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Neil 2022-03-24 09:03:02
Roman Polanski's first full-length narrative is hard to imagine a debut in terms of technical and mastery sophistication. The story tells the story of a middle-aged couple and a young man on a private boat. The middle-aged man has a strong desire for control, revealing his own boredom and ego, while the young man is immature with impulsiveness. The middle-aged man is in trouble everywhere, and the heroine is more like a cold-eyed bystander, connecting these two seemingly incompatible people like a thread. 1. Tell the young man that her husband once was as poor as him, and when he pursues fame and fortune, he will have the same virtue, because he cannot bear poverty, and the young man does not refute it. 2. The frank derailment toward her husband forced her to be distrustful of herself. The metaphors in many places in the film, such as the middle-aged man at the helm and the young man's knife, reflect the external abstraction under the contradiction of different value systems of different classes, but the film's position is like the heroine without obvious inclination. Being unable to adapt to the changed environment is like a knife in the water having nowhere to work, or a sailor stepping on glass in the story of a middle-aged man. Roman Polanski uses three simple characters and a simple boat as a single scene, and interprets profound contradictions in a way close to a stage play, full of dramatic tension and artistic depth.
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Andrzej: What d'you think you look like?
Krystyna: Like your wife.
Andrzej: Without me you'd be a whore!
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Krystyna: You're just like him - only half his age and twice as dumb.
Young Man: What do you know about life? Just cafes, yachts and cars. Bet you've got a four-room apartment.
Krystyna: I suppose you live four students to a room.
Young Man: Six, actually.
Krystyna: I've been through it myself. So has he. You're no better than him. He was just like you. And you want to be like him. And you will be, if you've got the guts.