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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Breaking the Waves quotes

  • [first lines]

    Bess McNeill: His name is Jan.

    The Minister: I do not know him.

    Bess McNeill: [coyly] He's from the lake.

    The Minister: You know we do not favor matrimony with outsiders.

    An Elder: Can you even tell us what matrimony is?

    Bess McNeill: It's when two people are joined in God.

  • Jan Nyman: Love is a mighty power, isn't it?