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Navigating the Complexities of Love and Choice in Eric Rohmer’s Cinematic Universe
As a luminary of the French New Wave movement, Eric Rohmer (1920-2010) epitomized multifaceted artistry. He distinguished himself not only as the seminal editor of Cahiers du Cinema but also as a discerning film critic, erudite writer, adept screenwriter, accomplished director, and influential educator. His cinematic oeuvre diverged from the provocative and iconoclastic ethos characterizing the works of luminaries like Godard and Truffaut within the New Wave movement. Instead, Rohmer’s films exuded a certain classicism, portraying quotidian existence with a simplicity and timelessness, underscored by profound philosophical dialogues. In the realm of artistic expression, novels are often deemed superior to films in delineating the intricacies of characters’ inner worlds. However,…
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Decoding Desire: How Hobbes Unraveled Human Emotions and Built a Blueprint for Society
This section talks about the ethics part of Hobbes’ philosophy. According to his definition, the research object of ethics is human temperament and behavior, which is actually human nature. Philosophy studies objects, and human nature is also an object. He tries to study human nature as an objective thing and find its laws. He concluded that desire is the most basic factor in human nature, and desire can explain all human emotions, moods and behaviors. His views on life issues, including happiness and morality, and his politics are also based on his understanding of human nature. 1. Desire is a basic factor in human nature Hobbes regarded desire as the…
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Moments of Realization: Facing the Complexity of Human Nature and Relationships
“Is this really okay?” she asked, wanting to run away but not determined. It was three o’clock in the morning, they were still awake and tired, she thought she could fall asleep by snuggling, but the boy kissed them. “Okay.” The Bunun boy pulled her up. There was a kind of wildness in his beautiful eyes, and there was a blazing fire in that wildness. She kept looking into his eyes as she ripped off his sports bra, feeling the flames coming out, igniting them, so thick with smoke that she couldn’t see clearly. After graduating, she went to teach in a remote small village. She could advance and retreat…
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The Tragic Story of Marguerite in “La Traviata” and the Importance of Self-Love
In the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris, there is such a white marble tomb that is particularly eye-catching. A repeated sentence is engraved on both sides of the tomb: “Alphonsina Plessi (1824.1.19-1847.2.3) rests here. You are deeply missed.” Plessy is a girl who once fell in love with French writer Alexandre Dumas, and she is also the prototype of Marguerite in the famous work “La Traviata”. The poignant and beautiful love between Marguerite and Armand in the book is difficult for many people. Be it love or life, how can we grasp happiness and leave few regrets? After reading “La Traviata”, I realized that it is often unreliable to rely entirely…
