■In terms of subject matter, as the title suggests, the film talks about "revenge", and in terms of content, it's straightforward, there are no repeated memories, and there is no endless reflection, but the best part of this movie is Herein lies: On the basis of outdated themes and content, most viewers can draw completely different conclusions. Some people see the reconciliation and redemption of life, while others see the inevitable punishment and redemption. retribution.
From the perspective of the story, this film has several special points. First, the first half of the film is devoted to describing the life of the protagonist's girlfriend, a young woman from Ukraine who works as a prostitute in Vienna and lives in The environment is small and harsh, and he is addicted to drugs. While shouldering the burden of the family's livelihood, he was also coerced by the boss to receive political and business celebrities in private. It presents a miserable woman who lives in an ugly sin city. She was originally adamant against the protagonist's idea of robbing a bank, but was forced to run away with the protagonist after being threatened by the brothel owner. When the protagonist goes to the bank to rob, she waits anxiously in the car alone, and keeps reciting prayers, but it turns out that such a woman is accidentally shot.
The second special feature of the film is the setting and characterization of the policeman's wife. In the film, the policeman and his wife have been married for many years. The two have a harmonious relationship and have just moved into a new house. However, the lack of children has always been a problem between the two. The wife once revealed in private that the cause of infertility was her husband. When the husband was prosecuted and investigated for the accidental murder and was exhausted physically and mentally, the wife actually seduced the protagonist and had sex in her own home twice behind her husband's back. Just when the husband couldn't bear the pressure and was about to have a nervous breakdown, his wife told him the news of the pregnancy, which rekindled his courage and hope in life, but the child was not actually his.
Originally, the protagonist planned to shoot him by the river where the policeman was jogging regularly, but the brief conversation between the two broke the knot in the protagonist's heart and made him give up the idea of revenge completely. Without knowing that the other party was the robber, the policeman said excitedly that he thought he was aiming at the wheel, but the constant self-blame and repeated memories made him not sure what the truth was. The police also expressed that they hoped that the robber would come to seek revenge on him, on the one hand to relieve his guilt, and on the other hand to explain why he took a woman with him who neither assisted in the robbery nor helped to drive the car. If the robbers hadn't done this at the time, none of the tragedy would have happened.
Before this conversation happened, the policeman's wife told her husband that she was pregnant, so when she learned that her husband had met with the protagonist, she immediately went to the protagonist and asked him to stop communicating with him, and also asked him not to Talk about what happened between the two. But it was at this moment that she unexpectedly learned that the protagonist was the man who robbed the bank, hated her husband because his girlfriend was shot, and intended to take revenge. Faced with this situation, the policeman's wife was speechless, and could only ask the other party to keep the secret between the two in shock, and the protagonist resolutely promised to keep it secret.
After all this, the protagonist carried a basket and stood under the apple tree in the yard to pick up the fallen apples. Grandpa said that this year's apples are the sweetest. In a peaceful silence, the protagonist enters the house with a basket full of apples, while the crisp and melodious birdsong continues to reverberate until the end of the film.
■What is the peace of mind that the protagonist obtains because he gives up hatred and revenge? Or whether the parties realize it or not, all crimes committed will be punished and revenge accordingly?
If it is the former, then because of the relief and relief of the protagonist, his grandfather will get a filial grandson, the policeman will get a desired child, the policeman's wife will have a perfect family again, and everyone will return to the track of life. If it is the latter, then the protagonist's girlfriend will be punished to death because of prostitution and drug use, the police will mistake the kid of the robber as his own flesh and blood due to manslaughter, and the protagonist not only loses his girlfriend's life because of the robbery, but also Will lose her own child to adultery, and as for the policeman's wife, punishment and revenge must await her in an unknown future.
It's a movie that can be understood in many ways, but the apples in it are quite associative. The most famous apple in the world is the fruit of wisdom recorded in the Bible and grown in the Garden of Eden. According to the Genesis account of the Old Testament of the Bible, God created the ancestors of mankind in his own image. The man was called Adam and the woman was called Eve, and he placed them to live in the Garden of Eden. Later, the two were tempted by the serpent and ate the forbidden fruit, and they became wise, so they were punished by God and expelled from the Garden of Eden. The world generally believes that the apple is the forbidden fruit, the "fruit of wisdom". Why does God not allow mankind to eat the fruit of wisdom, and not allow mankind to distinguish between good and evil?
In the first half of the film, after the protagonist's girlfriend rejects the brothel owner's proposal and is unwilling to provide private services to political and business celebrities, the brothel owner finds someone to pretend to be a guest to beat the protagonist's girlfriend, and also explains that the protagonist must not tell the truth. It was her confession to her girlfriend, which led her to escape from the brothel and also led her to agree to the protagonist to rob the bank. After the unfortunate death of his girlfriend, the protagonist has no idea of revenge despite his grief. It was not until he accidentally found out that the policeman who killed his girlfriend lived near the grandfather's manor. The wife of the policeman only wanted to deceive her husband, betray her husband, and leave a fetus unrelated to her husband only after she knew that her husband had a reproductive obstacle and that he was against adopting a child.
On the contrary, the protagonist's grandfather did not know that the grandson robbed the bank or that he planned to take revenge on the policeman, so he could simply enjoy the grandson's return and feel the happiness of his family. The policeman didn't know that the robber who was standing in front of him was trying to take revenge on him, so he was able to open his heart to reveal his true feelings, and because he didn't know the adultery between his wife and the protagonist, he could fully understand the hope of life brought by his wife's pregnancy. And because the protagonist doesn't know that the policeman's wife is pregnant with his child, he can completely let go of the fetters of the past and enjoy the tranquility and peace in front of him. As for the policeman's wife, if she doesn't know the true identity of the protagonist from beginning to end, the child in her womb will be a pure reward, but now that she knows everything, where will the ending go?
After stealing the forbidden fruit, God cast Adam and Eve into the world and cursed them, saying that from now on, Adam must be tired and sweaty to live, and Eve must suffer in childbirth. In the film, after the protagonist returned to his grandfather's farm, he kept chopping firewood, sweating hard, and the policeman's wife eventually became pregnant. Whose revenge is "Vienna's Revenge" about? Maybe it's God's revenge for mankind's wisdom and ability to distinguish between good and evil. Whether it is God's revenge or not, whether there is a Garden of Eden or not, the wisdom possessed by human beings can always only allow people to see the appearance of things and understand one-sided good and evil. From this, there are many false love and hatred, and then choose forgiveness and revenge accordingly. In fact, what do we really know about this world?
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