Just finished watching this early classic, and there are several layers of self-understanding about the title "The Name of the Rose".
Neither the movie nor the book does the rose appear. The name of the rose, alluding to the girl in the movie, is the beginning of the Christian's experience of sex and love; the name of the rose, the secret hidden in the mysterious library, and the secret of the whole church; the name of the rose, the questioning of divine authority and abstinence ; the name of the rose, an unspoken truth in the context of medieval theology...
The original book definitely has more flavor than the film narrative. . . Especially after reading Liang Wendao's interpretation, it is a book for readers
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