Italian film "The Hidden Woman's Heart" is a drama about the entanglement of motherhood and human nature.
Western Europe has always had an inexplicable sense of superiority over the European countries of the former Soviet Union. Perhaps it is because of its own developed capital society, perfect social welfare education system, and so-called humanistic environment. This sense of superiority is still reflected everywhere in this film. When the audience mourns the tragic fate of the heroine, they do not notice that they have been "brainwashed".
The heroine is a Ukrainian prostitute. The reason for becoming a prostitute has not been explained, and there is no need to explain it (everyone knows that the economy is backward). We all know that young women from the former Soviet Union came to Western Europe to "rush for gold" one after another, corrupting the social order and morality of the Western European countries.
The genius of this film is that the heroine is clearly seen as a character with a high degree of self-contradictory entanglement between good and evil, but in essence, she does evil in the name of love and hurts those who trust her (and they are all Italians). The selfish "mother's love" runs through the whole film. Although it precisely hits the audience's perceptual thinking area and just rightly allows the audience to substitute themselves into the characters' emotions, please think carefully if audiences in Western Europe or Australia and North America watched this movie. Most of their subconscious will only produce a hidden disgust for the CIS countries.
Why do I say that. In fact, it is very simple. The tragic fate of the heroine begins in Ukraine (although it is accompanied by a short-lived beauty) and ends in Italy. The heroine came to Italy to find a child, hurt the people who trusted her, but was finally forgiven. The psychological burden of the heroine is released here, and the psychological contradictions of the self and the desire to display maternal love are filled. She didn't find the child, but got the same bond between mother and child.
In Italy, the heroine is redeemed. This redemption is not the wish of the self, but the faint hand of God rescued her soul as the heroine fell into an emotional whirlpool and her fate was out of control.
And the performance of this hand of God is not a specific turnaround or someone's help. It uses the intervention of the police at the end and the humanized legal treatment of the heroine to show the absolute advantage of humanistic feelings. Finally, the little girl who was mistaken for her own child came to pick her up, marking the end of the self-imposed purgatory-like search for the heroine. Let go of the so-called "obsession".
Italy is a country with plenty of light, but the director chose to shoot in winter. The tones are mostly cool tones. This audio-visual setting comes from the arrival of the heroine, and the negative factors on the heroine affect the emotional tone of the film. She is just a bearer, unable to do in-depth reflection on her own destiny, so her emotional logic is slowly purifying her soul with the development of the plot.
I have to say, this movie is very dark.
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