So I watched this movie while eating pasta.
The plot is relatively ordinary, but the shooting and cutting are very good, the picture is very comfortable, the color tone has always been dark blue and gray, and I thought it was a French film for a while.
I especially liked the short episode of her by the sea, and I watched it several times.
The scattered piano sound slowly subsided, submerging into the sea little by little with the sound of the waves. The woman takes off her skirt and walks slowly towards the sea. The picture is zoomed out. The beautiful body of the woman is only a silhouette, lonely and quiet. The camera follows the movement of her feet and nothing else. At first she caressed the beach with her hands and did not dare to get too close. The white waves climbed up the beach, and she also stepped back quickly. Step back, get closer again. Then he hesitated and stopped. The water ran over her calves. Going a little closer, wet your hair first, feel the feeling of your body being buried in the water, look into the distance, and finally swim to the depths of the sea.
The time she spent swimming in the sea was short, not as long as the time she had planned for the initial communication with the sea. The preparation was like a tentative conversation between two new acquaintances, like a dance. How beautiful.
Until the last picture appeared she was lying flat on the beach, the position at the beginning. Bare torso and sandy feet let us know that it wasn't a dream or a hallucination.
The film repeatedly combines the concept of "water" ("sea"?) --- she took her son to the aquarium and was surrounded by everything about the sea; by the swimming pool she saw small insects (fly?) floating on the water. , suddenly felt that her body was floating, and her hair was floating, especially in the water; later, she went to shower after running, fell into the bathtub, and was choked up by the stagnant water; she went swimming in the sea, thinking that she was in a coma after seeing her son, but because of Waking up with a wave; finally waking up in despair and jumping into the sea (this shot is also beautiful). Not to mention the house where the mother and son are embracing dripping water from time to time, the fantasy in the sea, and so on.
Maybe I have been paying attention to the water in the film and the little details related to it, because it has something to do with my feelings for water/sea. I love water, and the feeling of giving my body completely to it is so addicting, even knowing that addiction is dangerous. The same movie, different people will have different feelings when they watch it, and they will also think of different aspects of themselves. If the director works hard to make the picture beautiful or stylized, and at the same time does not want the audience to be disconnected from the emotional fluctuations and emotional rendering of the protagonist, then in the details I can understand, he should have done a good job: the
grief is accumulated in the heart, so The expression of running and wanting to cry can finally be fully recognized on the face at this time.
Running very fast and tired, go home and take a hot shower.
Go swimming in the sea.
Frowning all day, suspicious, speechless.
Emotions and moods are expressed in silent ways.
Of course, the film always mentions water/sea, which is of course closely related to the plot of the film. Her son was missing at sea, and on the one hand she couldn't rule out the possibility that her son had drowned (at the end we learned that the body was her son at the time of the autopsy, but she was obsessed with self-deception. Before that, the audience's The train of thought kept following her), on the other hand she firmly believed that her son was still alive and that she would find him. It was this struggle and persistence that led her to mistake other people's children as her own, which indirectly led to abduction.
She just wanted to find her child and bring him home.
She suspected that the people around her were actually just struggling to fight against herself. She couldn't stop this kind of struggle, and she was unwilling to admit and give up. The son is not dead, he must be alive, somewhere, hidden... that body is not him... he must be alive, I am going to find him, find him, and take him home. She later found another woman's home with a missing child, until she took someone else's child as her own.
Gotta do something.
Maybe it's just because she needs such an "action" of searching to make her feel that her child is still alive, which has become all the meaning of her life. Obsession is all the central motivation, supporting the development of the story, so that the "illusory" flowers in the plot can sprout and grow, making the film full of suspense.
"Thriller" was not seen by me, I only saw sad and quiet beauty, stubborn loneliness, and rebirth after collapse.
When she sank into the sea, she wanted to grab the child's hand, but her child looked at her with a smile, and finally let go of the hand and swam away. It's not that she doesn't want to die, it's the light of life and all the goodness of human nature that don't allow her to die.
She is alive and "recovered", which has the finishing touch in the conception of the film.
Finally, she was in the hospital and we finally saw her neatly combed hair and a smile and relief written on her clean face. She saw her son again, and in the ward, he turned and smiled at her, walking towards her. But she turned away and walked into a bright room, and a bird flew in briskly.
Is she awake? She has always been awake. What's not sober is her persistent belief. She covers her ears and only believes the lie in her heart, because the voice is so beautiful, that's what she prefers to hear. Any real word from the outside world will make her scream. Say "no". She was only powerless in the end, and the objective facts of the outside world that found everything hit her nerves finally ran counter to her subjective wishes. You can't deceive yourself any more.
There may be times when we need to deceive ourselves to be hopeful.
But when the icy reality no longer gives you a second option, forcing your subconscious mind to present the wish in the reality as an illusion, do you want to believe it?
Do you want to believe it.
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