2010/12/21

Belle De Jour


I saw this movie about two month ago, it is a French movie; it is considered the masterpiece of erotica by Luis Bunuel. “Balle De Jour” means the beauty of the day in French, which indicates “belle de nuit” the beauty of the night. Unlike movies from Hollywood, this European movie has more messages which the director wants to tell the audience.
Severine, the heroine in the film, is a beautiful young woman married to a handsome doctor. She loves her husband very much but can not bring herself to have physical touch with him. She makes up some kinky, erotic and vivid imagination to satisfy her sex desire; eventually, she becomes a prostitute working during the day. The whole movie was filled by the reality and kinky dreams Severine made up. In the end, you will totally get confused of what is real and what is not.
Because I am really curious and was attracted by this movie, I have found a lot of websites trying to make clear what is going on in the movie. But the more information I get, the more confuse I am. For instance, if she loves her husband so very much, why doesn’t she make love with him? And why she decided to be a prostitute? She rather has sex with all those ugly men in the brothel but doesn’t even let her husband touch her. Another: in her kinky imagination, all men who have sex with her are ugly. It is really strange. First of all, she has a handsome and rich husband who loves her very much, why doesn’t she just make love with her husband? It is much better and easier, isn’t it? Moreover, the reason why she wants to make up kinky dreams is already a mystery.
Later, I realize all things she had done are for one reason: to make sure she is not living in a fairy tale; because she married to a perfect man, but it means she has to “act” perfect at the same time, and it is really tired. Because her husband is too perfect, she don’t know what to do, she is afraid if she shows herself, he will stop loving her and leave her. That is the reason Severine doesn’t ever touch her husband. But her body needs to be satisfied! So she starts to make up fantasies. And the reason why she becomes a prostitute is because she doesn’t considered herself living in a real world, so she wants to experience the world, even in the dirtiest way.
People always want to have a handsome husband or a beautiful wife. In the movie, Severine has a wonderful husband and pretty good life. It should be a dream to many people; to our surprise, she doesn’t like this kind of life at all. She rather got raped by an ugly man or has sex with an old dirty man. This movie makes me think a lot, because I am one of those kinds of person dreaming about having a great wife and a comfortable life.
I suggest people to see this movie, the way Luis shows this movie is perfect, moreover, the movie gives us something to think.
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