Bible Stories:
Adam said to God, "I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid." "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat and I told you not to eat? the fruit of that tree!" God asked angrily, knowing that he had turned his back on his will. Adam argued, "The woman you gave me to live with me gave me the fruit of that tree, and I ate it." God looked back at Eve and asked her, "What have you done?" Eve said: "The serpent tempted me, and I ate it." God knows that man's transgression is irreversible, and since he has wisdom, he should take responsibility commensurate with his wisdom. God punished the serpent who was the culprit and said, "You have done this, and you will be cursed more than all livestock and beasts; you will walk on your stomach and eat dirt all your life. I will make you and Eve enmity against each other, Your seed and her seed are also against each other. Her seed will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel." So the snake lost its wings and body, and became a long, crooked worm that made Tired of life. It can only crawl on its stomach and burrows to eat soil. God then chastised Eve, the first woman to fall: "I will greatly increase your pain in childbirth, and your pain in giving birth to children. You will desire your husband, and your husband will rule over you." Finally, God said to Adam: " You have obeyed your wife and have eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat. Cursed is the ground because of you, and you must labor all the days of your life to get food from it. The ground will give you growth The thorns and the thorns come. You shall eat the vegetables that grow in the field, and you shall subsist with the sweat of your face, until you return to the ground. For from the ground you were created, and you are dust, and you will return to dust. "
Milton's "Paradise Lost" tells the story of how Satan turned into a serpent and caused Adam and Eve to lose their paradise. Therefore, in Watanabe Junichi's novel with the name 'Paradise Lost', he and she just turned their backs on the world and committed suicide by embracing each other.
Today I'm not talking about this movie, but the "Night Porter" I just finished watching. The 1974 film was controversial when it was released, and was repeatedly banned for touching on sensitive topics such as Nazi aesthetics, sadomasochism, and postwar trials.
Max used to be a doctor in a concentration camp, and now he is the duty manager of a vigil in a high-end hotel in Vienna. In fact, this is just a cover. He has close contacts with a group of surviving Nazi officers, and plans all day how to avoid being discovered. and sent to court. However, he was afraid of what to do when his sadomasochistic object in the concentration camp, the Jewish girl Lucia, suddenly appeared. She is now the wife of a well-known conductor and came to Vienna to perform with her husband. Both sides were nervous at first, at the performance of the opera 'The Magic Flute', Lucia suddenly saw Max watching her, she was scared and excited until he quietly left. The next day her husband was going to Germany to continue the tour, but she stubbornly stayed in the hotel - finally, the two met face to face in the hotel room. He asked: Why are you here, are you going to betray me? In fact, she would not go to inform at all, even if she had discovered that these Nazi officers were holding secret meetings, she was still waiting for Max to find her, not the police. After a lot of tossing, the two finally kissed each other. The sadomasochism was naturally inseparable from the artificial violence and pain. The reunion fascinates Lucia, who checks out of the hotel and telegrams her husband to tell her she's going back to the US alone, and moves into Max's apartment. Max also quit his night watch job to devote himself to staying with her at home. Through the montage of flashbacks, they recounted their strange and absurd and lewd love in the concentration camp: She first entered the camp, stripped for medical examination, he held a camera, and there was a soldier beside him with a spotlight, taking pictures of her He kept shooting around her with a pistol, and she kept running away; her hands were tied by the head of the bed, and his hands rudely ran all over her body; he got her a pretty dress , put it on for her, and pressed her head to her lower body; she was topless and wearing overalls dancing for a group of officers, and he presented a box with a human head in it, the jailer who had bullied her; … That's it, they really fell in love. Is the body really a way to reach the heart, or is violence the only way to conquer? Of course, putting aside sadomasochism, which is a perverted topic for most people, money, power and violence are actually the laws that run rampant in the real world, right? Either bribe, surrender, or be subjected to violence. For most people, there are actually not many choices left - social relations are like this, family relations are also like this, human beings are more like Adam in Paradise Lost. Is Eve wiser or more foolish?
Lucia disappeared, and her husband called the police. Although the police didn't find him for a while, the Nazis found out. They asked Max to hand over witnesses to the camp, and sent killers to monitor them day and night. The grocery store owner was not allowed to deliver food. Max is by no means a good man. At the beginning of the film, he personally killed a witness - an Italian cook who used to work in the kitchen of the concentration camp, but this time, he chose to protect Lucia. When all the food was eaten, when he begged for help and the electricity to the room was cut off, he helped her put on a skirt, put on a Nazi uniform himself, and drove to a bridge. Early in the morning, it was foggy and confused, and the bell from the church was vaguely heard. The two got out of the car, supported each other, staggered forward, and fell to the ground with two crisp gunshots.
Can my blood wash away my sins? Is death redemption or destruction? Of course, none of these matters anymore...because even if I stay in your arms for one more second, it's not a pity to lose the world.
View more about The Night Porter reviews
