Cheating is like taking drugs, the more you steal, the more addicted you are, and the more you steal, the more addicted you are.

Madalyn 2022-01-17 08:02:46

Sex and love are the eternal themes of mankind. In a good love movie, sex is only the surface, and the real core is the common human emotions.

Yesterday I saw a movie with a very intriguing name "Young Adam". On the surface, in a short period of time, the male protagonist had an affair with 4 women and was involved in a murder, but it actually contains the words in the "Bible". s story.

(The movie "Young Adam")

The hero (Ewan McGregor) is a boatman who works on a barge. He often unloads a ship of coal and smears his face black.

(The ancestor played by Ivan McGregor, do you remember his performance in "Guessing the Train"?)

(Ancestor with soot and dirty face)

When not working, the days on the boat were dull and quiet. The ancestors would sit on the deck and read a book, the scenery on both sides of the strait drifted by, and the water under his feet was calm and deep.

(Zu sits on the boat and reads quietly)

Until one day, a female corpse floating on the river broke the peace of life.

Zu's boss, Reese, and Zu picked up the female body together. She was almost naked, but the surface of the body was not injured.

(Almost naked female body)

The female body was placed on the shore, covered with a towel. An unusual thing happened, Zu put his hand on the back of the female corpse and stared at it for a long time.

(My ancestor caressed the back of the female corpse. It was a little scared to watch this at night, afraid that the female corpse would suddenly live)

This female corpse has brought some information to the life of the boatman. The boss of the ancestor, Reese, talked about the female corpse whenever he came to, saying that he had fished it out. It's no wonder that the days of the two boatmen, Zu and Reese, were originally boring, sailing, loading, unloading, supporting their wives and daughters, and going to the bar in the town to drink and play darts at night.

(Reese the boatman, he is Zu’s boss)

Maybe it was because of drinking too much, coupled with the old age and weakness, Reese couldn't satisfy his wife. This gave the young boatman Zu a chance. On the night he found the woman's body, Zu seduce Reese's wife, who is his proprietress Aina, under the dining table.

(My ancestor used his hairy legs to touch the boss's wife)

The lady boss did not strictly refuse Zu's seduction. That night, Zu took advantage of Reese to go to the bar to play, and succeeded on the bank.

(The ancestor succeeded on the shore, Aina, the proprietress)

Cheating is like taking drugs, the more you steal, the more addicted you are, the more you steal, the more bold you are. The days go on, cheating and keep playing. When Reese was at home, Zu and the proprietress Aina were humming.

Reese was sailing on the deck, and the two of them had a crazy love in the cabin.

(Reese is sailing on the deck, while Zu and Ina have a crazily affair in the cabin)

The audience may be wondering: What's wrong with a person like Zu who is handsome, quiet, and likes to read? Why do you have to commit yourself to a broken ship? Wandering around an English woman with a son in a turban.

(Aina is just an ordinary British woman wearing a headscarf)

At this time, the camera turned and the director gave the answer. It turns out that the ancestors also had normal and beautiful love before.

His girlfriend is Casey (played by Emily Modimer), a beautiful white-collar worker. The two of them once met by the beach, and the sea breeze was blowing gently.

(Kathy and Zulang are born with a talented girl)

At that time, Zu was still a writer, writing new novels at home every day, but he couldn't write novels, so Casey was furious at him.

The ancestor taught Casey in his own way: splashed the prepared custard on Casey, took a stick to spank her butt, sprinkled the kitchen seasoning on him, and then violently entered from behind her body...Finally Both of them climaxed.

(The sadomasochistic relationship between Zu and Casey)

This can be called sadomasochism. But the two of them finally broke up, because compared with Casey who honestly went to work to make money, Zutai was out of shape.

Two months later, Zu had already been a boatman. Casey came to see Zu and said that she was pregnant. Casey suggested that they raise a child together, but Zu didn’t want this. During the dispute, Casey fell into the river and Zu didn’t. To save her, she threw away her clothes and wiped off the fingerprints on the scene.

At this time, the audience will think that Zu is a 48k pure scum, because a few minutes ago, she and Casey had just fought three hundred rounds on the dock.

(Before Casey drowned, Zu fought her under a truck for three hundred rounds)

I have to admire the courage of the British, the scale of this scene is very large.

It was here that everyone suddenly realized that the ancestor was really too scumbag. Not only was he irresponsible to his girlfriend and caused her to die tragically in an accident, he also got along with married women.

The female corpse on the river became an explosive social news. The newspapers began to report on it, and the police also caught Casey's boyfriend, the plumber at the time. The plumber has a wife and children, which is derailed.

The plumber suffered unpredictable disasters. From the judge to the police to the jury, everyone believed that the derailed plumber made Casey pregnant, and was afraid that his wife would know about it, so he killed him.

(The innocent plumber)

Zu was condemned by his conscience, but his scumbag nature remained unchanged. He cheated on Aina's brother-in-law and landlord's wife.

(Zu cheated on Ina’s younger brother-in-law, this woman’s husband just died in a car accident)

(After resigning from the cargo ship, Zu rented a house and soon became the landlord’s wife)

At the end of the movie, the innocent plumber was sentenced to hang by the judge. Zu did not confess his mistake to save him, and there was no so-called "salvation" or "sublimation".

(Innocent people have been wronged because of themselves, and the ancestor’s eyes are empty)

The movie's name is "Young Adam", and it actually tells a story from the "Bible", betrayal and sex.

("Bible·Old Testament")

The first part of the "Old Testament" of the "Bible" has a chapter "Genesis". The beginning of this chapter focuses on two things: One is God's creation of the world with words and eyes, and the other is the inescapable original sin of mankind.

The core of original sin is betrayal: the betrayal of God caused Adam and Eve to be expelled from heaven and toward the cursed earth. More importantly, it opened the two major themes of human life: sex and death.

(Adam and Eve in the Bible)

In this movie, full of women’s betrayal: the shipowner’s woman Aina, the truck owner’s woman (Aina’s younger sister-in-law), the homeowner’s woman, and even Casey. They betrayed their own man with confidence and had an ancestor. Sexual relationship.

The ancestor is Adam. His characteristics are silence and obedience. On the issue of sex, he has no moral judgment and only vague expectations. In the Garden of Eden, Adam was a man full of imagination. He named the living creatures on the ground, and Eve gave him the fruit; later, he was punished to work hard on the barren land.

(The ancestor in the movie is Adam)

The director tells the story of Zu and Casey, interspersed throughout the movie in the form of memories. The movie echoes from beginning to end, beginning with death (a body in the river) and ending with death (the innocent person is sentenced to hanging).

Sex is never the purpose, but the carrier of narration. From this perspective, this is a very deep erotic film.

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Extended Reading
  • Astrid 2022-03-25 09:01:19

    "Who made you the judge? → Who makes you the detective?"

  • Trevor 2022-03-19 09:01:08

    I don’t understand what I want to show, but I don’t need to understand what everything is reasonable.

Young Adam quotes

  • Joe Taylor: [after having sex with Ella] Are you sorry?

    Ella Gault: Fat lot of good that would do me.

  • Ella Gault: Say hello to Joe.

    Joe Taylor: Alright?

    Jim Gault: Bastard.