Sin and Beauty - American Love Movies

Author: Zhang Kuang
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: American cinema, with violence, murder, and love. It attempts to interpret a crime, a crime that begins in life and ends in life, using tension and initiation to the process of atonement through abuse or self-abuse. Yet, this crime is portrayed so beautifully by the film director and actors. Perhaps the crime itself is a form of beauty, much like Shakespeare's plays, which also feature assassination, poisoning, strangulation, various forms of violence, betrayal, adultery, and conspiracy. Oscar Wilde said, "Crime is the only bright spot in modern life." I think he was only half right. Crime is a bright spot, and beauty is another. Both are on opposite ends of the mirror. Is beauty real, or is crime real? Is beauty an illusion, or is crime an illusion? It doesn't matter. Just like this sleepless night, whether it is a crime or a beauty—this too doesn't matter. What matters is that the author has completed this book, allowing anyone who picks it up to experience both a crime and a beauty through his words.