"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
  • Madeline 2022-03-26 09:01:07

    Rewatch. Dogma's first post-95 LVT film, with sets, soundtracks, special effects...but most importantly, it has the realistic immersion the manifesto hopes to convey. The first thing that comes to mind is the Holy Fool in the Orthodox Church (Skardo in Stalker), but it's not accurate. Because Beth's subjectivity is close to zero! Although the opposition between women and the conservative society of the political economy frame is established from the beginning (Beth has never been in the same frame with the priest), Beth has not rebelled against it. LVT especially understands that love is not the focus of the film at all, so why did Young let Beth fall into the arms of other men, and why did Beth change from a "virgin" to a "prostitute"? None of the films give a clear logical explanation—and this is what makes "Breaking the Waves" particularly fascinating: editing through emotional continuity. Throughout the ages, there have been countless movies about the direct communication between people and God in disguise and questioning the intermediary and legitimacy of the church. The reason why "Breaking the Waves" can survive is its high level of immersion in reality. There is no power or magic at all.

  • Dimitri 2022-01-02 08:01:35

    Zarathustra came down the mountain and met a white-haired old saint in the forest. The old man saw that Zarathuste's eyes were pure, but there was a bit of evil hidden up and down the corners of his mouth, and he walked like a dance. Zarathustra said that because he loved the world, he was going to die. The old man declared that he only loves God, not the world. Saying goodbye to the old man, Zarathustra continued down the mountain, surprised that the old man did not know that God had died.

Breaking the Waves quotes

  • Bess McNeill: [as God] Bess McNeill, for many years you've prayed for love. Shall I take it away from you again, is that what you want?

    Bess McNeill: Oh, no. I'm still grateful for love.

    Bess McNeill: [as God] What do you want, then?

    Bess McNeill: I pray for Jan to come home.

    Bess McNeill: [as God, in an impatient voice] He will be coming home in ten days. You must learn to endure, you know that.

    Bess McNeill: I can't wait.

    Bess McNeill: [as God] This is unlike you, Bess. Out there, there are people who need Jan and his work. What about them?

    Bess McNeill: They don't matter. Nothing else matters. I just want Jan home again. I pray to you, oh please. Won't you send him home?

    Bess McNeill: [as God] Are you sure that's what you want?

    Bess McNeill: Yes.

  • Bess McNeill: Have you taken my calendar?

    Dodo McNeill: What? No I have not. What would I want with your calendar?

    Bess McNeill: You've taken it.

    Dodo McNeill: I have not taken it.

    Bess McNeill: Yes you have.

    Dodo McNeill: I don't know what you're talking about. What calendar?

    Bess McNeill: Where is it?

    Dodo McNeill: [returns to the room with Bess's calendar] Bess, you have to stop all this, you know. I mean you've got to go on living when he's not here. I mean he's not dead. You're not dead.

    Bess McNeill: Give it to me.

    Dodo McNeill: You've got to stop it.

    [Bess rearranges the ripped up calendar, staring at the words "I love Jan" on the corner]