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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