But even so, its on-screen language is enough to prove it's a pretty good ethical film.
The movie begins with a conflict between mother and daughter, which developed from indifference, questioning, and quarrel to tussle, and the daughter's piano teacher has reached middle age. The film is full of suspense, which makes people involuntarily start to wonder and wonder about the psychological world of the characters in the film. It is a little strange that the middle-aged daughter sleeps in the same bed with her elderly mother like a child.
Professor Gao, a piano teacher, is a thin, short, arrogant, and indifferent middle-aged woman. She has absolute confidence in her understanding and skills of the piano. Basically, she will not look directly at any student's performance. While teaching, just looking out the window thoughtfully, almost bored, as if she only needed one percent of her attention to fully spot and pinpoint every single mistake and fatal misunderstanding of her students' piano comprehension. Mistake. She is harsh and doesn't take into account the feelings of students at all. She makes every student feel beaten and frustrated, but she doesn't care. It seems that she thinks that music is not meant for the general public, it is not a category that can be taught and learned, and many times, students and she are wasting time.
She always wears a simple trench coat, travels alone, taciturn, and a pair of gloves that she often wears, implying that she cherishes her hands, and it is also the pride she reveals to the world in the ordinary. She seems to be a lonely piano soul who is awe-inspiring and independent of the mundane world.
At an elegant private family concert, she met Gan, a young, handsome and enthusiastic young man, perhaps a piano teacher whom he admired for a long time, and Gan respected her. As always, he showed indifference and slight contempt. Perhaps it was this indifference and her superb playing skills that made Gan fall in love with her, even though he seemed to be 20 years younger than her.
The professor was used to seeing rhetoric young people, she didn't take Gan seriously, she taught him his understanding of music, Gan was polite, but he was tough, in fact, from the first time he saw him play From the beginning, he conquered the professor with his superb playing. Their first spiritual contact was accomplished through music. During the performance, Gan demonstrated his ability to grasp Schubert, life, and emotions. It was this understanding of music that made Gan a professor A ticket to the mind.
The professor taught the students as always, and participated in the performance as always. During the day, she was arrogant, but when night fell, she walked into the adult video store. She did not show the slightest panic and shame, on the contrary, she was calm, she even seemed like a lotus flower walking in the mud. It was only when she faced the naked scenes on the screen that she could not restrain the temptation of desire and indulge in the filth of others. She enjoys filth as calmly as she enjoys art.
This makes her live at the top of the light and the root of the darkness, walking on the clouds of art, and at the same time falling into the quagmire of inner sin. She is so familiar and adaptable to such a life of great contrast between inside and outside that she can maintain the same composure no matter what kind of environment she is in, and she seems to have cultivated the indestructible body of King Kong. She can even self-mutilate very skillfully, like taking a shower.
She has been torn into a quiet plane by the two demons of inner tension and outer calm. However, Gan continued to move forward, and he wanted to worship her for art. There is no doubt that his skills conquered all the examiners in the academy, but she felt a sincere expression from his performance. She was excited, surprised, but also showed great resistance. She already knew that she could not. Resist his attack, but she also knows that she is standing on the edge of a cliff that she does not know how deep, and she dare not think about what will happen, as when she and Gan first met when talking about a piano of Schumann What she said in the work is that this moment is "knowing that she is going to lose her mind, and it is very painful, but she still wants to seize this last chance. keep him out. But she failed and he became her student.
At the beginning, the professor tried to maintain the usual indifference and strictness, but Gan seemed to see through her, and he pressed step by step with a gentle smile and a strong insistence, and he asked her to change her teaching style, his self-confidence, his kindness, His smile, his relaxation, all these are the character traits that the professor lacks the most and desires to have. It is no doubt that quickly destroys the professor's psychological defense. Although she maintains a stern and cold appearance, she has been defeated completely. She was so nervous that she had to go to the parking lot and spy on people having sex to release the pressure.
However, avoidance will not help solve the problem. On the contrary, the problem will grow even more insane. When Gan treats the female student who was being disciplined and cried gently, her jealousy erupts like a volcano. She smashed a glass bottle with extreme calmness, put the broken glass into the female student's right pocket with extreme calmness, waited extremely calmly for a piano player's right hand to be destroyed, and comforted the terrified student with extreme calmness, But in the end, she couldn't calm down in front of Gan.
Her emotions were revealed. The smart and vigorous Gan, turned into the women's toilet, and took off the professor's mask. The professor didn't evade, she was still very calm, she didn't feel safe, she still wanted to have the right to speak in sexual matters and relationships, which made the young Gan a little helpless and unbelievable, he was immersed in excitement and curiosity. , he thinks these are just a few tricks taught by the professor, and sooner or later they will be shattered. He didn't care, but he didn't know that the professor's world had been completely shattered and chaotic, she had slipped out of the grasp of reason, and couldn't wait to oppress the whole crazy emotional world on this young Gan. She was desperate. She wrote him a thick, thick letter. All her deepest and most repressed desires were displayed to Gan without reservation.
