The wife told her husband that she was pregnant and that the child belonged to someone else. What should the husband do?
A. Divorce
B. Abort the child and forget the past and continue to live
C. Continue to live after giving birth to a child
D. It
is a conventional choice. The husband chooses the second way, but the wife died during the secret abortion process...
That's it Exiled Love by Andrei Zvyagintsev, a 157-minute film about a happy family, husband Alex, wife Vera, daughter Eva, son Jill, Life is quiet and peaceful, but what if the question at the beginning comes up?
After leaving home for 12 years, the husband took the whole family by train back to the countryside to live, opened the dusty house, cleaned up, and brought the children to play on the grass together.
Perhaps they were confused, and the two of them were silent at the door. The husband ran wildly through the woods in a venting style. On the way, he met the George family child who was a postman in the city. He knew him and took him for a ride. When I got to town, I called my brother Mark and wanted to talk to Mark about it. What can be seen in the fixed long shot is the back of Alex driving, but what can be felt is his wandering and hesitation, and he returned halfway. Of course, at the beginning of the movie, Alex explained that Alex helped his brother Mark, who was shot in the arm, to get the bullet, which seemed to tell us about Mark's life in the rivers and lakes.
Alex returned home and was only silent in the face of his wife Vera, maybe as a man, a feeling of being insulted made him unable to cope with such a sudden attack. All they can do is that Alex keeps calling friends and Vera just sleeps. After watching the film, we all know that this is a "conspiracy", a "conspiracy" by Vera to prove her husband's love for her. Maybe this "conspiracy" of Vera was so unsuccessful that she took her own life. However, from the relationship between their husband and wife, they may feel a little distressed by Vera. The conversation between the husband and wife is always forcibly interrupted by Alex, and even a slap in the face and a sentence: Why don't you think before you do it? ? A humiliated man's normal behavior is pushing a wife to death step by step.
12 years ago, Alex and his brother left the country and went to the city. We don't know what they were doing in the city. They never came back. His father didn't even know what the child looked like. Maybe we learned from his brother Mark. It can be seen that Mark is unsuccessful in life and family, with broken family photos, pistols, shot arms, and his life is concentrated among bars, casinos, hotels and prostitutes.
The old people in the same town used a tractor to pick up Alex and the children to play, and have dinner with George's house. These are some gathering activities with their friends after leaving for 12 years. In addition to long shots, they are still long shots. The atmosphere of the party is due to this. One thing is always awkward. The children in the distance are happily playing hide-and-seek games, not knowing that the war between their parents has escalated subtly. The topic that women talk about is family husbands and children, and the topic that men talk about is "I don't understand and don't know what you are talking about".
Alex took his son Jill to meet his brother Mark at the train station. On the way, Jill's casual remarks made Alex think that the child in his wife's womb was Robert's. Inside the station, Mark's opinion is that you have the right to do what you want, and the gun is upstairs. Alex said, is it possible that you have fooled yourself? As a matter of fact, we also know that this is how Mark played himself and his family.
The guests dispersed, the first conversation between the husband and wife was a failure, Alex showed a selfish side, and Vera felt that the child was probably the only thing that maintained the relationship between the husband and wife. As before, from the husband, he did not See those tender loves. Alex's strength and rudeness made Vera even more desperate. The fog outside the window was very thick, and the same bed had different dreams. Vera looked at her husband carefully, maybe thinking that such a "conspiracy" was a bit too much?
Maybe it can be resolved the next day, but the inexplicable call that got up early made Alex think it was Robert's, adding to his troubles. Upstairs, he saw the broken family photo of his brother Mark, and the gun that ruined his brother Mark's family, and now he's picking up the gun again.
Alex took the children to see his grandfather's grave. On the surface of the distraction, we could see Alex's troubles and inattentiveness. Fortunately, Uncle Victor's family invites the children to play, which allows them enough time to deal with the problem in peace. Conversation in the woods is like this.
Alex: You're still the mother of the children, I'm still the father of the children, I don't want to talk about your adultery, I'm going to forget about it, get rid of the child, we have to do it, let's do it all over again.
Vera: What are you going to do, I don't regret it.
