After this chemical reaction time has passed, the hormones no longer work and will no longer work, and if love is to continue, there must be new attachments. It is best for you to change from a lover to a confidant, from one-way worship and admiration to a more firm and objective mutual understanding. In the film, she was a goddess at the beginning, and he was a writer who was underappreciated at the beginning. He began to meet on the streets of Paris and on the bus, and the beginning was too beautiful. After the chemistry of love disappeared, the two of them searched for a long time, but they still could not find a new Fu Li, and could not find a new balance and sustainable position, so they hurt each other.
In the play, the male and female protagonists are desperately trying to maintain their increasingly indifferent feelings because hormones no longer work. First, they play SM, various sex games, and then watch movies. The movie "Once Upon a Time in America" appears in two shots. These are all activities that can maintain feelings, but only input without output will not last for long, plus the male protagonist has no worries about food and clothing (received an inheritance), he does not need to face the hard reality, and there is no vitality. The trivialities of life, so the two inevitably fall into a terrible emptiness. In the middle, God tried to intervene to find them an attachment (the heroine was pregnant), but they refused and could only go to destruction.
Rather than feeling disillusioned and empty, hurting each other might be an option worth trying. Just like pain is also a feeling, it proves that you are not numb. After a whole round of hurting each other, the two still couldn't solve the problem of how to continue their love, and even the hatred they worked hard to create has been vented. In desperation, they found a pair who also had a marriage. The unfortunate couple with the problem, after talking about it, both committed suicide. Out of cherishing this relationship, they are reluctant to start a new relationship. First, the male protagonist thinks that all relationships will end like this in the end, while the female protagonist is tortured and distorted by the male protagonist. Ideas are the crux of all problems.
Of course, Polanski is a master, not a homely director. This film is as detailed and thought-provoking as his other films. In addition to the sadomasochism of middle-class emptiness, it also expresses a common sense in the Western spiritual world. : Lord, keep me from temptation. People can't stand temptation, and love is even more fragile. The couple played by Xiao Gelan represents another crisis in mediocrity. If the first couple is one extreme of love, and the latter is the other extreme, they have not worked hard to maintain it and let love die.
It has to be accepted and has to be accepted. Love is a chemical reaction, and Sauvignon Blanc later is another kind of relationship. Love is like life, it has its own birth, old age, sickness and death, but when the chemistry of love ends, the adolescence of love is over, and it must mature. Those who do not want to grow up have to die in adolescence, at its most beautiful age, but the four phases are not necessarily all It is pathetic and beautiful. Either way, it doesn't look good.
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