I feel that the contradiction between the couple in the film is mainly in two points. First, they don't care about each other's spiritual world; second, their sexual life is not harmonious.
The two most ridiculous scenes in the film, Marianne read her own thoughts to Johan, and turned her head to find that he had already fallen asleep. The camera swept over the dense sentences on the notebook and her overwhelmed hands, and finally closed the notebook. . Like revenge, when Johan talked to Marianne about "we don't know what to do with the soul", she couldn't stop yawning on the side, and seemed to get back 10%...
The whole relationship is more dominated by Johan. He was the first to say that he would leave, and left with his lover without looking back. It was also him who said that he would not be separated. The freshness was over and he begged his wife not to divorce.
Johan doesn't ask what kind of heartbreak Marianne has gone through, if he really respects his wife, he shouldn't come and go, seeing her as someone who can only accept decisions passively.
The most paradoxical thing is that after Marianne told Johan that she finally came out after half a year of hardships and accepted his departure, the furious Johan ended the relationship with domestic violence...
It turns out that Johan, who is lenient with himself and strict with his wife, loves himself the most.
But Johan's complaint is also worth listening to. He complains that Marianne always uses sex as a threat to get him to do things, and he behaves well and is cold. So seeing that the first half of the film is almost all of Marianne's evasion and rejection of intimacy, it's not hard to imagine Johan's loss.
But the director was kind in the end, focusing on the emotional conflict between the two of them, without the trouble of parents and children, and even the discussion of divorce and property division was very small and fresh, avoiding the dark part of human nature about interests. Even let them really become each other's close friends after the divorce.
No matter what, it is extremely fortunate to meet such a person who cherishes each other in life.
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