Contains Spoilers Ren¨¦: Typical intellectual, director's alter-ego who seems to have a meditative pursuit of life. He has a strange way of dealing with his amnesia: taking photographs of his personal life Being a projectionist is a good symbol of his life attitude: detachment with no obsession or rebelliousness. However, he does not shirk the relationship with other people blindly but accept what his destiny arranges for him, as symbolized by the baby in his lap at the end of the film.
Marco: Typical male animal, in addition to chasing opposite sex all the time, his only concern is watching TV and consuming garbage food. His trouble besides jealousy is that he fails to penetrate Rebecca's spiritual world. He has this smug clinging fascination to material things that he even ask for the exact price of Rebecca's mother's inheritance auction. Eager to show off his new sports car but disappointed to find out that his girlfriend is not interested at all. His reaction after losing his car makes a strong contrast to other people's indifference to material wealth. It is interesting that he keep asking Rebecca to do one more part-time job, for what? For giving him more money to those libidinal excursion? That final sequence of falling in the air is wonderful.
Rebecca: Female with temperament of literature. Her need of Marco is at one side a prove of the advantages body has over spirit, on the side the yearning and beautification of her curious mind to what Marco represent, a primitive, wild force. However, both he and she felt unquestionably her intellectually superiority and it seems quite normal for a woman like her to establish man-woman relationship like this: She need him but not love him, so need him just like a dildo which can be reasonably substituted by masturbation, or even preferred in certain cases. To piss under the tree is probably from Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex and I am sure Laura wouldn't think of doing that.
Laura: Female of melancholy who has less intellectual superiority but more emotional sensitivity and prefers bonny intellectual to simple-minded male animal. Her job in the film is just sitting there watching the patient dying and drinking with other nurses afterwards. She express her female quality in activities such as going to beauty salon and visiting Ren¨¦ after he failed to show up on a date. Her repugnance to Marco is just what we expected.
Marco: Typical male animal, in addition to chasing opposite sex all the time, his only concern is watching TV and consuming garbage food. His trouble besides jealousy is that he fails to penetrate Rebecca's spiritual world. He has this smug clinging fascination to material things that he even ask for the exact price of Rebecca's mother's inheritance auction. Eager to show off his new sports car but disappointed to find out that his girlfriend is not interested at all. His reaction after losing his car makes a strong contrast to other people's indifference to material wealth. It is interesting that he keep asking Rebecca to do one more part-time job, for what? For giving him more money to those libidinal excursion? That final sequence of falling in the air is wonderful.
Rebecca: Female with temperament of literature. Her need of Marco is at one side a prove of the advantages body has over spirit, on the side the yearning and beautification of her curious mind to what Marco represent, a primitive, wild force. However, both he and she felt unquestionably her intellectually superiority and it seems quite normal for a woman like her to establish man-woman relationship like this: She need him but not love him, so need him just like a dildo which can be reasonably substituted by masturbation, or even preferred in certain cases. To piss under the tree is probably from Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex and I am sure Laura wouldn't think of doing that.
Laura: Female of melancholy who has less intellectual superiority but more emotional sensitivity and prefers bonny intellectual to simple-minded male animal. Her job in the film is just sitting there watching the patient dying and drinking with other nurses afterwards. She express her female quality in activities such as going to beauty salon and visiting Ren¨¦ after he failed to show up on a date. Her repugnance to Marco is just what we expected.