This kind of edge ball that challenges ethics and morality is not a good game for every director to play.
In fact, human nature is multi-faceted, and everyone has hidden curiosity and desire for taboos, but in the face of responsibility, most people still choose to remain silent.
The plot depicted in Birth is a bold breakthrough. In front of a 10-year-old boy, Anna, who has been a widow for her husband for 10 years, completely collapsed. In the face of the boy's infatuation and delicate description, Anna completely believed that the boy was the reincarnation of her husband who lost 10 years. So she ignored the suspicion and opposition of her family, ignored the imminent wedding, and ruthlessly rejected her fiance who had been pursuing her for 10 years, all she wanted to do was run away with the boy in front of her.
Her heart completely accepted this impossible fact because of her love for her late husband, because of her resistance to reality and her last hope for happiness in her heart. She said to the boy: "We can go together, and after 11 years, we will get married." Even she can realistically discuss with the boy how to solve the two most important issues in marriage, namely, livelihood and sex. Of course, of course, in the end she dismissed all concerns, she wanted him, just as she still longed for her husband. This is the flaw in the inner world of adults, and their cowardice and fantasy are hidden under the seemingly mature and stable appearance.
The end result is realistic, the boy toyed with everyone, including Anna and the audience. But the most ironic thing is not the truth, but the heart. The man who had always loved Anna from life to death turned out to be the biggest betrayal. He loves his own wife on the surface, married her 30 times in 30 different places, but secretly loves his mistress - the wife of his best friend.
He handed Anna's love letter to his beloved husband intact to his mistress to show his loyalty to this woman. It is also such an inadvertent move that the boy can see these most private contents 10 years later, so that he can once again break through Anna's fragile psychological defense.
It's an irony that adult love is far less pure than a child's. So the boy in the movie said to himself: "I'm going to tell Anna that I'm not Sean, because Sean doesn't love her at all, I love her more than Sean..."
Watching "Birth" made me think of the movie "Birth" "Love Letter", also discusses life and death and love, but one is a happy ending, and the other is more pessimistic.
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