The overall film is well done, and the often out-of-focus shots are very artistic, but what I want to talk about is not the director's skill, but what the film itself tells.
A girl from a conservative tradition and an orthodox religious background falls in love with an offshore drilling rig worker from a foreign country. After marriage, the worker wants to go to work at sea, and the girl shows a morbid reluctance. Later, the girl had a split personality in the church and talked to the "God" she played, asking the workers to go home immediately. The worker then suffered an accidental head injury on the platform and was sent back for medical treatment.
The girl thinks that she caused the accident, blames herself, talks to "God" and is scolded by "God".
After the traumatic brain injury, the husband developed a perverted personality, and asked the girl to have sex with other people and tell him what happened to stimulate his recovery.
Because the girl "loved" her husband very much, she forced herself to have sex with strangers, and came back to tell her husband that every time her husband's condition worsened, it got better after she had sex with strangers. Plus "God" contributed to this, the girl was convinced of this matter.
In the play, the onset and treatment of the girl when her brother died before are mentioned. So far, it is no doubt that the girl suffers from mental illness.
The girl was sent to the car of the mental hospital by her family, but the girl escaped halfway. In order to "save" her husband's life, she took the initiative to find the client who was on the sea boat and was killed.
At the end of the film, the well-recovered husband stole the girl's body for a sea burial, and then the death knell sounded over the vast sea...
So, this is a story about "religion, mental patients, and love".
When telling someone it's a love story, please don't leave out the other two, especially "mentally ill."
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