Men's explicit desires for women and women's implicit desires for men are clearly shown in the film. Women use sex to control men's behavior, and men use sex to determine their own behavior. The reason why the heroine is played by two actors, I think it is Buñuel's thorough understanding of the relationship between the sexes. When the man takes the initiative and the female takes the initiative, they are presented by different actresses. Whenever an active woman appears, a man will always be played around by women because of their sexual traction. And when passive women appear, men have more time to examine and think. Women and mothers will not refuse money gifts from men, while men are obsessed with taking off the chastity pants that get in the way. When a woman was found to be hiding a man, the man took the initiative to use means to expel the woman and her mother from the country. Driven by lust and yearning for the vagina that has never been entered, the man came to the country of women again, found a woman who danced striptease for a living, and bought a house for the woman. The two twists at the end are wonderful. After the woman got the house, her face changed instantly, and she made out with Xiaobai face in front of the man. Then he took the initiative to find the man and was willing to be beaten. No matter what, everyone gets what they want. The terrorist attacks throughout the film seem to serve as an external foil for the unknown relationship and unpredictable state between men and women. In love, desire, scheming, and human nature are displayed with great precision.
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