A prosthetic limb that supports a man's face and self-esteem

Natalie 2022-10-28 09:25:37

One of Rohmer's six moral story series films, the story of the male diplomat's emotional entanglement with two girls before marriage is Rohmer's meticulous observation report on European men and gender relations. Put it in a precise optical instrument for a thorough observation. In this story, the female writer replaced Rohmer herself. She asked the diplomat friend who came to vacation as her guinea pig, which should be a guinea pig. She placed him between the two daughters of the tenant and tested him and the girls. Various chemical reactions after contact. The diplomat's emotional model for his sister Laura is basically passive love type. Laura has a natural Electra complex for middle-aged men because her father died of illness when she was young. She also admitted when she was climbing a mountain that she fell in love with the diplomat a bit. , the diplomat took it for granted that he had a right over her to dispose of her body at will. He hugged and kissed Laura unrestrainedly on the mountain, as if the two should be so calm, but Laura pushed him away and said that he was looking for someone who also loved him and was willing to marry him , This is obviously frightening to the male protagonist who declared that he had a fiancée and was about to get married as soon as he came to the lake in a speedboat. He immediately understood that he could not control Laura emotionally at will, Laura kept saying She wanted to meet people and have more life experience, but after coming down from the mountain, she also claimed that she could consider marriage for this father-like boyfriend, even though she looked like a child. This girl has an extraordinary opinion about herself, she tries to control the male protagonist's emotions towards her, and hopes that she can make him disarm and surrender. The diplomat was discouraged by this, so Laura found a boy who looked like a younger version of Bill Gates. She rowed a boat on the lake, swam, and read books to discuss with him. The purpose was to stimulate the male protagonist's jealousy, but the male The Lord's attention was completely drawn to her sister Claire, who had come on vacation a few days later. Claire looks silly and sweet, and naturally arouses a man's desire for protection. In the words of a female writer, when Claire matures, she will be a great beauty who turns all living beings upside down, and there is a man like a fire-breathing dragon beside Claire. My friend, guarding Claire every day like guarding a treasure, the male protagonist can't find any chance to start. His free and unrestrained in front of Laura suddenly turned into restraint, embarrassment and inferiority. He could only silently peep at the intimate moments between Claire and her boyfriend, and had a recent contact with Claire's long legs during a fruit picking activity. When standing on the gabled ladder to pick fruit, his head just saw Claire's knee, above the knee leading to the deep secret realm. He declared to his writer friend that he was obsessed with Claire's knee, he felt Claire's boyfriend doesn't understand the beauty of those perfect knees at all, it's like a husband who doesn't have a foot fetish finds a wife with particularly perfect ankles. He swore to feel the taste of touching Claire's knee, but he didn't want to seduce Claire because he didn't want her body, maybe he was telling the truth, but it wasn't to prove that he wasn't completely unattractive and The pretext for his ability to conquer a young girl, because he understands that it is almost impossible for him to break up this little couple like conjoined babies. As an accomplice, the female writer gave him the first chance to take advantage of Claire's injury to her finger in volleyball, and gave him a drink. Claire's knee. The plot is witty, with an indescribable sense of rhythm when writing hits the brakes at a certain climax. The second chance that followed was deliberately found by the male protagonist. He followed the fire-breathing dragon who guarded the beauty. He knew men too well. They would not hang themselves on a peach tree. They were always looking for more. branch. Sure enough, he saw the flaw. He created an opportunity to help Claire meet her boyfriend. On the way, he encountered heavy rain. When the two were sheltering from the rain, the male protagonist mustered up the courage to tell Claire his heartfelt words. Her boyfriend is not worthy of it. When he went to her, she was a hundred times better than him. He lied to her that going to a certain place was actually a tryst with one of their mutual girlfriends. The innocent Claire cried. At this fragile moment, the male protagonist's big hand covered her knees without hesitation. The usual comfort is to stroke her hair or wrap her shoulders to give hugs. The male protagonist's comfort surpasses that of the girl. The experience made her unable to distinguish whether it was aggression or comfort, and she could only accept his touch in the confusion. The close-up of the male protagonist repeatedly rubbing the long-awaited knee is full of weirdness and wretchedness. But in the male protagonist's retelling of the female writer, he has fulfilled his dual tasks of saving the girl and satisfying his desires. He is full of calm satisfaction. It seems that his original desire for Claire has also been appeased by this action, and he has been redeemed. In fact, it is not the heartbroken girl, but the male protagonist himself. Looking back at the previous part of the movie, the topic of what a hero was when the male protagonist and the female writer first met turned out to be full of cleverness. There is a mural in the male protagonist's house. Don Quixote and Sancho are painted, and they are blindfolded. Riding on wooden horses with a brazier hanging from their heads, they mistakenly thought they were flying close to the sun. Women writers say that heroism is often self-deceiving, and they all have their own tricks. The diplomat plays such a self-deceiving role in the story of the two sisters, his moral sense is the strip of cloth that covers his eyes, whether it's for his sister Laura's early letting go or for her Sister Claire only caressed her knees, but it was for her own benefit, not the male protagonist's wish that she didn't want the girls to be destroyed. From the point of view of primitive desires, he wanted to meet the two sisters naked, but he found a replacement for a wooden horse and a brazier - Claire's knee as a representative of all his unfulfilled desires, feigning conquest, which allowed him to find As a diplomat, a sincere, simple and educated middle-aged man, this knee leading to the beauty's thigh is a man's prosthetic limb to support his face and self-esteem. Rohmer's film can be called a real human anatomy lancet, and it is all minimally invasive surgery under a microscope magnifying glass. Every detail is laid out at random. Hidden mystery, this kind of penetrating movie viewing experience makes people understand why Hou Mai became Hong Shangxiu's spiritual teacher, and no one can match his obsession with observing the subtle human nature from the relationship between men and women.

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Claire's Knee quotes

  • Aurora, the novelist: Writing forces me to keep my eyes open.

  • Aurora, the novelist: I follow the characters' impulses. Their own logic drives them on.

    Jerome: But you help.

    Aurora, the novelist: No, I never invent. I discover.