Did you really understand this movie?

Angela 2022-03-21 09:02:14

Watching a heartbreaking movie, "Breaking the Waves", in front of my roommate, I was in tears, I almost cried but I couldn't hold it back! It's so sad, the heroine's short life, she has been looking for love, and the true love she got cost her more - her life! God asks: Are you trying to save yourself or save him? Beth answered this question with action. Some people say that this is a movie against religion, but it is not. This movie is not against religion, but satirizes those old-fashioned traditional religious people who don't understand people's inner world and only care about appearances! Lonely people always talk to God alone and quietly, which is why Beth seems so indifferent in front of so many people in church and so religious when she speaks to God! Many people have this belief: for the health and happiness of their loved ones, they always feel that they should be priests out! For their happiness, they are willing to suffer all kinds of hardships, endure all kinds of hardships, and even go to the eighteen layers of hell! As the Buddha said: I will not go to hell who will go to hell. So it's so heartbreaking to see Beth, she's doing the only thing every weak man can do for his loved one! The weak are not strong enough to save something, let alone change something, so they can only reach out to God for help! But why do you choose to fall to yourself in the first place when you ask God for help? Why does it seem that if you put yourself into hell, even if you are a priest out of yourself, your loved ones can be saved? ? ? God likes this? ? ? This seems very unreasonable, but it is their instinctive intuition, can't figure it out, why? ? ? Could this be related to our ingrained traditional "tit for tat" mentality? We are willing to repay our dear ones with our own retribution, it's that simple! At the end of the movie, Beth gave herself away as she wished, and her lover recovered miraculously. Her wish came true, and heaven rang the bell for her! The slightly bizarre ending of the movie is just the finishing touch. There are bells in the sky, and two big bells are floating in the sky.

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  • Jennie 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    It’s true that the heroine’s emotions are sincere, and it’s true that she has a mental illness, so it’s hard for people to empathize.

  • Madeline 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Rewatch. Dogma's first post-95 LVT film, with sets, soundtracks, special effects...but most importantly, it has the realistic immersion the manifesto hopes to convey. The first thing that comes to mind is the Holy Fool in the Orthodox Church (Skardo in Stalker), but it's not accurate. Because Beth's subjectivity is close to zero! Although the opposition between women and the conservative society of the political economy frame is established from the beginning (Beth has never been in the same frame with the priest), Beth has not rebelled against it. LVT especially understands that love is not the focus of the film at all, so why did Young let Beth fall into the arms of other men, and why did Beth change from a "virgin" to a "prostitute"? None of the films give a clear logical explanation—and this is what makes "Breaking the Waves" particularly fascinating: editing through emotional continuity. Throughout the ages, there have been countless movies about the direct communication between people and God in disguise and questioning the intermediary and legitimacy of the church. The reason why "Breaking the Waves" can survive is its high level of immersion in reality. There is no power or magic at all.

Breaking the Waves quotes

  • Judge: Listen man, you had the deceased in your care. The court would like to hear the medical facts.

    Dr. Richardson: If... if you'd, um... if you were to ask me again to write... um... the conclusion, then... instead of writing "neurotic" or, um, "psychotic" uh, I might... just, um... use a word like... "good".

    Judge: Good?

    Dr. Richardson: Yes.

    Judge: You wish the records of this court to state that, in your medical opinion, the deceased was suffering from being good?

    Judge: Perhaps this was the psychological defect that led her to her death!

    Judge: Is that what we shall write Doctor Richardson?

    Dr. Richardson: [pause] No. Of course not.

  • Bess McNeill: Father, why aren't you with me?

    Bess McNeill: [as God] I am with you Bess. What do you want from me?

    Bess McNeill: [overjoyed] Where where you?

    Bess McNeill: [as God] Well don't you think I have other people who want to talk to me?

    Bess McNeill: Well of course. I hadn't thought of that.

    Bess McNeill: [as God] There's this silly little thing called Bess who keeps on wanting me to talk to her. And my work's been piling up a bit.

    Bess McNeill: But you're with me now?

    Bess McNeill: [as God] Of course I am, Bess. You know that.

    Bess McNeill: Thank you.