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Love is a very simple word, because it is simple, it is easy to be attached to many things. In The Understanding of Love, Scheler shows the meanings that Westerners have given to love from ancient times to the present. In their eyes, love connects with good, and thus with being and completion, because with being, there is completeness, and there is completeness, and then along this path there is God who is omniscient, almighty, and omniscient. With this line of thought, the lover and the lover begin to connect with the God who is overflowing with love. This is very divine.
After the Renaissance in the late Middle Ages, the epistemological significance of love became stronger and stronger. Love is rationality, and love is the process of separating things and self. Heidegger did not talk about this. From the point of view of existentialism, people hundreds of years ago have unconsciously put cognition and worry on the top of the picture. No. This kind of love connects things that have nothing to do with me, so that in intimacy, I know you.
The ontological and epistemological manifestations of love seen in the West have seeds long ago, the ancient Greeks, in complete contrast to the East, believed that only deep love can gain more meaning, the more I understand, you You are more complete in my heart, and you are more present.
Of course, this will affect the love that shares the same word. The opposite of love is the Westerner who has no love. Love is in its own love, and it is full of its own strength in love. When they saw sadomasochism, they were surprised, why some people gave up their dignity like this, dignity is second, why did they give up their existence like this. It is incomprehensible to them, who have had the freedom factor from a long time ago, why one should give up oneself for another, not for God.
They didn't read ancient Indian books at the time, nor did they read modern Japanese erotica. In their view, love is a process, not the result of knowledge, and the logic of easterners giving up their will to obtain the other's fulfillment and love is very strange. So I don't understand.
But in love, sexual abuse is just a real or false abandonment of oneself. People who do not feel the loss of the meaning of existence can only experience the kind of painful pleasure, and thus go deeper and deeper on the traditional road. And pain, the people on the edge of love who struggle between being far away from ordinary people's possessiveness, are the most painful and cool people in sadomasochism. The people wandering on these roads is what this film is vaguely depicting.

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