When I was recommended this movie, I said it was a live-action adaptation of a gay film, and half of it I thought it was something like "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Theory of Everything". A great and stoic wife saved her talented husband from mental/physical illness through tireless efforts. Biographical romance, after watching it, I feel that this is a gender discussion with a sense of aesthetics.
First of all, this is not a story about homosexuality. In this case, the male protagonist is not lily (meaning lily) but should be called "Sissy" and "Nancy" (referring to a feminine gay man). When Aina was first spotted wearing his wife's underwear and then went out of his way to date men, he longed to be watched, kissed, and stroked, but he wasn't the same-sex kind, so when he knew he was actually Aina , he left disappointed. What he needs is to be appreciated by the opposite sex as a charming and enchanting woman,
(When walking out of Henrik's house, he stopped three times and looked through the window at his indiscernible inner os: God, who the hell am I?? The director's detailed handling of inner changes)
Second, this is not a story about life stressful The stories of schizophrenia caused by unhappy marriage, the fjords of Veele and his story with Hans, which appear frequently at the beginning of the film, all prove Lily's original existence. Of course, don't ignore an important person is Aber's father.
(This painting appears many times in the film, Veiler: The place where Lily was born!)
The image of the father has an important influence on a child who is still in the process of gender recognition. Through the eyes of Abel when he tells about his father's behavior of chasing Hans, it can be seen that Abel may have some resentment towards his father, forming a false Oedipus complex, which is the image of Abel. He began to discreetly disguise his physical gender, trying not to be castrated by his father or his ethics.
The castration complex (or Oedipus complex) described by Freud, the subject is that men are afraid of castration, women are jealous of those who have phalluses, and want to be the self of the opposite sex, and Aina can have a kind of anti-male castration The complex, he did not develop according to the general psychological path. As the individual grows, the spirit and personality are rebuilt, and the castration complex gradually disappears. He has never been able to discard the gender of his personality, and he is also obsessed with femininity and women themselves, which can already be vaguely felt from his gestures.
(He is so charming and quivering with laughter, and he is also ashamed of being a woman!!)
Here are a few more pictures of Johnny Depp playing Ed Wood, who has a transvestite, suddenly I think this Wood is a pure man !
A body of two genders is always lingering and entangled with anxiety that cannot be integrated, but the id will gradually awaken, and the sexual repression will be self-liberated. When Lily appeared in the real sense, there was a sense of breaking through the mundane pleasure. The reason is the same as the meaning of the foot-binding women in the enclosures of the feudal society, in order to resist the old forces and pursue their true self, resolutely tore off the layer of foot-binding cloth that has imprisoned women for thousands of years.
(I thought this section was a small climax of the film, and there are more exciting pictures, see the video for details~ Aina suddenly came to Ulla's dance room, stripped naked, and peeped at her male body, helpless, angry, Self-loathing and self-disgust, and then began to yy on all kinds of dance dresses, Lily was about to come out, and Aina was about to cease to exist.)
(This is a piece that I personally think is very clever, Aina found a dancer in Paris and imitated her When the female posture, the real Aina and the dancing girl reflected in the mirror appear in one picture, what I see clearly is Lily's. The dancing girl is his own reflection.)
Finally, the subject of the opposite gender has been suppressed for a long time, only The repressed self can be retrieved with a martyrdom ending. He opted for genital castration and the construction of a female vagina. After Aina finally completed Nirvana and became Lily, whether castration made her or destroyed him, this answer can only be answered by Able or Lily who has experienced it personally. But I don't think she regrets it, because he is Lily in the first place, how can he not be himself in his limited life!
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