The joke from the egg mentioned at the end of the video is really funny. A guy went to a psychiatrist and he said, "Doctor, my brother is crazy, he thinks he's a chicken." The doctor said, "Then why didn't you bring him?" The guy said, "I am I want to bring him, but I need eggs."
This is Woody Allen's most intuitive understanding of the current relationship between men and women. This feeling of resonance has grown stronger after a few relationships. In love, the relationship between a man and a woman is completely irrational and absurd. I think we all have to go through this all the time because we all need eggs. When we are single, we envy the groups of mandarin ducks around us; in the ambiguous period, both parties are worried about whether trying to take a step forward will break the existing beauty, and they are also tormented by whether he (she) likes me or not. And the people in love are trapped by love: some people have to bear the hardships of different places, and some people are heartbroken because of the infidelity of the other party. Love is a word that can be associated with all good things when it is mentioned, but behind it there is untold suffering. Although a sweet and enviable relationship exists, many times the two sides tend to entangle and hurt in such a relationship, and eventually break up unhappily.
Socrates once said: "The most extreme hatred often comes from the most extreme desire." Possessiveness in love can often backfire and lead to extreme hatred. Although we are hurt and repeatedly trapped in love, we cannot quench our desire to be in love. This concept is also reflected in the work "Bitter Moon" directed by Roman Polanski. Oscar and Mimi Ai, who met for the first time in the film, were dead and alive; later, Oscar's love gradually faded, and Mimi self-harmed to save it but to no avail. Later, after Oscar, who was in a car accident, was framed by Mimi and disabled for life, the two continued to live together. Although Mimi never stopped abusing Oscar, they continued to write this sadomasochism in this fiery ordeal. Mimi, who is too deeply in love, knows the harm Oscar has brought to herself, but she is convinced by this extreme possessiveness and uses cruel means to force Oscar and herself to continue living.
Even in Kieslowski's The White of the Blue, White and Red Trilogy, Carroll framed Dominic in an attempt to save Dominic's love. The effort of the lowly to pray for love in an extreme way is also a quest for love. We know the pain of love, but we want to keep trying to have it; just like that mental patient knows that the chicken is pretending to be a mentally ill friend, but still longs for the eggs laid by this "chicken". Perhaps this confirms a sentence in "Ancestors and Zhans": "Complete love only appears in a moment, and this moment is constantly repeated." Kissing, lingering, ambiguous, and suspicious, it is this kind of thing in my mind. Constantly repeating the charming moments that appear at first sight, even after suffering from the wounds of love, they can not stop the pursuit of love.
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