A long time ago, I was disgusted by the literary and artistic youths. In my opinion, Paul is a standard literary and artistic youth.
The office in the high-rise building at work, the step-by-step work; the petty bourgeois café after get off work, the novel about self-salvation and sex, and the conversation about self-salvation with the girl at the table, etc., portray this young youth as a daily sight A kind of sentimental and sentimental office worker. But is this really the case?
There are three women who impressed me in the movie. The first is Marcy, a person who is full of pain and hopes to have soul communication with others. She thinks that Paul is as educated and caring about the sufferings of others as it seems on the surface. I really wanted to chat with Paul, but in the end Paul just wanted to sleep with her. After hearing her talk about her painful past, she only showed a little bit of discomfort on the surface, and then ran away in a blink of an eye when she found that she could not resolve the worms in her brain. NS.
The second is Kiki, an artist who tried to create a statue of human suffering. Paul showed his interest in art in front of her, but in the end he just wanted to sleep with her using this as an excuse, but in the end she didn’t wait for Paul to succeed. I fell asleep first.
The third is a waitress in a pub. She loves painting, loves art, and is tired of the boring life of a waiter. When Paul was frightened and rained on the street, she took him into her home. She was eager to chat with Paul sincerely, but Paul couldn't understand her feelings at all, and finally left when the rain stopped.
The endings of the three women in the movie are different. Marcy can't stand the life that no one understands, and finally commits suicide. Kiki is totally indifferent, and finally goes to the bar to spend a good night. The waitress is angry with Paul and finally regards Paul as As a thief, he was searched for by the community police.
In summary, so what kind of person is Paul? I think he is a social animal alienated by modern society who is insensitive to life, selfish and selfish. On the surface, he cares about human suffering and self-salvation. In fact, he is indifferent to the suffering of others (even his own monotonous and boring life) and alienated by modern society. Such people seem to care about literature and art, but in fact they don’t care at all. What they get from a book may only be a little bit of gorgeous rhetoric. Maybe they will prefer the leisure time without thinking about serious problems, and prefer to be at night. To vent their vigorous sexual desire instead of taking a night adventure full of adventures, in their world there is only oneself, no others.
Long ago, I would curse him sincerely in my heart, but now I have only sadness after watching the movie. When we evaluate a person who has been alienated by modern society, we can never just criticize this person and the series of circumstances that created him. Ignore it, but when we try to ask what caused his indifference and insensitivity, the answer is obvious, but when faced with this answer, we seem so powerless and we can only sincerely hope that we and our loved ones will not become People like Paul. In the same way, now I no longer look at young artists with disgusting eyes.
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