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Cecil 2022-03-25 09:01:14

It's Buñuel, and that must be mocking the middle class for being either horny or cold in order to pretend.

Since it is Buñuel, it is meaningless and fruitless to distinguish between reality and dreams, because dreams are unrealized reality. He just slyly told a joke, ridiculing the middle class in a pretentious style, the doctor husband is incompetent, the wife is so hungry that she can't give up her husband and is a child contentedly imprisoned all day long (it is also B to interpret the desires of men and women as the relationship between mother and child). hobby).

Of course, the public sees it as SM porn.

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Should be paralyzed, the husband actually stood up at the end, endlessly. In "An Andalusian Dog", the man who was killed 16 years ago walked on the beach with the woman he tried to seduce but rejected him, playing with the beach, covering the man's clothes that were thrown out the window and walking away lovingly Then the camera suddenly cuts to them buried in the sand as if they were dead. The fantasy of sexual desire can never be separated from the fantasy of death? In "The Discreet Charm of the Middle Class", these decent people can't eat a decent meal. During this period, B told you that this absurd incident was a character's nightmare, but after waking up from it, B told you that it was another A person's dream within a dream. The ambassador to Paris finally ate the cold mutton that he couldn't eat in his dream. The one in the refrigerator didn't pay attention to what wine to go with. The end of the play.

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(Review of Thompson's edition of Film History)
Modernist ambiguity, against clear-cut in its implications.

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Extended Reading
  • Lois 2022-04-23 07:03:20

    The charming bitch of the middle class, the addictive and irresistible needs and impulses, not hateful or contemptible, Buñuel has a lazy cunning in his portrayal of the hidden realm of human beings, full of a sense of expression" A sarcastic compliment for selling oneself but not one's heart...

  • Vicenta 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    Catherine Deneuve's hidden eroticism bloomed in those few sexual fantasies, and the contrast between the bells and carriages at the beginning and the end completed the perfect solution to this discordant newlywed life, all of which seemed to be only in women. in the Lord's fantasy. I always feel that Deneuve is the kind of woman who is more and more attractive, and the static and frozen beauty of the poster pictures is far from the beauty of the situation in the movie.

Belle de Jour quotes

  • Pierre Serizy: [First line] Shall I tell you a secret, Séverine?

  • Pierre Serizy: I'd like everything to be perfect too. If only you weren't so cold.

    Séverine Serizy: Please don't mention that again.

    Pierre Serizy: I didn't mean to upset you. I feel a great tenderness for you.

    Séverine Serizy: What good is your tenderness to me?

    Pierre Serizy: You can be very cruel when you wish.