Primitive Beauty——Comment on the film les mille et une nuits "One Thousand and One Nights"

Alfonso 2022-01-22 08:02:14


The 125-minute film is filled with a dreamy feeling from beginning to end. From the time when Zu Moluo told Aladdin’s first story, the lens has been constantly changing, and the story is constantly told in the story, which almost makes people Can't tell which ones are real and which ones are dreamy.

In the story of "The King and the Queen Bet", they find two people they think are the most beautiful and insist on being more beautiful than the other, so they wake up one of them at different times and agree if they are awake People who fall in love with the person who fall asleep are more beautiful, because people always like more beautiful things. As a result, both people admired and had sex with each other after seeing the sleeping counterpart. The king and queen think that no one wins because it shows that they are in love with each other.

The first question is whether there is no distinction or boundary between beauty in the eyes of Arabs? They do not distinguish between men and women, and judge whether this male (female) child is beautiful from the outside? Because there is basically no such comparison in later generations, people have developed a set of their aesthetic standards, that is, men want masculine and women want tenderness. There is no big difference between men and women in this film. Zu Moluo was not recognized after disguising himself as a man, which is evidence. Men's and women's clothing is mostly white long dresses, which are very similar in style.

Another part of this story that makes me feel interesting may also be the place where it makes many modern people feel dumbfounded. The behavior of the two young girls in the film can be regarded as a fascination in modern society. How can you see a beautiful person directly? Go up and do it? This is simply barbaric beast behavior~~~

This primitive way of life inadvertently shows the vitality and tension of life. When shooting naked sexual intercourse, it is often just a slight shaking of the human body that overlaps with two sentences, which is very funny. Laughing when touching the body is one thing. This kind of hearty laughter, no low groans or intoxicated expressions, makes people feel that their sex is a kind of nature, nature, and beauty. Their behavior is not driven by desire, not wanting to possess each other, but just Hope to have happiness. This kind of giving and asking is purified by not incorporating the pursuit of interests. Anyone who has watched the film will have the feeling that even with those sexual intercourse shots and genital shots, there will be a "clean" beauty, a primitive and extremely simple beauty. It is more appropriate to say that this is A beauty that has not been "impregnated" by later civilizations. It's like seeing Adam and Eve in Eden Garden, and everyone who sees them will fall in love with them.

My favorite story is the story of Aguiza. This girl has a pure and innocent face like a holy Virgin. She lowered her head and showed a melancholy expression, which is very pitiful. The cousin who was going to marry her saw a girl on the day of the wedding, and the flamboyant man immediately forgot about Ajiza. After waiting for the woman on the road for a day, he finally returned home in frustration. Ajiza heard the lover. The fact of change of heart is very painful, but she did not show any dissatisfaction. Instead, she helped her cousin to figure out the meaning of the woman’s gesture. Ajiza asked her cousin to say "God, please tell me, right A man in love, what should he do?" The girl’s answer was "To obey wholeheartedly and conceal his past." The cousin gave the picture the girl gave him to Ajiza, and Ajiza looked at the painting and kept it. Sad tears shed. … Ajiza said, "Now we abide by the agreement." The man and the girl told the girl when they were happy. The girl was shocked and said, "The one who said this is now dead." Dead, this heartless man hurried back because he thought the funeral ceremony was too long. The girl said angrily, "You do it carefully," the man said what Ajiza told the girl at last, "Loyalty is a good thing, frivolous." It's also a good thing." The girl said that she had decided to take the trouble of this man, but Ajiza's words made her decide to let him go. But the girl asked the man to pray for Ajiza. When the man returned, he was taken away by a woman. He lived with a third woman for a year and gave birth to a son. One day, his wife asked her to visit his mother. , He immediately went to the girl. When the girl saw him, she scolded him loudly, called out a group of women, and tore off his sex organs. The bearded man was finally punished.

Now I still feel a little confused, because Where does the riddled dialogue between Aguiza and the girl and the three emotions in this story belong. When the man fell in love with someone else, he did not eat, drink or sleep, and shouted to Ajiza, "People who are in love do not eat or sleep!" A heroic and passionate appearance, but watch him treat Ajiza. The chaos with the second girl and the end of abandonment are basically a person of innocent nature, which is contemptuous.

After being punished, the man ran back to find his mother and confessed to her that he treated Ajiza as before. It is hypocritical~~~ I feel sorry for Ajiza. This picturesque and beautiful woman only wears a bridal dress at the beginning. Yanran smiled and turned all sentient beings upside down. Since then, she has always had a melancholy expression... Can the fate of a woman depend on a man? Why did a snowy and smart Ajiza choose to commit suicide in such an extreme way after being disappointed? Is it disappointed? Despair after being broken? Or a protest against this man, a condemnation? Or something else?

This story pushes the human situation to the extreme. We can't see the influence of other people on the protagonist. Only a few people are active in front of the camera. Therefore, the cause of Ajiza's death really makes me afraid to make a statement. I can only feel a strong feeling. The sadness that can't be turned away.

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  • Enid 2022-04-22 07:01:49

    I saw it many years ago, the typical oriental narrative, the stories are stacked one by one, which is very interesting. In addition, there is the love plot in the film, but I also saw the desire under the white robes of the Middle Eastern Arabs, which is very natural and simple. Later, when I went to countries in the Middle East and North Africa, I often thought that those magical stories happened in these places, such as stealing and casual traditions, which have really been followed, and the locals have become accustomed to them.

  • Florida 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    I don't know what the true story of One Thousand and One Nights is, but Pasolini must have had an idea

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