Watching this movie, it is natural to focus on the "erotic sign", which is erotic but not obscene. Modern people value it very much. It's a pity that the movie belongs to the typical "sex but not sex", "obscene but not lewd", under the guise of "DESIRE", it fell apart once. The erotic pictures are hidden but not revealed, but the desires are in a mess. It is not an erotic movie that takes the aesthetic route.
The protagonist of the story is Stina, a middle-class woman. The word "middle class" is now used like a symbol, and it is used in contexts such as "loneliness" and "depression". No wonder she thinks so. The heroine is indeed depressed, lonely, impoverished, and displaced, and she is completely mentally cocooned to death.
This middle-aged woman has a wealthy family, a mediocre husband, and an obedient son. Everything seems to be complete. But she has such stubborn and high cheekbones, and such a calm face, her desire is like a fish in the deep sea, invisible, but it exists; like the waves in a teacup, with a random kiss, it will be like a sea of surf and death.
The movie begins when their family of three came to the mental hospital, and her husband Max took over the management of the mental hospital (hospital) in the wilderness, so they had to start a peaceful life in the mental hospital. The task of the woman Stina is to talk about trivial matters with a group of women every day. It is obvious that she is disgusted with the so-called high society and the so-called shelter affairs. Then she got involved with Edgar, the gardener in the mental hospital, who was also a mental patient and was looked after by the senior doctor Keefe. Then Stina's adultery with Edgar was discovered; then Edgar fled to London; then Stina went to London several times to continue rendezvous with Edgar; then Stina's husband found out that his wife continued to be unfaithful, Stina Just sneak off to London to hang out with Edgar; then jealous Edgar punches and kicks Stina. I forgot to mention that Edgar once killed his wife. In the process, Stina became more intimate with Edgar's friend, Alex.
The character of Stina is a bit interesting. On the one hand, she is indeed a dignified and graceful mother. She is noble and generous, and loves her son. , she needs a storm of erotic baptism, she wants a rough body to vent freely, and she is afraid of men's fists and violence, she runs away again and again, from here to there, to the end of the whole person's mind In a trance, even the appearance of a good woman has always been abandoned, and even the life of his son is not considered. So she also became a patient of a mental hospital, a patient of Keefe. Keefe got his wish and took over the mental hospital and Stina, asking Stina to marry him so she wouldn't have to stay in the asylum. Keefe's words almost made everything come to a screeching halt, or at least kept the story from continuing to be absurd. It turned out that the desire so strong that the corpses were scattered all over the place was only used by people. Under Keefe's design, there were scandals of women, madness of women, the death of children, and the departure of enemies.
Mental hospital, don't say the word cruel, you have to be kind to say "people with some defects", or "abnormal human research center". There is no emotional firmness in the film, only one thing is clear: the man who runs the mental hospital becomes a lunatic; the one who stays in the mental hospital becomes a lunatic; Edgar is a lunatic, Stina is a lunatic, so are Keefe's ambitions Crazy, everyone in such a cramped environment is going crazy.
The movie has a resounding ending. The woman jumped off unexpectedly. The long, step-by-step walk really seemed like an ordinary walk, as common as going to a tryst, but she jumped so suddenly. Going down, there was no expression, no sigh, no despair, no grief, just a piece of glass flying broken jade, and she was lying on the floor bleeding from the seven orifices, saying to Keif the most serious sentence in her life "don't touch me".
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