Two themes of breaking the waves

Toni 2022-04-21 09:02:34

Two themes: First, civilized, too civilized. Whether it's girlfriends, mothers, church members, or children, they are all twisted and sad creatures of repression and dissatisfaction as Freud's "Civilization and Dissatisfaction" said. Bess is a living, real person.
Two, the dark side of love. The film re-examines the difference in the desire for love between men and women. The raging fire of jealousy and possessiveness ignites Jan's belief in rebirth. This has to be said to be a satire of man himself, as well as Bess's masochistic tendency. The deep-rooted, contradictory love is also the essence of human love

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

    The camera lens is extraordinarily delicate, and the smooth movement of the lens is completely unlike the work of the last century. Under the influence of the trend of love and inner desire, Beth is "schizophrenic" in this reality, but the reality ironically develops according to her allegory, and this cannot undo the fact that people are still separated in the end. The story is wonderful, but it really subverts the three views. . Emily Watson's acting is so immersed in it. Von Trier is worthy of being a master of lingering humanity, a man recognized by the Palme d'Or

  • Aliza 2022-04-23 07:02:39

    Tyr's lover's whispers, revealing love-lust-injury-pain, Feng Trier likes to force the ending, and use destruction or praise to negate the former Chen at one time (often destroy with praise, praise with destruction, the bell of heaven. , the end of Dogtown, the underworld goes on a killing spree, the female addict shoots the storyteller…). The church in the town has no will to talk to God, no mercy, it is the center of patriarchal politics, the father died of old age, the elder brother died, the husband lay in bed and dominated the woman with evil thoughts... Let the virgin become a prostitute, a generation Generation's repression, abandonment, indifference, slander, cruelty, ignorance, adventure... All the consequences are borne by women, mother Vino's dull eyes, sister-in-law's death superimposed on the ashes, Beth's hysteria, schizophrenia, women in In the patriarchal structure, the separation of each other and the mutual compassion emanating from the self have become the mutual dependence. The saint and the prostitute share the same vagina, and they share the same mouth with God. The spiritual division of women is also the division of this world, history and present, hell and heaven, man and woman, life and death...

Breaking the Waves quotes

  • Bess McNeill: [as God] Bess McNeill, for many years you've prayed for love. Shall I take it away from you again, is that what you want?

    Bess McNeill: Oh, no. I'm still grateful for love.

    Bess McNeill: [as God] What do you want, then?

    Bess McNeill: I pray for Jan to come home.

    Bess McNeill: [as God, in an impatient voice] He will be coming home in ten days. You must learn to endure, you know that.

    Bess McNeill: I can't wait.

    Bess McNeill: [as God] This is unlike you, Bess. Out there, there are people who need Jan and his work. What about them?

    Bess McNeill: They don't matter. Nothing else matters. I just want Jan home again. I pray to you, oh please. Won't you send him home?

    Bess McNeill: [as God] Are you sure that's what you want?

    Bess McNeill: Yes.

  • Bess McNeill: Have you taken my calendar?

    Dodo McNeill: What? No I have not. What would I want with your calendar?

    Bess McNeill: You've taken it.

    Dodo McNeill: I have not taken it.

    Bess McNeill: Yes you have.

    Dodo McNeill: I don't know what you're talking about. What calendar?

    Bess McNeill: Where is it?

    Dodo McNeill: [returns to the room with Bess's calendar] Bess, you have to stop all this, you know. I mean you've got to go on living when he's not here. I mean he's not dead. You're not dead.

    Bess McNeill: Give it to me.

    Dodo McNeill: You've got to stop it.

    [Bess rearranges the ripped up calendar, staring at the words "I love Jan" on the corner]