Screams and songs, Skies and kisses
A garden in the sea
An island in your bed
18 year old Ana lives with her father in a cave on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Father and Anna lived like hippies by selling their paintings. Anna calls her father a "monster", and the two rely on each other closely. The beautiful island of Ibiza is a holiday destination, surrounded by blue seas. The free-spirited Anna likes to dance in bars at night, swim naked in the azure blue waters during the day, and float in the warm waters lit by the bright sun.
While selling paintings at the market, an art school headmistress discovered Anna's talent for painting and asked Anna to go to her art school in Madrid for education. Anna said goodbye to her reluctant father and came to this art school. The school is in a building in Madrid, and the whole building is full of young people with artistic talents from all over the world. Headmistresses provide all students with the most freedom to live and learn. They live in mixed sex, use marijuana and alcohol, and paint their own imaginations on the walls of the building. During regular exhibitions, students express themselves through films, photos, drawings, performance art, and plays.
Here Anna learns to paint, makes good friends Linda, and meets her true love, Say, a Saharan orphan. While having dinner in a restaurant, Anna fell into a coma while watching the lobster being pulled out by the chef and about to be cooked in the pool next to her. Anna wakes up to find that her boyfriend has disappeared mysteriously without leaving a word. The American hypnotist who ate at the restaurant told Anna that he had hypnotized Anna while she was in a coma. Anna kept speaking in Arabic. No one could understand except Say, who understood what she was saying, but Say listened to her. Anna left without saying a word after the Arabic.
With Anna's consent, the hypnotist began to hypnotize Anna to explore her unconscious past life memories. During the hypnosis process, Anna spoke various languages and her body floated in the air. Almost all of her countless past lives were women, brutally murdered, hanged, burned, and pierced through her throat. Anna's unconscious memory seemed to contain the most tragic tragedies in women's history. Anna never dared to watch the videotape of herself during the hypnosis process. She was afraid of the pain caused by the memory of each previous death.
Once, Anna's friend Linda showed her a book about the diary of the first female explorer to reach Antarctica. Linda told Anna that during hypnosis, Anna revealed that one of her previous lives was this woman. The female explorer fell in love with a married man who was also a famous explorer at the time. To prove her ability and love, she embarked on a trip to Antarctica, but never came back. Anna stroked the photo of the female explorer in the book, trying to recall. She finally watched the hypnotized video with the encouragement and company of the headmistress and Linda. In the video, Anna, who was hypnotized, narrated the scene before her death. In the icy South Pole, the female explorer was lying on her side in the snow. The cold made Anna, who was watching the video, bent down and curled up tightly. The female explorer was dying to see her lover approaching her and then plunged into darkness. Anna kept crying and the pain burned her heart.
Every time she was hypnotized, Anna asked the hypnotist to take her into unconscious hypnosis so that she didn't have to go through all the processes awake. However, in order to understand the past lives of herself and her boyfriend, Anna asked the hypnotist to take him to experience the past lives of two people consciously. In hypnosis, Anna saw the endless golden Sahara desert ocean in Arabia. She was a wise daughter of the Papar tribe in her previous life. She saw the process of giving birth to her son. The man sat beside her and spoke to her. Anna is immersed in endless happiness. Memories continue to be moved, as Anna and her husband battle the enemies who occupy their land. Anna's heart was broken when she and her children were taken away by these armed soldiers, and her son was taken away. Her husband rode a horse to rescue her, but in the process of escaping, he was shot through the chest by a bullet. The two fell from their horses and lay down on the desert. The enemy left the two people in the desert to die. The vultures hovering in the air saw the dying people, and they landed next to her husband's body. Anna saw her husband's body being pecked by the vultures before she died.
While Anna's hypnosis program was in progress, the principal told Anna that her monster father had been evicted from the cave by the government and would not be allowed to live there, and that his father was temporarily staying at his friend's house. Anna hurried home by plane. A friend of Anna's father who came to pick him up at the airport told Anna that her father was ill and would die soon. He was waiting for Anna in a bar, waiting for the last dance with his beloved Anna. Anna came to the bar and saw the haggard father sitting in the open air waiting, the moment he saw Anna, his eyes were full of endless tenderness. The male singer in the bar was playing with a guitar, singing farewell in a hoarse voice. Anna and her father hugged and danced in the crowd. My father said to Anna, "Because of you, I have become the happiest person in the world."
