died because of Alba's poor care. Died, and the two who were unable to get out of the shadows chose to break up. Now a designer, she came to Rome to promote the eco-friendly products she designed. Natasha, infected by Alba's sadness, admits that she is the sister in the story, and is about to marry her mentor who has been in love for four years. After learning about the real Natasha, Alba is determined to show his love, but Natasha chooses to avoid it. The theme of love begins to emerge clearly. In a paradise-like environment, is such love a reality or a beautiful fantasy born of bewitching? With such doubts, the two sang and showered in the bathroom, not so much as long-time lovers, but more like long-acquainted confidants. They dance, hug, kiss, and have sex. The white fluorescent light shines on the white tiles, and everything is dazzlingly clear. Their bodies are not as perfect as the warm lights in the room, but perhaps it is the imperfection that is so real that it can be touched, which further sublimates their feelings, as if someone likes it more The beloved woman's "weathered face", only two individuals with their own flaws can better fit each other. The sex between them is more intense like a bright light, but it is full of the pain of parting. Putting on white bathrobes, the two people standing in front of the mirror looked like they were wearing wedding dresses. In a dreamlike moment, Natasha's question was more realistic. She was worried about her fiancé and said that she could not break the existing reality. The conversation changed, but the two began to discuss historical art far from reality. Natasha admitted that he loved Alba, full of fantasy and reality. Isn't that the case with any love in the world, love is two people who are full of fantasy to manage reality. At this moment, Cupid in Alba's eyes began to spin. 3. The sunrise took away the utopia under the night. Alba hung the bed sheet as a flag on the flagpole, as evidence that the two had fallen in love here, and the small room was the country they once had. While enjoying breakfast in the morning light, Alba finally mustered up the courage to let Natasha be with her in reality. The two agreed that if they closed their eyes, they could touch each other's hands. Suddenly grabbed Alba's hand. The story here brings out the true vision of Natasha, who knows she really wants to be with Alba, but doesn't have the courage to encourage herself to do so. At the last moment of preparing to leave the room, Alba once again retained Natasha. She almost fainted when she was rejected. Her performance did not make people feel too dramatic. Love is so confusing, irrational, and easy to cause harm. Natas Ha puts her in the bathtub, and the two play and intimacy one last time in the bathtub. In the end, Natasha ran to Alba desperately after the two said goodbye to each other. "Sadness is not sorrow, parting is born, and joy is joy." This ending is exactly as Natasha said in the opening credits, after both of them are sober, she can no longer leave Alba. Although there are two heroines in the whole film, the leading role is the Russian girl Natasha, her psychological change is a complete love forming process. Alba admired Natasha from the beginning, and made no secret of his orientation and intentions, and his feelings only increased gradually and deepened. Natasha is more complex, full of contradictions and repetitions in a step-by-step process. First, let the subtle feelings drive, try to flirt with a woman; after repeated steps, she takes the step of going to bed. For her, it has been just a secret one-night stand. She was so defensive about Alba that she wouldn't even reveal her real name until after deep and passionate sex after another, her body trusted Alba one step ahead of her. Even after confirming her heart, she began to make realistic considerations. Natasha's mental journey is almost similar to that of most ordinary people. After experiencing all kinds of setbacks and disappointments, when she finally encountered a serious relationship again, because she did not dare to trust without reservation again, she did not know whether to accept or reject it. struggle and conflict. Candid love is not easy, and the identity of homosexuality only makes this contradiction more acute. The final scene of the movie is fixed on a huge map of the Earth. The map runs through almost the entire film, serving as a clue that the protagonists get to know each other. The theme song "loving strangers" sounded at this time. Perhaps this is the director's true intention. He changed the original film's one man and one woman into two women, not to promote the beauty of homosexuality or express support, but to deepen the occurrence of love. And what a wonderful development, full of dreams and real symphony of the theme. 4. There have been comments that "ROOM IN ROME" is too literary and romantic, and seems more hypocritical than true. In the author's opinion, the unexpected arrival of love that "In Bed" tries to express can be told in a more romantic way in this film. A short-lived summer solstice night encounter, but it fully shows the growth of love, from the precaution of acquaintance, to the love of me, and then gradually open my heart, know each other, be intimate, and then choose to accompany or separate. Length is just a theory of relativity. Love has life. The rise and fall of any relationship is like the growth of all things. There will be life and death, and it is the inner choice that determines its life. The two women seem to be better at interpreting such stories. Love is two hearts approaching each other and hugging each other warmly. Natasha, who has never loved a woman, is not gay, she just fell in love with a heart that makes her truly feel the warmth, it is never the external structure of the body that makes people fall in love, otherwise when everyone appears in a uniform posture , When there is no obvious concealment of sexual characteristics, will love not appear again? Furthermore, as the theme song "loving strangers" sings, love always begins with a stranger falling in love with another stranger, no matter where they come from, no matter how different backgrounds, how wonderful they were, no matter gender, when When two pure people have the chance to meet, a new story begins, and the nostalgia spreads in each other's hearts, and takes root and grows in each other's hearts. At least, the film kindly satisfies the audience's fantasies about the end of lovers, or satisfies people's best yearning for love. After all, for all people, love should not be just skin-to-skin, nor is it a vegetable and a meal, it is an immortal desire, a heroic dream in a tired life. "Strangers", love always starts with a stranger falling in love with another stranger, no matter where they come from, no matter how different backgrounds, how wonderful they were, no matter their gender, when two pure people have a chance to meet At that time, a new story begins, and the nostalgia spreads in each other's hearts, and takes root and grows in each other's hearts. At least, the film kindly satisfies the audience's fantasies about the end of lovers, or satisfies people's best yearning for love. After all, for all people, love should not be just skin-to-skin, nor is it a vegetable and a meal, it is an immortal desire, a heroic dream in a tired life. "Strangers", love always starts with a stranger falling in love with another stranger, no matter where they come from, no matter how different backgrounds, how wonderful they were, no matter their gender, when two pure people have a chance to meet At that time, a new story begins, and the nostalgia spreads in each other's hearts, and takes root and grows in each other's hearts. At least, the film kindly satisfies the audience's fantasies about the end of lovers, or satisfies people's best yearning for love. After all, for all people, love should not be just skin-to-skin, nor is it a vegetable and a meal, it is an immortal desire, a heroic dream in a tired life.
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