existence and freedom

Avis 2022-03-14 08:01:02

This movie is better understood in combination with Sartre's other being hell. The focus is not on the collapse of Taoyuan World, but on the reactions of a man and a woman after the intruder appeared.

A woman is ironic, bold and intelligent. It is not that she cannot protect herself, but out of her boredom of life like a stagnant water and her exhausted love for her husband, she herself is looking forward to such an intruder. So she experimented, not as big an enemy as her husband, and even started playing with vulgar gangsters. And she always entrusted the right to resist to her husband, and shelved the right to choose. She took the shotgun and put it down; provoked the gangster to provoke a reaction from her husband; she took out the gangster's pistol and gave it to her shivering husband. She longed for freedom, but she gave up her freedom and was entangled in her obsession with her husband. She didn't choose to leave until her husband went mad at the end, but it also meant that she had to.

And are men really incapable of resisting gangsters? It's a power game between him and the gangster, the difference between them is not a gun and a strong body, but a psychological battle. At the very beginning of the plot, a man is such an existence, avoiding the past, choosing to avoid the world, and passively allowing himself to become an object under the pressure of others. He had countless opportunities to fight back, but he gave up his actions and choices from the beginning, and wanted to use inaction to continue his existence and his past life. But in the end, when his wife left and he sat alone on a rock isolated from the world, looking at the lonely castle, who else could prove his existence?

The background setting of the story suggests that the man divorced his ex-wife, sold his property, and chose to live in seclusion with his young current wife. This choice is out of the original intention of escaping social pressure and pursuing freedom. It is passive in itself, not an active yearning. But on the desert island, what they get is not freedom and happiness. Freedom comes from self-choice, not from running away from others. In the end, the collapse of life is still rooted in people's self-restraint.

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  • Rylan 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    Like the knife in the water and the immoral trial, it is a small "island" surrounded by water. Outsiders intervene and cause conflicts. The characteristics of this one are more absurd and humorous, and there are no other two sadistic ps: looking forward to the new work "Killing" , also a small black pattern

  • Jamey 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    I always felt that Polanski should make "Pagan"...

Cul-de-sac quotes

  • Richard: You lunkhead! Come on down. I won't eat ya!

  • Richard: Mind you, I recognize everybody's opinion. I concede there are a few priests who really believe in what they preach, but most of them are phonies. It's the same thing everywhere.