I believe that many married male viewers wanted to cheer when they heard the male protagonist's father-in-law persuade the male protagonist that "a perfect cheating can save many family marriages". But don't cheer too early, you should notice that there is an adjective "perfect" in front of "derailment". Perfection, if possible, is certainly difficult. Although the male protagonist's father-in-law is very confident that his decades of derailment have been covered up by himself, he is still clearly known by his wife. Even if the relationship between his wife and the masseuse is considered a kind of spiritual cheating, it is even better than him. If he didn't see someone putting tulips in front of his wife's portrait, he might still be kept in the dark.
I think what the whole movie really wants to convey is that the male protagonist's father-in-law and the masseuse realize after chatting that "what she needs is someone who has been watching her all the time", maybe whether or not she can finally realize this is what determines whether a man is a man or not. The real key to hope.
The male protagonist also came to his senses after hearing what his father-in-law said, and finally decided to make a break with his lover, but it was too late. Look, how the male protagonist was against cheating before, but when he really fell into it, he couldn't extricate himself at all. This is where the problem lies. Leaving aside the moral issue for the time being, it is really too difficult to take "infidelity" as a legitimate way to solve marital problems as stated in the film. Because most of men's goals are the body, and most of women's goals are the soul, so I feel that I will fall into the problem of marriage again, which is actually an endless cycle.
Most men are instinctively hard to resist beauty, you don't have to be as beautiful as the hero's lover in the film. No matter how firm the male protagonist's concept of marriage is, he can't bear such a stunner throwing himself at him. So if a man is not interested in women, there is only one possibility, and that is to indulge in the game world. Such a man will naturally not look at his wife in marriage. But if a man who is not addicted to games tries to solve marital problems by cheating, he will undoubtedly enter another game that is easier to indulge in, and he may not be able to quit even if he loses power and disconnects from the Internet. Don't be curious, think I can try it, I can definitely play it with ease, come and go, just enough. Back then, when a certain evil practice was prevalent, my teacher's warning made me think it was very reasonable, "In some things, don't overestimate yourself, don't feel that you are very firm, and think that you are just curious and won't believe it. Yes, those are all things that attack the weakness of human nature, you can see it when you see it, the only way to believe it is not to see it." The human brain has loopholes, and women's sex is the loophole of men, just as bags are loopholes of women .
A major premise for the establishment of the plot of this film is that the father-in-law of the male protagonist and the mother-in-law of the male protagonist seem to have a very harmonious relationship at the beginning. The father-in-law went out to find a woman, but the mother-in-law knew but did not expose it and threatened to get the bag she wanted. Although it felt a little difficult to understand, it seemed to be pretty good, until the father-in-law found out that the mother-in-law had been with her all the time. When the masseuses are together, the seeming beauty seems to disappear, and I even doubt that a marriage like this can be called a marriage.
So I think we have to figure out what marriage is first. When we keep saying that we want to save marriage, what do we want to save? Maybe we shouldn’t think about marriage too much. We should start from the fearless aspects of marriage. Just as the male protagonist's father-in-law finally said, "If we always follow the rules, then we will never enjoy the joy of life."
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As far as the plot is concerned, it is a miracle to reveal that the male protagonist's wife has an ambiguous relationship with the male employee in the store at the end of the film. I think the male protagonist's wife must see that her father is acting in place of her husband, but because of her cheating behavior, she forgives her husband when she sees her husband's change of heart, but I don't think that child belongs to the male protagonist, otherwise Why did it take seven weeks to tell her husband, and his father-in-law's sentence "How can you be so sure that the child is not mine?" The truth is really confusing. Of course, no matter the rules, just be happy.
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