"The Canterbury Tales" - Concentration Camp for Non-Connotative Dummies

Jeffrey 2022-09-15 10:59:58

The Middle Ages in my impression are always full of incomprehensible contradictions: they both enjoy themselves in the days of strictly adhering to the rules and regulations, and they are proud of the relapses of stealing and slipping; Abide by moral constraints; it is a dark and bloody history, but it has also created a legend that is less than one ten thousandth of the imagination of future generations. The aesthetics that seem appalling today can be regarded as a fashion worth boasting at the time, and the ordinary people in the film and television works only show the poor attitude of a hundred flowers and ten thousand horses. The chaotic separation of power in the upper class caused the people at the bottom to suffer endlessly, so a situation in which the weak squeezed the poor and bullied each other miraculously. And this "Cambrett Tales" boldly depicts many characters from the upper and lower classes in the Middle Ages, including kings, queens, students, priests, thieves, millers, etc. The unrestrained sexual desire and optimistic sarcasm run through the whole film. For Pierre Paolo Pasolini, the director who once made "Sodoma", this level of madness and boldness is already a stretch.

The film consists of a monk reading the stories written by everyone on the road to Camberett. The stories vary in length, and the dark colors are all shining in it to show the hypocrisy, fraud, violence, seduction, derailment, etc. of the world. As one's own responsibility, the dialogue has strong religious feelings, and the ironic ending basically plays the role of punishing evil. However, it is difficult to distinguish between good and evil, just like history is difficult to talk about, it is better to follow the director's bad taste and make fun of the world. Camberett doesn't believe in tears.

Probably because the storyline is too exaggerated, all the actors have a comedic effect of extremely hard "acting", crazy and happy. The men and women in the story rely entirely on instinctive animal desires to hunt, and the physical pleasure is far less than the deep meaning behind each little fable.

The first story tells that the newly married queen wanted to have an affair with her lover. "It just so happened" that the king was blind, so the queen took the king to his favorite garden to have an affair with her lover. Unfortunately, Adam and Eve, who were good things, broke through. The spell restores the king's sight, and Eve's spell brings them back together. In short, it's a story about a couple who are bored and amusing another couple.

It's always the fat eggplant that's hidden in the pants, and the pickled cucumber that's exposed, Pasolini, explain what's going on. The queen looked at her lover when she was eating, and this scene coincides with the way in which binge eating is used as a metaphor for eroticism in "Tom Jones".

The second story is about voyeurism. The baker followed the guards to spy on the GAY's bed, and saw that all the GAYs were caught. It turned out that the ducks they recruited all colluded with the soldiers. When they were in progress, the soldiers would come in to extort money, and those who couldn't afford the disaster would be charged with homosexuality and burned to death.

While using religion to suppress human nature, while exploiting human nature to extract money, and finally punished as an example. The confusion of the etiquette of the times and the confinement of thoughts turned the tragic howl into the numbness of the spectators. Double thoughts are everywhere. Even if you vaguely know that this is right, you are ashamed to admit it and hide it from the crowd to agree that it is wrong.

The third story tells the story of a pair of fellow travelers who go to deceive an old woman.

Meeting to go to hell is also a good plan. If the ancients found that after thousands of years, modern people still did not carry forward the deception and innovate and make progress, I don’t know if they would be disappointed.

The fourth story is the funniest. It tells the story of an optimist thief who steals and deceives the big evil and dares not keep the small evil. The form of the story and the performance of the characters are also the most exaggerated, which is very interesting in comics.

There are all kinds of the cheapest pranks in history on the Internet, but this boy is definitely the originator of pranks, and he is probably the only one who has been on the guillotine and still singing with his prank skills.

The fifth story tells the story of a man and a woman who succeeded in cheating by resourcefulness and revenge by a love-hating suitor.

This is the story of the abused single dog Yong brand cheating man that has been sung for thousands of years, and it is an absolute counterattack. The infatuated man who wanted to kiss the heroine and gave up just got a loud fart sound, and I'm sorry for the girl who downloaded it together in those years if it didn't break out.

The sixth story tells about a middle-aged woman who was like a wolf like a tiger. After draining her four husbands, she was finally slapped to death by the newly "married" Xiao Xianrou.

In ancient times, there were old women who peeped naked through keyholes, but now there are crazy fans licking their lovers through the window. Sure enough, when the nympho comes up, the weight can't be lifted, but a man who doesn't like beauty but only likes to read is too Liuxiahui. , Do you know how insulting it is to be attracted by a book with a thick dictionary in front of a woman who still has charm?

The seventh story tells the story of a miserly miller who tries to fool two flour-collecting students, only to be tricked by the latter into his wife and daughter.

The teachings of Christianity or Islam do not say that "whoever prostitutes his wife and daughter will also be prostituted by others". Here, even stingy will be cuckolded. Of course, it is also the reason for self-inflicted suffering, but karma is always retribution on women. Makes people feel uncomfortable.

The eighth story is that three brothers killed each other for money.

Greed always kills people, and brothers and sisters have to make a clear account for the whole world. But what kind of ghost did the director make the murder scene so small and fresh? Did he also remember the youth that passed away under the sunset?

The ninth story uses special effects and tells the story of a priest who is greedy for money and is sent to hell by God.

In other words, hell has become the Ninggu Tower within the sphere of God's influence, and all the unpleasant ones are thrown down for the devil to play? I don't know if this is to reward the devil or to please the devil. However, the idea of ​​letting many false priests and false Taoists excrete out of the devil's chrysanthemum is really impressive. The director even took the trouble to let the devil eat Xuanmai and excrete it continuously, which is really the first bad taste.

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  • Molly: [singing] Oh, there was a little beggar man that goes from town to town, and wherever he get a job and work he's willing to sit down. With his bundle on his shoulder, his stick was in his hand and it's down the country I shall go with me roving journeyman. And from the County Carlow the girls all jump for joy. Says one unto the other "now here comes a Dublin boy." And they wanted me to marry her and took me by the hand. She went home and told her mother that she loves the journeyman.

  • Angel: Hey Satan! Lift up your tail and show us where you keep the friars in hell!