"The Spring Festival of Spiritual Desires" seems to be a criticism of marriage: a middle-aged couple's backlog of grievances for decades, through alcohol and a young couple's visit, unscrupulously vented to each other, with deep malice and despair. And the young couple will inevitably move towards their end. After reading it, you may have doubts about the nature of marriage, but this is precisely a misunderstanding.
"The Spring Festival of Spiritual Desire" is not so much about marriage as it is about human nature. The movie can be viewed as a psychoanalytic reader: Middle-aged George’s childhood shadow envelops his life, making him unable to succeed in career and emotional life; and his class background and his wife’s origin are very different, after marriage Can only live under the suppression of the fame of his father-in-law's house. The war between George and Martha originated from George's unwillingness, from class differences, but essentially from George's unsound psychological world. (In contrast, the crazy Martha is a less ill one, she is just a woman who lives according to her desires.)
Outside of this kind of psychological analysis, I think of the "three poisons" of "greed, anger, ignorance" in Buddhism. According to Buddhism, hardship in life is nothing more than three obsessions: greed, anger, and ignorance. Take a look at George Martha. There is also a young couple. It can be said that there is a lot of "greed, hatred and ignorance": the greed for fame, the anger at life and each other, the ignorance of emotional fantasy, determine their narrow and distorted The spiritual world, externally, manifests itself as the evil state of marriage, which is what people in the play call "the reality under the illusion."
Therefore, these four people who are immersed in resentment and mutual harm in their marriage relationship should learn a little from the Buddhist Society to find a way out. Because the human spiritual world is not determined by the outside world, but by self-determination.
(The name "Spring Night" is deceptive. The original name of the movie is "Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf". It is adapted from the drama of the same name. In fact, it is a two-hour dialogue between four people, hoping to see the erotic scene. No entry is allowed. "Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf" has nothing to do with the plot. It comes from a dramatic adaptation of a nursery rhyme in the play. If you must find any symbolic meaning, you may be able to pursue the writer Virginia Woolf Reluctantly interpreted as "who is afraid of the cold reality".)
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