The whole film, like the narrative of a novel, is subdivided into 5 chapters, so that the atmosphere and rhythm of the whole film can be soothed and adjusted with peaceful and prophetic pictures between each chapter and chapter. The beginning is changed from the haze in the middle to the liberation and sublimation at the end. The most impressive chapters are Chapter 4 and Chapter 7: Chapter 4 Jan's Illness appears in the opening picture of the village with a gloomy glow, and a rainbow gradually becomes clear and bright in the turbidity, just as Yan is in the pain of injury, Beth sends sweet kisses and heartfelt smiles again and again. The seventh chapter, Bess' Sacrifice, is printed and dyed by the blue or silver moonlight on the ground level and the red and purple rays of the sun to form a contradictory and beautiful picture. Both pictures have a chaotic but difficult to cover up beauty. And just as the content of these two chapters is generally tangled but logically carried out, the conflicting plots impacted Beth's heart, impacted people's concepts and impacted our hearts.
Do we all think Beth is a stupid girl? How can someone talk to themselves like this, how can someone be so reluctant to give up love, how can someone destroy themselves like this? Yes, Beth is a silly girl, what a pure silly girl she is, wholeheartedly in this world only for love. Undeniably, Beth lost herself in this way of ardent love. It seemed to her that she had sold her soul to the devil in order to redeem her poor Ion from the devil, and the power of this love made her Falling into the whirlpool, not only did she not struggle to swim out of the whirlpool, but instead plunged her head down. Beth, who had lost her father since childhood, was unwilling to lose Ion—losing this, in her opinion, was a perfect gift from her father, and she couldn't live without Ion for a moment. She was afraid of losing her forever like losing her father. Yep. In the end, the beautiful and innocent girl gave her last beauty to the devil, and she was firm and did not look back. When she died, her pale but blood-stained face revealed a hint of panic "I'm afraid" She grabbed the little "dudu" shouted, and gradually lost her life, and at this moment I recalled the beginning of the film, the old people asked Beth sternly "Have you ever thought of such value?" And Beth told the old man innocently They are "worth it". The sound of "dudu" hissing and piercing crying sounded in his ears, and Beth's mother, who agreed that her daughter was expelled from the village, also covered her face and cried bitterly. Yes, as her mother said, Beth is a weak woman. She is a weak woman with a history of mental illness. She is a weak woman in front of evil forces. The weak woman who cried and begged for mercy, she was the weak woman who collapsed and beat her mother when she closed the house, she was the weak woman who finally died and could not be forgiven by the village. But she is such an extremely vulnerable girl, where did she get the strength to face her paralyzed husband and optimistically say that he is alive, where did she get the courage to find a man as a hobby and ask the devil to let her husband live, where did she come from The strength stood up from "Dudu"'s arms to complete her final sacrifice. She is just a weak woman, and she is a poor weak woman with some mental disorder, but at the moment when she rushed into the church to argue with the old people, her firmness, her persistence, and her courage were hard to ignore by everyone. As the doctor finally ruled on the cause of her death, he knew in his heart that Beth died for love, not the so-called "normal conclusion" - schizophrenia caused by her husband's illness led to an abnormal increase in libido. Beth's relatives who were sitting next to the doctor also knew the real cause of Beth's death in their hearts.
Fate may be so playful, yes, Beth died, but Ion survived and got out of the hospital bed, no longer completely paralyzed like mud, and Beth's last wish came true. In fact, maybe Beth would get better without making such a sacrifice, but Beth still chose to make this deal with the devil, even though her husband's intention was to let her find new happiness. But the persistent love makes Beth unable to see the road ahead. She only knows that she is responsible for it, she only knows that she loves Ion deeply, and only she can save him. Uncomfortable, no matter how painful, she has only one goal: to keep Ion alive.
Even so twisted things have happened, and everything is irreversible. When Ion's miracle happened, people living were more willing to think that it was a miracle brought by Beth. The sacrifice that Beth felt was worth bringing warm colors to the tragic story, like the bells from heaven and the long-lost sunshine at the end of the film.
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