After reading the first thought is: bread and love, how to choose? I see this film as a struggle between a person or an author to choose between reality and ideal. The story of the film took place in France in 1900, when the French Revolution had come to an end and the war was still going on. Artists drifting in the war years all came to Paris to pursue the so-called freedom, romance and love. The Moulin Rouge was what they saw as a utopia—a place of escape from reality. The heroine Satine's illness (coughing, wheezing) has always been reflected throughout the film. I think what it mirrors is real life stress. The male and female protagonists represent idealism and realism, and their series of activities for love reflect the author's struggle in making choices. His contradiction is the tug of war between the male and female protagonists. Satine's contradiction is that she is in love. A courtesan who aspires to be a "real actor" falls in love with a young and talented poor boy who has nothing, so the rules are not just a piece of material, and a woman is no longer a diamond. She discovered the invaluable value of "love", that love is the affirmation of the true self and the awakening within. The contradiction of Christine's male protagonist is that he wants to have too much and the struggle and pain caused by being caught in ego has another meaning - love is everything to me. But the love between the courtesan and the poor writer is inherently tragic. After reading it as a whole, it gave me a revelation: people should not go to extremes and do not mess around. Looking back on the various contradictions and pains in my life - how many are from superficiality, and how many are due to falsehood? "Hate the suffering of life and death, but love the karma of life and death. Pay more attention to the name of morality and ignore the behavior of morality."
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