English subtitled version https://youtu.be/scB0Dvw3gFo
2019-3-11 Interview with director Verhoeven about the film https://youtu.be/dVZJr1CcRw8
In February 2019, it has been more than a year since the last time I watched it, and it has been seven years since the first time I watched this film in Nanjing at the end of 2011. Now my hair is about as long as Eric's. I remember Meng girl also said that she liked my long hair, saying that if I cut it short, I would be like ordinary people. The pain of breaking up has dissipated for a long time, but I still miss her and look forward to seeing her again, just like Eric. This movie, if you're willing to decipher all the details, can be very profound, with too many symbols. For example, when Olga was dying in the early morning, she wanted to lift her wig and let Eric look at her again. When she finally saw Eric sitting by the high-rise window of the hospital looking at the scenery of Amsterdam*, she turned her head and noticed her movement. He collapsed after exhausting his last strength, as if his last wish had been fulfilled. And that wig, which is best eaten by the garbage truck, becomes the last scene of the whole film, and it is also a symbol of fullness.
*According to the director it was a hospital in Rotterdam
I really cry every year I watch it again. This film is always number one in my heart, because of the personal experience and the years in the Netherlands.
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I watched it when I broke up with Miss Meng in January 2018, and I had already forgotten how I felt at that time. It was probably very painful. ~Added Feb 19
In April 2017, I was lying on the sofa in her living room with Miss Meng at night, holding this film saved in my mobile phone and watching it with English subtitles. Just met her at the time. After reading it, she said to me, "My life is so good". ~Added Feb 19
Revisiting it for the third time in 2015 and noticed a lot of missing details. The maddening plot, combined with the very subtle expression techniques, the lines are concise and sculpted, the mirrors and colors are rich in creativity, the music injects the soul of the movie, and the chromatic harmonica at the end of the film has a cool feeling. Full of silent accusations of indifference and hypocrisy of the system and human feelings. People in the Netherlands feel more deeply.
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