Despair is like a suspended sentence

Ignatius 2022-03-24 09:03:02

Karen inherited her mother's mental illness, and her father was a writer. Under his arrangement, Karen went to a small island for recuperation with her boyfriend, father, and younger brother. They rehearse Shakespeare's play, which makes Karen very happy. Karen accidentally peeks at her father's diary one day and discovers that she is just using it as an observational sample for writing. Karen's condition worsened and she had hallucinations.
The father and boyfriend left the island in a boat to find an ambulance. The boyfriend pointed out that the father did not love Karen, and the father told the boyfriend that he had committed suicide in Switzerland. Karen describes to her brother that she sees God seeing another world exist. When her father and her boyfriend came back, the ambulance arrived quickly. Karen was dressed up alone in her room to talk to her about her hallucinations. A gust of wind blew. Karen thought it was God, and was quickly horrified to find that a helicopter had come to take her to the hospital.
The dialogue between the father and the younger brother at the end is particularly meaningful: suddenly the vanity disappears, and despair breaks into life like a suspended sentence.

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  • Norberto 2022-03-23 09:02:48

    Still in the mirror, the whole is still pessimistic, or rather vague, rather than pessimistic. My father said that love is God, but what he gave was an observation, what the husband gave was a kind of consideration, and what the younger brother coveted was A desire, but the three neither understand nor are interested in her belief dilemma. It may have had a great impact on breaking waves. Although the expressions and image styles of the two people are completely different or even diametrically opposed, the core is the same.

  • Alexanne 2022-01-12 08:01:31

    The first of the "God's Inspiration" trilogy, an exquisite indoor psychological quartet. The rapid disintegration that shocked me: Incest Overture-V-frame outside the ship, heavy rain, like a double jump of light, shadow and sound. The twisted and distorted mind is externalized by tilting the cabin and the keel. Cracks in the wall, praying to the door, indifferent affection, the helicopter buzzing in silence; God is a spider, and God is in love. | Artist: The world will eventually forget me, only death will cherish me. (9.0/10)

Through a Glass Darkly quotes

  • Martin: You're hunting for themes. Your own daughter's mental illness. What a great bloody idea!

  • Martin: You're empty but capable. And now you're trying to fill your void with Karin's extinction. But how will God fit into that? It must make him more inscrutable than ever!