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extreme. absurd. ridiculous. crazy.
It's about love and faith. Pure and dirty.
"Breaking the Waves".
Eight chapters, all beginning with gorgeous oil paintings. It was as if a clean outline was drawn with subtle and trembling brushstrokes, but step by step a deep dark color came to the ground. Fallen, dark. The contrast is obvious. It's shockingly unreal.
thanks. Beth said to Young. Thank you for loving me and thank God for letting me meet you. Feeling lustful anytime, anywhere, Young teaches Beth, a neurotic girl, to love and lust. When Beth faced the priest's question, she was unbearably pious, innocent lamb.
The newlywed Yan Er's lover is forced to separate, and Yang returns to work in the offshore oil field. Beth ran all the way in pain, slamming the iron rod hard, chasing after Yang's plane and crying. Beth's love is paranoid, too strong, too heavy.
But it is also like a mysterious foreshadowing, how happy, how sad, a cruel fairy tale.
Beth's hysterical, screaming by the sea, praying incoherently in the church, praying for Jan to come back. The huge obsession allowed Yang to return to Beth's side, but God punished him as if he was unwilling, giving Yang's broken and paralyzed body. Young was able to live, and Beth smiled, her eyes twinkling. As long as Yang lives, as long as she lives, she can love him, take care of him, and let her obsession and love find an outlet.
Young loses the ability to have sex with Beth, and he asks her to find a lover and tell him the details of their sex. Beth, who Aiyang loved to the core, cried, gave her body tremblingly, took the initiative to hook up with strange men again and again, and vomited nausea afterward. Young was greatly delighted by Beth's narration, and he recovered from the critical illness time after time.
Things turned into absurd farce. Everything was too dramatic. Beth obeyed Yang's request reverently. She constructed an illusion for Yang, forging it with her own tears, shame, and unwillingness. With Beth's body, he was morbidly delighted. Beth's love is the source of Yang's life.
This is a story about love and the power of life. Absurd, unreal, life and death coexist, purity and filth permeate it.
Beth is beaten by sailors on board. Shiny red lips, leather skirt, silk stockings, she was dressed as a dusty woman, she was despised by people, the priest deprived her of the opportunity to speak to God, and even, she was judged to be a mental patient and wanted to send her to mental illness hospital. With all kinds of blows, Beth was about to collapse.
Young was critically ill, and Beth set foot on that big boat again, and this time, she never came back. And Yang, who was in critical condition, miraculously survived. Jan stole Beth's body and sank into the sea.
The bells of heaven are ringing. Looking down from the top, the fog is thick, and everything is hidden in it.
Breaking the waves. Breaking the waves. Reminiscent of the story of the sad little mermaid, but more brutal. Just love too deeply. This film has the kind of heavy feeling that old movies always have, like washing away the dust and returning to the original. Unreality is described with real texture. There are no techniques that are used in modern cinema, and there is no use of interlude and shots and the like. The film is flat and straightforward, but it presents itself naturally, like a river, with its established track, flowing to an unknown place.
An unspeakable metaphor, life, is a metaphor.
Lars von Trier is too tricky. When we watch this movie, it's like holding the heart with our hands, we can feel the sticky and warm touch, we can feel the blood, feel its beating, it doesn't hurt but it's extremely tangled. In the end, the heart was broken, the blood and blood rained, and everything was calm. The soul is redeemed.
is for the end.
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