bundle of love

Demond 2022-02-07 14:53:07

White oleander, beautiful to the extreme, used to protect the body from toxins. This is the way of self-reliance and independence, the eyes are cold and the chin is slightly raised.
The girl imitated her mother, her eyes did not reveal the slightest sympathy,
and she repeatedly practiced in a contemptuous tone: "You're not my type!" At that time, she lived in the shadow of her mother with pure reverence. The whole world, this woman is her religion and belief.
If there is no later turning point, I think this little girl will be subdued by the endless charm of evil and become another oleander.
However, after tasting the right and wrong of being hurt and being hurt, she just restrained her edge and turned into a pool of plain water.

Love Astrid's first look. A light-colored dress, a little bit of coquettishness is now between his eyebrows, and his long golden hair is as soft as silk.
At the end of the film, she grows her hair again and twists it, and her life returns to peace, but it is not the beginning.
Unable to forget that after being bullied, she cut her long hair with a knife, held the knife against the jaws of others, and learned how to be strong.
She couldn't forget her refusal of the boy's sincere invitation with her eyes hurt. She saw the poison in her body, and she saw all the sins.
Can't forget her wearing heavy makeup to see her mother and sitting in front of that woman like an enemy. She deliberately provoked her, which was punishment.
A circle and a cycle are all the same scam.
Growing up violently, she was covered in bruises and bruises, until one day the wound healed and the scab fell off and new skin grew, and she could be redeemed.

Murder, brutality, and death in the film are dazzling. In the end, it turns out that what it conveys is a simple truth.
Reminds me of "Ship of God" by Kaori Jianguo. The same mother and daughter who depend on each other, and the same unusual mother.
Caozi moved with her mother to various cities until one day, Caozi chose to stay in one place and live her own life.
Every mother has probably faced such a moment, when the child suddenly grows up one day, and it seems that he doesn't need you anymore.
And Ingrid is confident and proud, she has always believed that Astrid will only survive in the world that belongs to her.
She nourishes the little girl with her own toxins, raising her as part of her own body.
It's just the appearance of too many people and the occurrence of too many things that make this little girl farther and farther away from her.
Claire's appearance taught Astrid what true love is, and made her understand that both cruelty and possessiveness in love are distorted.
And Claire's death allowed her to cut the tied rope and escape from her mother's shackles far away.
But I don't know if Astrid was reluctant when her mother finally let her go. She just murmured in tears: "She let me go."
Can't follow her footsteps to more charming places. The mother chose to leave herself alone again, as if she was young.
However, no matter how far apart, their roots are always connected and they are always in love.

Of Shunji Iwai's films, the only thing that can't be read is "The Binding of Love". Tried many times, but always gave up halfway.
There is anxiety in love, greed in love, and corruption and self-abuse in love. Only by falling together can we obtain the greatest satisfaction.
If only death is eternal life, it is better to lift the ropes to keep each other awake, and let distance reduce the side effects of love.
I love "The White Oleander", perhaps because of its positivity, it is an ambition to develop an independent will.

In the end, Astrid became a water gardenia that was stained with dust but still soft.
And the days of trying to be an oleander still haunt her.
The intense aura emanating from the most beautiful white oleander is still her most love and nostalgia...

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White Oleander quotes

  • Astrid: How long were you gone?

    Ingrid: About a year, give or take a few months.

    Astrid: My God.

    Ingrid: You're not asking the right question. Don't ask me why I left. Ask me why I came back.

    Astrid: You should have been sterilized.

    Ingrid: I could have left you there, but I didn't. Don't you understand? For once, I did the right thing! When I came back, you knew me. You were sitting by the door, and you looked up, and you reached for me. It was as if you had been waiting for me all along.

    Astrid: I was always waiting for you, mother. That's the constant in my life. Waiting for you. Will you come back? Will you forget that you tied me in front of a store or left me on a bus?

    Ingrid: Are you still waiting?

    Astrid: No. I stopped when Claire showed me what it felt like to be loved. What did you think, that I would amuse you? That's what babies are like, mother. What'd you think? We'd exchange thoughts on Joseph Brodsky?

    Ingrid: I thought Klaus and I would live happily ever after. That's what I thought, Adam and Eve in a vine-covered shack. I must have been out of my mind.

    Astrid: You were in love with him.

    Ingrid: YES, I was in love with him. ALRIGHT? I was in love with him, and baby makes three, and all that crap!

    Astrid: Then why did you leave him? Why did you leave him?

    Ingrid: I didn't leave him! He left me. You wanna know about your father? He left us when you were six months old for another woman, and I never saw him again until he showed up looking for you when you were eight years old.

    Astrid: He came to see me?

    Ingrid: Yes, he came to see you but it was a little late, wasn't it? Why should I let him see you after what he did to me?

    Astrid: Because it wasn't about you! It was about me, and I wanted to see him! My whole life, I've wanted to see him. That decision was MINE, not yours. Everything's always been about you, never about me. I knew you were gonna kill Barry, but you didn't even care. You didn't give a damn about what that would do to me. I'll say whatever Susan wants me to say, but I gotta get outta here.

    Ingrid: No! No, no, no. You don't just walk away from me. I made you, I'm in your blood. You don't go anywhere until I let you go!

    Astrid: Then let me go. You look at me and you don't like what you see, but this is the price, mother. The price of belonging to you.

    Ingrid: If I could, I'd take it all back. I would.

    Astrid: Then tell me you don't want me to testify. Tell me you don't want me like this. Tell me you would sacrifice the rest of your life to have me back the way I was.

  • [last lines]

    Astrid: No matter how much she damaged me... no matter how flawed she is... I know my mother loves me.