The bitter moon in the body

Otis 2022-01-07 15:54:13

Mimi, the name, is enough to make people think about it. On the 96th bus, the shaky red girl, fluttering blonde hair, a mature woman, but with a child-like innocent smile. So that oscar thought it was a glimpse of heaven. So he looked for her frantically and tried to get her. In the golden sunlight, mimi's smiling face is so youthful that I can hardly imagine that this is the same person as the pale, coquettish and soulless woman at the beginning of the film. They can spend days and nights in the room without going out, immersing themselves in their sex games, or they can pretend to be pigs and dogs, seeking new excitement. But he was still tired all the time, and the beautiful body of this woman could hardly arouse his enthusiasm, so he was bored, hated, and cruelly hurt.

What makes me hard to understand is mimi's bitter pleading and patience to oscar. It's like changing from a princess to a maid who can talk and drink. She changed everything about herself to cater to it, but in exchange for even more unbearable humiliation. How to explain mimi's dependence and love on oscar, I don't understand, maybe I've never been such a sentimental girl, and I'm destined to not understand. Oscar is unfeeling, and it makes people feel like they have wiped out humanity. His unrelenting abandonment of mimi at an altitude of tens of thousands of feet eventually led to the tragedy of the second half of his life.

Between love and hatred, mimi's revenge makes it difficult to see what she is doing. She tied the paralyzed oscar to her side, tortured him, humiliated him, even worse than the oscar back then. But at the same time, it was not only Oscar who suffered, but also herself. She sacrificed her chance of happiness to deprive oscar of his normal life, or the right to spend time and drink. This even confuses oscar, whether she still loves me, after all, why should she torture someone who doesn't love.

Oscar broke down, facing Mimi who was looking for passion in women. And mimi, I think when facing a cold moon at an altitude of tens of thousands of feet, it has collapsed. The last words of oscar in this world are: baby, we are only too greedy. The greedy pursuit of the pleasure and passion of the body, the greedy hope and passion will never retreat. The bitter moon in that body.

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  • Santos 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    About the sweetness and cruelty of love, about the freedom and black hole of not loving. Not only want the short-term happiness of the body, but also want to be together forever in the soul. They want both fresh adventure and familiarity. I want to test tolerance, but I can't help being jealous. Yes, you are too greedy. We all can't love.

  • Gerardo 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    It's a good movie, and reminds me of Wang Shuo's novel "If You Get Addicted, You Die". Of the four protagonists, two males are very good, Hugh Grant is especially suitable for this kind of role, Mimi's role is too weak, and Kristin's role is too few. Emmanuelle Seigner can be considered a beautiful woman, but her expression is as dull as Guo Jingjing's classmate. How could Polanski like her.

Bitter Moon quotes

  • Oscar: [Mimi is eating croissants and drinking milk straight from the bottle] Do you have to drink it that way? Why can't you use a glass ?

    Mimi: Whats the difference it tastes the same ?

    Oscar: It doesn't look the same.

    Mimi: Ola la I didn't know you were so delicate.

    Oscar: What do you mean delicate ?

    Mimi: I mean delicate.

    Oscar: I know what you mean but it's just not the right word in English. If you don't know the right word in English say it in French.

    Mimi: I don't say it in French because your French isn't good enough.

    Oscar: It's better than your English.

    Mimi: After all these years in Paris so it should be. Maybe your English isn't that good enough either, maybe that's why no one wants to publish your books.

    Oscar: So now you are literary agent? That's great coming from a waitress.

    Mimi: I am not a waitress I am a dancer.

    Oscar: Dancer to hell! You would still be begging tips if I hadn't picked you up from that fucking restaurant.

    [Mimi stone faced throws the bottle of milk at Oscar and rushes out with Oscar in hot pursuit. He grabs her by the hair and slaps her hard and she falls to the floor]

  • Nigel: Why do you think I want to hear it? I still don't know what gives you the idea that I enjoy being used as a rubbish-dump for your unsavory reminiscences?

    Oscar: Don't you? Don't you really, Nigel?