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We all have this kind of experience, when we see a puppy, a kitten, or a pig, a lamb, pampering, licking a puppy, kitten, piglet, or lamb , There is a kind of warmth and cuteness in my heart; the same is true for human beings. When the young mother looks at the infant baby with her beautiful twinkling light tenderly, we will also have the same Feel. We call this phenomenon the love of licking the calf. Why is this happening? Very simple, this is the natural attribute, this is the natural attribute of man. The so-called natural attributes are born and do not require acquired learning, training, and cultivation. They are innate. At the same time, it is also universal, permeating humans and animals-when we are touched by the behavior of humans and animals to the soft string in our hearts, the kind of nature, warmth, compassion and love that evokes- — Involuntarily wanting to take care of his (its) emotions is actually a "natural attribute" hidden in human genes. We found that the more animals are different from humans, this natural attribute in animals runs through its life-no matter what stage it is, it shows such an "animality". However, human beings are different from animals. When we are separated from our mothers, from babies to teenagers, from teenagers to youth, from youth to middle-aged and old-along the way, our natural attributes have been suppressed step by step into our genes and personality. Step by step, they are controlled by the "social attributes" that have more and more mastered the initiative. The so-called social attribute, in my opinion, is the word "relationship" as the Chinese people say; the so-called relationship can be summed up in three aspects: the relationship between man and nature, the relationship between man and himself, and the relationship between man and himself. Relationship. Generally speaking, the relationship between man and nature is relatively best to deal with, because nature is there—whether you see it or not, pay attention to it, or pay attention to it, it is there and not warm. The fire is silent and silent. Naturally, it has its own temper and character, which needs to be recognized and adapted by human beings, otherwise it will be punished. However, nature is a process of time, not an immediate effect; this process sometimes takes years, sometimes decades, hundreds of years, or even thousands of years to show its power. Therefore, people tend to ignore this relationship. Since ancient times, the most troublesome thing for people is the relationship between people. The disciplines of history, law, psychology, etc., which are gradually established in modern society, can be defined as the "relationship between people" in the category of thinking and research. From this we can also know that this is a headache. As for the relationship between people and themselves, of course, it is a phenomenon that only modern society takes care of. It involves loneliness, melancholy, happiness, these people's own feelings and perceptions.
The most complicated relationship among human beings is probably the marriage relationship, right? At least I think so. "Queen of Hearts" tells such a story. Pete and Anne are a couple in their forties. They have a pair of twin daughters, healthy and lovely; their husband Pete is a doctor with a successful career and is well received by the industry; his wife Anne is a lawyer and a An expert specializing in juvenile legal issues. Regardless of that, this is a happy, joyful, peaceful and stable middle-class family. However, since Pete and his ex-wife's 16-year-old son Gustaki moved into the family, things have become increasingly uncontrollable.
As the saying goes, the still water flows deep. What are we talking about when we say that a family is happy? In general, the so-called "happiness" we evaluate is nothing but the things that can be seen with the naked eye from an outsider's perspective: both husband and wife are successful in their careers and earn a lot of money, a lovely twin daughter who lives with a garden. In this big house, the husband and wife are universally respected—that is, what outsiders see is always “fur”, and only the person concerned knows what's inside. Besides, the words happiness and happiness are not nouns-at least I don't use them as nouns, but adjectives. Once an adjective is used, it must be untrue. It's like a calm sea. You can't see what's under the water. However, the family of Pete and Anne can be said to be the same regardless of the perception of outsiders or their personal experience—— That is happiness. As an expert in the industry, Annie is busy at work and has endless cases; she has to take care of her two children when she goes home, racing against time; as a doctor, Pete is also full of time, only when she is off work. Time to accompany the two children. The couple had very little time to communicate. But each is busy with their own work, each has its own circle, and I don't think there is any barriers. Isn't everyone doing this? As for the matter on the bed, whoever needs it will go to the other party's room to find the other party-when finished, go back to my room to sleep. Everything seems to be normal, but it seems that such days are enough to grow old together, enough to be peaceful for years. Although Annie and Pete have very different personalities and temperaments, they have one thing in common. According to a popular phrase in this country, they are both very high in "emotional intelligence", and they not only deal with all kinds of work relations very well. Well, and between husband and wife-how can there be no discord between husband and wife, how can there be no stumbling, they also deal with it well-at least control the contradiction within the scope of "not hurting feelings". What is "Emotional Intelligence"? The so-called emotional intelligence is to suppress one's natural attributes and integrate into society-to enhance one's "social attributes". From this point of view, Annie and Pete are both masters. Because they are masters, they have achieved a "double harvest for career and family."
