"Incendiary": Use hatred to dispel the shame of infidelity

Camylle 2022-12-11 16:59:43

The young woman’s husband is an expert in bomb disposal, and her family life is dull, with invisible rifts. Out of dissatisfaction with this state of husband and wife, when the woman was waiting for her husband to return from a mission in the bar, she was successfully struck up by newspaper reporter Black, and then she had an affair. Time passed boringly. On the way to watch a football match with her husband and son, the woman met Black, and instead of going to the gym, she went home with him. At the moment when the two of them were in the rain, they saw a live broadcast on TV: The stadium was attacked by a bomb and turned into a hell on earth. The woman's husband and son died on the spot. The rest of the story is the trauma caused by the shame in the treatment of the woman's feelings.

This is the plot of "Incendiary". Most of the movie is used to show the woman's self-blame and annoyance. She can't forgive herself and is in a state of madness. Through the memories of the past, mainly sons, and the montage editing of the present situation, a total collapse of women’s lives is created. Ashamed of this primitive power, she was heavily pressed in all corners of the city, which made her repeatedly walk on the edge of self-regulation when looking up at the huge balloon with photos of her son and husband. But all this gradually changed due to the act of writing letters.

The letter is the suggestion of the psychiatrist, suggesting that she write to Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the explosion, so as to express her thoughts, resentments and hopes. This writing process is processed into the narration of the movie, like a MV with text, accompanied by the main scene of the woman sinking, and thus presents the family life of the human bomb executor, as well as what the police knew one hour before the explosion. The explosion happened and so on. The latter clue was narrated by the woman's husband's colleagues. The man liked the woman and thought it was an opportunity.

Since the woman witnessed the tragedy on TV naked with unfaithful sex, the rest of the movie content is that she is drifting in the rapids of self-salvation. She completely alienated Black, the original temptation now looks like a great irony, but he became his resource for understanding the entire bombing. The woman learned of the school where the man played her son, approached the Asian boy, and appeared her son from time to time. Women want revenge, but there is no way to concentrate their due strength. She is also ups and downs in the pursuit of her husband's male colleague.

The demise of the woman without an owner took a turn for the better. This was the discovery of the secret of the bombing. That is, the British government knew that there was an explosion and did not stop it. The husband and male colleague who also watched the game left the game to save their lives. This contrast has aroused the first hatred of women, and this hatred is fair and legitimate, and the government (that is, the image of a husband and a male colleague) has begun to occupy a position of infidelity and shame. This is a turning point for women. After debunking the hypocrisy of unscrupulous suitors, she confirmed the first source of hatred, and she had the possibility of rebirth.

The source of the second kind of hatred is the legendary Bin Laden. Women treat him as a demon and continue to strengthen their awareness of this demon. While establishing the theme of anti-terrorism for the film, it has also been portrayed as a basis for women to forgive killers and their sons. This is a complex conversion chain that helps women remove the greatest obstacles created by infidelity. At this time, she found the right hatred, forgiveness and self-forgiveness became a kind of gift, she can use this to release her own moral censure.

All the shadows of infidelity have not been completely eliminated, and a woman must be sure that she has overcome Black's temptation. This kind of overcoming must be direct, thorough, and without the slightest nostalgia. This key means of expelling shame is mainly accomplished by a kind of illusory mental out-of-control. During this blank stage of self-control, women "reunite" with their sons (not their husbands) in the illusion, and women review all the virtues that a mother should have. When the woman chased her "son", she almost committed suicide but failed. The woman saves her impure body.

The greatest benefit of the son's "rebirth" after death is that the woman restores the mother's experience. With this accumulation, she can wash away the physical indulgence that Black brings. In this way, adding the above two levels of hatred, the woman can go back to the starting point, as if nothing happened. What is even more bizarre is that a woman has the religious elevation of alms and forgiveness, she is reborn and reborn. In my opinion, I don't think that the affair must bear this kind of pressure, so I doubt the sincerity of the film from the logical starting point of the film.

In any case, with the help of the hatred of bin Laden, the woman relieved the double guilt of not being able to accompany her son to death and being ashamed of her husband. She has Black's son (or her husband's son, anyway, it doesn't matter), and when the child is born, the role of a woman is like a complete change. With her innocent body, she can enter the cycle of mother-child love again. The son comes and the woman is born again, these two processes are combined into one. All the confusion and loss of women disappeared, and flowers bloomed on the roots of self-destruction.

Thursday, September 3, 2009 1:26

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Incendiary quotes

  • [first lines]

    The Boy: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Go...

    The Boy: Mummy you blinked, I won.

    Young Mother: Yes you did. Now in you get. Tomorrow we're going to the sea-side.

    Young Mother: [narration - boy running on the beach] So, if I'm going to show you my life, better start here. My boy, in Camber Sands. Why this and why now? I'll come back to that.

    The Boy: Mummy!

    Young Mother: [narration] A force of nature was what the midwife called him when he came howling into this world four years ago. And he hasn't stopped since.

    The Boy: Mummy!

    Young Mother: [narration] Me and him spend a lot of time together on account his Dad is a right miserable bugger. To be fair, he wasn't always miserable. Or maybe he was and I just didn't see it. I wouldn't be the first one in my family to have her knickers charmed off her by some fellow in the Army. Any way, for better or worse, I got my boy and he got me.

    The Boy: [dangling a sand worm] Mummy! Mummy!

    Young Mother: [narration] I remember my Mum took me to Camber Sands once. The one day she was sober. It was drizzling then too. "Gets you out of the house, don't it?", she said.

    Young Mother: [narration - on train] And that quiet rain fell all the way home.

    Young Mother: [narration - London street] My gran told me that Adolf Hitler did us a favour when he bombed London. His incendiary bombs made the hole in Barnett Grove that they built our tower blocks in. And London burned with incredible noise and fury. It was on account of Adolf, she said, that we get a nice view with the Georgian Gems on the other side of the street, where the bomb missed.

    The Boy: Mummy. I'm running, I'm running really far. Come on, catch me!

    Young Mother: [calling to him] Careful. If you think I can't see you in there, you're mad.

    Young Mother: [narration] We bought our flat off the Council. Smells of chip fat. But Lenny says it will be a good investment one day, because it's within a stone's throw of the city. Third generation of tower block dwellers, we are. If you're interested just type in Chav, Pikey or Ned, and you'll find us in council estates all over London. Favourite food: Chicken Kiev, favourite TV programme: Top Gear, Religion? Arsenal Football Club.

  • Terrence Butcher: You know what the best thing about caravans is?

    Young Mother: No.

    Terrence Butcher: The best thing about caravans is that they're always exactly the same. My dad used to say that. Where ever you tow them, when you close the door, at the end of the day you're home. Doesn't matter what kind of day I've had, if I imagine closing the caravan door, I feel better. Well, that feeling's gone. Ever since May Day, it's as if I can't close the caravan door any more. Can't leave the horrors outside. That's what those bastards have done, got inside my caravan.