A man asked me if I wanted to be with him or live a fruitful life with him.
He desperately needs a definite answer and
I keep asking myself: Are you ready to be tied up? Are you ready to be tied up?
At one point I actually wanted to say: OK. But I know I won't say it.
And this "good" is just a momentary shake after I faced it alone for a long time.
Back in the movie
Richie was a recently released psychopath, and Marina was a pornographic actress who was heavily drugged. Richie wanted to marry Marina and have children, so he kidnapped Marina.
After some bondage, Marina falls in love with Richie.
I've probably watched Almodovar's films, but this one actually has a relatively satisfying ending. But just like Lao Mo's other films, I couldn't be happy when I watched it, and I felt very depressed.
In Lao Mo's films, love is abnormal. The male nurse in "Tell Her" falls in love with a vegetative person, and the transgender person in "Bad Education" loves a childhood church classmate. "Tie Me, Tie Me" The woman fell in love with the kidnapper.
If you follow Lao Mo's way of thinking, probably love is just a kind of filling, filling the holes in life everywhere. And the biggest hole in life is its fate-like loneliness. This film seems to say that this hole can be filled, if we give up the unknowable, but incomparably nostalgic freedom.
If we'd rather be tied up.
I know that bondage is the essence of love, and if we can't stand the long hole in life, if we can't rely on our own strength to fill the hole, it's time for us to be bound. Two people who are also alone, bound together, may not have changed, but at least the world is not just empty echoes.
Staying with people for a long time will become a habit. Get used to eating together, get used to walking together, get used to talking about some topics, get used to smiling knowingly at certain moments.
Then, the habit is not alone, the habit is tied.
There are many ways to save in life, and love is a very good way. In addition, some people may choose a career, or dedication, or want to rely on themselves to dissolve these loneliness.
If you would rather be tied, it is actually a very good ending. The key to this ending is the willingness and determination of both parties.
I didn't have such willingness and determination
so I said "no" and
I told myself to get used to being alone, because I still have other ways to go.
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