love and loneliness

Hildegard 2022-03-28 09:01:14

Maybe this movie is actually about the various states of loneliness: the loneliness when she loves him; the loneliness when she leaves him and grows up alone; the loneliness when she has him briefly and then loses him; she conceives another him, The loneliness that bears everything alone; he doesn't know who she is, loves others, and she witnesses everything but can't speak the loneliness; he recognizes her, relives old dreams and leaves forever, she falls into loneliness again...

The mother-son relationship in the film might be understood as a metaphor for intimacy; the lonely wooden house is like a woman's womb. The symbiotic relationship between mother and child will be broken one day; the lover or the child will one day leave us.

Loneliness at that time may be another ultimate freedom.

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Womb quotes

  • Thomas - 10 years: I keep dying!

    Rebecca: Try again.

  • Thomas: What are you doing this weekend?

    Rebecca: Same as you.

    Thomas: I can't, I have to go away.

    Rebecca: I'll come with you.

    Thomas: I have to go alone. I'll only be 2 days.

    Rebecca: Where ever you go, I go.

    Thomas: This is somewhere you can't go.

    Rebecca: Then you shouldn't go either.