At the age of sixteen, who was in adolescence, Gustaki moved from Copenhagen, Denmark, to the home of his father and stepmother in Oslo, Norway. He was a little uncomfortable with the environment. Ordinarily this is normal. After Pete divorced his ex-wife, Gustaki stayed with his mother and lived in Copenhagen; his father Pete was in Oslo, Norway, and rarely visited them. I have been living in a boarding school since I was a child, and my personality is a bit withdrawn. I suddenly came to a new family and lived with my stepmother's family—there will definitely be a process. Annie found out that Gustaki had stolen her Apple bag and jewellery at home. In order for him to adapt and integrate into the family as soon as possible, after stepmother Annie talked to him alone, she suppressed the matter-neither told Pete nor called the police. Gradually, Pete merged into the family—relationships with his two half-sisters became better, and he also made new friends outside—a beautiful Norwegian girl. Gustaki brought the girl into the house and had sex with the girl in his room-the young man's movement was so loud that it was heard by Annie who was working in the study. Although the kind stepmother thinks this is a bit wrong-it's not that you shouldn't find a girl, nor should you bring a girl into the room to have sex, but that you should keep your voice down and don't influence others-this is the "universal value of civilized Norway" ", I smiled myself-did not stop them, nor did he talk to Gustaki. Either she has been suppressed by her outstanding social attributes for too long for many years, or she was fiddled with by the youthful breath, sunny body, passion, and strength of the two adolescent children, and Annie's natural attributes were suddenly awakened. From then on, she seemed to be a different person. At the family party, Annie was sipping red wine in front of her husband Pete and the guests, while following soft music-swinging her body, as if entering a kind of hypnotized Mad state; Pete and the guests must have never imagined that Anne was full of the rhythmic figure of Gustaki and the Norwegian girl at this time... At home, Anne would stand secretly in the corner and stare at Gustaki naked. Young body, sometimes even to the point of selflessness. The natural attributes of human beings are of course powerful, especially for people like Annie-the natural attributes have been suppressed by social attributes for so long, and when they are almost suffocated, it seems like the aura is suddenly moved again-more It's so powerful that it's out of control. As a result, what should have happened happened, and it was impossible to receive it. In other words, the stepmother and the son went to bed, according to the common saying of the world, this is called incest.
The so-called incest, in my opinion, there are at least two kinds, one is the sexual relationship with blood-incest, and the other is incest in the legal sense. In my opinion, the so-called "incest" in the legal sense is pseudo-incest, because in essence it is not incest at all, at best it is a sexual relationship. Annie and Gustaki clearly belong to the latter. However, whether they are incest or not, it is not important at all, what matters is whether they can never be known. However, unfortunately, at a party, when Gustaki begged stepmother Anne, he was seen by an acquaintance of Anne's daughter's equestrian teacher Lena. Annie, who was controlled by her natural attributes, woke up all of a sudden-Annie was a person who came by, after all, a legal expert. Of course, she knew that there would be consequences if she continued like this-so Anne's rational side-the social attribute side was lifted up again. From now on, she began to consciously alienate Gustaki-she suddenly pulled herself back to the original track-the so-called "correct" track recognized by society. However, Gustaki, who was in his adolescence, couldn't do it! A sociological book once pointed out that the so-called "puberty" means that physical development and mental development are not synchronized-there is an unbalanced development. What's the meaning? That is to say, adolescent children, their rebellious, withdrawn, and even depression are not their subjective wishes, but their natural attributes-an imbalance caused by the unsynchronized physical development with their spiritual development, Gusta Basically, I was at a loss as to why and how his stepmother Annie could happen to this kind of thing, but when his rapid developmental physiological needs were awakened by the stepmother Annie—he couldn't control himself, and fell into the physical excitement. Just extricating himself, when he was left out by his stepmother Annie-he fell into further confusion. The whole person was crazy all day long, even climbed to the tree-some people fell from the tree, and everyone was uneasy. He wanted to talk to his stepmother Annie, and he wanted to ask Annie: Why did she ignore him? Could it be that they didn't want to be good before? But Annie didn't give him a chance at all-because Annie found that her husband Pete seemed to be sensitive to her. She knew that Ruge let Pete know what happened between them and what it meant. So, she told Gustaki stiffly: You forget everything in the past, forget it!
