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The girl in red by the sea and the endless abyss behind
Dax 2022-04-23 07:01:01
Hedonism is like a drug, which makes people addicted and unable to extricate themselves. By alternately describing the stories of the two generations, the film gradually reveals the social phenomenon under the influence of modern Western capitalist values, as well as the bloody nature (the girl in red at the seaside appears many times in the film to symbolize the beauty that people yearn for). But it is the product of too much pursuit of the senses), and it also implies that the human society oriented by the pursuit of material pleasures will eventually decline. Looking around at the moment, behind people's seemingly prosperous material life, there is an extremely illusory soul hidden.
Extended Reading
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Marion: Getting the money's not the problem, Harry.
Harry Goldfarb: Then what's the problem?
Marion: I don't know what I'm going to have to do to get it.
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Harry Goldfarb: [Harry has just found out that Sara is on diet pills] Does he give you pills?
Sara Goldfarb: Of course he gives me pills. He's a doctor!
Harry Goldfarb: What kind of pills?
Sara Goldfarb: Uh, uh, a blue one, a purple one, an orange one...
Harry Goldfarb: I mean, like, what's in 'em.