unbearable imagination

Drake 2022-03-21 09:02:17

After watching the film, I thought that I must find Schubert to listen to it. Although I have never been familiar with classical music, I can only appreciate a few songs that everyone can mention. At this moment, there is the sound of the piano moving forward in the gloomy sound of the violin. It was an accident to watch "Piano Teacher". I wanted to watch "Piano Lesson", but this appeared immediately after typing "Piano", and Yu Peier also felt close to it, so I changed it to watch it. I was in a bad mood, and the relationship between the characters in the play made me even more depressed. After watching it at noon yesterday, my appetite disappeared completely, and my usual nap was also interrupted, and I fell into an inexplicable panic. Later, I even had a fight with M one. But I ask myself to write whatever I want after watching the movie, otherwise it will be gone after a month, so I should try to remember and think. What impresses me the most is Arica's always high head. Even as Walter read her letter, which was all about Ace Aimen, with disdain and suspicion, she remained confident and proud. Because she believes so much in her erotic imagination that she copulates between sexual images and a repressed life. At first glance, Erica's love imagination is far away from ordinary people, and after careful consideration, it is not so far away from ordinary people in terms of structural mechanism. Our initial contact with love and sex also comes from literature and art (TV series, movies, novels, etc.) and fragments of life, and at the same time, under the influence of our character and life, it blends into a hazy imagination. Fortunately, we can constantly discover the difference between imagination and reality in the proximity of reality to sex and love, so that we can constantly update our understanding to match our real needs. Erica is not so lucky. Because of the lack of real contact, her imagination is not as hazy as ordinary people's, but becomes concrete and stubborn with the superposition of imagination, becoming an excessively huge bubble. Erica's morbid symbiosis with her mother makes her a part of her body. She obeyed her, listened to her, kept her away from men, and kept her from depravity, and I think she cut herself with a razor and pretended to be menstruating to show her mother that she was still as pure as she wanted. But this obedience is clearly against human nature. Like everyone, she needs love and sex, so she longs to defect and hates her mother's control over her. Sex is clearly a form of betrayal. Then why is it not normal sex but such a kind of masochism, why must there be a mother next to it? I think that, on the one hand, she yearns for sex, but she is deeply influenced by her mother, who thinks that sex is unclean and leads to depravity, and pain will make pleasure seem to pay a price, which is equivalent to the Puritans whipping themselves through physical pain to lighten the burden of the spirit; on the other hand , Losing her virginity near her mother was in revenge for her mother, and the virginity that her mother tried her best to defend was deprived of her life within a square inch, which would obviously have a great impact on her mother; in the end, the only intimacy Erica has ever experienced The relationship pattern is one of control and being controlled, total surrender and total sovereignty, so she naturally repeats this pattern in what may be her only intimate relationship. But imagining is imagining, and Walter isn't the type of person for her to rely on, and imaginary sex really doesn't match her actual needs. When the bubble that contained all of Erica's hopes burst, the "Madame Bovary", who was also far from innocent, finally stabbed the knife into her body, but her head remained high.

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The Piano Teacher quotes

  • Erika Kohut: Do you like me calling you darling?

    Walter Klemmer: It's absolutely marvelous.

    Erika Kohut: You must be patient. I'll give you all the names, we'll play all the games you want.

    Walter Klemmer: You know you really stink? Sorry, you stink so much, no one will ever come close to you. You'd be better leave town until you don't stink so bad. Rinse your mouth more often, not just when my cock makes you puke.

  • Erika Kohut: Schubert's dynamics range from scream to whisper not loud to soft. Anarchy hardly seems your forte. Why not stick to Clementi? Schubert was quite ugly. Did you know? With your looks, nothing can ever hurt you.

    Walter Klemmer: Why destroy what could bring us together?

    Erika Kohut: Mannerism is no...

    Walter Klemmer: [interrupting her] Why can't I look at you? Because if I do, I won't resist the temptation to kiss you on the neck. May I kiss you on the neck?

    [she walks away]