A brush of thoughts

Yvonne 2022-03-26 09:01:07

Watch "Last Tango in Paris" and notice the following:

1 Jeanne's cousin is also named Paul

2 Jeanne, when discussing the name of her future daughter with her fiancé Tom, said she would be called Rosa, which is the name of Paul's deceased wife

3 Jeanne's father was a colonel, while Paul was a South American Revolutionary Army

4 There is a scene where Jeanne's fiancé Tom is close at hand, only across a mirror, but she can't hear Jeanne's words, implying the relationship between the two

5 Paul's experience (boxer, South American Revolutionary Army, Tahiti, drummer), all identities suggest that Paul is a freedom rebel

6 Jeanne's father is a soldier, a superior and authoritative family. From the fact that the nurse is a racist, you can roughly see the environment in which she grew up.

7 Childhood circumstances made Jeanne a whistleblower (Paul's original words), a voyeur (eavesdropping on Paul's phone calls, flipping through Paul's clothes), a follower of authority, and a sexual repressor (all kinds of sexual repressions recorded in his childhood diary). words can be seen), Electra (regresses to a childlike state in an empty room with Paul)

8 The setting of Jeanne's fiancé Tom is really smart, one is to explain Jeanne's childhood, and the other is to let the viewer see the huge conflict and difference between Jeanne's real world and an empty room (unreal world).

9 Paul's wife's lover is so similar to Paul, even the bathrobes are the same, and whiskey is hidden at home (the easter egg is to see Camus and Sartre's pictorial haha).

10 Camus said: Suicide is recognition, recognition of being overtaken by life or recognition that people do not understand life

11 Boldly guess that the reason why Paul's wife Rosa committed suicide may be that after discovering the derailment, she found people who were so similar to Paul, full of despair, and the change she wanted was not achieved.

12 After Paul came back from his wife's lover, it was the tainted sodomy plot. It should be that I finally understood the reason for my wife's suicide. I haven't figured out the specific psychological process.

13 Paul accuses Jeanne that the so-called love is just escape from loneliness, which is impossible (perhaps this is the reason why his wife Rosa committed suicide)

14 When Paul faced his wife's body, he said that he did not know her, that she was a liar, that she was running away. The moral of this plot is deeper, and I can't guess the real meaning.

15 Finally, Paul's hippie smile appeared in front of Jeanne, and he told his past and other absurd acts in a very direct and abrupt way in the ballroom. In my opinion, it is not so much to chase back Jeanne as to scare Jeanne back. The immediate consequence is that Jeanna was really frightened and decided to return to the real world

16 Paul chased Jeanne to her mother's house and saluted her father's military cap. This symbolism was too obvious, and Jeanne also shot and killed the symbolic father.

Paul, who was shot at 17, walked to the balcony and said: mother. fell down, curled up like a baby

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Last Tango in Paris quotes

  • Jeanne: It's better not knowing anything.

  • Jeanne: What are we doing here?

    Paul: Let's just say we're taking a flying fuck at a rolling donut.