The secret in the heart - a gothic movie, a love with a classical complex

Dana 2022-04-11 09:01:07

Everyone has their own territory deep in their hearts, which cannot be shared with others, but can only be collected silently.
Humans are emotional animals, and not everything can be explained rationally. These secrets can be petty hobbies, petty eccentricities, or horrific distortions when magnified. Sometimes people use art to understand it, which is a kind of complex, emotion, but if placed under the microscope of reason, it is a series of criminal psychology, and the crime can be traced back to its source.

Like the complex human brain, human emotions are subtle and complex, yet rarely understood. The truest emotion may not be pure, the pure is not beautiful, and the beautiful lacks truth.

At the beginning of the film, there are two very obvious, even symbolic words that introduce the hero's character, mother, diligence. The mother's note is no love, and the prefix of diligence is persistence. I haven't studied psychology, but I can still feel that the film uses this classic combination, similar to a formulaic background, to create a congenitally flawed but stubborn personality tone.

When this boy who lacks the role of mother and adheres to the motto of diligence and diligence grows up, he is morbid, especially the male protagonist who is outrageous with the development of the plot.

In fact, there are not a few children who have such a childhood. Disharmony between parents, sudden changes, and physical diseases are not under the control of children, but must be faced and dealt with. Just like the hero's inexplicable affection for Venus, in my opinion, he turned his mother who didn't love him into a plaster statue of Venus, beautiful, indifferent, aloof and out of reach. Then push this feeling to everything beautiful, beautiful women, and then to your lover.

Children who don't get their mother's attention lack self-confidence, and people tend to see what they don't get as the best. So Anna, who was so stubborn about him, couldn't say anything about his heart, and when she saw Helena, she fell in love. In fact, Helena is similar to his mother in many ways. On the one hand, the way he gets along with Helena is almost perverted to control everything about her. It can be said that he eats and drinks, sits and sleeps, and on the other hand, he behaves like a child. .

And what is scary about him is not his inferiority complex and a little Oedipus complex, but the other side of him, careful thinking, hard-working and capable. This is the so-called use of the most rigorous mind and the most efficient action to realize the wildest plan. And he is such a person. He worked tirelessly to serve Helena to eat, drink and groom day after day, and he literally lived with Helena, who had no limbs, that kind of stubbornness, almost despair, and desperate, and the backside of cowardice was actually daring.

It's hard to understand how he feels that Helena, who has no limbs, is still absolutely stunning. Just imagine for a moment, and look at the green screen of "One Curtain Dream", the dancer who was astonishing before, and then the woman with a shrewd and vicious broken leg who bowed and hunched back, this is just a broken leg. In the hero's obsession, these can be ignored. He thinks that what is beautiful is absolutely beautiful and always beautiful. If the heroine's disability was not his fault, then it would have made a good story. Although ordinary people can't understand it, it is enough to admire and look up to her.

In the end, I realized that everything before was just the hero's dream, Helena didn't lose her hands and feet, and the hero himself didn't get rid of that morbid obsession. In fact, this ending is very realistic. People are always provoked by their own desires, and restrained because of the environment. When their own desires overcome restraint, the hut in the bottom of my heart suddenly jumps into reality, shocking the world. And when reason restrains desire, everything will return to normal again. He is still the calm and humble doctor, so what's the harm in loving the statue of Venus.

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Boxing Helena quotes

  • Russell: [watching Helena bathe in the fountain] Who is she?

    Doctor Nick Cavanaugh: [mesmerized] She's... Helena.

  • Helena: A woman is something soft; something warm when you feel her. When she's naked. When she's touched. Discovered. You see that things happen inside of her. She opens up. Sometimes a woman is sad. Sometimes she's angry. Helpless. Beautiful. Sometimes she's strong. She's still only that one woman. Talk to her - in deep whispers. Tell her what you're doing, what you see. Move slowly. Tell her you're inside of her. Tell her how it feels. Touch her. Use your tongue. Your breath. When she's about to come, she'll grab for you. But don't let her come. Make her wait. Tease her. Play with her. Make her feel. She may touch herself. She's so sensitive now. You can't be afraid. Take her. Take her.