If the attitude is more open, Anne can of course talk to Gustaki, and tell him that sex is an instinct, just like eating and drinking water-everyone needs it, as long as it does not affect others-does not affect the third Otherwise, two people can be free. "The kind of chaos that I and you are not secular people say, we have no blood relationship-this is not called incest; of course, it is immoral for both of us to be like this, and it is unfair to your father and my husband Pete. , Is also unfair to your two half-sisters, because things like this will have a bad effect on them after all, and even affect them for the rest of their lives! "But even if Annie can talk to Gustaki like this" I'm talking about it." She still couldn't explain to Gustaki why she had to do this. Isn't "the stepmother can't do this with her son" this is not the "social norm" that has been educated since childhood? Of course, if you have an open mind-this is not impossible to talk about, and it is not impossible to talk about it. The question is: how can she talk to her 16-year-old son! Therefore, Annie fell into panic and anxiety. Pete must have felt something, at least the atmosphere is already very wrong; even if Pete doesn't feel or perceive anything, his instinct will tell him: something must have happened, something is wrong anyway! The reason why humans are so cute is because they have established countless taboos; the reason why humans are so ugly is also because they have established many taboos. You know, there are many plain and simple truths that human beings have taboos-they can't be said! For example, the topic of sex in this country is still taboo. Therefore, in panic, Annie can only choose a short, fast, stable and ruthless way-tell him directly, emphasize him: forget everything that happened in the past. Otherwise, she has no other way out.
While Annie was worried and worried about whether Lena would tell Pete, in order to further deepen the relationship with Gustaki, Pete wanted to take him to a cabin for a while. The so-called "cabins" are independent houses built by Nordic people on the hillside, grassy beach, waterside, or in the forest in the wild. Such houses are usually nailed up with wood-so they are called "cabins". "; Mainly in order to enjoy the space of one person, it is specially built-under normal circumstances, the cabins are independent houses, and there will be no other houses within a few kilometers. Of course, sometimes family by family will move into small cabins-to live for a period of time; sometimes to deepen the relationship, sometimes to solve problems-such as conflicts between husband and wife, etc. In short, "small wooden house" is a non-cultural phenomenon in Northern Europe. Pete and Gustaki went to live in the cabin, as if everything was over; Annie seemed to be at ease. However, not only did the problem remain unresolved, but it also worsened-Gustaki was touched by his father's sincerity, and the silly boy moved emotionally, and all of a sudden, he told his father about his stepmother Annie. So Pete prepared a war for Annie. However, as soon as the war began, Annie had the upper hand-she threw out Gustaki, like Pete, to steal her bag, jewellery and jewellery at home, this heavy shell, plus Gustaki had been a boarding student. The school-even if it is not bad, at least his words are not credible. After Annie's excellent performance, Pete became confused-"Who do I still believe?"!
