The movie shines in Berlin this year, and Sandra Hüller is the best actress. I am obsessed with the word Requiem, but the movies related to this word leave me with deeper despair. This film is based on real events in a small town in Germany in the 1970s. The prototype girl is called Anneliese Michel. The film tells the story of this pious girl who struggled stubbornly under the torment of illness. After struggling with all her strength, she still has nowhere. Can escape, and finally return to religion to accept the self-destructive process of exorcism.
The girl’s family has a devout Catholic faith, a mother who is full of control, a father who silently supports her, and a lovely sister. The girl seizes the hard-won opportunity to study and strives to be a normal person. Friendship and love will gradually approach. The consequence of happiness is that the fall is deeper. Taking the medicine brings huge side effects. After stopping the medicine, she can't even control her body system. So she began to become irritable like a split, yelling at the people around her, cursing the God who abandoned her, when all her efforts failed, she began to believe in the legends of every saint again, she numbly and calmly chose herself Death.
She is suffering from epilepsy, she will have uncontrollable convulsions, she will see hallucinations and hear auditory hallucinations, she thinks she has been called by the devil, she will be uncontrollable and painful cursing. Behind her dancing, struggling, and giving up, I saw the forever twenty-three-year-old young man, his black and deeply desperate songs, his wild dance flying freely on the stage, and his After being unable to withstand the torment of the disease, he hung himself from the beam of the kitchen, and then his tombstone read "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
In this overlap, I think that diseases are not only those that can be explained by objective and real science in the body, but also the demons, fears and weaknesses of each of us, so those electrodes and pills cannot help us, those prayers and crosses. Necklaces can't help us either, it just needs a little bit of understanding, understanding our fears, understanding our weaknesses, instead of bringing us to the front of the doctor or the priest. People close to Michaela are extremists in two directions. Her mother forced her to pray and her girlfriend asked her to see a doctor. The man was a compromiser who supported her and then compromised her mother. Her boyfriend didn’t know. When she was in love, she was surprised at her abnormality, and when she was tortured, she backed away quietly. They didn’t even try to understand what Michaela was afraid of and what she wanted. These blind and ignorant intimacy is our forever Sorrow. This is why love will separate us forever.
The rough scenes and the shaking scenes with the spirit of Dogma 95, Sandra Hüller's forbearing and profound performance stimulates every soul who is perplexed and struggling with life a little bit, even though she hasn't seen how the girl is in the end. The help passed away, but the movie made us suffer too much. We walked peacefully on the road of no return in Michaela. When Ian Curtis put on the rope without hesitation, I regretted the depression full of sympathy, but it was really my turn. At that time, it might not be better than them.
Because, the devil of this world that calls us, coerces us, and tortures us is on the other side of the mirror. When you move your eyebrows, he will also move, God will abandon you, and your lover will abandon you, but he won’t, because of him. Right in your body, he is you. You can't drive him away, so let me embrace you in a hug.
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