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As Ronit, Esti and Dovid embraced at the end of the memorial service, Ronit and Esti clasped their fingers together, and the trio completed the double violation of internal and external relations.
Inside the trio:
In the past, Ronit faced this relationship, and her way of dealing with it was to run away. After returning to Hendon, Ronit wanted to run away again, but this time in order to find the missing Esti, she chose to stay, and Esti accused her of always She would only walk away, she replied that leaving was "not easy", but it was her disobedience to stay: walk into a cafe in a community with almost no privacy, sit by the window, and ignore the eyes of others; Take Esti through the houses; at the memorial service, in front of the Orthodox Jews and Esti, and no longer care about the attention and discussion around. Her love for Esti may just be a flash of the past in reality, but for this person who likes to leave, staying, staying by Esti's side, and staying in Hendon is her disobedience.
Esti has always been the more active and brave side of the relationship between the two. From the first kiss under the tree when they were young to the lovesong kiss when they met again, walking through the mourning crowd was Esti's undisguised desire for Ronit, the first glimpse of the reunion. I just want to kiss this familiar stranger. In the novel, the old Rav said that Esti needs to find a man who will give her space as a husband, such as Dovid. In the movie, she said that since she must marry a man, why not marry her best friend? What is her transgression? After fulfilling her wife's various obligations, she finally decided to break up with Dovid, no matter how much the man loves her, understands her and understands her, admits the fact that she is always only a fancy woman, and shouts "I'VE ALWAYS BEEN THIS WAY!" Her disobedience.
The old Rav said to the frail Dovid (in the novel, Dovid's headaches have periodic attacks, which can cause syncope in severe cases. Once he returned home after leaving the church early due to illness, and witnessed the aftermath of Ronit and Esti's tenderness) that he should find someone to ask him Not many wives, such as Esti, follow the teacher's instructions and try to be Esti's husband. Dovid is a good guy in both the novel and the movie, although the movie has an outburst after discovering the fact that Esti and Ronit are back in a relationship, but when Esti actually offers to leave with the baby in his womb, he completely falls in love with them Compromise with the facts, Dovid let go of his wife, gave up his obsession with curing Esti's "encephalopathy", and refused to raise children and breed Little Moxie and Little Jonah's fate. This is his disobedience.
threesome outside
Ronit's relationship with her father has always been a major proposition in her life, and she can only escape temporarily, but eventually face it. Taking care of her father's funeral is Ronit's own job, but when she returns to Hendon, she is just an uninvited New Yorker in the eyes of relatives and friends (unexpectedly), in everyone's eyes, she is the fact that old Rav is the least willing to admit . After reading about her father's childless in the newspaper, she went to the cemetery to tell her father's students "this is my father"; took her mother's candlestick from the house her father left to the church; attended the memorial service where she was not welcome; and finally returned to her father In the cemetery, she only took a picture of her father for the one she loved. Ronit used her love for her father to subvert the father-daughter relationship in the eyes of others to complete the disobedience
Esti said when he proposed the breakup: "I was born in this community, I never had the right to choose, but I hope that my children can have the right to choose." In the eyes of the community, Esti is the wife of Dovid who has returned to the right path. She Trying to live up to the expectations of others, trying to get pregnant for Dovid, taking care of the house, teaching English at a religious school, smiling in every social setting in a fancy (eaten lotus root) wig, until Esti shook his head at the carol at the memorial service; Throwing down her wig and putting on a wool cap to buy a pregnancy test alone; demanding freedom from Dovid, not only her own but also the freedom of her unborn child; even at the end of the credits Esti throws away her wig and chases the taxi Ronit leaves in her pajamas and coat , Esti broke through Hendon's established character to complete the disobedience.
Dovid is the most proud student of old Rav, and he can be regarded as his spiritual son. In the class explaining "Song of Songs", Dovid is full of Rav's shadow. He will definitely be a good Rav. He has the admiration of his students and his peers. Admiration, the expectations of the elders, so he acquiesced to the fate of taking over the position of Rav, he will become the new religious leader and spiritual leader of Hendon. And at the memorial service, he dropped the scrutinized speech and instead shouted that you are free ("you are free" to Esti), gave up the Rav position without warning, and said he still has a lot to learn , Dovid refused to impose a title on himself to complete the disobedience.
About Uncle Hartog
In the novel, Uncle Hartog plays a very important role and is regarded as the number one villain. He is one of the richest people in the community and is responsible for managing the church property, including the property left by the old Rav and all the items in it. He first allowed Ronit to go to the house to find the relics he wanted, and then took Ronit's collection away and changed the locks, just for bribes (writing high checks and providing return tickets the day before the memorial service) and Threats Ronit not to come to his father's memorial service. The movie reduces his role but doesn't diminish his abomination, plus points.
About Candlesticks
In the novel, the candlestick is the only relic that Ronit wants. The candlestick carries all the fond memories of her home when she was young. She searched the old house for many days to no avail, until Uncle Hartog put forward the trading conditions and failed to find the candlestick. Tell her the candlestick Old Rav has given her the candlestick ahead of time, and she might want this candlestick in case Ronit does come back. After getting the candlestick, Ronit no longer has any reason to compromise with his uncle. Naturally, at the end of the novel, Ronit appears at the memorial service and becomes the most important part of Dovid's speech.
In the movie, Esti helps Ronit put away the candlestick, because she knows the meaning of the candlestick to Ronit. Good aunt Fruma also reminds Ronit to take the candlestick away. When Ronit returns to the old house in the second half, he finds that it has been washed and emptied. This shows the importance of Esti putting away the candlestick. At the end, Ronit carefully puts down the candlestick in the little luggage, taking away all the beauty of her childhood.
About Song of Solomon and Othello
In the film, Dovid explained to the students the "Song of Solomon" in the Torah about love, about husband and wife, true love and the greatest joy, and everything has nothing to do with Dovid and Esti's married life; Esti explained to the students "The Orsay". Ronit's episode about adultery, the crime in the book is unwarranted, and what Ronit and Esti did is beyond reproach.
About the ending
In the novel, Dovid and Esti complete the memorial service together, they declare to the whole Hendon that their marriage will continue, even if Esti and Ronit love each other, they declare war on a life without choice and freedom, not so much a disobedience as a revolution ; For the pair of Ronit and Esti in the movie, it is not BE or HE. For the three of RED, they have completed their respective violations and completed a common violation, which is enough.
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