Joseph is a middle-aged bad old man who has lost his spouse. He picks up quarrels and provoked troubles, lies a lot, is notorious in the community, and is annoying everywhere. He is always easily provoked by all kinds of small things. Out of control, until he accidentally kicked to death his only relative, his dog. He was suddenly shocked. He felt the feeling of losing a loved one again. Heartache and remorse were irreversible, so he tried to restrain his morbid impulse, but this energy that could not be vented almost destroyed himself. Unexpectedly, he ran into a welfare store, which was full of second-hand clothes. He hid behind the clothes, trembling and at a loss. Also overwhelmed was the clerk at the welfare store, Hannah. Born in a wealthy area, Hannah, a Catholic, looked at this uninvited guest in horror, but somehow she was full of courage to talk to Joseph and pray for him. Her warmth melted Joseph's lack of care and love, and burst into tears. . But the story did not become a fairy tale world of princes and princesses. Joseph was not saved from this. Instead, he still hurt Hannah with his vulgar words, but Hannah did not give up, showing the transcendental humanity of a devout believer and persevering. 's prayer, which makes people think that this is an ode to the power of religion.
When Hannah returned to his beautiful and wealthy home with Joseph's ridicule about being a different class, what awaited him was unnerving hesitation, tension and worry, and soon we saw that this was completely different from Joseph's poor and peaceful The despair of the so-called middle-class families of broken lives under the false cloak. Hannah is helpless to face a perfect husband in the eyes of people who he once loved deeply, but now he can neither face nor let go of. Outside the villa, he maintains his graceful demeanor and care and care, without showing any inner turbulence and impending anger, but as soon as the door is closed, he becomes a beast, wantonly torturing and abusing his family. , lovers and relatives. But the anger passed, and he cried like a child again, begging Hannah's forgiveness, and reminding the two of the good things they used to be. Hannah was unsurprisingly forgiving, soothing, accepting his imperfections and imperfections, just as God told her to do. Hannah, as Joseph later recalled his obese wife, was kind and tolerant of all evil. It's just that their kindness did not save their lovers as described in the Bible, but because this kind of indulgence completely destroyed their temperament and destroyed their own lives.
In the end, because her husband witnessed the scene where Hannah helped Joseph try on a dress for the funeral at the welfare store, he was retaliated, and the damage reached the point that Hannah could not continue to bear. Hannah chose to leave the house in a hurry the next morning. She can go anywhere, because no one will believe her treatment, she finds Joseph, who suddenly becomes the only person who can accept and save her. Their relationship took a dramatic turn. Even though the eccentric old man was always bumping and treating himself in good and bad times, Hannah always felt a sense of warmth and security. So she attended the funeral of Joseph's old friend. After the sentimentality and regret were stripped away, the funeral was more like a warm family party. People who were strangers to each other were filled with understanding and kindness. Hannah gradually relaxed and enjoyed rare among these people. She smiled happily, danced, drank and chatted, as if she had never been nourished by a simple and simple life. In the early morning, when she heard Joseph making his favorite tea with only milk, and talking about his wife who died five years ago, she was nicknamed "Tyrannosaurus" because of her huge body, she completely melted. Now, she fell in love with this strange old man who claimed to be not a good person. And Joseph's thoughts and love for his ex-wife suddenly opened the floodgate, and he embraced Hannah with a thoughtful realization. It was precisely because of Hannah's suffering, those familiar bruises and swellings, that Joseph felt a lot about himself. His wife has a deeper understanding. The pain of this stranger suddenly became a good medicine to save Joseph's soul. He suddenly realized that the reason for his uncontrollable arrogance and violence was really because he once had someone who loved or spoiled him so deeply, but he was not cherished, that kind of hidden The regrets that he didn't want to face in the subconscious became his deep shackles. So far, Joseph's soul has been completely redeemed. He never seemed to know what he should and should not do so clearly, so he felt that he should help Hannah face her life.
The climax of the story appeared. Joseph took Hannah's key, carefully opened the door, and searched for her scumbag husband, who should have been asleep in the early morning. In the room, I saw a dead body that had been dead for several days and had begun to attract mosquitoes. Yes, it was that night that Hannah couldn't stand her perverted husband raping her and tried to insert a glass in her body, in order to keep her hope of becoming a mother (the wish of a woman of traditional virtue), and all these years. All the inhuman treatment she had experienced was superimposed and the depression exploded. She picked up the scattered knives and inserted them straight into her husband's neck, cutting his aorta neatly. In the case of almost unconsciousness, such a break was completed with great joy. Until Joseph returned to his home in disbelief and saw Hannah immersed in love and family warmth, and her painstaking preparations to decorate the room with flowers and food, he still couldn't seem to believe that his eyes had All that is seen is what this submissive, pitiful and kind woman does, and neither can the audience. But it is what it is, cruel, bloody, but so beautiful and fascinating. Since then, the prince has finally found his place, sacrificing the old friends he has neglected every week, and visiting the princess who is in prison and serving his sentence, waiting for the moment when the princess is truly redeemed. This seemingly unhappy ending has a satisfying warmth that seems to be the best ending for the hero and heroine.
I have always been interested in the Taiwanese translation of the title "Sleeping Tyrannosaurus". Who is Tyrannosaurus? Who is sleeping? Are all the abusers like Joseph and Hannah's husband? Or the victims of violence like Hannah? Maybe there are more, Joseph's wife, neighbor kids Sam, Sam's mother, neighbors who endure the harassment of vicious dogs, or more, every viewer and every one of us. Our numbness and tolerance for life's problems, hurts, and injustices makes us less brave than a mad Joseph. Are we also waiting for our own critical point, waiting for the unconsciousness in the moment of explosion, waiting for the destruction of each other after pampering, we are brewing ourselves into a tyrannosaur that can explode at any time.
There is a sentence in the film: "An animal can only bear a certain amount of humiliation and punishment before it reacts critically. This is its nature, understand?"
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