Official sources define the film as a man's film, about a man's friendship. But what I saw was divine love, and I believe my understanding was more pertinent. Maybe a good movie should be like this, allowing the audience to have their own perspective. Its own inclusiveness allows people who hold every opinion to believe in their own opinion.
Worldly love is actually a bargain: what I give you, you give back to me, like a bargain. But divine love is giving without reciprocation. It's hard for a normal person to do this, so the image of the male protagonist, Benino, is a bit odd at first - a somewhat retarded look, and a humble expression. His experience is also strange. He studied nursing at school, and after graduation, he devoted himself to caring for his mother at home until his mother died. His life is simple and closed, and after spending so many years with his elderly mother, his temperament will inevitably be withdrawn. After his mother died, his life also lost support, and his desire to take care of others has long been formed in his bones - his occupational disease has been upgraded to his hobby, taking care of others as a pleasure. The character has been shaped to this point, and it already has the quality of being close to God.
Betano falls in love with the girl Aricia. The girl is too good for him to show her love. The opportunity came unexpectedly. The girl suffered a car accident and became a vegetative state. Betano took his nursing qualification certificate and asked the girl's father for this nursing job. He had no chance to talk to the girl before, but after she became a vegetable, he could talk to her all day long, even if she responded to his thousand words with silence. He told Mark, a writer who is also in the hospital taking care of his vegetative girlfriend, that you have to keep telling her that although she can't hear now, she will hear it one day. Betano has simple and stubborn beliefs, and miracles often crash into the arms of such people. Betano's care for the girl was so thoughtful that it aroused the suspicion of the girl's father. So Bertano asked Mark for help and put on a GAY gesture in front of each other to dispel the employer's doubts. This is also a very delicate stroke, a secret is formed between the two men, it becomes subtle, and the friendship between the men increases between the like and the dissimilar.
Arisia is suddenly found to be pregnant, the thing is done by Bertano, he is arrested. I don't think this negates the divine quality of Betano's love. He is human after all. It is only when the human side of him is presented that the divinity becomes more and more real. In fact, the development of the plot coincides with my opinion: Arisi wakes up because of her pregnancy. I don't know the relevant medical knowledge, but I believe that such a thing is tantamount to a miracle.
The imprisoned Betano wanted to inquire about Aricia through Mark, but the lawyer blocked the news of Aricia's recovery. Mark was unable to tell the truth to Betano. Betano committed suicide due to unbearable isolation. It is precisely because of the divinity in him that he appears so fragile in the world. In his life, apart from his mother, he lived for the woman he loved deeply. By accident, he awakened the sleeping woman with love, but he always understood his love as hurting her, and ended in depression. . Mark was crying because of Bertano's departure. The mournful and narcissistic cry of a middle-aged man penetrated my eardrums powerfully. I suddenly realized that the divinity in man has nothing to do with qualities such as strength, decency, and tenacity. It is more likely to be manifested as vulnerability, loneliness, forbearance, and only beautiful alone in the dark night.
In the film, "The Pigeon Song" sung by Gaetano Veloso is like the sound of heaven. No matter how good the film is, I don’t have time to watch it again and again. When I listen to this song, because I don’t know the meaning of the words, I can let go of my self-understanding and relive everything that “Tell Her” tried to convey to me.
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