Love and separation were vividly performed in Anna's life.
Anna's father died and the cave was sealed off by the government. Anna sneaks to New York on Linda's irresponsible father's boat. People passed by in the city, and Anna walked among them, touching the hands of people passing by in a hurry, looking up at the skyscrapers.
The principal of the art school and the hypnotist took Anna to a cave inhabited by primitive Indians, where a museum preserves the artifacts of the local Indians thousands of years ago. The headmaster and hypnotist thought this would be the earliest of Anna's past lives that could be traced back. Facing a skull artifact with a split slit in its head, Anna heard a woman's voice calling to her. Hypnosis brought Anna back to the Indian era thousands of years ago. She was called the goddess of life by the Indians at that time. As a result, her beloved man wearing a bird mask split her skull with an ax and died.
Facing the reincarnation of women being devastated by violence for thousands of years, the school advised Anna to face it bravely. Anna left alone, working at a small pancake shop on a street corner. One morning, Anna, who had just come to work, saw Say pushing the door into her store. A delighted Anna returns to her residence with Say, who has been missing for a long time. Say tells Ana the reason for his departure, and during the first hypnosis, Ana recounts in Arabic about her past life, which was the same person as Say's mother's. Say can't stand the fact that her lover is the reincarnation of her mother and leaves. After listening to it, Anna realized that the husband who was surprisingly similar to Say in the hypnosis was actually Say's father, and the son who was snatched by the enemy was the love in front of him. Anna hugged Say tightly, crying bitterly, the pain of losing her child and the tears of losing her and finding her. Anna fell asleep. When he wakes up to find the house empty, Say leaves again without saying goodbye. And this time, probably the last time. Anna, who was sitting naked on the toilet, screamed hard. Fate had played such a big joke on her.
Anna came to work as a waiter in a restaurant of a high-end hotel. At noon one day, a politician who created the Iraq War came to the restaurant for dinner. When Anna was delivering meals to politicians, she heard the voices of countless women who had died tragically in her previous life telling her that this man was the reincarnation of the thugs who murdered them. Anna uses her femininity to seduce politicians, who ask her to come to her room after get off work. The anxious politician started undressing when Anna walked into the room and said to Anna, "Women are prostitutes." Anna jumped on the politician and shit on his face. The politician was furious, punched and kicked Anna, and slammed Anna's body with a lamp to kill Anna. Anna's memory kept cutting back to the picture of the Indian goddess of life being beaten to death by her lover. Anna said to the politician in the angry voice of the goddess of life: You ruined me two thousand times, I was reborn two thousand times, and gave birth to a group of children... The
politician held a lamp stained with Anna's blood in his hand, looking unable to do so. Anna, who was beaten to death by herself, was stunned.
Bleeding with scars all over her body, Anna picked up her clothes one by one and walked out of the hotel.
Pedestrians on the road looked at Anna, who was disheveled and covered in scars, with strange eyes, while Anna looked up at the sky with a relieved smile.
After accepting the countless reincarnations of herself as the goddess of life, after bravely facing the memory of countless tragic deaths, and after taking revenge on the politicians who once created violence and used violence to persecute women, the misery and resentment of Anna's countless reincarnations finally got relief.
The final subtitle of the film appears: Dedicated to my dear sister Anna. Dedicated to my daughter Anna who came into this world.
Spanish director Julio Medem has directed "Lucia's Lover" and "Arctic Circle Lover". This "Anna, Island in Bed" is in memory of his sister, Anna, who died in a car accident. Anna is also a painter, most of the paintings in the film are works of Anna before her death. Julio travels between reality and fantasy with imaginative lenses. The heroine of the film, Manuela Vellés, has a superb performance, and when she is young, she interprets the life of every hypnotized reincarnation very realistically. The music in the film is a mix of fantastical folk music and female voices, creating the desert emptiness, the tragedy of life, the blending of love and hate, life and death. The famous composer Jocelyn Pook swept all the music production, she was the composer of "Gangs of New York", "The Merchant of Venice" and other films.
Watching this film is like an experience, following Anna in the film swinging in reincarnation. In the face of fate, human beings are small but great. Insignificance is because individuals cannot change destiny, while greatness is because human beings create destiny.
Reincarnation is the unwillingness to face hidden in the huge memory bank. Too much disappointment, fear, death, violence. Even in this life, what I recall is a sad past. Humanity is a history of sorrow and blood and tears.
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