Author: Fang Hanjun
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Benedict Andrews' feature film debut "Oona" (also translated "Forbidden Love Again" and "The One Who Loves You the Most" 2017), adapted from David Harroll's stage play "Blackbird" ", tells the story of the heroine Oona (Rooney Mara) when she was 13 years old and an adult man Ray (Ben Mendelsohn) had an unscrupulous love, 15 years later, Oona suddenly found Ray's place of work, This surprised Ray deeply. Lei, who is middle-aged and has started a new life, has to face that embarrassing past here. The director had directed the stage play "A Streetcar Named Desire" before, which gave "Oona" a certain sense of stage play.
The indecent love involved in the film does not seem to be sure that Lei is a "pedophile". If he stops at Wu Na, it can only be said that he has a pedophile tendency. After that, his realistic choice has entered a Normal life, which shows that his past is completely a wrong choice. Rooney Mara's dazed and indifferent in the film is very consistent with her image of 15 years before and after. From a psychiatric point of view, pedophilia is regarded as a mental abnormality, suffering from pedophilia, and is a type of sexual inversion that an individual cannot choose.
From a behavioral level, ordinary people will not be sexually aroused when facing children, but pedophiles will be sexually aroused. Strictly speaking, pedophilia is a type of sexual orientation. From the perspective of psychology and biology, there is no essential difference between homosexuality and heterosexuality, and it can cause sexual arousal to children. Pedophilia has innate congenital factors, including genes and early embryonic environment. Moreover, pedophilia is basically a lifelong problem, not necessarily related to his personal active efforts, and has nothing to do with traditional moral values. Pedophilia in general, especially for men, and pedophilia for women is rare.
To define whether an individual has “pedophilia”, at least two points must be met: 1. Through sexual activities aimed at children for a long time, repeated strong sexual arousal is aroused, manifested as sexual fantasies, sexual impulses or sexual behaviors, and causes Significant distress or interpersonal difficulties; 2. Sexual behavior committed by an adult over the age of 16 to a child under the age of 13.
In fact, regardless of whether there is a pedophile tendency, as long as the sexual assault against children is carried out, it constitutes a serious crime. People with pedophilic tendencies that do not constitute a personality disorder are of course related to personal misunderstandings, at least their moral standards and self-control are inferior to ordinary people. Ray in "Oona" should belong to this category. Under certain circumstances, the emotional needs of girls are not much different from those of adults in essence. 13-year-old Oona, apparently matured earlier than girls her age.
We can't help but wonder why Oona took 15 years to find this man named Ray. The film begins with the girl Oona sitting outside the house, quietly waiting for someone, which is destined to be a fleeting scene. Then, accompanied by the roaring percussion music and the chaos of the speakeasy bar, Oona spread her hands against the wall, and was "raped" by someone from behind. We couldn't see the man, only her face clinging to the wall, like a sheet of hard white paper squashed and deformed, it was a kind of pain to hold on.
Any men or women who come out of this night show will return to their normal roles. Una is no exception. No matter how tired she was, she had to take a shower, as if there was inexhaustible dirt, and then she fell asleep. Waking up the next day, she called to find a man named Ray. In a flashback to when she was 13, the court videotaped her looking for Ray. Facing the camera, she said pitifully, Lei, where are you, I found you so hard, I love you.
The reality is that she is carefully dressed in the mirror, and her elderly mother comes over. It can be seen that the daughter is resisting her mother's greetings, and her impatience with her mother is the kind of feeling of refusing others. This is in contrast to her twitching state in the night show before. Humans are two-faced gods. The gloomy knots in her heart that had accumulated over the years made her breathless. Obviously, she went to the nightclub to have fun, to escape the feeling of being squeezed in her heart, but the self-injury can only get deeper and deeper.
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When the pain reaches its peak, Oona can only find an exit in life. So, she found Ray's work place through a middleman. When the money came, it caused her a sudden nausea. After vomiting, she calmed down and continued to walk around the curve and the long wall. Such a performance in the film is nothing more than to say that she is afraid, and this is destined to be a search and confrontation beyond her control.
This is a very large factory. In fact, the film builds a huge stage, and its entire space, as the characters walk through it, is sometimes empty, sometimes long and narrow, sometimes oppressed in a corner of the dark room, and sometimes assigned to an empty and clean restroom... ...In this way, placing the tiny character Oona in a different space gives the film a sense of strangeness, alienation and heaviness. This also shows how insignificant the pain people experience in the vast space and time.
In the cold factory, it seems that she can't escape from her life, and she can't safely get out of her unbearable heart, which is like her hoarse girlhood. The film adopts the cross-progression of reality and the past. The frequency of flashbacks is high, surpassing ordinary films, and it can be said that it runs through the film from beginning to end. The situation of the girl's flashback is of course extremely restrained. The real Ray, who changed his name to Peter Charwilliam, made Oona laugh for a while. But she made it clear that she didn't want to kill him, she just solved a knot in her heart.
