I personally have a preference for European movies. Among them, the small Nordic countries such as Denmark, Norway, and Iceland are more special than the films of major film countries such as France, the United Kingdom, and Italy. The number of films produced is small but very brilliant, and the selected angles and themes are unique. The way of expression is also unusual. For example, "Blind Vision", the film won a lot of major international film festivals that year, won the Berlin Film Festival Best European Film Award, Sundance Film Festival World Film Division Best Screenplay Award, the 30th Sundance Film Festival World Film Feature Film Screenwriter Award, nominated for the World Film Feature Film of the 30th Sundance Film Festival Jury Award.
At the beginning, I thought it was a four-cornered love story: the blind girl Ingrid and the male protagonist Morten are a middle-aged couple. Single mothers Elin and Morten have an affair, while the braided man Einar who lives in the building opposite Elin has a crush on Elin and the two men Morten. He and Einar were classmates before. If the relationship between the characters is just like this, it is not special, as dull as I am, after halfway watching the movie, it turns out that the real characters are only Ingrid and Morten, and the other two are made up by Ingrid.
Ingrid wrote another life script in a parallel world in her inner world: She imagined that her husband Morten would go home quietly during working hours and stay in a corner of the house to observe her; imagine Morten online with a single mother Elin flirts and meets in private for a date. As the two talked and laughed, Elin's eyes suddenly went dark and he was blind. Why was it suddenly like this? What will happen to these four people?
The color of the film is dominated by the cool gray of the Nordic style, and the tone of the picture is quiet and depressed . The director presents the spiritual world of the blind woman in a concrete way. The narration played a big role, but since the narrator was Ingrid who finally got out of control, I couldn't believe it all.
Although she lost her eyesight, her perception and imagination became clearer and more active, and her heart became more sensitive and rich. In the real society, there are rules and laws restricting people's behavior, but it is assumed that once the world is out of control, almost no one can detect it. Even she herself is trapped in the fuzzy zone of reality and illusion, and gradually loses herself.
Ingrid imagined a single man Einar full of xing fantasies and an inferiority and lonely Elin. Both of these characters originate from Ingrid’s inferiority complex and extreme lack of security after blindness. From her own fear, vulnerability and loneliness, they are the portrayal of her anxiety and loss. The narration not only guides the audience to understand the plot, Insight into the direction and touching the unique inner world of Ingrid is more like a kind of psychological suggestion or desire, which reveals the true state of the characters.
Of course there will be misleading aspects, but this kind of appropriate misleading is exactly what the film needs. This way of expression allows the audience to discover the cause of the entangled contradictions of the heroine from the first point of view, accept the unique narrative of the film, and then gradually be Bring in and immerse yourself in this narrative atmosphere.
In order to match this unique narrative structure, the director used the editing of switching between virtual and real, transcending time and space, and accurately and smoothly restored the spiritual world of the protagonist . Although bold but not too wild, the original mediocre story became confusing and suspenseful. More accurately captures the fragility and paranoia of the heroine. The reality and fiction are superimposed and spliced closely, so that reality and fantasy are completely integrated, and the entire viewing process becomes a decryption journey.
Another impressive aspect of the film is the frankness, which reveals all the subtle and hidden details of the blind: the male image Einar represents her desire for xing, and Einar’s curiosity on the Internet , Which represents the irrepressible desire of the heroine.
Elin, another fictional character, also represents part of the heroine, the desire for children and the hope of love. Therefore, at the end of the film, it is designed that Elin and the child beckon to the distant Einar, which represents a temporary reconciliation and peace in this fictional spiritual world of the heroine.
The film has a text message conversation between Elin and Morten on the bus. Because Elin can't see it, every word of their dialogue and every operation of her needs voice prompts. All the people sitting around her and the audience could clearly hear every word she typed and answered by the other party, could see her subtle facial expressions, and felt the embarrassment and sadness of this conversation. Elin's anger, entanglement, shame, and despair at the time were what Ingrid experienced every day in her fantasy world. What kind of torture and suffering was this? In this way, the intense feeling of abandonment and isolation is more concretely and directly expressed on the screen.
Among them, there is a very interesting clip when describing Einar. It mentioned a famous social event in Norway: On July 22, 2011, an explosion occurred near the Norwegian government office building in the center of Oslo, the capital of Norway. Less than two hours later, On an island northwest of Oslo, another shooting incident occurred at an event organized by the ruling party. As of noon on the 23rd, two incidents had killed at least 90 people and injured many others. There are reports that this is the most serious violent attack in Norway since the end of the Second World War.
Einar’s social attributes have changed a bit in this incident. He dressed himself as an active marcher, in order to gain a brief sense of existence and identity, and received sympathy and admiration from others, and even the comfort of strangers. And warmth, it reflects his (that is, the heroine) inner desire for the influence of the external environment and social value.
In the book "Sound Society" written by Humanistic philosopher and humanistic psychoanalytic psychologist Fromm, it is mentioned: If you want to discuss the mental health of contemporary people, consider which factors in their lifestyle contribute to Insanity, which is beneficial to mental health, is not enough to discuss it as the abstract attributes of abstract people. It is necessary to understand the personality of ordinary people who live and work in this environment.
Only when we can describe the "social character"-this description may be tentative and imperfect-can we have a basis to judge the mental health of modern people. If measured by this standard, Ingrid is undoubtedly mentally unsound, and this plot in the film is the epitome of her mentally unsound problem in social attributes.
Different from the previous movies about the blind, "Blind Sight" tells us the world in the eyes of blind people comprehensively and truthfully. What they need is not sympathy and compassion, not avoidance and peeping, but equal rights and needs, and concern. A friendly direct look is the gentle touch and soothing of the lover. Perhaps this is just a hot topic on TV for us who are healthy: "Let’s discuss an eternal question, which is worse, blindness or deafness?" But what does it mean for people who are truly blind? If you can't imagine it, you can close your eyes and feel it for a while, even for ten minutes, maybe you will start to feel anxious and uneasy, and this is just the first thing they have to get used to every day.
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