Filmed like a documentary, the film depicts various lives and moods that seem real, imperfect but familiar. On the surface, the story is extremely contradictory, and even cruel and unrealistic - a lonely, ignorant, and curious girl falls in love with her future husband, gets married, and has a sweet first marriage, and then a sudden accident brings sudden changes and heavy blows in her life. In the past, men and women made judgments and choices in the face of reality. In the end, men became "living" and "perverted" in the world's population, and women became "dead" and "bitch". In fact, aren't both parties willing to endure physical and mental torture alone in order to let their lover achieve the happiness they envisioned. The paralyzed husband wanted to die at first, but when he realized that even a single expression had such a great influence on his lover, he began to persuade his lover to empathize, and make changes from eliminating himself to downplaying himself. The wife sees her husband's persuasion as the only effective action she can make when she is powerless - sacrifice. Aside from the exaggerated plot of the film, the inner experience of the characters is so real. No matter what the end of the film is, I have seen two lives who have come out of the love belief and know more about cherishing love. Screenwriters and directors are poets who can express their emotions so heartily; they are also philosophers who extract the essence from emotion and reality; the film is the work of doers, and the viewer does not need to experience it, so it can be sublimated.
The tragedies of the famous novels in the past really failed to impress the young and ignorant me, although I was also moved by them. The gap between the times made me find an excuse for the emotional distance. But in the face of a 96-year-old film with a seemingly religious theme and background, I was shocked and had to think. So, I said I love the film and the people who presented it to me.
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