tangled movie

Garth 2022-04-19 09:02:15

Yesterday, I read the new book published by Mr. Xu Haofeng. He said that the movie is ultimately about telling people how to live. But after watching Po Lang, I was always breathing in the heroine's emotions, depressed and breathless.
The human nature in the film has been distorted by religious stubbornness. They just wear a sane mask and do selfish things in the name of religion. What they see is only the superficiality and vulgarity of the world, and they cannot see the most beautiful fantasy and love in people's hearts.
The complexity of human nature presented in Lars von Trier's lens is naked and pale. While questioning religion, he is also sympathizing with the purest and most sincere love in the world. But when the final bell rang, it was the heroine herself ringing the bell for herself, and that was the only thing she could do.

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Extended Reading
  • Madeline 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Rewatch. Dogma's first post-95 LVT film, with sets, soundtracks, special effects...but most importantly, it has the realistic immersion the manifesto hopes to convey. The first thing that comes to mind is the Holy Fool in the Orthodox Church (Skardo in Stalker), but it's not accurate. Because Beth's subjectivity is close to zero! Although the opposition between women and the conservative society of the political economy frame is established from the beginning (Beth has never been in the same frame with the priest), Beth has not rebelled against it. LVT especially understands that love is not the focus of the film at all, so why did Young let Beth fall into the arms of other men, and why did Beth change from a "virgin" to a "prostitute"? None of the films give a clear logical explanation—and this is what makes "Breaking the Waves" particularly fascinating: editing through emotional continuity. Throughout the ages, there have been countless movies about the direct communication between people and God in disguise and questioning the intermediary and legitimacy of the church. The reason why "Breaking the Waves" can survive is its high level of immersion in reality. There is no power or magic at all.

  • Dimitri 2022-01-02 08:01:35

    Zarathustra came down the mountain and met a white-haired old saint in the forest. The old man saw that Zarathuste's eyes were pure, but there was a bit of evil hidden up and down the corners of his mouth, and he walked like a dance. Zarathustra said that because he loved the world, he was going to die. The old man declared that he only loves God, not the world. Saying goodbye to the old man, Zarathustra continued down the mountain, surprised that the old man did not know that God had died.

Breaking the Waves quotes

  • Judge: Listen man, you had the deceased in your care. The court would like to hear the medical facts.

    Dr. Richardson: If... if you'd, um... if you were to ask me again to write... um... the conclusion, then... instead of writing "neurotic" or, um, "psychotic" uh, I might... just, um... use a word like... "good".

    Judge: Good?

    Dr. Richardson: Yes.

    Judge: You wish the records of this court to state that, in your medical opinion, the deceased was suffering from being good?

    Judge: Perhaps this was the psychological defect that led her to her death!

    Judge: Is that what we shall write Doctor Richardson?

    Dr. Richardson: [pause] No. Of course not.

  • Bess McNeill: Father, why aren't you with me?

    Bess McNeill: [as God] I am with you Bess. What do you want from me?

    Bess McNeill: [overjoyed] Where where you?

    Bess McNeill: [as God] Well don't you think I have other people who want to talk to me?

    Bess McNeill: Well of course. I hadn't thought of that.

    Bess McNeill: [as God] There's this silly little thing called Bess who keeps on wanting me to talk to her. And my work's been piling up a bit.

    Bess McNeill: But you're with me now?

    Bess McNeill: [as God] Of course I am, Bess. You know that.

    Bess McNeill: Thank you.