she (Valentina) is a model: she is stared at.
She (Karin) is the telephone operator: she needs to be heard and to be heard.
Him (Old Judge): He listens and stares, but refuses to be heard and stared.
Him (Augustine): He stares.
Him (Valentina's boyfriend Michelle): He listens.
At the beginning of the film, the sound comes before the picture. It is the sound of dialing and electric current exchange, and then the appearance of the picture. This is as written in Genesis: "Let there be light, and there was light," said God. Sound always precedes picture. It's like a fetus in the womb, it can hear and feel the rhythm, but it can't see anything. However, although it appears to appear later, it dominates the existence of human beings. When one learns to see, all trauma and wonder comes from seeing. See the images that make up the world.
In film, viewing is everywhere. The huge billboard, which Augustine is bound to watch as he drives by, is a positive look. In contrast, Augustine saw his girlfriend Karin cheating on someone, and this time, he looked at it negatively. Since the shock of this viewing was so great that he had to defuse it with another viewing, he followed his girlfriend Karin to the bar, and from the window outside the bar, he watched the traumatic scene again, and he was knocking The glass window drew Karin's attention and left, knocking on the window just to complete the action that was missing from the first viewing, but also to make evil manifest, because evil would not be evil without the gaze of the gazer. When Karin called his name, he hid below, refusing to watch, just listening to Karin's call. His actually somewhat childish behavior is like a child playing hide-and-seek, while his sad expression is like an abandoned toy.
Valentina, on the other hand, is the object to be looked at, first of all in the photographer's lens, where there is a pair of eyes staring, the photographer's and ours. And then at the fashion show, it's the old judge's, and it's ours. A few viewings led us to fix our eyes on her face, a beauty almost pure and clean, enough to turn all desires into love. What we do know, however, is that what is seen as an action must be an excess of desire. In the depths of beauty, there is always a desire that must destroy this beauty.
Karin appears as a voice more often in the film. She listens and is heard. But their conversations never ended with inquiries about the weather, so there was no real telling, and more of them were just words.
Similar to Augustine, when the old judge described the betrayal by his girlfriend, he described a mirror with a white border, and it was in the mirror that he saw the scene where his girlfriend betrayed him. So his subsequent viewing stops behind the window, because the world is so shocking, all viewing becomes traumatic, and everything he sees is wounded. So, more often than not, the old judge refused to watch and just listened. Pure, one-dimensional listening, without investing in any of your emotions, means withdrawing from the world.
The expression of lust must first be seen. The expression of loss is listening. In desperate need more instinctive, such as sucking, eating. Such as Valentina's younger brother Mark is a drug addict. And what saves it all is telling.
2. Encountering
the development of modern technology makes all impossible possible, but turns possible into impossible. So we see how exactly the staggered telephone cables helped Augustine dial the other party's number, but the other party didn't answer, leaving Augustine's call unanswered. And Valentina repeatedly received or dialed her boyfriend's phone calls, but every communication on the phone was always blocked. The only real exchange happened after Valentina met the old judge. At this time, Valentina called her boyfriend and recalled the scene when the two first met: "Remember how we met? Fortunately, I I walked out during the rest that day." Why choose such an expression at this time, we can only understand that Valentina inexplicably sensed the arrival of another adventure.
We also see several pans of the camera showing that Valentina and Augustine's residence are not far apart, and the two cross the camera several times, but there is no real encounter until the end. was rescued from the sea at the same time. So, as the audience, we almost instinctively guess that two people have met. We regard some encounters as God's mockery, and some encounters as God's grace and revelation, but what is our proof?
We don't fully understand Augustine's initial encounter with his girlfriend, but we can guess that it was another adventure, or that it was just an accidental phone call. The old judge was ignorant of all this. He said to Valentina: "I think they should be almost over. Because of me, on the day I attended the hearing, she met another person." In fact, the old judge What the judge said was not so much a fact as it was a possibility. But as long as it can exist, there will be cracks in this living bank, and it will expand day by day.
