Movie viewing experience: solemn, empty, lonely, chills, trembling, sad, graceful, frightened
Do the two worlds, the real world and the imaginary world, which is true and which is false, exist at the same time?
Father, husband, and younger brother, give me an association of the Holy Trinity. It's just a random feeling, I can't clearly understand the meaning of the Holy Trinity. The father is especially like a false, merciful and selfish Old Testament God. Although it is hard to speak of being harsh and punishing offenders, his control over his daughter is absolute. A husband is like a gentle Jesus in the New Testament, providing companionship and care, but love that is too rational will not enter the wife's heart. The younger brother is the Holy Spirit, a savior from the Father, who can best empathize with the sister and heroine and provide the most sincere help. The three of them are actually one body with different aspects, representing a state of patriarchy pretending to be strong but fragile and helpless, seemingly rational but difficult to reach the hearts of the people, full of confusion but powerless, or a state of theocracy. The heroine is the victim of this state, or some kind of pathological appearance, bearer. Absorbed and expressed their unknowingly sickness, sickened for the whole family. This is a tragedy conspired by an occasion.
The drama in that drama condensed the core of the whole movie. The 13-year-old princess was originally dead, but the narcissistic but unwilling artist used rhetoric to coax the trust of the soul, but did not really give love. The ghost experienced a second betrayal and a second death. Perhaps 13 was the age when the heroine’s mother passed away. At that moment, she inherited her mother’s illness and became farther and farther away from herself. She was attached to the hypocritical patriarchy. She kept asking for her father’s love, but never Really get. This love is full of narcissism and lies, eroding her trust. It was originally thought to be a life-saving straw, but it is a deadly chronic poison that has been disguised, eating away at her heart little by little.
The two sections in the boat, father and husband, sister and younger brother. Arrangement in a boat may represent a certain subconsciousness. The boat is reminiscent of the mother. Regarding gestation and connection, it is a desire for female power. Only in the gestation of the mother can a real connection be produced. The boat also reminds people of Noah's Ark, especially when my sister suddenly said it would rain before boarding the boat. Noah's Ark is the hope in the heavy rain. This ship is now so dilapidated. The brothers and sisters have a conversation in another world in the ship. In the real world, it is a kind of incest. They are like Adam and Eve who tasted the forbidden fruit, which is taboo, but also allows the younger brother to experience another world. This made my brother question later, after returning to reality, how should I face life and what should I believe in? The dialogue between the father and the husband is a naked truth. They are so unscrupulous in discussing the use of their daughters, their sickness to their wives, and their arrogance and frankness are even more pathetic.
The father represents the God in his daughter's heart, a broken God. When the heroine enters a state of madness and sees that the god originally expected is a spider, the camera shows the father's tall shadow with his back facing the heroine. The spider wanted to get into the heart of the heroine, but she couldn't. The heroine struggled desperately to escape, just like a father declared that he loved his children and wanted them to believe in him, but the fake is the fake, no matter how gorgeous the language is. , The feeling is honest. He only loves himself. The spider spit out the web to control the heroine, reflecting the fishing that the father and husband liked at the beginning of the film, and also cast the web. I sometimes get confused about the roles of father and husband. Their role boundaries are rather vague. The husband is the father of another peer that the hostess is looking for, so she can't have sex with it.
They live on an isolated island, lack of communication and true mutual understanding, each suffering their own pain, and everyone is sick. So, how can people believe in this kind of ruthless, chaotic, self-deceiving paternity and divine power? This is the first part of a trilogy of faith, and it seems to have raised the question, God is dead, where should people's faith go? The love that my father finally answered seemed so empty, empty, and inexplicable.
The metaphors and images in the film are particularly rich, and the phenomenon and doubts reflected in the film are also particularly numerous. Different people have different interpretations. What interests me most is a non-missionary expression with a strong religious color. It is a deep inquiry that raises questions about religion and belief, and there is no fixed answer to the question. No wonder Ang Lee likes Bergman so much. The core of the main issues of their lives is the same. They are deeply affected by their father, afraid, resisting, repeating, and confused.
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