Foreword
The film "Piano Teacher" is a French-Austrian literary film. Erica Koch, played by Isabelle Huppers, has a profound and delicate performance, and won the double-winner of the Cannes Film Festival and the European Film Festival. The actor Walter Kelmer, played by Belot Maguimel, also won the Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival. The film tells the story of Erica, a middle-aged piano teacher in a music school. She is serious and unsmiling. She always proudly raised her chin, raised her eyebrows, and kept her eyes dismissive and indifferent! Although she is middle-aged, she is still unmarried and lives with her mother, even huddled on the same bed. Her mother monitors everything from her daily dress to her daily whereabouts. As mother and daughter, the two lack sufficient communication and talk, and the mother-daughter relationship, which looks alike, is morbid and deformed. Erica's unique temperament and superb piano skills attracted Walter, a student with considerable musical talent. He initially rejected Walt's fierce pursuit, but he was eventually teased by Walt successfully, and finally exposed his masochistic and sadistic nature in front of Walt. Her perverted behavior seriously insulted Walt's self-esteem. In the end, Walt raped her at Alyssa's house under the cry of her and her old mother. Alyssa tried to kill Walt with a knife, but found that Walt was experiencing After this story with her, she returned to the track of her original life unharmed. Alyssa was in pain and stabbed herself with a knife.
Keyword "Mother's Love" Sexual Love Mental Violence
(1) Deformed Maternal Love
At the beginning of the film, the tone of the picture is dark and messy. The expressionless Alyssa and the tyrannical and tyrannical mother quarrel endlessly over a precious dress. The two are in high spirits. eventually ripped together. The abnormal behavior between mother and daughter at the beginning of the film instantly gave the audience a spiritual dismay. The imbalance in the relationship between mother and daughter was beyond my general imagination. Afterwards, the two ate and watched TV as if nothing had happened... as if the quarrel just now had never happened. , this indifference and deformity is chilling.
All of Erika's mother's life is to monitor her daughter for no reason, question her whereabouts, not allow her to wear fashionable, brightly colored clothes, and even laugh at her daughter's normal interactions with other men. Abnormal mother-daughter relationship, in Erika's world, there is no father's love, we don't know why her father died in a mental hospital, but this fact seems to be the reason for this perverted family. The morbid relationship bought a good foreshadowing. The mother is authoritarian and tyrannical, and is always in a strong position in getting along with her daughter, which is self-evident in the transition between shots. In several scenes of mother-daughter disputes, the mother is always at the center, while Erica is always placed in the dependent position. The director has ulterior motives in handling the details. The long shots and the background music are well matched and intriguing, and the director does not shy away from this perverted tragedy when he refines the spirit of the film. He uses a cold pen to ask the world for advice. a truth.
Her mother's brutal discipline undoubtedly played a role in the formation of Erica's morbid spiritual world. The lack of father's love and the perversion of mother are undoubtedly a great tragedy to Erika's spiritual world. She rebelled against her mother, and even later used her mother as a vent for her inner sexual desire after the lack of identity between the sexes. The mother's sentence "Erica, you are crazy, you are really crazy!" This sentence is particularly intriguing, making people feel that they deserved their sins, but they are a bit sad for this old mother: this is her daughter who has been trained and monitored by her!
The mother's long-term dominance and almost perverted way of domination seem to have castrated Erika in her heart, and it is also a perfect metaphor for her later desire to occupy absolute sexual dominance in her love affair with Walt. , the relationship between Erika's schoolgirl and the schoolgirl's mother in the film is also particularly intriguing. When the schoolgirl's hand is stabbed with broken glass by Erica and cannot perform because of jealousy, her mother confides to Erica: "We sacrificed so much". Erica immediately corrected: "She sacrificed so much, not you!" In the characterization of this detail, I really admire the director's brilliant narration skills, and it is not anyone who sees the righteousness in the details It can be imitated, but this kind of casual revealing of details and bland dialogue makes me secretly exclaim, Erika's hysterical resistance to motherhood is silently revealed in this small scene. The director seems to intend to let us ponder whether the tragedy of the piano teacher is the inevitable loss of a mother's love, or whether the inevitable recurrence of this tragedy has raised a huge question mark for us.
(2) Erica, a middle-aged
lover is strict and rigid. Although her wardrobe lists many gorgeous and sexy clothes, she still wears an old-fashioned windbreaker every day, buttoned to the collar, closing all the clothes. Your man's fantasy about her She is still single when she is over forty years old. On the one hand, she longs for love, which is a normal instinct as a natural person. She longs for a man to come into her life to make up for the inappropriateness of her life. Some are missing, but on the other hand, she refuses love, which is the result of the long-term education of deformed maternal love. She hates men in society, always keeps her head high, and scoffs at the person in her life. This is a life that a normal woman should not have. When the collision and the two parties could not compromise, Erica's perverted behavior also appeared.
