Desires hidden underwater

Curtis 2022-04-06 09:01:07

By the quiet lake, several naked men of different ages, they are tall, short, fat and thin, handsome and wretched, and of different colors. In this famous celestial bath, they flirted with each other and released them in the nearby woods. Oneself, in a timely manner, it only took a few minutes for the opening, and a closed "comrade circle" appeared in front of the audience.

The film adopts a "diary-style" narrative technique, with the repeated shooting of the parking lot as the boundary, starting from the daily greetings to start the day's narrative, and accumulating the entire story structure. There is no soundtrack throughout the film, only the sound of rushing water and the sound of rustling woods being blown by the wind, the more so, the more chilling the atmosphere is. The film uses a murder case as a clue, and uses suspense to package a story about desire. The so-called root of desire is human nature, and evil can also represent selfishness. The protagonist of the film is a man for love, but in fact, desire just wants to fly. A moth to a fire, so after the three shouts at the end of the film, the film suddenly stopped abruptly, after all, love is colder than death.

The seemingly beautiful lake, the elegant lakeside, and the quiet woods are actually a closed small society. It is precisely because the people here take off their clothes and meet frankly that there is no distinction of status and class, and some are just spiritual exchanges and physical agitation , That's why human nature is nakedly displayed. Those strangers by the lake are more than one symbol after another, they are just footnotes in this corner of the trial field of human nature.

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Stranger by the Lake quotes

  • Henri: Are you married?

    Franck: No.

    Henri: But you live with a woman?

    Franck: No, I'm gay.

    Henri: You only sleep with men?

    Franck: [smiles] Can we speak frankly?

    Henri: It's unusual.

    Franck: What is?

    Henri: Guys who sleep together, sure, but they've got a wife or girlfriend. Guys who are gay - I mean, really gay - are pretty rare.

  • Franck: [smitten by Michel] I really like him.

    Henri: [warily] He does have a nice body.

    Franck: It's typical. The guys I like are always taken.