"Breaking the Waves" - A Hymn of Faith and Loyalty

Brandy 2022-03-21 09:02:14

Doctor: "What's your talent?" Bess: "I can believe." Doctor: "He made you have sex with many strangers." Bess: "No, I only make love with Jan." Doctor: "I don't want to be crazy To describe her, if I have to describe her, I just want to use good." Bess has faith and believes in love. She said that she was like a jade for Jan. When she had sex with many strangers for Jan, she maintained her spiritual loyalty and purity. At last the bells of heaven rang for her. Due to the spoilers of the Round Table faction, my viewing experience has been greatly reduced?? The movie seems to affirm Bess's spiritual loyalty to love. I still can't understand why Bess is no longer attractive in the face of a person who has lost control of his body and is inevitably negative in spirit. Yan’s husband still maintains love. I think the object of such love is not the husband himself, but faith. The husband is just a carrier of some kind of faith. Before his death, Bess said, “Maybe I was wrong.” But the dying Her husband, who was the carrier of belief, miraculously survived after Bess's death. In the end, the bell of heaven affirmed her loyalty and devotion to her faith in Bess's Esperanto construct, like a kind of appeasement to the followers' souls.

Bess's lonely and firm faith reminds me of Don Quixote. I have no faith yet, but I am always in awe of those who have faith. I wish I can believe.

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Extended Reading
  • Ada 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    The Dogme shooting method that constitutes the main body of the film focuses the lens on the "local", which is complex and changeable, which is the vision of human beings; the panoramic empty mirror inserted in the transition of each chapter is vast and fixed, which is the vision of God. The man and God shown by Von Trier in "Breaking the Waves" is actually very close to the relationship between man and God in our real world. It is He who makes miracles come, it is He who is sowing mercy, it is He who bestows unparalleled joy on people, but it is also He who punishes people without reason, forcing those who believe in them to go through that needless test and making them lose everything they cherish. God's plan is twisted. God's plan is never one that humans can comprehend. Von Trier told us this truth.

  • Adrien 2022-04-23 07:02:39

    I didn't think it looked good at first, and I hated Beth's neurotic performance, but the last half hour of the movie is walkable, and when you go into the story, you're no longer the third The viewer's vision, but the feeling of being closely connected with the story. So, in the end I was impressed. Love and Faith, the key words are

Breaking the Waves quotes

  • Bess McNeill: I don't understand what you're saying. How can you love a word? You cannot love words. You can't be in love with a word. You can only love another human being. That's perfection.

  • Judge: Listen man, you had the deceased in your care. The court would like to hear the medical facts.

    Dr. Richardson: If... if you'd, um... if you were to ask me again to write... um... the conclusion, then... instead of writing "neurotic" or, um, "psychotic" uh, I might... just, um... use a word like... "good".

    Judge: Good?

    Dr. Richardson: Yes.

    Judge: You wish the records of this court to state that, in your medical opinion, the deceased was suffering from being good?

    Judge: Perhaps this was the psychological defect that led her to her death!

    Judge: Is that what we shall write Doctor Richardson?

    Dr. Richardson: [pause] No. Of course not.