Find love between life and death

Luis 2022-04-19 09:02:07

A cold, restrained and brutal film. Silent opening, silent ending, pure black background, concise subtitles. Without adding any superfluous emotion, just like the content of the movie.

The title is the hero and heroine hidden in the concert, Anne had symptoms of stroke at that time. The unremarkable protagonist in the crowd appears in the mirror, and the weak person in the divided composition.

Reading, piano, home furnishing. Life is a sonata of concerts, meals, and reading. But suddenly one day, the loved one was suddenly paralyzed, and each other had no choice but to watch the situation worsen day by day, until the beloved Anne was no longer Anne. A wife who just repeats "mal, mal" in bed, or a lover who sits at the piano and plays, cooks and washes dishes, and enjoys concerts?
If Anne, who was half paralyzed, could still listen to him tell interesting stories about her childhood and comfort George who woke up from a nightmare; then Anne, who had suffered a second stroke, had inevitably become George's own nightmare.
The woman he loves was pushed around without dignity by the caregivers, stripped and rubbed by them, and kept screaming pain when she combed her hair. What an excruciating pain this is. And this pain was accompanied by his inevitable intolerance towards her, which deepened the pain many times.
And for Anne, what if being alive means no longer being able to appreciate art, or even being a burden to a loved one? She has long lost her love for life. Memories of the past, beautiful life, but it's too long.

Schubert's piano music, the room full of abstract paintings, and the two empty shots made me want to cry the most. But the director is so fierce, he didn't leave any room for sensationalism. The painting is an allegory of space, and the house has long since become a cage filled with water in a dream, just like those paintings that were originally decorated in different rooms suddenly appear still on the dark screen, one after another bluntly, only to let The originally elegant space was covered with a layer of dead silence. Similarly, when the piano music can only evoke memories of the past rather than the joy of the present, it can only be stopped hastily under George's hands.

Restrained or even deliberately not sensational, to tell a love story between life and death. Without any judgment, without any emotion, in the forbearance performance and the grim picture to torture everyone:
Is it a crushing loss of love in the face of inevitable death?
Or,
killing her beloved with her own hands is a noble victory for love when she declares war on death?

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Extended Reading
  • Lavonne 2022-03-30 09:01:04

    What a calm story, what a real emotion, so that tears still flowed out of my eyes after reading it. The minimalist lens and single scene focus on an old couple who have been together for many years. Every dialogue is naturally vivid and unpretentious. It seems that we are also living with them in their living room. The top performance cannot be ignored. Emotions are unforgettable~

  • Summer 2021-12-18 08:01:03

    Young lovers often say, "I really want to grow old with you." Really, you should go watch this movie-watching the life from the body of the one you love deeply, slowly There is no romance at all to leave. Being old is a cruel and specific thing. The funny thing is, it seems that only death can resist it. The cruelty of Haneke is that he does not tell fables, only facts.

Amour quotes

  • Georges: [telling a childhood memory] ... some banal romance or other about a nobleman and a lower middle-class girl who couldn't have each other and who then, out of sheer magnanimity, decide to renounce their love - in fact, I don't quite remember it any more. In any case, afterwards I was thoroughly distraught, and it took me a bit of time to calm down. In the courtyard of the house where grandma lived, there was a young guy at the window who asked me where I'd been. He was a couple of years older than me, a braggart who really impressed me. "To the movies," I said, because I was proud that my grandma had given me the money to go all alone to the cinema. "What did you see?" I started to tell him the story of the movie, and as I did, all the emotion came back. I didn't want to cry in front of the boy, but it was impossible; there I was, crying out loud in the courtyard, and I told him the whole drama to the bitter end.

    Anne: So? How did he react?

    Georges: No idea. He probably found it amusing. I don't remember. I don't remember the film either. But I remember the feeling. That I was ashamed of crying, but that telling him the story made all my feelings and tears come back, almost more powerfully than when I was actually watching the film, and that I just couldn't stop.

  • Anne: It's beautiful.

    Georges: What?

    Anne: Life. So long.