She wandered around the pornographic video store as if nothing had happened, watching sex tapes alone and sniffing toilet paper stained with semen after masturbating; she wandered alone in the parking lot after work, looking for sex scenes of her in the car , she peeped with great interest, while still squatting on the ground excitedly, and she was very embarrassed to be caught by others, completely different from the image of a cold and arrogant musician on the surface; she has reached the age of menopause, But she still cuts her lower body with a blade every month, fakes her menstrual period, and then puts on sanitary napkins very skillfully...
She seems to be very satisfied and intoxicated with this self-deformed self-abuse and voyeurism, but this kind of long-term The perverted actions made under self-suppression made the audience startled and shuddered, but the suppressed and perverted people did not seem to be morbid all the time, and they even had incredible love.
A bright, energetic, and a little handsome, sunny male student burst into her life, she talked about her understanding of music in the first meeting with Walt, Erica, as a music professor, With a high attainment of music, she liked Schubert and Schumann, so in her first meeting with Walter, she talked about Schumann's Fantasia in C major, about Schumann's hazy state, and It also talked about Schubert's crazy state, and behind the talk about the feeling of music, there is actually a heart that cannot balance itself with instinct and violence, just like the unique mental state of musicians.
Walt seemed to have sensed Erica's heart from the very beginning. He joined her to learn the piano, and Erica seemed to have sensed Walt's thoughts about herself from the very beginning. Therefore, during the admissions process, she tried to refuse. , but ultimately involuntarily.
Walt sent him a sincere love signal, and what about her? She doesn't seem to believe in love from the beginning, but what is love really? It's just an inexplicable emotion between men and women who pondered and weighed it over and over again. She denies Walt's courtship of her, perhaps fantasizing him as an exciting suitor like herself, but she's not sure, so when she sees Walt courting her schoolgirl When helping her perform successfully, her slightly instinctive and uncertain desire was thoroughly stimulated. Walt seemed to have seen through her little tricks, otherwise he wouldn't have sneaked to the toilet to find her after the accident. He wanted to hug her and kiss her, but she refused. She teased his desire, but she endured it. Ignoring his normal physiological needs, he was unreasonable and determined. This act is so similar to her mother's treatment of her that she wants to sexually tame him and subdue him to her dominance between the sexes, but Walt has not had a similar experience with her, and the sexes are in love His status was not like that at all, he felt helpless and unbelievable, but in the end he was at her mercy!
She then seemed to wake up a little, and was willing to continue the normal relationship in the way the other party needed. She went to the ice rink to find him, and gave him instructions in the changing room, asking him to have normal male-female sexual intercourse. He seemed to A bit reluctant, and afraid of being discovered, but she was nothing, she thought she could enjoy this pleasure like a normal woman, but when she gave him oral sex, her body instinctively betrayed her, she vomited ! She tried to accept the other party by expressing her love, but it ended in unhappiness between the two parties, which also laid a hidden danger for the development of the later plot.
She tried to tell Walt her ideal sex style by letter, but he didn't pay attention to her repeated warnings. He broke in the door late at night, blocked Erika's old mother from the door, and left her alone with her. They were together and wanted to behave in their own way, but she still insisted on her own principles. He reluctantly finished reading the letter and witnessed Erica take out all kinds of perverted sexual intercourse hidden under the sofa. appliance. "Erika, you're sick, really." He was surprised and absurd. The self-esteem of men was hit like never before. It turned out that all the music perception conversations in the past were just a self-deceiving fairy tale. She is as pure as a baby from the inside to the outside.” But behind the woman is a perverted heart.
Walt was completely incensed, and his instinctive desire was also provoked by Erika invisibly. One night, he broke in again, and despite how the old mother in the bedroom cried and Erika on the ground to explain, he finally brutally raped her in the way she imagined. Male violence has finally dominated this cruel but unfortunate tragedy.
Although Erica was instantly transformed from a dominant position between the sexes to a victim of male-dominated violence, her numbness had no epiphany. She chose revenge, but when she saw Walt's relaxed smile and returned to her original life track as if nothing had happened, she seemed to understand a lot. It seemed that in this story between the sexes, she saw Lowly female dominance. After seeing that the world she was trying to master did not return to the normal track as she hoped, she chose to self-mutilate, and the moment when the blood stained the red dress, the dazzling red smudged silently, which seemed to imply some kind of indescribable restlessness and anger. Some insane cruelty!
The more I wrote the postscript
film review, the more and more I fell into my own subjective world, and I always stubbornly felt sorry for the protagonist in the film. Worship, more and more began to look for loopholes in the director's narrative method, such as I now even stubbornly believe that when the director describes the abnormal relationship between mother and daughter, he lacks the tension and integrity of the causal explanation of the oriental director. It is not appropriate to use the way of thinking to explore the thinking psychology of the West, so as I went back, I seemed to understand why foreigners couldn't understand the French humor of
When looking for the spiritual world refined by the director, I sometimes get lost, and sometimes I find the right way out. After all, the expressive power of words is always limited, but I am so superstitious and firm that what language carries is too thin, but if Once the thoughts are revealed on the tip of the pen, the vague consciousness in the early days gradually begins to come alive, but sometimes I inevitably fall into my own idealism, just like I have long been accustomed to myself often after I have determined the topic of the article. And stubbornly digress like this, this and this, this and this!
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