If life is just like the first sight, it is the most beautiful moment when my eyes just fall on the face like a work of art. The film "Elegy Abstinence" tells the love story of the critic David, a part-time professor at a university, who meets the true love of his life, the female student Kang Sulla.
1. The place of encounter - the classroom David is a professor of literature, teaching aesthetics. He is a generation that experienced sexual liberation in the 1960s. In that era, the only way to have sex was marriage, so the son who often called him in the middle of the night was just a "result of a wrong marriage".
As an aesthetics teacher, he also likes to collect beautiful women emotionally. What he does is: put a sign prohibiting sexual harassment in front of the door in the office, and when the students graduate, he will hold a farewell party for them, right here. He will attack the prey.
Whether it is his lover who sleeps with him every three weeks, or Consula, his pursuit of beauty is the same, and he is also his student. This is the way, he spent his life hunting for beauties over fifty. And when he returns to the podium, he will arouse the goodwill of the female students with his erudite and wise words. In the story, David observes Consula in class and tells her that notes are not very useful.
Outside of the classroom, I invite her to watch plays, play the piano for her alone, plus weekly TV reviews, as well as previous books, such a refined, gentle, charming old man of fame and status, few girls will push open his hand. That's how Consula fell.
Of course, being David's prey comes with a condition: beauty. David praised Consula as "glamorous even without sex" and said her beauty was "a work of art" "he admired".
Indeed, Consula's beauty is not just sexy, this woman from Cuba is also full of exotic and mysterious colors. The wealthy family gave her a good tutor and high-end clothing. Sometimes beautiful women are piled up with money, and this is not true at all.
In the first half of the film, most of the audience appreciates Consula's external beauty more.
2. The time of meeting - he was 54, she was 24. Some people would think that an old man's mentality would be young when he was dating a young girl. For David, on the contrary, he began to feel anxious and inferior. He puts himself in a position to compete with young boys, and he calls Consula every day and asks her what she's wearing and all that stuff. Consula was going to the dance, and he was worried about her.
Possession, jealousy came to his mind, and he made an excuse to go to the dance too. Such inferiority has also become the trigger for their breakup. Consula asked David to meet her family, but David found a reason to turn it down, but at Consula's master's degree party, David's car stopped. Stopped in front of the door, he dared not go in. For fear that Kangsula's family will talk about "his age".
So far, I admire Yang Zhenning very much. I am confident. Even though people all over China are discussing him, they still stand in the public eye holding hands. He is very brave and did what a man should do.
The encounter of love is as Shen Congwen said: fall in love with the right person at the right age. Consula asked David if he had thought about their future. David did not answer.
In fact, he is not sure either. One is that he is unwilling to fall into any definite relationship, and the other is that he is uncertain about Kangsula's feelings, so he said to his lover: "You are my only persistence." This film is Adapted from the novel "The Dying Flesh", he is getting old and his health will not be good, and she is in her old age and has a bright future to develop.
Love is the union of spirit and flesh, and if there is only spirit, Consula will be taken away by young boys. Love is about age.
3. Turning point - disease and death The death of David's poet friend and the departure of Consula, in the past two years, he can feel the falling leaves outside the window. When he was slowly walking out of this shadow, she called. It was not marriage, but she had cancer.
David was the most obsessed person she had ever met with her body, and she asked him to take pictures of her naked, as a wonderful memory of her sleek body. Death comes, makes him realize that he cannot lose her, he takes responsibility, and the film ends in the ward.
If there is no advance prediction of death, then will they be separated as before, and they will live a love life without soul communication in different beds. Death has always existed, and we should keep that in mind.
It was originally just an old-fashioned teacher-student love theme, but it was made beautiful, sentimental and thought-provoking by director Isabelle. As for the moral aspect, I don't want to make any comments, because love is a matter of two people, and if it doesn't hurt the third person, then it is moral.
4. The love of men and women is different
Men are wandering in their hearts until they meet true love, but their bodies are reserved for specific women at specific stages, such as the physical communication between David and Erolin. After confirming Consula, David will leave Erolin. .
A woman is loyal before she finds true love, but her body also begins to wander, from one bed to another, from a man's arms to another's arms.
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