The story suddenly reversed. It turned out that the intellectual, gentle, and double-harvested Anne of her career and family suddenly turned into a combative lion. She was very sharp and aggressive. All kinds of traps and routines were all at once. Throw it out. In the end, Annie defeated the sixteen-year-old Gustaki-was kicked out of the family and sent him to the boarding school in Copenhagen, Denmark. Gustaki, who was wronged, wronged, and punished, was of course not convinced. He wanted to find stepmother Annie to make it clear-even he wanted to report on Annie, because he was a minor-he wanted to report that Annie was inducing a minor to happen. Sexual relationship; in fact, this is just a self-protection rhetoric by the sixteen-year-old Gustaki. In essence, he has no intention of telling the stepmother at all. He just wanted to make stepmother Annie treat her better and stop treating him like that. However, when he broke into Annie's office, when he opened his mouth-to ask Annie for justice, he was already defeated. Because Annie didn't give him any gaps at all—let him breathe. Gustaki tried to find his father Pete to make it clear, but Pete was exhausted by him and Annie-even though he was yelling downstairs and couldn't wake him up. Of course, desperate Gustaki is not willing to give up, but a sixteen-year-old child, what can a child who grew up in a boarding school when his parents were divorced, and what can he do, eventually he went to the cabin-in the winter, he was frozen Died there.
Gustaki is dead. Although this is a tragedy, for the family of Annie and Pete, who can say that this is a turning point for the better. Obviously, Gustaki's death is responsible for Annie, but as a boy-he is destined to pass the test of being a man, a woman, and sex! Even without the appearance of stepmother Annie, other women will appear in front of him. Therefore, growth is the first challenge in life for every adolescent child. After breaking through and winning, you will grow from a boy (girl) to a real man (woman), otherwise it will be a tragedy with a high probability. As for what happened to Annie and Pete in the end, whether they reconciled or broke up-it is not so important anymore, because the director has achieved his goal by the end of the movie.
From the perspective of the movie, this is an excellent movie, magnificent, forbearing, and interesting. Especially the role of Annie, played by Tina Dihong after Danman, after the reversal of the plot-her performance is more stable and introverted. The character's emotions are well grasped, sense of proportion, mood, and rhythm are just right. What's more remarkable is that the film's composition is very particular, stable and restrained, and basically presents the style, style and natural atmosphere of Scandinavia in Northern Europe. Especially in the use of the lens, the fixed lens is the mainstay, and the launch lens is supplemented-the picture and emotion are presented in front of the audience in a restrained and measured manner. For example, the first set of shots: Annie holding a head, walking through the vast and deep forest, and suddenly pulling the audience into the mysterious land of Northern Europe; another example is the first of Annie and Gustaki The scenes of the bed scene were not rendered at all, and very restrained-even the close-ups of the characters were only half of the face from the back, which seemed very flavorful. After the whole scene, although there is no line, it is full of emotions and full of tension.
Of course, this film has its obvious shortcomings. First of all, it seems too restrained, not enough to have the imagination under the word "Nordic". In people's minds, what a legacy in Northern Europe! It is simply independent of human beings and contains various imaginations of human beauty about itself, but it has not been fully expressed in this movie; but in my opinion, it has sufficient space for expression. Yeah! Secondly, the imagination from the screenwriter to the director is still too narrow. Although they are excellent from a book, they are still insufficient in terms of the tension of imagination and the challenge of existing frames. Thirdly, the choice of the subject of so-called "incest" is also too vague. Paulina Kyle said in the article "Trash, Art and Movies":
Even chaos has become a standard for this type of film. It can be traced back to Paulina Frederic's "Cryogenic Fire", Clara Pau's "Dancing Mom" and Alice Joyce's mother's boyfriend also happened the same thing; In the 1940s, this story was grafted into "The Demon of Lust, Fire and Love". These movies have not changed even some basic elements. The adults who seduce young people are usually decent, knowledgeable and depraved, while the tempted young people are basically stupid and naive, even though they are not like Benjamin. That's so staid and boring.
Obviously, in this film, Annie is the decent and "degenerate" adult, and Gustaki is the "very stupid and naive" young man. What is a movie? What movies want is imagination, it is an inspiration to people's imagination. There is no fixed constitution for the movie, otherwise the movie would not be seen. However, the film's exploration in this area, which is a breakthrough in the film, seems too weak.
A good movie is like this. When we say why it is good, it will be released and not received; so, stop here.
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