Cool pictures, restrained and occluded emotions, and persistent fog in the breath of the characters. The slow, almost absurd narrative seemed to be digging into Joe's head, and it was barely a glimpse of the truth. The overall sense of disorientation (of the protagonist Joe and a few women) is well done.
There are a few bed scenes that are quite interesting. Among them, little Adam Joe mixes Eve Cathie with mayonnaise tomato sauce. I think the back-in part is quite good. The background is messy and dirty, and the self-contradictions are sexually vented in the drowsy but still colorful picture. And in this play, the hearts and relationships of the two are expressed. Eve's love was obedient, because she used Adam's rib. Adam's emotions mixed with desire and self-lost finally became the reason for "slaving" Eve.
Eve's first sex with Joe was their forbidden fruit. After that, Joe, who left the Garden of Eden, fell into lust, and his moral values were gradually abandoned. After that, women became his short-term brothels, and he pursued different things in each brothel, and even though they were brothels, he also had feelings for them, but they both knew that the seasoning for this scene was really tasteless. Except for the first brothel, where he had an ignorant emotion that could be called "love".
The young Adam in the story embodies the primal part of the man, the boy stage before they become men, and their desires are greater than others. But the film uses sex as a manifestation of desire, and a place to get lost.
The surging river that almost never disappears in the movie is the whirlpool of little Adam, the embodiment of his loss. To step on the barge, the river, is to give in to desire. Young Adam is obviously weak, he can't face himself and he can't be responsible to anyone, he is running away until the end. But little Adam finally came ashore, and the misfortune of others and his own misfortune brought about by his desire made him start to reflect. He threw away the evidence of love Cathie had left him and tried to cut through the past. The ending is unknown but he is trying to make a change.
“lead us not into temptation”
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