"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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Breaking the Waves quotes

  • [first lines]

    Bess McNeill: His name is Jan.

    The Minister: I do not know him.

    Bess McNeill: [coyly] He's from the lake.

    The Minister: You know we do not favor matrimony with outsiders.

    An Elder: Can you even tell us what matrimony is?

    Bess McNeill: It's when two people are joined in God.

  • Jan Nyman: Love is a mighty power, isn't it?