Hello to all movie lovers! 🎞
Yesterday I watched a somewhat strange, for me, movie called "Bitter Moon". This is not a novelty. This is a 1992 movie directed by Roman Polanski. The plot is based on the novel by the writer Pascal Brückner.
Cast: Hugh Grant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Peter Coyote.
According to the plot, the viewer gets to know a happy couple, a couple traveling by cruise ship to Istanbul. They are having a good time on the liner until they meet another couple.
A frame from the film
A new acquaintance - a man in a wheelchair - begins to tell the main character the story of his life. They talk face to face in the cabin of a man in a wheelchair. The guy is embarrassed because he has to be a listener of such a frank story, but he continues to listen and spend a lot of time with his new "friend".
The man's story appears before the viewer as a film within a film. He is a writer who fell in love with a young and beautiful girl and began a romantic relationship with her. It was a passionate and romantic relationship, the couple was crazy about each other. The man told his new friend the most candid scenes from their lives.
A frame from the film
From the man's long stories, we learn that the love between him and the young girl turned into some problems. In the end, it becomes clear that both the man and the girl have their own mental problems. She cannot live without him and is ready to be humiliated, but only nearby. He does not appreciate what he has, a very selfish and sometimes mean type. Problems in the relationship lead to worse and worse events in their lives. All this is told by a man to another man on a cruise ship. At that time, the girl, who was also on this liner with her disabled husband, behaves very mysteriously, flirts with a new acquaintance, gives him some hints about a possible relationship. The guy, like that teenager, falls in love with a new acquaintance and has some hopes for the future with her...
In the end, we reach a strange ending, perhaps even a predictable one. But everything will end abruptly.
The film is about the destructive power of love, about love and self-respect, about how you can lose yourself next to another person.
We see the destruction of personality, subjugation, complete loss of self. It affects the living, because who among us has not been in love? But if you give all of yourself to feelings and your partner, you can get lost. For me, the film demonstrates what not to do. Maybe other meanings will open up for someone.
This movie can make you think a lot, and you can watch it without thinking about anything: just as an interesting romantic thriller.
A frame from the film
If you have watched this film, I will be happy to discuss your impressions and mine in the comments. If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch it.
Thank you for reading my post. Until the next meetings! 📺
