The first 60 minutes of the film are slow-paced until they find out the truth about their past, Ada returns to the monastery, and Wanda continues to live her life.
In the film, Wanda's last sentence was when she was drinking with a strange man at night. She sighed that Ada had such beautiful red hair, but it was a pity that it was wasted. After that, she took the man home, and after a night, the next morning, watching the man go, she got up (very seriously) to prepare breakfast, put on the music, opened the double-story window, looked out the window, turned and took off High heels, come back, and jump out of the window.
Calmly and quickly making people suspicious, she just jumped off?
Wanda is really dead. Afterwards, Ada left the monastery to pick up her belongings, put on her long dress, high heels, drank, smoked, and learned the way she used to. She also found a saxophone player and slept with him One night, the musicians chatted with her about their future, and Ada just smiled.
Early in the morning, she left the musicians, put on a nun's garb, and returned to the monastery.
Wanda lamented at the end that Ada's beauty was wasted because she felt unworthy. First of all she was Jewish and should have believed in their own national religion, Judaism. Secondly, God is nothing. Although he claims to be the savior, he did not save his family when they were killed. So, Wanda doesn't understand, why should Ida dedicate herself to a concept of nothingness?
Wanda is beautiful, calm, and capable. She has tried many sinners as a judge. She has undoubtedly contributed to this country. The reason why the country is what it is now is also the result of the struggles of some of their pioneers. People who usually choose to commit suicide often feel that they are meaningless and worthless in the world, but objective evaluation, Wanda is not such a person.
Ada resolutely returned to the convent and swore her oath to become a nun, which represented a very different attitude towards life between her and Wanda, or in other words, Ada and Wanda pursued things in conflict with each other. Wanda felt that, as an active member of the society, the social and secular life she created was not accepted by Ada, and she felt a sense of loss. From Ada's point of view, what she pursued all her life was meaningless.
(After reading the background mentioned in some film reviews, considering the social reality at the time, and Ada's choice, Wanda really felt that her pursuit was in vain in the end, and her belief pillar collapsed.)
So Wanda chose to end her life by herself, but Ada came to clean up Wanda's relics. Why should she follow her example and do everything she did, including sleeping with men?
I think this is Ada honoring her in Wanda's way. On the way to find relatives before, Wanda obviously did not agree with Ada's way of life, hoping that Ada's words and deeds would be more lively, and Ada strictly abides by the norms of nuns. She also had doubts about her religious identity, otherwise she would not cry when she made her final vow.
Ada went through the Wanda way of life, just saying, Auntie, I did what you wanted. However, even though I did all this, I still don't think this kind of life has any meaning. I slept with a man I liked each other. Without chastity, the man also expressed his willingness to marry me. We will live a happy life from a secular perspective in the future. But I still find it pointless.
In contrast, I think it is much more meaningful to seek the eternal God than to spend your life in the mundane world. Even though the religion I believe in conflicts with my identity, since I was sent to the pastor as a child, the belief in God has already infiltrated my bones and blood.
So, Ada returned to the monastery and continued to be a nun who devoted her life to God.
Ada follows God and rejects the world, which indeed shows the unbearableness and mediocrity of the world, and also highlights the tragic meaning of Wanda's death. (Wanda struggled to achieve her ideal, only to find that the reality from her ideal was vulnerable, and her enthusiasm and effort were all mispaid.)
In a word, Wanda's death is not just knowing that her son is dead. In fact, there is no news of her child for so many years, she already knew it in her heart. Ada chose to return to the monastery, and it was not just to resist temptation and hone her faith. There must be an inherent logic in the director's arrangement of these two paragraphs one after the other.
In addition, the transitions of the movie are very clean and neat, and many scenes are omitted, so that when a new scene first appears, people need to adapt and think about it. There are also several shots of cars driving on the road from behind. I don’t know if they want to express that they are always on the road, looking for, or just ordinary shots, or something else.
(The overall rhythm of the movie is this, start, keep going, stop, and finish immediately.)
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