The story describes an elderly couple whose wife's health continued to deteriorate after a stroke, which caused great physical and psychological torture to both of them. This scenario can actually happen to everyone, but each couple may have different ways of coping and different endings. I think it was the couple, the wife's attitude towards life and the husband's love for her that made the director write such a story with such an ending. Not that there's any specificity to the story, but I always felt that the film brought this common life plight to a personal touch.
The husband and wife have a very good life, and they have no financial difficulties. Moreover, as a music teacher, the wife also likes classical piano music. In fact, they are middle and upper class. This is also the object that Hannek likes to deal with. But after all external economic and intellectual problems have been put aside, what this film has to deal with is very pure, that is, love faces the ruthless test of time and physical aging.
The jumping of several paragraphs in the movie made the wife's body deteriorate every time, from the normal appearance at the beginning, to the hemiplegia, and finally to the inability to act and speak normally. At first, I felt that the wife's attitude towards her own pain was a bit negative, but after seeing it, she couldn't. What to judge. Emmanuelle Riva's daring performance deserves an Oscar (but nothing). The way the husband handles his wife's physical condition seems very touching, but to a certain extent, he can't really "seriously" discuss this issue with his daughter, because the so-called serious and rational way is also unacceptable to him.
The love in the movie or a desire for beauty makes both of them unable to let go, and it is this inability to let go that highlights the love between the two. Maybe other people will face it differently because of their religious beliefs or other factors, but maybe Hannek is an atheist (?), and God obviously has no room to play here. This is really the pull between human nature and nature. site. But it is also the involvement between the two that makes the movie so positioned as the relationship between the two.
And from the beginning of the movie, the husband tells his wife the story of his childhood, and he continues to tell the story until the end of the movie. It is this cruel powerlessness that makes me feel the feelings that Hannek might put in. I find the handling of these passages very moving.
What is equally fascinating is that the filming of the entire film also has space for processing. At the beginning of the film, the two of them went out to listen to the concert. Later, until the end of the film, they never left the apartment where they lived. The medium shot shot through the composition of the room and doors and windows and The low-key light treatment makes this apartment a closed movie space. The entry and exit of each room and the switch slowly accumulate strength in the movie, and even some passages have infiltrated dreams and hallucinations. The final treatment of the story is really quite magical, although it seems simple. The movie uses different ways to deal with the appearance of the two lives, one reality and the other fantasy, which is really stamina.
There are also two pigeon scenes, and I can't say what those two scenes mean right now, but if there is a God in this movie, or some kind of power beyond reality, maybe this is it. When an uninvited guest broke into the closed space between the two, the protagonist's pursuit of this pigeon scene is really close to a breathtaking realm. Maybe I think too much, but I haven't felt this way in the new film for a long time.
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