Based on the novel of the same name by Alfred Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a shocking, thought-provoking film. Directed by Michael Haneke and starring Isabelle Huppert, Benoit Maguimel, etc., the film tells the pain of a female piano teacher named Elijah whose heart is distorted and her love is mutated under the control of her mother's extreme perversion. story. 1. At the beginning of the incomplete love movie, a middle-aged woman in a coat hurried home with a shoulder bag on her back. As soon as she opened the door, she was questioned by a stern old lady and went there. She started to look through her bag and shouted loudly. They scolded and scolded each other, and in the end, the two of them tore each other and scuffled together. This scene shocked me, and I couldn't imagine that it was something done by a mother. Throughout the movie, Elijah's mother monitors her all the time. She regards Elijah as a tool for her to make money and as a capital to increase her social status, but she never really considers her daughter's needs. Under the supervision of her mother for a long time, Elijah could not feel the real care of her mother, and eventually tended to be abused and self-abused, and became a distorted character, especially for love. Throughout the film, there is no father, only telling the audience that her father is a mental patient. It is conceivable that in Elijah's world, there is no father's love, and she has never touched or tasted it. According to Freud's psychological analysis, the lack of paternal love in adolescence is the cause of schizophrenia after adulthood, and the distortion of the Electra complex is a castration of human nature. The incompleteness of human nature caused many diseases of Erica's character. Abnormal mother's love and lack of father's love are the most fundamental origin of Erica's distorted character and alienated view of love. 2. The repressed instinct in the unconscious "Unconscious Theory" is the foundation and core of Freud's psychoanalytic theory. In the film, in order to vent her pent-up sexual desire, Alicia cut her genitals with a knife. After being rejected by the male student Kramer, she even kissed and bit her mother. At the end of the story, Elijah stabbed the knife in a spot on her shoulder, causing blood to gush out. Elijah uses various ways to satisfy her unconscious instinctive desires, but she has to be suppressed by consciousness due to social constraints, thus forming inner conflicts, and then producing obvious mental abnormalities and personality defects. 3. Personality Conflict Freud divided the personality structure into three parts, namely id, ego and superego. Erica's id drives her to desire the opposite sex, to feel and experience sex, to pursue her own pleasure, and to follow her own inner thoughts. However, the lack of parental guidance since childhood and the extremely strict control of her mother made Elijah hide her real needs. As a piano teacher who is high above and pursues art, the symbols and auras given by the society, as well as the inner self
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