Rewatching the movie, I feel that the passion between the protagonist and Anna is a little weak, and it's too long, too much, for Anna to run in the woods and get killed at the end. On the contrary, I think the first half is more interesting, there are personal reflections during the occupation period, and the complexity of human nature working under the fascist system. And precious also describes a very personal narrative under fascism. The scene where the protagonist goes to pray in particular can reflect his uniqueness, or inner struggle and contradiction, and at the same time satirize the emptiness of middle-class life. The role of the blind man is obviously the mirror image of the protagonist, which has been explained in the beginning of the recording studio scene.
Putting politics and lust together gives the film a lot of tension and can also provide another angle of writing history, but I think the ending is too totalizing from the story, especially with the reappearance of the person who abused him as a child, He broke down. The man's reappearance makes us doubt the authenticity of the protagonist's memory, but his collapse attributes too much of his life to his youthful experiences, which is too psychoanalyzing, and weakens other socio-political factors.
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