In the first half of the entire viewing process, I felt that I had never seen such unmatched male and female protagonists who could not spark a spark of love. Neither of them could get what they wanted from the other, nor could they understand what the other really needed. what is. It can be seen that as an outsider, I feel desperate for intimacy, and I can't feel the undercurrent of lust under the so-called calm clothes. If it wasn't for Day-lewis's excellent interpretation of this handsome old man, who is brilliant, focused on work, demanding, perfect, indifferent, often inhuman, and occasionally warm and gentle, I don't think I would have watched it any more. Besides, the heroine is in good looks and temperament It doesn't match my imagination of the characters.
But then the heroine poisoned the kettle, and I realized that what she wanted to do was not to influence the hero in trivial quarrels and make him become her ideal lover. Her love has gradually evolved into a strong desire for control and exclusiveness. The butter asparagus incident can be said to be the trigger for the heroine's follow-up actions, but her intention is not to hurt the hero or change the hero. . What she needs is that he only shows her docile, gentle, vulnerable and frank side to herself. She wants her to be the leader in the intimate relationship. She chooses the simplest and crudest way to physically weaken the other party. This method leads to the male protagonist's obedience to her spiritual level. This can't help but remind me of a novel I read before, to the effect that a man who was rehabilitated after the end of wg abandoned his wife who never left him during the disaster. The latter said in conversations with others that she would rather the catastrophe be repeated. In this way, everyone will despise and cast aside their husband, who will have no choice but to re-depend on her wife, covet her indiscreet care, and get the only consolation from her. As the film progressed, the male protagonist began to show his immature childish side, indulging in his longing for his deceased mother, in addition to some of the charming qualities I felt earlier. Vulnerable to external damage and interference, like a sensitive Pisces baby, but at the same time he is also very good at hurting others easily. So far, I still feel that the story is not a love story. Until the male protagonist said gently and weakly after the female protagonist poisoned for the second time: ''Kiss me, my girl, before I am sick''. I just realized that this is actually absolute love, two people are naked and deformed love for each other! It was said before that they couldn't give each other what they wanted, but now it seems that the male protagonist has given the female protagonist a chance to possess him completely and completely. At the same time, he also enjoys the feeling of being loved as a fragile and frank boy to get motherly soothing. . Director I was wrong. . . . . . This is truly a love story through and through.
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