"When a Woman Sleeps" is directed by Wang Ying , starring Kitano Takeshi and Hidetsuki Nishijima. It was released on February 27, 2016. This film is adapted from the short story of the same name by the famous Spanish writer Javier Marias "While the Woman Are Sleeping". It tells a suspense story about the weird love between young and beautiful women and middle-aged men, the changing couple relationship, the guilt of peeping, and the irrepressible curiosity. The famous writer Kenji Shimizu (played by Hidetoshi Nishijima) got a week-long vacation during which he brought his wife Aya (played by Koyamada Koshuri) to a hotel in a Japanese tourist resort Izu.
Qingshui became famous with her debut novel, but since then she fell into a downturn and has never had a commendable classic work. She has been greatly shaken in her life, her wife, and her confidence in her own talent.
On this rare holiday, Qingshui, who was confused and troubled by the future road, was depressed, and his relationship with his wife was also in a deadlock, and they looked at each other speechlessly.
On the first day, a couple who looked quite different from ordinary people aroused Qingshui's curiosity. On the other end of the sun-filled swimming pool, Sahara (played by Kitano Takeshi), who is not astonishingly middle-aged and not-so-stunningly beautiful, and his young and beautiful and sexy lover Miki (played by Huna Xiri).
When the pair of partners with significant age difference seen through the straw hat mesh is not his inner wave and externalization of fear: his rapidly declining career and youthful wife.
Therefore, in both men, there is a deep fear of being betrayed by a female partner who is more energetic than herself. What is fear? It is the fear between gain and loss, and the fear of being lost but still having but still having to lose.
To eliminate this fear, both men are using voyeurism to relieve stress.
When he saw them for the first time, Qingshui could no longer see him. He guessed their relationship, their past. He even couldn't help but follow the two and peeked into the privacy of each other's room. From the gap in the door, he saw Miki lying on the bed and fell asleep. Sahara carefully shaved off Miki's soft hair at her neck, and then held the camera in her hand to take a picture of the beauty sleeping in front of her. This is also Sahara's voyeurism to the girl.
I don’t know if all middle-aged and elderly men love to peek at nude girls, but this kind of psychology of Japanese men is not uncommon, especially in the works of writers, the purity that has not been contaminated, the mystery that has not been opened by desire, the mystery that is beautiful, complete, and pure but not opened. Once it is turned on, when a woman no longer sleeps, the passion that evolves from desire is enough to eliminate, trample and erase male self-esteem. Rather than disgusting his wife, it is more afraid that he cannot satisfy the other person. Rather than being obsessed with the young body of his lover, it is better to escape the weight of aging and unbearable reality.
In a society that seems to be dominated by men, men are actually more fragile inside. In the film, when the male protagonist returns to the photo studio, the boss sighed, "It seems that a man wants a stable life in his heart, but he still involuntarily follows those women who play men in his palms. Is this the nature of a male animal? Brother, you are a bit like him."
"I told her, but she betrayed me." "What did you do to her?"
"What is your wife doing, have you found the hat?" "What are you talking about?!"
This is a pair of men who peek at each other's lives. Your fear is me, and my fear is also you. I peeked at you, and you were peeking at me.
Love is full of love, the candle turns into ashes and tears start to dry out, burning your life into the other person's life, and pursuing the soul of fit with your partner.
Sahara makes every effort to understand Miki's world, and Kenji and Aya, a writer and an editor, should have been highly consistent in the spiritual level. Such love is enviable, but it is also dangerous, because there can no longer be a comparative level above the highest level.You can't watch your life candle burn out like this, but the other party's life fire is getting stronger and stronger because it is inserted on the candlestick filled with your wax.
is just some process, once it is turned on, it is difficult to reverse. Life is like the red sock that Sahara slapped into the swimming pool after hitting the water surface. Even if it is not in a swamp, the more you struggle, the deeper you will be.
The love of ordinary men, at this point, even if it has the strange form as much as Sahara and Miss Miki. Although Kenji had no evidence to prove that he had had one or another with that strange lover, and even could not prove that they really existed, when he turned around on the street, he could find that he was surrounded by souls like Sahara, which could be seen everywhere.
What are men doing when women are sleeping? The movie is about what men are doing in the time women have no time to care about. Are you thinking about a career that will never recover? Or is it thinking about another woman in my heart? Is it that the hormone sweat stains are made with mottled salt cream tangled with the happy or sad past? Or stare at his other half who rushed into the sky with him and listen to her sweet breathing?
There are many major decisions for men in the world, all of which depend on the state of the woman who sleeps with them after sleeping. Many married men can only take off their disguise when a woman is sleeping and face her true self calmly. Even if you are confused and at a loss. Many thoughts that cannot be expressed can at least take a breath in this quiet moment.
You may not know when you start and don’t know what your partner is thinking. The reason I don’t know is that his deformed and perverted thoughts make it difficult for him to speak. Because a normal and peaceful life seems to be unable to drive people forward, only those strange behaviors and ways of life can stimulate people to bring bright colors to ordinary days.
Is it necessary to have doubts and mystery to satisfy the spiritual aesthetics and emotional pleasure of modern people? A life that is becoming more and more prosperous has gradually begun to emptie modern people's peaceful and rational waiting for life. But this is not a mistake in the evolution of civilization, nor is it a sin of a prosperous life, but a confusion about modern people's unexpected arrival of modern days, but a discomfort of modern people's evolution of modern life.
Watch Take Kitano acting, I always feel that he is the embodiment of another man. That's right, Ken Takakura, but Uncle Takakura gives people more warmth in his coldness, and Uncle Kitano has a more cruel and cruel smell.
movie "When a Woman Sleeps", some people say that they are confused from beginning to end, but they don't understand the end.
In fact, you can understand it from the perspective of men's stress and fear when facing physiological aging and career decline, and everything is relieved.
Have you been to Africa? Have you seen the lion group? It is rumored that only one male lion can get all the female lions. So, the Lion King mates with all the female lions. But there are also ugly lionesses. Those lionesses, they let the least popular lion mate with her.
Do you know, are variegated male cats on the verge of extinction? Humans intend to breed them artificially. These male cats only need to eat and drink every day and then mate. So they become stupider. In front of female cats, or when they are sleeping, their tongues will pop out, just like low-powered children. You know, if a man does something too simple, he will become a fool.
