hysterical search for depravity

Aliza 2022-04-21 09:02:48

I haven't read the novel, but I thought the movie was good. It satirizes the happiness that everyone unanimously yearns for, the wealth of the family, the feasting and carnival, the indulgence in the end is incest, homosexuality, sexual abuse, and the dark side of the human heart is thoroughly thought out.
There was one shot that impressed him. He was terrified to see a maggot crawling out of the eyelid of the self-portrait, but the pact with the devil made him feel that the original guilt disappeared. His expression changed from fear to calm, and he went up to smash the maggots. When I was watching the movie, I was thinking that if I had that painting, I would live more dashingly than Dorian Gray, and I was fortunate that I didn't have this painting, otherwise I would have become the devil's spokesperson.
But this painting exists in real life. This
makes me think this is a religious film. That painting can be compared to pantheism and idolatry. Many underworld movies reflect that the gangsters have done all kinds of bad things, but they go to the Buddha and give more incense money than anyone else, and they look the most pious. (Chinese) went to the Catholic church in black and paid a lot of money to ask the priest to do mass for him and wash his sins. (Foreign) Including corrupt officials in real society who exchange and then go out to do bad things boldly. In exchange for what people think are honorable (money, Viagra, mistresses), he confesses his guilt in front of the self-righteous "self-portrait". . .
Is this the acquisition of the fictional painting in a different form?


"What man honors is an abomination in the sight of God" (Luke 16:15).

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  • Neoma 2022-01-02 08:02:19

    How shame I am not to read any books by Wilde.

  • Angelita 2022-03-29 09:01:04

    One sentence synopsis: Watch Mr Darcy seduce Prince Caspian. There is no film in this world that fully reflects the essence of Wilde's words. The director abruptly adapted Wilde's debut into a "thriller". Less powerful inner drama, too much inking on erotica, wasting good actors Colin Firth and Rebecca Hall.

Dorian Gray quotes

  • Dorian Gray: [On a girl he saw, who just departed with a man] That was probably her husband.

    Lord Henry Wotton: Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

  • Lord Henry Wotton: What are you?

    Dorian Gray: I am what *you* made me! I lived the life that you preached... but never dared practice. I am everything, that you were too afraid to be.