(1) Date Why did Aunt Wanda choose to commit suicide in the end?
(2) Ida was sent back to the monastery by her aunt. Why did she return to the world? Why did she return to the monastery after experiencing the pleasures of the world?
To answer these two questions, it is necessary to clarify another major theme displayed in the film: family. There is a process in the recovery of Ida and her aunt's affection. When Ida met her aunt Wanda for the first time, Wanda showed very indifference, and she also behaved sullenly. Wanda just let her look at the photos of her childhood and her mother, and she was about to send her away. Just as Ida was about to leave, Wanda seemed to feel that she was acting recklessly. She had no intention of doing trial work. After get off work, she rushed to the train station to pick Ida home. She and Ida talked about the relatives they once had. Show the kindness that elders should have. Wanda has a basis for the recovery of Ida's family. After all, Ida is her sister's only child, but Ida's feelings for Wanda are only limited by blood cognition. On the way to find the bones of their relatives together, Ida gradually understood my aunt Wanda. From the beginning of disgust with Wanda's indulgent life, to gradually learning to take care of her aunt, the two scenes before and after happened on the bed of the hotel in the town of Sdrew. The change of Ida's attitude before and after shows her growing affection for her aunt. what the younger generation should do.
For the first question. Some people point out that Wanda's suicide was because of her disappointment with the current situation and the confusion about the future of her motherland, Poland. This explanation seems a bit far-fetched. Wanda is a person of status and status. If she is disappointed and confused, she has endured it for decades. Why did she commit suicide at this time? Moreover, according to our usual thinking, she found her son's remains and made a good arrangement for his son's remains. To a certain extent, she fulfilled the wish that she had never dared to face, and she was more Reasons to continue the previous life, obviously, the direct cause of Wanda's suicide should be more from the perspective of human nature rather than from the social background. Wanda's suicide should be due to the loss of her love for Ida. On the night that Ida was scheduled to take the oath to be a nun for life, Wanda took out a family photo. Although her son's photo made her stimulated again, her son had been gone for more than 20 years. This should not be the reason for her to die now. The next scene reveals the real reason for her breakdown. When she was drunk in the bar, she kept telling people about Ida: "She has such beautiful hair, but she hides it", which seems to be regretting the birth of her niece, but for those who joined the WTO, Ida's Taking an oath is tantamount to death, at least for Wanda, the family is no longer. So, Wanda chose to die, in the early morning of the second day when Ida was ready to return. From this, we can also see that family love is a basic human need, and the loss of family love is a huge blow to people.
For the second question. Some people think that Ida's return to the world is because of the unfinished love for the saxophone man. