break, but not entering

Bridgette 2022-04-19 09:03:12

This is a very depressing movie. In fact, these kinds of movies make me very depressed, because it involves human nature and emotions, and these are too complicated and erratic things. You can't tell right from wrong based on a fact alone, so everything is too tangled...
In the movie, one man, two women, two families, five people.
Will and Liv, two people who used to love each other, have been together for ten years. Because of Liv's daughter, they gradually separated a long distance. Because Liv gave all her heart and energy for her. Even later Will said to Liv,
I don't even know how to be honest. Maybe that's why I like metaphors. Because what I want to say is there's a circle--yours and Bea's--and I'm not in it. But that's just to justify it, because there's a part of me so dark, that sees that circle as a cage.

Will later meet Amira from Bosnia. The attraction of frontal projection. It was like a light that suddenly turned on at the glasses after being in the dark room for a long time. Even if it is faint, you feel a huge stimulation. Amira has the simplicity and naive warmth of an Eastern European woman that warms his surroundings. Feel the unspoken attraction that saves you when you're tired of love. When you are in a hurry and go to the doctor, you see an attraction, you think it is a good remedy, you jump, the weakness inside is opened by the water that hits your face directly, and it spurts out.
Will kept making excuses to see Amira, and finally one day, the two of them were on a flyover. Will said, if you were given a magic wand, what would you do? Amira said she was going back to Sarajevo with her son. Then she asked Will back, how about you? He kissed Amira's lips. But this is not love. Then Amira came to him, they were fighting on the street, and suddenly Will kissed her on the lips again, he said, i cant talk, i want to go somewhere(to...), i cant talk. Then they had a relationship, life divided, naked. Silent sex. An Eastern European prostitute once said to Will, Animals don't talk, because they don't lie.
In my opinion, Will broke himself but there's no entering.

Will go home and say to liv
I wish we could unsay and unhurt, back to wherever that is, and start again.
I remember you bit me. You were angry with me and you bit me. I dont remember why. You really bit me.
And I thought we were very close.
Then liv bit his hand , he said Yeah, but that's just teeth.

In fact, there are more important causes and consequences of Amira and Will in the film, which I ignored and didn't write. That's too complicated.
Love is a prison. Even if you don't talk about responsibility, it is already a deep enough cage.
Perhaps attraction and sex can also give people a little solace. Although the sequelae can be big or small.

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Breaking and Entering quotes

  • Liv: Most wives would worry if their husbands went cruising in King's Cross every night.

    Will Francis: Most wives are married to their husbands.

  • Will Francis: [to Liv] I love your SunBox, whatever the fuck it's supposed to do. I keep hoping it'll warm you up.