At the beginning of the movie, the heroine Ning is a girl who likes literature and romance, but is locked in her own world all day long (although she is married), and has not yet become a woman who dominates her own destiny. She is attached to her husband, who is busy with stocks, real estate investment and other businesses. She is eager to be understood, and does not want to "just smell money in life" and "want to make friends with some living people". The protagonist at this time is weak and dominated.
After meeting Henry and his wife, Henry's rudeness, Henry's wife's wildness, and the passion of the husband and wife opened Ning's heart. At this time, female consciousness begins to awaken. Infected by the passion of life, she worships Henry like a little girl and is infatuated with Henry's wife Joan. Backstage at the dance, Ning has sex with the brutish Henry for the first time. Her passion is stirred up, moving between Henry's roughness ("Maybe I'm a peasant, only a prostitute can understand me") and Hugo's purity. It should be said that Henry made Ning's sexual consciousness really begin to awaken. During sex with her husband Hugo, she was also active and sexually active, and began to dominate the sex of both parties. Hugo also found the difference in his wife: "What are you doing, I'm going crazy". With the awakening of female consciousness, the status of Ning and her husband has also changed quietly. Hugo begins to open up to her about his childhood fears, and men turn to their wives for strength ("give me your hand").
Ning and Henry exchanged literature, and they showed each other their works. But when Henry revised Ning's work in his own way, a dispute arose, and Ning insisted on his own literary propositions and habits. At this stage, there was an incident in which Henry became impotent and could not complete sex. This can be used as a metaphor. Ning's female consciousness and status have changed again, and Henry's status has also begun to decline. It can no longer satisfy Ning's growth. Worship to equality.
Ning began to ask more daringly sexually. She successfully seduced her cousin who had been secretly in love with her. Backstage in Henry's first possession of her, she possessed her cousin, and the whole process has been her guiding "I want to show you something, teach you something, I want you to relax, relax"
After Henry's work was written, Ning began to play her part, helping him find publishers, and she wanted the world to know Henry ("I won't let you fail, I'll let the world hear. I'm going to inform The Pope, the King and the publishers of the world support you”). At this time, Ning was already helping Henry. After Joan came back from the United States, she realized this change and became sensitive, suspicious, worrying about gains and losses, and even unreasonable. In the face of the publisher Ning invited, Qiong knew that she did not know this, but she tried her best to prove herself, so she could only use the method of seduction clumsily, only to screw up the whole thing. Joan is jealous of Ning's talent, her substance, her ability. An admirer, became the object of envy, this is Ning's growth. Ning and Qiong were on the bed. The leading role was not Qiong who looked bold and wild, but Ning. She kept guiding: "Relax, you have reservations, let me see your body."
Qiong discovered the matter between Ning and Henry. Later, Henry's relationship with her also came to an end. But this time, a little girl has grown up completely. She realized her growth. "I cried that morning. I cried because I loved the street that got me out of Henry. And one day will get me back to him. I cried because the process of being a woman was so painful. I'm crying because my chances of crying will be less from now on. I cry because my pain is gone. And the pain doesn't exist and I'm so uncomfortable."
It's an excellent film. Its tone and music are so intoxicating. A few transitions are also very clever. For example, Ning had sex with Henry for the first time backstage, and she fascinatedly called Henry's name, then went straight to Ning calling Hugo's name to have sex with her husband. Hugo was playing the guitar on the balcony, Henry kissed Ning on the other side of the tree wall, and his fingers fiddled with Ning's nipples. At this time, the picture overlaps the hand playing the guitar with Henry's hand fiddling with his nipple, and Henry is also playing Ning. After Henry wrote his work, he took the first draft to Ning in the rain. It was pouring rain outside, Ning was standing in front of the window wearing sexy lace, what a sexy picture, from the picture there was a wet desire. At first, the background music was a beautiful and soft violin song, and then Ning Wangqing's moaning was accompanied by the soprano's humming. In the camera, there were two entangled bodies, constantly rubbing Ning's petite body with big male hands in close-up. This long description is extremely sexy and romantic.
The awakening of female consciousness is inseparable from the awakening of female sexual consciousness. Erotica is an unavoidable part of this genre film (such as Ang Lee's Lust, Caution). Excellent movie erotica serves for character building and is the element that drives the plot. While it also stimulates the viewer's senses, stimulating the senses is not its purpose.
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