Embers of passion

Kevin 2022-01-13 08:02:13

Duras once said that physical love is not necessarily shallow, it may be as heavy as love from spirit and talent, or even worse. And when we face the love of the flesh, we are often ashamed, as if we become vulgar and contemptible when we become sensual. However, if you love someone, you always want to linger with it when you love it. If there is someone who can make you love so much, who can say that love is shabby? Even if it is like Abe Sada in "The World of Senses", crazy obsessed with the possession of each other of the body, who can question or refute her love? The speaker, I am afraid that he has never loved so crazily, this is a blessing, but also a misfortune. The pinnacle of love is a tsunami, it is powerful, it hurts badly, and it will leave wreckage. For those who have gone through this battle, love has become vain and indifferent to them. Its sequelae is that it makes people who once enjoyed it. Even the memories are thrown away, the passion is too strong, the ultimate once in a lifetime, there can be no longer before and after. Love may always be something unreasonable and unspeakable.
A man like Jeremy Irons has the elegance and demeanor of a veteran English gentleman, a clean figure, a thin face, and deep statutory lines on both sides of his nose. In so many roles he has played, whether it is "Lolita" or "French Lieutenant's Woman", even "Mrs. Butterfly", can capture the unique neuroticism for love from his pale to sick face. Therefore, in the movie "Love Is Seriously Injured" Stephen was almost tailor-made for this man.
At first, we can see Stephen is flat, government officials, gentle and elegant husband and father. The life of the middle class envelops him in the plain and gentle worldly fireworks. His reason and spirit are in a controllable range. Inside. Believe that like most middle-class men, he may remember his wife’s birthday, will present a bouquet on the wedding anniversary, will perform the husband’s physical duties, and may occasionally need to work hard to use Tai Chi for young women who are dedicated to their work. . However, all of this is still on track, and even the occasional sense of boredom is suddenly dissipated by the rhythm of orthodox life that fills the surroundings.
But you can't know the faint sparks of passion in his heart. Before meeting evenly matched opponents, he never opens them to the outside world. Therefore, the appearance of this woman named Anna became an accidental and natural derailment in his life. She is young and beautiful, and slutty. At the moment when her eyes meet, she seems to grab his carefully concealed desire at a glance. She is his powerful opponent and the reason for his indulgence.
However, Anna is his son’s girlfriend and is about to become his daughter-in-law. The original middle-aged derailment suddenly escalated to incest, pulling between rationality and morality. He repeatedly reminded himself to rein in the precipice, but always loses in passion and impulse. Coming down. Here, I am amazed by the power of the flesh, because it has the eternal upper hand in the confrontation with reason.
In the office, hotel room, and even at home, they do everything possible to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh. Their sense of morality is like their faded clothes, and they are rude and rude when they are torn. It can be seen that they have a sense of morality. Shame is like a cloak of shame. They have actually become bondages. The passion was so strong that the paper couldn't keep the fire, and finally broke out of the shell and became public property. His son fell to his death after witnessing the injustice between his father and his wife. His family broke up, and his career as a senator was also announced. He cried bitterly while holding his son's body, and made atonement for the rest of his life with his desolation and guilt.
The end of the movie described the scene when he met Anna again many years later. He said: "Later, I only met her once, met by chance, and transferred at the airport. She didn't see me. She was with Peter, holding a My child, it’s no different from other women.”
This ending is really good. It’s not about the old lover’s recounting, it’s not about continuing the relationship, or relying on each other’s memories to be sad and melancholy.
He didn't want to choose or give up, but it was light, so light that it seemed to be lazy even when he talked about it. In his world, this woman who once brought her surging and agitation really left the stage. She removed the makeup from the stage, and he might no longer recognize her. He saw any woman on the side of the road as if it were her. , He saw her, and regarded her as any woman on the side of the road. Crazy love, scorching desire, for him, were all burned by a fire. He dragged his remnant body like a refugee who had escaped from a catastrophe. What this love catastrophe left to him was just like silk satin in his hands. The ashes of passion replaced by such a tactful skin.
The poetess Emily Dickinson has a poem that said: Somewhere in my heart, I know that I have had an acquaintance with this thing, it just reminds me, that's it, and never took over with me again.
Too fierce and peak love is tantamount to a catastrophe for ordinary people. If it can be spared, it is still eternally blocked, and it is the safest.

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Extended Reading
  • Reva 2022-03-19 09:01:07

    The story itself is logically flawed, and the characters are not full enough. There is no reason for what the hero and heroine do. If you have to find a reason for the advancement of the plot, it is "desire." But how can Binoche's figure and temperament get in touch with "desire"? It would be more convincing to find a noble and glamorous hot girl with blond hair and blue eyes to be the heroine.

  • Liana 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    I'd love it if I were still a teenage girl but...

Damage quotes

  • Anna Barton: Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

  • Anna Barton: What would you win by leaving Ingrid?

    Dr. Stephen Fleming: You. I'd win you.

    Anna Barton: Then you'd win something you already have.