[bess] without [l(ife)] will rest in peace...

Drake 2022-03-22 09:02:04

Please don't think that this film promotes a certain view of love -
love needs no definition, it is self-aware.

Just look at what the heroine bess [Breakthrough] is. . .
Sexual ethics, religion, family, social opinion.
Furthermore, she broke through the threat of death—earthly, heavenly.
The [normative] society formed by mothers, sisters, doctors, priests, judges, hooligans, whore clients, wild children, and strangers sentenced her to death and [distributed] her to hell.
But who does she live for? her lover.
Did she die because of it?

I once asked a person: [If the whole world abandoned me, would you still believe me? 】
She replied: 【At this time, you also abandoned the whole world. 】
I want to go back to this sentence of Orwell:
【being in a minority does not make you mad. there is truth and there is untruth. if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you are not mad.】
Female Isn't the protagonist also medically identified as [mental illness]?
There are free people who have been designated as reactionaries by the powerful government, and
here are heretics who have been condemned to death by society [unspoken rules].
Death is inevitable, I think - the power of democracy is indeed strong.
Her body was undoubtedly murdered,
but her will was not shaken; she always lived in the world of [spiritual contact] established with her lover.

I think she still won (compare the ending of [1984]).
And after her death, the
doctor retracted the previous expert opinion,
Both mother and sister confessed, and the
priest fought for a funeral. . .

Perhaps some sacrifices are not in vain.
Perhaps not many people are more desperate than orwell.

I checked the director, and actually directed [dogville]. .
Same ruthlessness, same thought-provoking, same weirdness. . .
But I'm more inclined to [Dog Town]'s exploration of the problem: I can't get an answer there.
It's not that the answer isn't available, it's just that the problem seems more complicated.
And here, Bess is just reaffirming what he has long believed.

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Extended Reading
  • Dolores 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    It’s true that the heroine’s emotions are sincere, and it’s true that she has a mental illness, so it’s hard for people to empathize.

  • Demetris 2022-03-28 09:01:04

    Be careful what you wish for. The telephone booth in the rain, the fool's ship in the sea, the children throwing stones, the door is closed, the crime of faith, the bell of heaven outside the radar circle is tolling; destroying the pure evil aesthetics, the degree of perversion and distortion in the ideological connotation is comparable to "This Room" "I Made It" This kind of doll draws intestines to be more extreme.

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]