Bed and Board aka Domicile Conjugal

Bed and Board aka Domicile Conjugal

At the start, there is a couple

-              He is waiting for the wife to come

-              They have to get somewhere

-              When she takes too long, he throws the fur and bag down the stairs

Later on, the hero and his wife do the same

-              You see, they really love each other now!!-

-              This is the reaction of the wife that was always late at the start

We learn that Baudelaire

·         Was involved with flowers, just like the hero of Bed and Board

·         Fleurs du Mal

The protagonist of Domicile Conjugal is using color for flowers to obtain a perfect red.

Both Antoine and Christine Doinel smoke a lot and near the baby, but these were the days when so many did that.

The hero ends up working for what looks like a multinational, with an American boss that has an absurd conversation:

-          We have a problem with transportation

-          It is in July that I like the trees

-          The hero is responding with pre- fabricated answers

They give him the job of maneuvering some small ships, in a small pond near the headquarters of the company.

One day, he meets a group of Japanese who are interested in the project and discuss it near the small lake.

There is one young woman that needs to use the facilities in the building and for some odd reason they send the protagonist.

They establish a connection and they see each other again, confirming somehow the Honeymoon Effect.

After a period of about two years in general, men and women are more interested in someone new than in their partner.

And a Japanese woman is really different.

They have a meal at the apartment shared with another woman, who is supposed to have some problem in the family.

But it certainly looks like she is gone just to allow the two to get intimate with each other- there is a sign on the door:

-          Do not disturb- in Japanese

There is a strange, dark message from the Asian woman:

-          You are the one I would commit suicide with!

After they have this affair for a while, the lover sends some flowers and within them there are love messages.

In the first place, the hero throws them near the house, but a boy brings them to the apartment where they are given to Madame.

-          As they wither, the flowers send the messages down to the table

When the cheating husband comes home, he finds the wife dressed in Japanese attire and crying on the floor.

She has found out about the affair.

They fight and he takes down the mattress from the bed to another room, where he has to sleep away from the wife.

But after a while, the hero is bored by the Japanese woman and starts calling his wife from the places where he is with the lover.

So frequently he does that, establishing a new bond with the wife, that the Japanese leaves the restaurant with a message:

-          Va te faire foutre