(Text/Yang Shiyang)
In an era where beauty is justice, obesity and ugliness have almost become the harshest sentences for a person. As human beings, we can't really ignore the flesh and go directly to the soul. Sometimes, a beautiful soul is trapped in a body that can't bear to look directly, which leads to an indescribable tragedy.
This quiet "Mountain of Virgins" describes this deep-seated sadness and loneliness. Fox is a fat, ugly looking guy who works as a luggage porter in the airport grounds department. He is not confused about his age, has never had a girlfriend, and still lives with his mother. His few hobbies are playing with sand table models of the World War II battlefield and listening to heavy metal music. . He had few friends, and the one or two who remained social were connected by these eccentric hobbies. He is kind, timid, afraid to make eye contact with people, and always keeps his head down when talking to people. Therefore, he was teased, ridiculed and questioned by his co-workers if he was a virgin. In his depressed life, he encountered an unexpected love. A woman suffering from depression came together with him. He thought that he and the other party could save each other, but in the end, he found that things did not go as he wished.
As an Icelandic film, every detail of "The Virgin Mountain" naturally permeates the cold and alienated temperament unique to Northern Europe. The cold mood and this lonely story are mutually blessed. An opening shot lays out the director's ambitions beautifully. Under the bird's-eye view, on the empty runway of the airport, the luggage transporting car passed slowly in circles, silently, and the light was clear and sprinkled on the ground. Extracting emotions from the mundane scenes of daily life is a unique skill, which is very refined in many Nordic movies. For this film, all situations are reflections of the characters' mental maps.
Forth, who bought himself a remote-controlled car, was in the open space downstairs against the wind and controlled it alone. For him, real life was something he couldn't shake and control, what he could control, and what he liked. , are childish things that belong to a child or adolescence. For example, the sand table of World War II, such as this toy car, such as the tacit understanding between him and the DJ on the midnight radio station, he manipulated the little soldiers and controlled the car by remote control, and he heard a song on the radio that he liked Yes, a song that can vent his emotions, this is all the joy of his life, everything is related to "things", things will not hurt him, but people may be more terrible. He lined up for the battle of World War II, but had no idea about his real life.
Foss himself is a symbol of isolation, and everyone sees him as a monster. His kindness can only be understood by the children of the neighbors. He accompanied the lonely little girl, but was suspected of being a pedophile by her father, and the love he encountered, at first he was at a loss, but later he regarded it as a life-saving straw. The flip this time was very interesting. At first, it was the woman who led him. Little by little, he made him understand what love is like and how to get along with each other. Soon, he discovered the other party's problems. When a woman falls into depression, it is impossible to When he was extricating himself, Foss became a teacher. He cooked breakfast for her, went to work for her, and helped her out of the haze. Two "patients" accidentally became each other's doctors.
The relationship experienced twists and turns. They had closeness and alienation. Later, the woman felt that the fat man was trustworthy and asked him to move in with her, but in the end, she changed her mind. However, even so, she still saved the man, let him finally take the first step in an independent life, let him understand how much warmth and change there will be in the world of human beings in the real world, as an adult, he must face to it all. The emotional ups and downs between them are actually changes in the emotional clues of normal men and women, but they are placed on two different types of people, making everything appear to have a diffuse sadness. But the sadness eventually dissipated, giving Fox insight into the real world.
The second half of the movie shows a subtle change, when Fox has a girlfriend, everything changes, he goes to work for the woman at the garbage station, and the colleagues there are far more kind than the people who tease him at the airport. Many, they invited him to the bar to drink and watch football, like an ordinary buddy. His girlfriend is like a fulcrum, prying him out of the cramped life he had fallen into, and letting him see that although this world is full of holes, it is also worth diving into it once.
In the end, he burst into laughter alone on the plane to fly abroad. That was a smile that Fox could hardly see in the movie, changing the dullness of the past. He walked out of his original family and out of his closed heart, and that smile was almost the most healing expression.
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