Encounter is because life is never complete, because there is always a gap in love, as the old judge said: "Maybe you are the woman I shouldn't have met." The meeting of two people is a magical thing, so although all encounters are It's wrong, but we always have the chance to meet and look forward to it.
3. Red and Gray
At the beginning of the film, there is a scene where Valentina is shooting a chewing gum advertisement. The background is a bright red, jumping and flying. The photographer seems not very satisfied, and insists on letting Valentina use gray The scarf was wrapped around the neck before finishing the shoot. If the red symbolizes the noise, beauty and rhythm of life, and the gray is a metaphor for the lack, suffering and silence in life, we will see that a similar scene reappears at the end of the film, that is Valentina being rescued by lifeguards When coming ashore.
4. Light and Shadow
Valentina touched the red background on the photo with her finger, and the photographer asked: "Do people recognize you?" Valentina asked back: "Who?" uncertain. The photographer turned off the lights and tried to touch Valentina, but was rejected. In the dark, the photographer asked: "Who are you thinking about?" Valentina replied: "It's not you." Turning off the light is to go deeper into the other person's heart, where it is always dark, and under the light, we often Staying on the makeup and expressions of the other party, and because of the other's viewing, our presentation also wears a mask of disguise.
In another scene, when Valentina came to the old judge's house, the old judge seemed to say unintentionally: "Those lights are beautiful." Then, the old judge and Valentina were sitting at the table talking, when the lamp went out, The old judge said a little embarrassedly: "I don't have any other light bulbs." Then, he thought about it, got up and took off the light bulb of the chandelier and replaced it. At the moment of putting it on, the too strong light dazzled Valentina. , So the old judge put the lampshade back on again, and the light became softer.
Isn't it the same with the truth, the naked truth is unbearable for everyone and must be covered up.
5. Judgment
Judgment is everywhere.
First trial: The old judge tried a case about a sailor, he acquitted him when in fact the sailor was guilty, however, because of his wrongful conviction, the sailor's family was maintained, with three children. "You did the right thing," said Valentina. At the end we see the storm at sea taking over a thousand lives, yet Valentina is miraculously one of seven rescued, as if associated with this.
Second trial: The lover of the old judge's girlfriend is on trial over a dispute, and this time he finds him guilty. Is this sin because he is really guilty in that matter, or is it because of his original sin?
Third trial: Valentina confronted by the old judge's unexpected indifference to dogs made her ask: "If it was your daughter who was knocked down, would you still be so callous?" "I don't have a daughter." The old judge The answer is succinct and succinct. The old judge used this plausible answer to defend himself or to absolve himself.
Fourth trial: Valentina curiously walks into the old judge's house, lured by the old judge, and then hears the voices of two men talking on the phone. From the words, we can find that this is a conversation between two gay people, and one of them has a family. Valentina listened, terrified and curious. At this time, the old judge appeared. Unlike the last time when Valentina appeared in his house, the two seemed to have switched roles this time. Valentina leaned over and became the one with a lower stance. The old judge stood awe-inspiring, as if he had become a judge. The old judge asked her, "What are you doing?" Valentina panicked for a moment.
The fifth trial: The old judge reported himself and came to the court for hearing and trial. Then Valentina read from the newspapers what happened. Coming to the old judge's house again, this time, the old judge showed a different appearance, and it seemed that he had a face that tended to be holy because of his trial.
Sixth Judgment: The storm hits the Channel of England like the judgment of God's wrath on mankind. Weather is also one of the themes of the movie. The mystery of weather lies in its unpredictability. Even in today's advanced technology, as we know about the butterfly effect, a small change in the initial factors may bring about a huge difference in results, and The only one who is omnipotent and omnipotent may be God, because everything is in his control.
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Where the redemption is suffering, the redemption is manifested.
In an infinite loop, what we think is perfect will eventually be owed. We are thrown into a period of nothingness by accident, this God's conspiracy; we are looking for truth and redemption in the absurd world, this God's revelation
2010/6/19.
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