She didn't believe in love, but she was moved by Gan, she made a bet, and the bet was her own heart. It's even more than her body, her real devotion is this letter, her real nudity is also this letter, this is when she's really naked, she's waiting for the result, she can't believe there will be The result of hope, but she was so desperate again, her voice softened for the first time, her movements sluggish for the first time, and she waited for the sentence. Gan was silent. She yearned more and more, and all her hopes were pinned on Gan, but Gan, without hesitation, gave up on her.
Hope was dashed, and the professor was ecstatic. She let out a tragic howl in front of her mother's chest. This cry almost tore people's hearts, and almost made everyone no longer think of the beautiful piano sound.
The professor held the last ray of hope. She found Gan and gave up all the right to speak. She no longer asked Gan to obey her, she obeyed Gan, and she tried her best to please Gan, but Gan did not change her mind. On the contrary, Gan felt that his enthusiasm was tainted by the professor's perversion. He thought that she was deliberately seducing him, but in the end he gave him the ugliest picture. He rushed into the professor's house in the middle of the night and almost brought him with With revenge, he ravaged the professor.
The plot reaches its climax here. The professor gets the sexual abuse she's longed for, but when she actually confronts it, instead of ecstatic enjoyment and relief, she's a bloody whimper. Perhaps from Gan's performance, she saw a real self, which was a dark, depressing, crazy and perverted scene. For the first time, she was shocked that what she longed for was so unacceptable to her. We can't speculate on the idea of Gan who was lying on the professor's body to vent. It was not just a form of revenge, it was mixed with some kind of concession that Gan made to the professor. Gan could not face the professor's abnormal psychology, but he also Is it pure revenge to go back and do as the professor asked? Perhaps Gan was suppressing his nausea and came back to fulfill the professor's dream, just as the professor would rather vomit than satisfy Gan. But Gan is not a pure reward. He feels humiliation, he feels disappointment, he feels anger, and he feels deep pain, so these two conflicting and contradictory emotions on that night that shattered fantasy, Extremely stretched, torn, and even shattered.
Day has come. The professor put a sharp fruit knife in her delicate pouch. She's going to kill Gan. at an upcoming concert. The professor looked at the crowd calmly, knowing that Gan would definitely come, she waited quietly. Gan really came. He didn't seem to have anything happened. He gave the professor an extremely sunny and bright smile. He jumped gently and walked into the theater, leaving the thoughtful professor in the empty hall. .
The professor took out the fruit knife, she was going to commit suicide in this sacred but painful music hall? But she didn't, she just stabbed herself in the chest with a shallow knife. Blood flowed out, and the professor left the concert hall, leaving the countless waiting audiences and audience behind him.
The movie is over. There is no longer a plot that allows you to understand what will happen in the future. What happened in the past is still haunting your mind.
I don't want to simply say that this is a film that reflects sexual abuse, teacher-student love, and beyond. The focus of this film is not on sex, sexual perversion is just a result of psychological perversion. Why does a successful pianist with a profound understanding of music have an extremely abnormal psychology? This is a stark contrast. I think it might be because people have a perverted attitude towards music. At least in the professor's growth experience, music has never been something to relax and enjoy. It is a pearl of art, and it is sacred and inviolable. It is necessary to give up happiness, ease, and self in order to get a kind of music. Gift, it is beautiful, it is noble, it is worth having, whether it is parents, teachers, peers, they are constantly destroying the self-esteem and happiness of students, they have turned students into prisoners of art, into art sacrifices, yet they do it all in the name of love, including the professors themselves. Beautiful music or natural humanity, which is more important? When a person has been shaped into a saint of art, under the shell of hardness, indifference and arrogance, how can the desires that have been suppressed since childhood not multiply into a perverted psychology? Maybe even the higher your artistic attainments, the more serious the departure and tearing of your inner world.
No one cares how you feel, you are just music personified. The professor can only entertain herself and see how others release her desires. However, all this will bring her a greater sense of guilt. She has to strengthen her external calmness and indifference, but her desires cannot be suppressed. The demon dragged the professor step by step to the dark abyss without light, and at the moment when the light was about to disappear, Gan appeared.
It's a struggle and gamble to save yourself, you have to be moved by the enormous pain and load in the professor's heart, and you can't blame her because she's also a victim of love. Although her tight world was broken by Gan, she felt utter humiliation and despair, but fortunately, she did not choose to escape, and her departure was precisely the declaration of throwing the last disguise to the world, although we do not know Where will she go, but she can keep the blood on her coat, fearless of the surprise and speculation of the world, we have reason to believe that the professor may face the new life with the same courage.
There is no doubt that this film has demonstrated the superb skills of the director and actors in terms of plot handling, inner portrayal of characters, movement and stillness of the picture, and presence or absence of background music. From a purely artistic standpoint, I think it's a true work of cinematic art, and it totally deserves some serious awards.
If there is any flaw in this film, I think the director may focus more on the sexual aspect when portraying the professor's abnormal psychology, which makes the film more impactful, but inevitably makes the characters The character seems a little weaker, and in the second half of the film, when dealing with the emotional transition of Gan and Professor, it is slightly rough, especially in the scene where Gan rushed into the professor's house in the middle of the night, Gan's emotional changes were not enough. But these are only very minor issues.
In ethics films, I think this film can be ranked first. Of course, whether it is a movie suitable for the general public is another question. But I don't care about that.
2007.12.15~12.17
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