"Cement Garden", what is metamorphosis?

Tremaine 2022-10-22 10:25:53

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An abnormal and depraved story, a beautiful and helpless ending. Is it the modern industrial civilization that has contributed to the distortion of human nature, or is it the unstoppable revival of the bottom-level desires in a hopeless space. With the advent of the two deaths, the ethical concept of human society completely disappeared. In a lifeless small building, who can sing the song "Green Sleeves" so shockingly. With a hoarse voice, curly hair, and almost morbidly thin, a modern Narcissus loves his opposite sex. Beginning with the image of self-destruction and crossing father's work in the mirror, it challenges all inherent concepts and customs of human beings. Nothing can stop the growth of primal desire, old age and death should sink into the cement.

The night rain is the melancholy after the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the unintentional climax occurs in the barrenness on the edge of civilization. Is the narcissistic copulation between sisters and brothers the complete sinking of human nature or the unconscious redemption of the ancient original sin. No one can understand the degeneration of children from civilization to wildness, and no one can understand the self-confidence of siblings under the shining blue light. This is a corner forgotten by civilization, a tragedy that deviates from the world and is too beautiful to be tragic.

Cement and gardens, when civilization and primitiveness collide, there is more than death that cannot be escaped.

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The Cement Garden quotes

  • Julie: Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, because it's OK to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, because you think that being a girl is degrading. But secretly you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you? What it feels like for a girl?

  • Commander Hunt: There is nothing ugly, I never saw an ugly thing in my life, for let the shape of an object be as they may: light, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.