As a corporate executive, Peter, of course, can't let his colleagues see his dilemma. He took her to a quiet office. From questioning to calm questioning, it was a clueless process. People, in the face of feelings, can't have such a scheming plan, they can only think of what to say. Ray and Una's family were neighbors, and he and Una's father were still good friends. Ray had a girlfriend at the time. Such frequent visits made him notice this smart 13-year-old girl, and gradually, Lei had a deeper emotional intersection with her.
The problem is that, knowing that it is not possible, Lei can't help but continue to associate with Oona. As a result, Ray began to slide toward a dangerous edge. The two began to have a secret contact. Ray called her and the phone rang once, indicating that there was no one there. If his butt is facing the park, it means he is free to play. After Oona finished school, she knew very well that she often walked into the green forest in the park first, and then he walked over. At this time, they began to embrace each other affectionately. The point is, Ray risked his life to bite the bullet, showing that the emotional will is strong and terrifying.
Ray finally took her to open the house, and Oona became his little woman. Perhaps because of his inner panic, he said to go out to buy a pack of cigarettes, but she did not come back after waiting for a long time. She panicked, and she ran to the town to search everywhere, from bars to dark night streets. This kind of pain and fear was unimaginable for a 13-year-old girl. The real Peter said, I didn't escape, but I drank beer, trying to ease the tension in my heart and sort out my chaotic heart a little, but when I returned, I found out that you had left, and I was also there. Searching everywhere, I was terrified, afraid that you would be kidnapped on the street, so I called the police.
As a result of calling the police, of course, Lei paid the necessary price in life. He was charged with "indecent assault" and sentenced to 4 years in prison. After serving his sentence, he met a woman named Yvonne and told the truth about his past, but with her forgiveness, they got married. Oona said, you have been in prison for 4 years, but you have become a family, and I will live in your shadow all my life. Her numbness makes people feel like a rope is tightly strangling the throat of her destiny, and the pain is beyond words.
In such a predicament, the two still couldn't help but want to love each other. On the way, Peter was frightened and weak. He said that this can't be done, and I can't make mistakes again. Oona said, do you think I am old? No, I have a family and you need to start a new life too, you can't keep thinking about the past. Didn't you tell me on the beach that you want to grow old with me? Ray looked helpless and angry at himself.
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The funny thing about the film is that during this period, Peter also went to the executive meeting, where he couldn't feel at ease and seemed restless. When he was about to announce the layoff list, before he read it, he was accused by his boss Mark, and Peter ran away in fright. Mark instigated employee Scott, saying that you were also laid off by him. Scott is a good colleague of Peter. This angered Scott, who kept calling out to Peter, kept searching. Correspondingly, Lei took Wu Na to hide everywhere. They could only curl up in the bathroom. This special arrangement shows the dilemma brought by their emotions, and it seems that there is no room for it.
As a result, Peter told Scott that I didn't cut you, and that was Mark's lie. The forced placement of the film shows the new problems Peter faces in reality. It is no longer a simple relationship with Oona in the past, but a weak survival predicament as an individual under the wave of the global economic downturn. Apparently, Ray was physically and mentally exhausted by Oona, and he commissioned Scott to take her back, before running away. Scott did take her back to the residence, and the two were excited in a certain situation, but on the way to love, Oona retreated.
What Oona is looking for is Ray. She said Peter was her father. Scott actually believed and drove her to Ray's house. There's a party going on here. When Ray saw Scott coming with Oona, he was stunned. Scott's wife, Yvonne, was kind enough to receive Oona. She asked Yvonne some very inappropriate questions. But people didn't care. Una simply ran to Lei and his wife's bedroom, and lay on the bed, immersed in an illusory happiness. As if it was her natural choice.
This kind of identity is like a fake, obviously impossible, but also insisting on acting, enough to witness the fragile heart of Oona, and the unavoidable choice under the panic. The result, of course, was not good, and was bombarded by thunder. Una could only leave in a dim light, and this was the final outcome of her finding Lei. Una faces the reality of another forbidden love, where will she go. The words of the year sounded: "We may be stuck here forever, I love you!" From this, Lei Zhu made a big mistake.
This is the reason why Oona has never been able to get out of the shadow of thunder in the past 15 years. But she has to come out. Just like the final scene at the end of the film, as she moves away, there is a flash of the 13-year-old she and Ray standing on the beach together. That kind of situation was just an eternal past tense for her. Although she always said I lost my life, I was tired of my life. But she should walk into the norm of reality and light, does she have any other choice.
2017, 8, 8
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