The film retains director Catherine Breillat's tough and personal feminist style. There is a lot of direct sexual depiction in the film, but it is difficult to arouse the desire of the audience. The director attempts to express a critique and challenge to the moral values in men's hearts. The protagonists are named after abstract men and women, and the prototypes are derived from Greek mythology, and the lines are also imitated from the dialogue of the eighteenth century. There are few plot changes in the film, just the use of the characters' body language to state the relationship
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Although the film is an erotic film with the theme of sex, the sex scenes in the film will not bring beauty to the audience, but will make the audience's most primitive sexual desire not swayed. This is because the film simply does not want to arouse the desire of the audience. In the director's view, "sex" is no longer interesting, and there is no original pleasure, only nausea and numbness. This is "the most disgusting erotic film"
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