
If you dare to bare your teeth,
I'll bite you back and even pull out your teeth.
終於看了這部片
拖了這麼久才看真是很不稱職的一個Lars Von Trier's fan





I. Plot
Through the dialogue between a French woman and Japanese man—a pair of immoral lovers, the past of the woman is revealed more and more.
II. Theme
àHiroshima vs. Histoire: international history and personal story
This personal story always dominates the necessarily demonstrative Hiroshima story.
*How to present? By placing the immoral lovers in Hiroshima, where the name of the place is associated with the atomic bomb in WWⅡ and the sufferings of Japanese people. Emphasizing the background history by making SHE an actress who comes to cast in a movie about peace.
àMemory vs. Oblivion/Forgetfulness: the passage of time
SHE: Like you, I too have tried with all my might not to forget. Like you, I forgot. Like you, I wanted to have n inconsolable memory, a memory of shadows and stone.
SHE:…I’m beginning to forget you. I tremble at the thought of having forgotten so much love…
*How to present? By the fear of forgetting the German soldier and the determination of leaving the Japanese man.
III. Paradox
àWar vs. Peace, Life vs. Death
IV. Immoral love
àSHE and the German vs. SHE and the Japanese: treason and adultery
*Why? Feminism: living beyond social expectations
àExile: love is her country.
V. Name
àNevers: never/rien, impossibility
HE: You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.
HE: Nothing. You know nothing.
àHiroshima: the place full of traumatic victims of the WWⅡ
VI. Style of Duras
àPlotless sequences, noncharacters, stylistic effects
àBi-film: two stories
àMusical affinities
*Sonata form: exposition, development, recapitulation
*Background music: partⅠ and partⅤ
àPoetic elements: