Pasolini's "One Thousand and One Nights"

Kiley 2022-04-19 09:02:44

I think the director and screenwriter Pierre Paolo Pasolini perfectly interprets what this book wants to express.
The story of the book "One Thousand and One Nights" originated from a woman's physical infidelity. A king who saw his wife's infidelity no longer believed in women, and married and killed women every day. Then, a wise woman saved herself and other women by telling stories every day.
In the movie "One Thousand and One Nights", the physical collision of women or men is just "behavior". Such "behavior" may occur to express each other's love, or it may be just to clear the deal, or to satisfy Sexual needs, or for possession.
The people in the film do not hide their desires and express their meanings clearly. Most of the women are full of wisdom, or prophets, or have a certain amount of power, and can do what they want, compared to the male protagonists are mostly stupid.
I think that being able to do things according to one's own mind is the most natural way to get along with the living environment. It is out of nature, instinct, or sixth sense, and it is not guided by others, and it is not restrained by social laws or forced to deny them. desire.
So, in this "natural" environment, can people indulge their desires at will? No, not even a king with supreme power.
The princess who saved the life disappeared into the fire, and the prince faced the boy who died by his own sword and embarked on the road of penance. Their father, the king, looked at the flames that devoured his daughter, and the back of his son who was far away. In the face of the gods of the natural law, or the impermanent fate, I sigh or obey the laws of life.

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  • Damion 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    The stories are set one after the other, all exploring the theme of love - for this film love is basically making love. There are one-to-one lovers who are determined to find, there are also one-to-many guessing yellow riddles in mixed baths, there are also hints of homosexuality, and at the same time, the most conservative wife is always good to you. Outside women are like demons, cheaters are punished by the devil and even dismembered . It's a bit naturalistic. There are few intense sexual intercourse scenes like erotic movies, but there are many frontal nude scenes. Almost all of the male characters show their penis, more than women. This may be the director's own hobby. Shooting the arrow of the phallus should be a famous scene. The stories are legendary, with some characters in a state of madness or ecstasy overwhelmed by love, with all sorts of honeyed smiles; others in endless sadness. Because the fables have too much blank space and often change in repeated plots, it is always silly to use images to show them honestly. This film is not exempt, but it still retains a layer of poetry. The Italian dubbing doesn't match the mouth, and the camera shakes almost all the time, I don't know why it's so rough.

  • Jana 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    Sex can be so innocent. One Thousand and One Nights was originally a theory of fate, Pasolini cut it into condensed, sharp, magical images

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