From the perspective of freedom not absolute freedom, freedom means self-sufficiency, love, and attainment of the other side of completion, Mona cannot achieve her wish. She has not walked on the road of harmony with others, and is destined to perish in "others' hell."
Mona rejects everything about modern civilization and disdains any public morals. She doesn't ask for anything, but she forgets that she was born as a social person. People are social. This is a fact that cannot be changed and avoided. You have to eat, you Just have to work. Wandering means that there is a great risk for survival. Maybe she is not afraid of death, but her cry reminds me of the cry of the male protagonist in "Survival in the Wild" before his death. The latter has been in contact with his younger sister and kept a diary. , It is the pursuit of a stable method, but to use life to try to find freedom, but the former basically believes that wandering is the way of freedom. Extremely bad, especially when it comes to life and death—why should we be so? confidence?
If part of Mona's meaning is feminist, then I have to say that my previous disagreement is a bit mean. Of course, if a well-educated woman chooses this way, it is undoubtedly of aesthetic significance. She provides a kind of life possibility, which is great. Heroines have always been more worthy of praise, but true heroes have to do that. In their opinion, they are ordinary.
The film takes interviews with various people it meets as clues, and composes a concert of the sounds of Mona's voice and Mona's actions. This tension is aimed at Mona's final cry and echoes the beginning, but I think The tone at the beginning is established, and the audience can easily make a priori judgment, which reduces the possibility of understanding.
The most warm, sweet and touching thing is the scene where Mona has a drink and a happy conversation with an elderly lady. The old lady lives alone and helplessly, without the meaning of life in her arms. Mona just wanders habitually, not knowing where the pipeline is. The pessimistic attitude towards life has received conclusive evidence at this moment, and Mona seems to have reached her own climax: she did not choose the wrong one! At that moment, she forgot the scene of her being raped. We don't know how painful it was for her-I thought this painful situation would tell us how she felt about herself.
The director actually compares Mona with others, he is somewhat dissatisfied with people's boring lives.
Freedom is indeed to be sought. Mona suggested a way. My way is to follow the teachings of Mr. Nan Huaijin, first be a human being, and then learn Buddhism.
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