Zhuan Liang Wendao wrote about this video

Cleta 2022-12-16 04:31:07

Here are two articles about this movie written by Liang Wendao. From his book "Egoism". I can't find the text on the Internet. The following are all typed out by myself. Well, because it is a good text, so please feel free to reprint it.
I have always thought that this person's greatest blessing is that all the privacy that has been exposed can be cherished by others. This woman is really blessed. Fortunately, she finally saw that she had gotten something.
I watched the text first before looking for a movie to watch. After watching it, it seemed that I had a lot to say, and it seemed that the movie was finished for me.

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【Peeping】

About secret love, Kieslowski The "Love Commandment" has a very unique interpretation. In this masterpiece (especially the extended version of the theater), the expression of secret love has gone to extremes and turned into voyeurism. Is this a kind of love? Can the voyeur really fall in love with the voyeur?

The 19-year-old boy in the movie uses a pair of stolen binoculars to peep at the woman in the opposite building every day, watching her painting, watching her solo dance, and also watching her hugging and affectionate with men. Until they start having sex, he puts down the mirror heartily. Don't overdo it. In order to get close to the stranger he had seen so thoroughly, he even stole her letters, sent some letters to her indiscriminately, and got up early every day as a part-time worker to deliver milk to her.

Kieslowski’s old partner Presner gave the little boy a theme song with only a few bars. There is a kind of lonely innocence, always quiet when he looks at her and thinks about her. Played. Peeping is immoral, and the boy has done a lot of illegal things, but the audience just sympathizes with him, because such an extreme single thinking is so lonely, no one has noticed, and he does not expect anything. Or we should say that because he was voyeuristic, he could not even be found.
The purity of secret love lies in not seeking results and completely locking oneself in a single relationship.

Such a lonely relationship, as if only that little song understands, every time it appears to accompany the boy at the right time. Of course, this is from the standpoint of the audience. The teenager in the play didn't even know that there was a piece of sincere music that could comfort him.

When the music was happiest, it was the teenager who finally broke through the confinement and got an unimaginable opportunity. The woman asked him: "What do you want to do? Kiss me? Have sex with me? Or go on a trip with me?" The 19-year-old boy's first love request turned out to be "to eat ice cream together". The woman actually agreed. She must find it too fun Up. Xiaoqu became flying, and the little boy happily dragged a cart of milk bottles to spin. This is what he didn't know yet, once the secret love became clear, tragedy would be inevitable.


[The rational form of love]

Kijeslovsky has set very clear rules for "The Commandment": In the first two-thirds of the whole play, we all look at the world from the eyes of the male protagonist. But the woman who is loved, who is the object of the peeping? We are not sure.

The voyeur's gaze is very interesting, he is very pure, he is the rational type of crush, a gaze that does not need to look back or communicate at all. Perhaps it can be boldly deduced that this is the absolute form of love. There is only surgery and no content.

According to the metaphysics of early Plato, the human soul has seen all kinds of perfect forms in another world. It is an absolute form that cannot exist in the world, such as the most beautiful beauty, the perfect good, and the mathematical definition. round. But as soon as a person is born, the abstract and ideal form has content, and defects and regrets follow.

Since she has long lost this innocence, the woman in the accident will inevitably mock the boy's stupidity: "Impossible, you can't fall in love with me." But the boy replied firmly with his face: "I love you." It seems that the memory of the previous life is still there. Vaguely exist. In order to teach/train the boy, the woman seduce him, and then when he couldn't stand the stimulation and premature ejaculation, he coldly told him: "This is love." So the most real concrete content appeared, and he was still living in the physical world. Boys are hurt. A woman who has suffered from menstrual pain infects her own pain to a boy. This is love, and this is the world.

But is it not love to peep? Can't you fall in love with someone without knowing or even knowing him? At the end of the movie, the audience and the woman found next to the boy who had attempted suicide: He did not know the reason, but he had seen her cry and had seen her suffer. Across the lawn between the two buildings, he saw her uncomfortable from the inside without knowing it, and helplessly pityed her with his gaze. Don’t ask why, don’t care about reality, isn’t this the rational type of love?

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A Short Film About Love quotes

  • Magda: Why are you peeping at me?

    Tomek: Because I love you. I really do.

    Magda: And what do you want?

    Tomek: I don't know.

    Magda: Do you want to kiss me?

    Tomek: No.

    Magda: Perhaps you want to make love to me?

    Tomek: No.

    Magda: Want to go away with me? To the lakes, or to Budapest?

    Tomek: No.

    Magda: So what do you want?

    Tomek: Nothing.

    Magda: Nothing?

    Tomek: Yes.