A dreamlike heaven, although far away, but very longing.
"Heaven: Love", "Heaven: Faith" and "Heaven: Hope" in the Austrian film "Heaven: Trilogy" all prove this. Ulysse Seidel directed this series of films in 2012. Since heaven does not exist, love is nothing but nothingness. Just like Teresa, a middle-aged woman who has been working as a caregiver in "Heaven: Love" , she has worked hard all day long. Although her lazy daughter has gone to middle school, she still has no knowledge of the world, let alone the difficulty of understanding her mother.
In such a single-parent family, everything has to be carried by the mother. When you reach a certain limit, you want to find an exit to escape and liberate. This day has arrived, Teresa has accumulated her usual vacation and half her life and accumulation, just to go to Kenya’s beautiful beach known as "European Women’s Paradise". While on vacation, she also wants to find the ideal love to fill The emptiness in myself.
The black and handsome carcass of the tropical beach always swayed in front of these frustrated women. They come from various developed countries in Europe, and they all have similar and deeply personal frustrations, all for the purpose of looking forward to having their own enjoyable love under the shade of a paradise-like palm forest.
This story originally called "Sugar Mom", at least the main narrative is so simple, and the secondary narrative is the several conversations between Teresa and her daughter. The loneliness and loneliness implied in it are like the end of a carnival in a dream. . The so-called love between Teresa and Banga is dramatic. She had just escaped the "love" with a black young man before, but this time she finally met Meng Jia, a young black who can speak a few words of German. Teresa was attracted by his understanding conversation, and soon the two had a poetic love. rain. snuggle. Walking hand in hand in the palm grove. All this seemed to make people believe that she really did what she wanted.
But still sweating for her. Sure enough, Meng Jia started a showdown and took her to her sister's house, saying that her sister's man had left her cruelly, leaving her two children, and life was difficult. One of them was still in the hospital and needed a lot of money. , Teresa gave it to them without hesitation. After that, Mengjia was not satisfied, always weaving all kinds of lies, swindling her money, and when she was not satisfied, the love Teresa longed for would not get the corresponding return.
But she was almost hollowed out by him, and she was no longer able to make a move, so Mengjia simply slipped away. This caused Teresa, who had been deeply in love, into great pain. The search was unsuccessful, and she didn't know where to go in a trance. The vacation became a torment. While she was wandering in pain, she suddenly found Mengjia on the beach with her so-called sister holding the child. She went up angrily and grabbed Mengjia’s hair. There was a slap in the face. "It's clearly your wife, you He deceived me and said it was your sister, and lied that your father was sick, you liar...".
After hitting back to hitting, people are going to be released after all, and she was exhausted physically and mentally when she returned to the hotel. On her birthday, three other women from Austria celebrated her birthday, and paid to invite black youths to perform striptease. After having fun, she was still empty alone, so she found an intern at the bar, and she taught him how to caress how to make her happy, just like she and Mengjia slept in the same bed for the first time. When the last request was made, the black young man was unwilling. He said he was not used to it. She was angry, and she drove him and said don't want to get a penny from me, the honest black young man ran away in fright. Unsatisfied, she sat on the bed hiding her face and wept bitterly.
This is the hoarseness of not getting love. Heaven does not exist, and if it does not exist, there is no love. It's just that they didn't dare to face it and didn't dare to admit it. In fact, they were very clear in their hearts, but they were willing to risk being deceived to find a dream that was originally illusory. Ridiculous and sad. Obviously buying spring, but longing for the rebirth of love. This cannot but be said to be a manifestation of a certain decline in Western civilization.
"Heaven: Faith" is even sharper. This frustrated woman is Teresa's sister Anna, who works in the radiology room of the hospital. The income is much better than my sister. In terms of family, she has a husband who believes in Islam. A few years ago, she had an accident. After being paralyzed, she could only move in a wheelchair. However, the husband and wife had been separated for several years because of her beliefs. Since she converted to Catholicism, she has become a fanatical believer and devoted almost all her free time to Christ.
This time, she also took a long vacation after accumulating weekday vacations. Every night, she would flog herself like a crucified Jesus to declare her divine love for God. This way of self-abuse seems to bring her a certain pleasure and release. What is even more outrageous is that she refuses to sleep with her husband. When she is hungry and thirsty, she will put the crucifixion of Christ on the wall on herself. On the body, as a tool for masturbation. In fact, this is a great blasphemy against God.
After eating during the day, she would sing while playing the piano. After that, she would take the statue of the Virgin Mary and preach from house to house, with understanding, rejection, and debate. The last one she encountered in the film was a drunk woman from Russia. Not only did she fail to preach this time. , Was also beaten, and when she came out embarrassed, she wandered at the station.
She returned home in frustration and saw her husband smashed all her Catholic offerings. This stabbed her deeply. Enraged, she took away his wheelchair, leaving him to crawl with difficulty. Husband screamed that you have no feelings for me, you want to kill me, you are a prostitute. He even tried to pinch her to commit the crime, but it didn't help. Instead, she had the upper hand in a fight. But these brought her great pain, and she began to doubt her beliefs. She complained and flogged at the image of Jesus: You didn't bring me everything I wanted, you made me fall into great pain...
Whenever a faith is pious to the extreme, it will always go to its opposite side. Anna regards faith as everything in her life and includes all love. In fact, like her sister Teresa, she violates one of the most basic facts: both faith and love need to be built on the most basic human nature. Being ignored, no doubt their so-called faith and love are nothing in the end. The pain they touched was far greater than what they wanted. This is the loss of personality and soul. This also proves that heaven is just a virtual existence, or even just a false phantom.
"Paradise: Hope" follows "Paradise: Love". After Mother Teresa sent her 13-year-old daughter Melanie to a weight loss summer camp, she flew to Kenya to find her romantic vacation. Melanie was clamoured by girls in the same room at the weight-loss camp, and she wanted to have a good relationship. But there are only two men here, one is a harsh and cold trainer, and the other is a kind-looking middle-aged doctor. So Melanie targeted the doctor, and after that, she always found excuses to go to the doctor. It's not a cold or a stomachache. The doctor’s stethoscope kept listening to her chest. Gradually, her fascination with him became fierce. Gradually, the doctor couldn’t help but sink into it. Finally, in order to control the situation, he had to tell Melanie not to Look for him again.
Think about the short-term friendship between them. For the sake of love, the two of them hid in the deep forest for a tryst, for the sake of love, how terrified they were. Knowing that he can't do anything, the middle-aged doctor still can't suppress his own desires, or this is fragile and perverse human nature. When the doctor proposed to break up, Melanie's face changed suddenly, and she was shocked, and then she couldn't cry.
Heaven is like a dream, dazed and at a loss.
But time will heal all pains. Slowly, she will calm down, and she will grow up. To understand the ability of love from heartache, or find the direction of love, I am afraid this is the so-called hope.
2013, 7, 14
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