[Warm Water Under a Red Bridge]
Water symbolizes the main theme running through this comic story of rampant female desire. Water is in everything here and is seen as the motivating principle of life in a living parable of yin and yang.
The living embodiment of this water principle is woman, as such, and two of the women here, in particular. The younger woman produces copious amounts of the stuff during lovemaking, which flows into the nearby river; attracting the fish and making the local anglers happy. This suggests that the creator is female; explaining the great number of fish the trawlermen land. Fishermen are seen as superior to salarymen.
Being about making hay while the sun shines, this film suffers from a certain emotional coldness in the execution that doesn't enamor us to the central characters – only the strange, magical realist world they inhabit.
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