It was only around this year that I watched this movie that I really felt the so-called distance in time, and only had a feeling that it was a movie from the last century. The cultural atmosphere, both at home and abroad, is already very different from the past. This feeling mainly comes from myself, the distance between me and the past, and the feeling is so clear.
If you look at it now (it's hard to say which is the modern time, the present or the past in this movie), there isn't a normal healthy person in this movie.
Zu is a person who has no independent ability and is overly dependent on others - this is mainly because of his mother, although there is only one plot description, Zu can't rebel against his mother, and the plot of Katherine's injury, even he himself does not know this, just see. His problems come from his mother, and his need for affirmation from women is the most urgent of all male characters. This makes him always look like a boy, and he gets along with children more like playmates than fathers. And in the future of losing Catherine, his love and self can only be endlessly pinned on his daughter, which is why he obtained a daughter, not a son. Although his letters to Catherine during the war were about the son in her womb, Zu did not end up being a fully independent adult in any sense, and his descendants, in a sense , can only be a woman who can make up for the independence he can't get, and who can give him affirmation, a gentle and considerate daughter.
Catherine is a beautiful woman with a tendency to self-destruct, inevitably destroying others and self-destruction. She even has some bipolar tendencies. Her life needs freedom and adventure. She needs life to be a process of resistance, and this process is also for herself. Against creation, she cannot be content with the status quo, but she seeks the protection of nature, and her desire for Yuzhan's children is what she wants, the crystallization of life, and Yuzu's children cannot bring her such Satisfaction, that child is Zu's, not hers, after all, she needs a child with Zhan, preferably a lively boy, with all her fantasies and adventurous spirit, to live in the world again. Her ego is so weak that it is like a fog, she is constantly turning between self-lost and self-entanglement, she needs emotional rest, and it is different from others, it is her instinctive enthusiasm, it is Symbol of the sun. The female characters in this are the real adventurers, which is different from the interpretation of men and women in the general sense. Giving birth is not her duty, not even her bondage, that's what she wants to do, a child is not her definition, or even completely separated from her. She was never a "good wife and good mother".
Another male character is Able, which completely symbolizes Catherine, a boy who purely pursues artistic happiness. His love for Catherine has nothing to do with her, but only for her beauty. He cannot restrain his instinctive approach, so he does not. It will limit her freedom, and there is no tendency to rely at all. Their affair is no different from the song.
The real protagonist of the story, the only thing that seems normal, is Zhan. He has his own restraint and complete reservation of love. He is the only adult male among them, and naturally the only object worthy of Catherine's admiration. Their union is inevitable. They are a match made in heaven in every sense, possessing self-order and self-resistance. He has experienced war, knows the meaning of failure and destruction, and understands the importance of life. His love with Catherine needs a complete decision to make the love complete. If it doesn't end, how can there be completeness at all? He has experienced the wars of the world and the wars of his own life. He resists, he expects, he resists, and he accepts. The difference between him and Catherine is that he accepts. It seems that he has gone through the era of madmen and returned to ordinary people again (of course there are no ordinary people around him, and there is no normal person at all), he can re-invest into ordinary and ordinary daily life, and he can still keep his promises Marry your girlfriend. Catherine is his witch, he loves her is the same reason for their souls, there is almost no crazy violent part in their expressions, the protagonist doesn't seem to be him, but the beginning of the story is accounted for, and the end is also accounted for Finish. Catherine was going to kill him, to take away the barriers she had put in her life, the hard parts, the parts she couldn't get at all—or gain the parts that were lost again. She is a natural witch, there is no quietness at all, but she wants to feel life, exactly like herself, she needs love, she needs the experience of life. Therefore, she cannot bear the burden of life, she cannot bear failure, and she cannot accept the cruelty of nature. Every time she turns the pages, she does not owe each other in a childlike manner, which is her innocent and lovely place. So no one blamed her, all of them fell into the arms of such a soft illusion, they didn't need "health" at all, they didn't need "normal". Their failures were inevitable, and like their union, there were no surprises, and they couldn't bear each other at all, just as they couldn't bear themselves. This has nothing to do with their character, and it has nothing to do with their love, because the fact that they are together is an everyday life, while they themselves are extraordinary, and they step into an ordinary life. Therefore, failure is something they must experience. Zhan has already experienced failure. He has experienced a battle and is already an old man on the battlefield. He has already found wisdom, and he knows that he has been resisting.
Catherine wanted to kill him, he wouldn't let her kill him, but he agreed, acquiescing to their mutual suicide. Because their love that can't end no matter what, can't end with someone's end. I don't think he minds death at all, nor does he mind ending love in this way, at least the love is complete, and there is no difference between two people living together or dying together. There is a huge difference between a person's death and separation.
Again, this is not a movie about normal people at all, there is no normal person in it. In our era, describing abnormality is no longer a skill, not even an artistic method. People like quiet explosions, as if there is explosive violence hidden in still pictures. People are already interested in such aesthetics. Mental tolerance and enjoyment. However, knowing that normal is not the norm in the first place, I even suspect that I take so-called "normal" too seriously, which has surpassed the part of group pressure, and has even reached the point of self-limitation due to the panic of mental illness. But after all, isn't it abnormal that beauty explodes? Isn't it just because of her irresistible beauty that it brought fall and destruction? But beautiful, still beautiful.
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