There is no need to repeat the story of this film. It has been expressed by many people in different ways, with poetry and dreams. Two girls with the same appearance and personality, they are kind and simple, one grew up in France and the other in Poland. They have never seen each other, but they feel that there is another identical existence in this world. In Keith's eyes, this is the sight of body and soul.
Keith is not trying to simply describe the process by which two girls met, or else they will miss the theme of the confrontation between body and soul. Their lives are simple and peaceful, but they cannot hide the loneliness and doubts that come from the bottom of their hearts. She cried after having sex, she questioned her life in the conversation with her dad, everything was originally a common problem encountered by human beings. The soul is bound in the body. When Veronica from Poland was doing scale vocalization exercises, as the pitch gradually increased, she also tightened a thin band between her fingers, as if it was about to break. This is the signal that the soul is trying to break out of the cage of the body, and in the end, Veronica succeeds, and she enables the soul to break through the prison of the body in the ethereal high school of singing. The treble stopped abruptly, the body collapsed, the soul was released, and it floated lightly and freely in the sky above the music auditorium.
At this time, Veronica, who was far away in France, was having sex with her boyfriend. She suddenly felt a burst of heart palpitations, and then fell into deep sadness. Her soul died, in the climax of the music, and she was hit by a cold wave of death in the climax of sex. With curiosity about life and hope for the soul, she began to embark on the road to find her soul.
I like Liu Xiaofeng's interpretation of this film. It is delicate and deep. The words he writes are like a warm big hand rubbing against your heart. When you are covered, you can immediately respond to the temperature from your palm. He wrote:
"The body has the desire to live in the world, but it has no ability to choose value preferences. The shadow of the body, the soul, has the ability to choose value preferences but has no desire to live in the world." "Every individual's body is an accidental result of creation, and creation cannot follow The will of the individual soul designs and prepares the body that the soul needs, because the individual soul makes this body in the process of being created. The body is determined by the accidental creation of nature, and the shadow of the body comes from the accident of heaven. "
Poland's Veronica loves to sing by nature, but her body cannot fulfill her long-cherished wish. She finally released her soul through a swan song on the stage, letting it sing freely in the sky forever without being bound.
There's too much randomness here too much out of control, when our body and soul can't get close, we can't be happy, so we see the same lonely look on both Veronica's faces. And only the soul can comfort the body, otherwise, they will not keep the expression of questioning life, nor will they cry quietly in the enjoyment of orgasm sex. To have sex is to use the body temperature to warm oneself, but the temperature of the soul will not be lowered because of this. Only the union of the soul and the body can make life come alive, which is a force that is far deeper, stronger and fresher than making love.
Liu Xiaofeng said that everyone's body and soul are connected by a thin line, "There are fewer and fewer men in this world who are willing or able to understand the thin line on a woman's body, even though they understand where a woman's body is triggered. There are more and more sexy men."
When the dancers under the puppeteer died and turned into butterflies, Veronica found the man who could understand the thin line in her life. When she saw that the girl in the picture the puppeteer handed her was actually herself, she couldn't help sobbing.
In the end, the puppet master made two identical puppet girls for her, one was scrutinized in her hands, and the other was lying on the workbench, just like the singer Veronica who had been buried. The puppeteer read her a story:
November 23, 1966, was the most improtant day of their lives. That day, at 3:00 in the morning, they were both born, each ia a different city on a different continent. They both had dark hair and brownish-green eyes . At two years old, when they knew how to walk, one of them burned her hand on a stove. A few days later, the other one reached out to touch the stove, but pulled back just in time. Yet she couldn't have known she was about to burn herself… I think I'll call it The double life of…
Veronica burst into tears.
Not long after the story started, the song "Song to Heaven" sung by the heroine made me tremble deeply. The melodious and far-reaching soprano is ethereal and beautiful, like the voice of an angel from heaven. I was so moved by this piece and listened to it over and over again and experienced this feeling of soul rushing out of my body that I insisted that at some point my soul must rush out of my body and then my body would Sighing softly, he fell to the ground.
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