In analyzing the criminal psychology of women, Italian director Tonadore also handed in a satisfactory answer this time. The film master, who is famous for his trilogy "Paradise Cinema", "The Pianist at Sea" and "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", has always produced nostalgic, delicate and tender films. Therefore, this "Hidden Woman's Heart", which has a consistent inner style, is unwilling to define it as a "thriller" according to the film's introduction. Indeed, the appropriate soundtrack made our hearts rise, and we were horrified by the numerous flashbacks that reminded us of the past. The heroine just moved the shoe closet and opened the secret door but couldn't close it, and her hostess was walking from the hallway. Duan walked quickly, and the cross montage was enough to make us dare not let out the air, and secretly sweat for the heroine. However, these horror factors are just means, and unlike the American horrors we are used to, the story is told slowly and slowly. And the dark side of the story is cruel and bloody, but it has a bright tail and a warm heart.
When the heroine of the story, Elena, first appeared in the audience's sight, she was a naked woman wearing a mask. She was peeped and selected by men under a cold mask, and we could not see her expression. , therefore, in our minds she is an object with neither expression nor thought. The body is real, and the mask is fake. The irony of this contrast reflects Elena's situation as a plaything. At this time, the camera flashed back, and it was Elena who was wrapped in black on the galloping train. We finally saw her true face of Mount Lu, but it was already 12 years later. Black hair, black clothes, black eyes, like a deep pool of water, and the scenery whizzing past the window seemed to reveal the violent secret in her heart. This is the most naked Elena, her hatred, her sadness, and her hope are revealed in a glance. At this time, the camera flashed back to the past. Elena, who was twelve years ago, put on her underwear and took off her mask. She had the same expression, but she was stunning with blonde hair and blue eyes. Seeing her ignorance, but also seeing her steadfastness and foreshadowing buried deep.
This is how the story twists into two lines. The main line is the theme of maternal love, brunette Elena, Italy, cold blue tones. Volt line is a revenge theme, blonde Elena, Ukrainian, lively and fragrant golden. The reality and the past are like the two poles of ice and fire, and Elena walks in pain through memories. An important token that maintains the two lines is the strawberry, which was given to her by her lover in the summer square where the sun phantoms, the pure smile behind the strawberry, and the white teeth. In the current world, strawberries are just the bitter fruit eaten alone in the dark night, and the lover has been killed. Only in this way can the taste of love be maintained. The director even arranged a plot around the strawberry. Elena, who went to the supermarket to buy strawberries, was suspected of stealing. In this cold Italian town, foreign women are not welcome. The security guard seemed to insist that she was a thief, sarcastically: " You really like to eat strawberries." But the holy fruit of love became the object of humiliation by others, whipping in the heart like a whip, and the memories began to emerge painfully, and the new humiliation wrapped the old humiliation, and it came to her in waves. attacked. The strawberry is a hint that the password is a love that transcends life and death. Although the past years were humiliating, the sun was shining with it, but today's day is cold and depressed. And everything she does today is rooted in the word love. The past and the present are so closely related.
Under the theme of revenge, Elena likes red, pursues romance and is obsessed with material things, but she can't hide her innocence under her cunning. The scene of the turning point made any cold-blooded audience secretly startled - she walked into the huge garbage dump with a shovel, and crows flew around. Weeping, weeping ghosts and gods. Later, she stabbed her enemy one by one with a pair of large scissors, the bald villain who killed her lover, sold her children, abused and raped her again and again, and flew away with his money. All these are Elena's nightmares, they are lurking in Elena under the theme of maternal love, there is a cause and a result.
And Elena under the theme of motherly love is a woman who forced a smile in front of others, turned her head and her eyes suddenly became empty with sadness. However, her shrewdness has not changed at all. She persuaded the jeweler's housekeeper to help her arrange a job on the condition of a 20% rebate; she stole the jeweler's garbage and tasted the leftovers one by one to determine their preferred flavors and meals. ; She tricked the jeweler's hostess that she could drive, and the next day she crammed to learn to drive; she finally became the jeweller's maid, and she skillfully turned the jeweler's young daughter's hostility towards her into dependence... ...and after that, her shrewdness was no longer needed for her relationship with the little girl, all she needed was instinct—she was convinced that the little girl was her daughter, the crystallization of her love with her strawberry lover. She accompanies her for Christmas, sings lullabies to her, takes her to the theater, and trains her to get rid of the psychological shadow of abuse, teaching her to get up quickly after falling, and to fight back bravely after being beaten. Although her maternal love for the little girl was unknown, it seemed to me as an onlooker that it overflowed like water in a glass, so unreserved that I had to secretly worry that the little girl's adoptive parents would notice it, and they did. .
Elena's maternal love touched at least three people, and the director showed the greatness of maternal love from different aspects through these three roles. The first is the little girl's adoptive mother. In my opinion, she is not fulfilling her mother's responsibilities and is even a little selfish. However, when she followed Elena's whereabouts and discovered her relationship with the little girl, her motherhood was awakened by jealousy and shame, and came to the door to warn Elena that she would never see the little girl again, and was eventually killed by evil people and died. The second is the housekeeper. The housekeeper is an insatiable old man. Every time he sees Elena, he always asks her to increase the price of the rebate. When Elena was beaten and came to him for help, he showed it. Resolute and indifference, Elena even traded her place from him only by threatening to find out that he was stealing gold dust. Once, in front of the housekeeper, Elena held the telephone receiver and sang a Ukrainian lullaby to the little girl, and the housekeeper's eyes suddenly lit up. In the later development of the story, the butler suddenly showed his love to Elena. I dare say that the housekeeper's emotional transformation began at the moment when he heard the lullaby and felt the brilliance of Elena's motherhood. The third person (I deliberately put it at the end) is the adoptive father of the little girl. In fact, it can be seen that the adoptive father loves the little girl more than the adoptive mother, but his love is not good at expressing, closed, and restrained, and the same is true for his feelings for anyone. As early as the day of the Christmas play, it can be seen from the eyes of the adoptive father that he seems to be more keenly aware of Elena's identity (or at least recognize Elena's feelings for the little girl) than the adoptive mother. But he never pierced. The little girl's adoptive mother was killed, and he even asked Elena to come back to take care of the little girl, because out of fatherly love, he felt that the little girl needed a mother for her growth. Until the day when Elena was sent to prison, we saw him on the bench next to him. He was always reserved and he hesitated. From the last scene, the little girl who grew up to be a girl takes Elena out of prison, and we can infer that the adoptive father actually acquiesced or encouraged the correspondence between Elena and the little girl, and told the truth to the little girl when she grew up. From this, we can imagine what he was talking about that day, mixed with such hidden emotions of gratitude, understanding, sympathy, etc., it is really difficult to express in a few words.
At this point in the story, the revenge plot and bloody colors of the day have been diluted, and the emotional level is like a reef in the water. And is it just a mother's love? Tonadore's story is not so simple, because human nature is not so simple. The hidden woman's heart, this translation is straightforward and in place. It is said that maternal love is equal and unconditional. Why is Elena the only one who cares about the 9 children born in her 12 years? Someone asked her, if you can't find this one, will you go to other children? She doesn't know, maybe, she said.
So back to those strawberries. I don't want to say a simple sentence because of the reason, the audience should think about it for themselves. The inner world of a woman is extremely secretive.
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