In this, we were even deceived by the director, and Vera called Robert at this time. Robert offered some consolation, the dialogue was so vague that we all thought it was Robert to blame.
The most shocking scene comes when the camera turns to Uncle Victor's house, where the children play puzzles, read the Bible and then sleep. Back to Alex again, the doctor Mark helped find was performing an abortion on Vera. The operation was over soon, and the doctor said it was a success, but Vera died, and everyone was surprised by how quiet she went. Alex was in pain, and inadvertently, he became the executioner, he quickly dealt with everything here, left here, and the dusty house was re-sealed.
However, it was soon discovered that it was not the doctor's fault. The doctor found a letter by Vera's side, and Vera committed suicide. Vera had taken a lot of sleeping pills before the surgery. What prompted Vera to choose death? This emptiness made her feel desperate again? In the city, the rain kept falling, and Alex approached Robert to inquire about the details.
The story goes back to the beginning, when Vera called Robert. Vera was distressed by her dry relationship with her husband, and was picked up by Robert during a suicide. Although she has two children, her third child is about to be born, because she just received a pregnancy test report from the postman that she was pregnant, but so what? Well, Vera expressed her thoughts of wanting to die after the pregnancy test report. When a woman awakens, she has a thorough understanding of herself. She is pregnant, but her husband gives him the feeling that the child is always her husband's. Where is her existence? When can a child be her own? Maybe suicide and dying with the child will allow you to truly have a child.
Robert went to comfort Vera to be seen by their son Jill, which is what later made Alex misunderstand Robert. The camera rang from the phone, back to the past, and then back to reality after the story was told, and a long shot explained. Knowing the whole reason, Alex thinks, sitting on the side of the road facing the sunset, the mountains and rivers that he has not felt changed in 12 years, this time should be completely different.
Alex drove the car away from this place. It was still the same as the beginning. There was only one tree standing on the open grassland. The road stretched far to the horizon. On both sides of the road were barren land. The car continued to drive forward, through the industrialized city with towering chimneys, and kept going, but this was the way back.
The director's deliberately arranged end-to-end echoes seem to tell us a cycle, life is a cycle, and life is a cycle, but after a heart-wrenching journey, the seasons change, the life changes, and people have harvested, the original barren land. , the farmers began to harvest and hummed old Russian folk songs. At this time, Alex is about to leave this place far away, forever. For Alex, the unforgettable pain will accompany him for a lifetime.
Finally, let's talk about the director Andrei Zvyagintsev (as many people have seen this movie, there are as many translations of the director's name). The director's debut work "Return" won the Venice Golden Lion Award. It tells the story of his father who suddenly returned after 12 years. After returning home, he said he would take his two sons to a desert island for a trip. On the deserted island, the conflict between the father and the younger son Ivan intensified, which finally led to the accidental death of the father, which became an irreversible ending... This is the second work, and the actor in the play won the Cannes Best Actor.
Rain, fog, grassland, flocks, wooden houses, cars,... These are the simple things that carry the story, the long shots of calm movement (compared to "Return", "Exile Love" moved me the most These are the long shots), the influence style is simply a copy of Tarkovsky, such as the long shot that echoes the beginning and the end, the long shot where the small ditch in the middle becomes water due to rain, and all the exterior scenes stop as a column Bin's oil paintings, whether it's "Return" or this "Exile Love", are unique in the film's tone, music, architecture, scenery, and the Russian man who is always on his side and has a full beard. His face, the deepness and melancholy contained in it, just waiting for a heavy rain to directly reach the depths of the audience's soul.
This "Exile Love", from the suspense drama at the beginning to the family ethics, finally rises to the thinking of Russian nationality, there are religious, philosophical, and serious inspirations for your thinking. Following Tarkovsky, many people will naturally think of "Nostalgia" and "Ivan's Childhood", and explore the depths of the national spirit and the common soul of mankind. 12 years, the sudden arrival of a father will make a child at a loss, 12 years, a trip back home has become so heavy, let a serious father and a wife who is looking for love die like this, is it a punishment or another Redemption? Maybe you have been away for too long, and you can't go back at all, whether in reality or in spirit.
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