For almost a year or so, Domic has been spying on Magda, the woman upstairs opposite, with a binoculars. He sets the alarm clock at 8:30 every night, which is the time for Magda to go home, Domic Turning off the light, watched the woman quietly take off her coat in the dark, revealing her full chest, and walked around the room.
Magda interacted with several different men. She showed her desires in front of them. Whenever they were entangled, Domic would turn her head, or simply give up to keep watching. He had no physical desire for this woman, even He didn't have any other forms of desire. He just wanted to look at her that way. Sometimes he would call and say nothing. If Magda got angry, he would say sorry again.
Domick works at the post office and is responsible for handling remittances and other business. He puts in Magda’s mailbox to receive the payment notice, so that when she comes to the post office, he can look at her more and have a few simple exchanges with her. . But when Magda came to collect the remittance for the second time and there was no remittance, she had a dispute with the staff of the post office. Magda, who was framed as a "fraud," left angrily. Explained the whole story, and showed his love.
At that time Domic was almost 20 years old, and Magda was 33 years old. The 13-year gap between them lay between them, making their definition of love different. When Domic was delivering milk (he specially applied to get close to Magda) (For this job) once had such a conversation with Magda.
Why are you observing me?
Because...because I love you. real. I love you.
Then... what do you want?
I have no idea.
Do you want to kiss me?
No,
you wanna make love to me... wanna make love to me?
Not
maybe you want to, you and I go somewhere? Waterfront or Budapest?
Domic shook his head.
So what do you want to do?
Don't do anything.
What not to do?
Don't do anything.
Although based on the original script, the film deletes some details that deliberately highlight Domic’s childishness, but this dialogue undoubtedly exposes his innocence and ignorance. In Magda’s eyes, Domic is cute and ridiculous. He is almost in The concept of love in a vacuum environment is incompatible with the world and Magda’s values. Although Magda chose to approach Domick out of a complicated feeling, instead of blaming him for his recklessness, Magda has always believed in it. Her perception of love is better than Domic, so she has always spared no effort to change Domic's view of love.
Magda took Domic to her apartment. After taking a bath, Magda squatted down in front of him and told him that there was nothing underneath. She let Domic's hand touch her thigh, highly nervous. Domick shot it after a while, and Magda told her nonchalantly, "This is everything, all love. Go to the bathroom and wash." At
this moment, Magda is a winner, she I feel that I have successfully proclaimed the "true meaning" of love to Domic, and that all love in the end is nothing but the pleasure brought by the flesh. But it was obvious that the self-confidence she showed in front of Domic was a disguise. She lost faith in true love, but she couldn’t help but stressful self-protection. She herself suffered the same disillusioning pain, so after Domic left, she Feeling great anxiety, she had a foreboding that her injury might bring some serious consequences.
Sure enough, after returning home, Domick committed suicide by cutting his wrist in the bathroom. Magda’s premonition of Domick’s behavior once again verified their convergence in certain love concepts, but the experience opened the gap between the two. Magda, who has made more experiences, is full of vigilance about love. The enlightenment it brings is that love does not belong to a rookie, but those with rich experience also go further and further. This paradox is the root of how unsatisfactory love is.
"We have always seen this love through the eyes of the tortured person, and this love has always been closely connected with suffering and unattainable." Kijeslovsky viewed this hopelessness from a sharp perspective. Love is just a cold perspective that is indispensable for ethical observation, so in the act of "voyeurism", he also chose neutrality.
Different from Hitchcock’s punishment of "voyeurs" or the physical harm to the heroine in the "dismemberment film", the act of "voyeurism" in Kieslovsky’s story represents a This is the person’s desire to love or break loneliness. Domic’s peek at Magda in the film is actually caused by his own loneliness. He has no desire to "desire", which can only be explained as A purely spiritual "companion", and this desire is not limited to young people like Domick. In the "Love Short Film", Magda comes to Domick's room at the end, from his Observing one's own room through the telescope, which implies a kind of role swap (the landlord used the same telescope to spy on Magda and Domic's date), and anyone could become the lonely person. Magda saw the scene when she was crying at the desk, and Domic came over and hugged her gently. At this moment, Magda probably no longer clings to "all love is just the joy of the flesh", but at this moment, Domi The belief in pure love without desire and desire has also experienced heartbreak and disillusionment, so the two people who seem to have taken a step toward hope are in fact only a step in their own way, and they still can’t match each other’s rhythms. , So even though Kieslowski devoted a lot of lyricism in this story, he did not lose his calmness for a moment, and brought us into another dilemma. In fact, the tragedy of love does not lie in what Magda insists on. "The pleasure of the flesh" does not lie in Domic's "no desire or demand", but in the people who hold these two concepts, who have never taken the initiative to change. When the passive change brought about by the injury comes, it is everyone in it that changes, and the simultaneous change of both sides creates another form of confrontation.
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