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Eskil Vogt, the screenwriter of the Norwegian film "Love Ensemble", directed his first film "Blind" (2014), presenting the inner activities of the blind woman Ingrid to the audience. People have a clearer understanding of the inner world of the blind. This will inevitably make people feel that once the screenwriter acts as the director, they will consciously enter the rigid mode of "theme first". Of course, what is said here is not all derogatory, and there are some praises. But "Blind" is not obsessed with this, it has a more complicated deconstruction of human nature.
In China, since ancient times, blind people have mostly been related to fortune-telling, which is a helpless act to ask for life. It seems that the Chinese believe that only a blind person can count the fate of a clear-sighted person by pinching their fingers. In fact, this is also a kind of favor from everyone. It is in the same continuous line with the present "giving a rose a fragrance to the hand". No matter how time and space change, and no matter how ridiculous and abominable reality is, I always believe that the good side of human nature always follows reality.
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We feel the youth and cruelty of the Ukrainian movie "Tribe of the Deaf and Mute", and "Blind" has made us appreciate the inconvenience and barriers of the blind world. It's just that there are very few movies like "Blind" that depict the inner world of a blind person in such detail, especially the thoughts and thoughts of a blind woman. Her endless worries, worries, and squeezing feelings, all in her sitting by the window and listening, or in her wild imagination and vocabulary such as the keyboard, all overflowed like water. Once the love for her husband is transformed into a passionate focus, imagination is inevitable. Especially when her husband Morden returns to her exhaustedly, the script she has conceived can be completely digested and continued. Even on the bed in the dead of night, every move made her heart palpitations like a hare being chased.
She was destined to be unable to escape, so she could only constantly visit her husband's heart to verify her thinking when she was bored during the day. Even in the daytime, when she is lonely, she will be distracted, and her husband will be on one side in a trance. Or, she followed her husband's footsteps through the streets and alleys to see how he strikes up a conversation with people. Even if her husband was lying on the bed holding a notebook and typing "tweeting" at night, she thought he was chatting with his girlfriend.
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To this end, she specifically fictionalized the beauty Irene, a divorced woman, and also fictionalized Aina, a single man who lives in the opposite building. Irene's identity just allows her husband to have time to drill. And Aina is just a free existence, with no real meaning. Her husband Morden and Irene frequently date, and Ingrid has super powers that make Irene blind instantly just like herself. A piece of ice hit her head, and after that, she was blind. She kept talking about it. Then Irene is pregnant, or simply replaces her.
Ingrid must stand up and defend his due dignity. Although these are just her imagination, she still used her real husband as a script after all. In this way, she would never be able to get out of the reality that she thought was bright, but in fact her heart was darker than her eyes. As a result, her last expectation was "as long as he is no longer so boring." This seems to explain the origin of her swelling.
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Therefore, "Blind" explores for us a blind woman who is in the dark world, eager to explore the colorful real world. As a result, day after day, step by step, step by step restrains and kidnap her heart, leaving herself always in extreme panic. Among.
This may seem accidental, but in fact it is inevitable. A blind person, let alone a wise blind woman, it is impossible for her not to activate her active thought machine. Facing a networked reality of temptation, it can be said that there are traps everywhere, and men and women are more accessible and easier to enter each other's hearts. But these are just the illusions of her life when she was alone. Her experience is limited to what she is worried about. And most of the time, her husband was still an ordinary person in a normal state, completely different from what she had imagined.
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Then we can't help asking, who will pay for Ingrid's worries? Of course, there is only her husband and no one else, because the world she is exposed to is only her husband. Her husband is everything in her life. When one person's life is completely tied to another person, even a discerning person will think like Ingrid, or come true indiscriminately. Therefore, it is not so much a film about the inner world of the blind, as it is also a psychological image of the lonely state of being a "person".
In other words, there is no essential difference between blind people and ordinary people in terms of exerting their infinite imagination. Sometimes, we are more likely to fall into empty imagination than a blind person, and it is easier to incur inner anxiety and fear. In this sense, as a creative director, he will take the lead in thinking. He is very patient to create a perspective that everyone is interested in. The blind woman in "Blind" is just a living prop in the film.
In fact, what the film wants to explain is much larger than Ingrid's inner travels. Through the delicate thoughts of a blind woman, we permeate the perversion and weakness of human nature in reality, and realize that we are no different from the blind. In reality, there are blind spots everywhere, and everyone has blind spots. It depends on how you face and deal with it. I think this is the subtlety of "Blind" that is so memorable.
2015, July, 1
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