Salut SGland !! hi @missy @rambo @jacqueline
I'm reading '' les fleurs du mal '' by Charles Baudelaire, and I decided to write about some things that were certainly influenced by this work!
The book “Les fleurs du mal” was published in 1857 and was considered his maximum work. The first edition consisted of a volume with a hundred poems and contained a different language that focused on the grotesque and rawness of reality. This work addressed taboo themes, such as lesbianism and Satanism, which resulted in a severe criticism of the newspaper “Le Figaro” ending his career and being known now as the cursed poet. For violating the morals and good habits of the time, Baudelaire was fined and prevented from publishing six of his poems. The edition with the banned verses was only published in 1911, years after his death.
if you like animes that focus on the evil that human beings can offer, the work begins with Takao Kasuga, a boy who loves to read strange books influenced by his father, mainly “les Fleurs du Mal” by Baudeleire, his favorite. In addition to his love of reading, Takao has a platonic passion for a colleague in his class: Nanako Saeki, considering her his muse and his Venus. One day, the protagonist forgets his beloved book in the classroom and decides to go back. However, Takao finds not only the lost work ... but also the gym clothes of his Goddess, Nanako, who he impulsively steals! Everything would be fine if a strange and (psychopathic) girl in your class, Sawa Nakamura, had not seen what happened.
In order not to be discovered, and end up as a strange pervert, Takao undergoes Sawa's treatments and, as you might imagine, your life will never be the same!
Aku no Hana has a very clear objective in its existence: to show human rot! Unveiling that evil exists even in the “calmest” people when situations lead to it or when they are encouraged to do so. We all have a dark side within us, we just may not know that it exists. The anime intends to reconstruct or give an understanding of Charles Baudeleire's greatest work, "The Flowers of Evil". Aku no Hana is thus a criticism of society's hypocrisy and the demands of virginal purity mixed with the sexual emergency that exudes everywhere. It is an ode to love, death, paradise and its expulsion from it, to pure and eroticism, to God and the devil. It is, in essence, an exploration of the contradictions of reality.
It may seem strange but the different one captivated me a lot and left me intrigued. In addition to this, I felt that the drawing made the characters look more adult and more real, fitting in well with the narrative.
as I always talk about the soundtrack, it wouldn't be any different now, this account always ends at the episode, a macabre and intriguing song, Aku no Hana Ending ...a beautiful poem...
...Neiro hazu mo nai
Sazu hazu mo nai hana ga saiteta shi
Soko ni yahari soko nite
Shikari soko ni soko aru da yo
Hana ga saita yo
Hana ga hana ga saita yo
Hidoku kaze ni obieta
Daremo mita koto nai hana ga saiteita you da
...
it also reminds me of the Therion album ''Les Fleurs Du Mal'' Symphonic power metal band from French is long time player in the genre. They keep doing innovative music in the last few years.
and the music of Sopor Aeternus - '' Les Fleurs Du Mal ''
bisous bisous 💋💋
