If the world is like hell...——Comment on "Eternal Leia"

Janis 2022-03-24 09:02:45


The sixteen-year-old Russian girl Liya was beaten with a bruised face and passed out. When she woke up, she escaped from the house where she was confined and stumbled across the streets of a foreign land. In the hallucination, she saw her friend Voroya, who had committed suicide. He said to her: "Death is eternal, but life is only short-lived." He hoped to persuade her to live and let her live in this world. go down. But Leah still jumped off the flyover. I don't know if she went to heaven or not, but she left the hell-like world.

Leah and her mother live in a dilapidated neighborhood in Moscow. Her life wouldn't be easy, or she wouldn't be smugly showing off to her friends: She's leaving this place for America. However, her mother - who was a prostitute - abandoned her and only went to America with her boyfriend. As for her father - he was a soldier, and he never showed up after a night with her mother, no one knew where he was, and no one knew whether he was alive or dead. When Leah chased her mother's car and fell into a pool of mud crying, the dirty mud stained her white dress. That might be a metaphor for Leah falling into a filthy quagmire that she cannot extricate herself from.

The world continues to bring Leah's nightmare fate. Her mother entrusted her to her aunt Anna's custody, but Anna rudely drove her out and occupied her house. The teachers at the school mocked her mercilessly, causing her to drop out of school in anger. Her mother wrote to her to break away from the mother-daughter relationship and to no longer undertake the task of parenting. "Leah has always been a superfluous child," she said in the letter. When she asked her aunt Anna for help, Anna coldly suggested that she learn from her mother and "open her legs" from men. Her first prostitution She was not successful at the time, but her "successful prostitution" friends framed her, making her a "stinky bitch" that thousands of people called her, and even scolded and beaten by people. At this point, she has no other choice but to really live by prostitution.

Andrei appears in Leah's life. This handsome man driving a red BMW sedan, his bright and warm smile seems to be the sunshine from heaven. Under the nourishment of sweet love, Leah stretches her life to the fullest like a birch tree welcoming spring in Russia. He promised to take her to Sweden to live a happy life. But when Leah came to Sweden alone, she was greeted by house arrest, prostitution and beatings. It turned out that Andrei was a personal trafficker, and he sold her to an old Swedish man. In addition to satisfying his lust through Leah, the old man forced her to go into prostitution and make money from her.

"Everything is rotten." Leah was desperate. When she smashed the portraits of the Virgin and Angels with her own hands, maybe she would no longer have heaven in her heart. She just wants to get out of this hellish world as soon as possible, no matter where she will go after death...



When I watched the images of suffering in "Eternal Leia", the melody of "Symphony of Sorrow" flowed in my ears. In this vast and boundless land, covered with snow and ice, white birches stand erect, and the quiet flowing river gleams. The unchanging suffering and fate of the millennium, as well as the cold baptism of Siberia, forged the greatness and tragicness of the Russian nation. This nation possesses a savage, icy, and formidable power, and she uses steel, blood, and fire to open up new territories, and she maintains her rule with ruthlessness and brutality. While maintaining a terrifying tyranny that has remained unchanged for thousands of years, it has also created a great civilization that is unparalleled in the past and present. In the list of great men in human history, we can see many names from this land.

However, "Under all the nests, there will be no eggs." Through Leia's tragic fate, I saw the era and history that determined her fate. The October Revolution more than 90 years ago greatly changed the fate of the Russian nation and, to a certain extent, the fate of all mankind. A most splendid revolutionary ideal, in the process of practice, has established an extremely autocratic and dictatorial state power. Under the violent rule of this regime, the position of man has been abolished: the whole country is not centered on the people, but on state power; man is no longer an independent individual, but a cell in a tightly organized state , whose body and spirit are firmly controlled by the state power; the people cannot control the power of the state power, and become slaves of the state power; people no longer become human beings, but become tools to achieve national goals. In the process of human beings being instrumentalized, the glorious goodness of human nature such as conscience, morality, compassion, etc., is gradually passing away, while the dark evils of human nature, such as greed, cruelty, cruelty, etc., expand rapidly. When the evil state regime collapsed, all that was left was a waste of material, institutional and spiritual ruins.

Although Leah has a difficult life experience, she does not lack the innocence and kindness of a girl. She took in Voroya who was driven out in the cold night; she used the first money she got from prostitution to buy a basketball for Voroya and fulfilled his birthday wish; she repeatedly begged Andre, Help Voroja get out of this shitty place. But what does this world use to repay her innocence and kindness? Her parents abandoned her; her aunt evicted her and occupied her house; teachers humiliated her and forced her to drop out; government agencies refused relief and guardianship; friends betrayed and betrayed her; young people abused and beat her; Her "lover" sold her abroad, and the bribed government officials gave her the green light to go abroad; in a foreign country, the never-ending rape, prostitution and beatings finally drove the girl to suicide.

In the harsh life of Moscow, the warm feeling between her and Voroya supported them to live strong together. When she left the country, Voroya, who lost her emotional support, chose to commit suicide. In Sweden, Leia, who also lost emotional support and was completely desperate for life and the world, finally chose to commit suicide, even though Voroja, who had turned into an angel, kept shouting: "Lea, don't, don't! "

When love is lost, the world will be like hell; in the world like hell, there will be nowhere to find heaven: - Before committing suicide, Leah personally smashed her most cherished portraits of the Virgin and Angels, which are the deepest in her heart Faith here is the blessing and glory from heaven. However, this hell-like world finally shattered her heaven. I believe that when she jumped from the overpass, she was not running to the heaven in her dream, but only to escape this hellish world.

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  • Jeramy 2022-01-05 08:02:31

    I don’t know what to say about the story, just talk about the soundtrack, I like it very much

  • Rickey 2022-04-23 07:03:22

    Moody's two best movies Fucking Amor and this 4ever Lilya.

Lilya 4-Ever quotes

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    [to die]

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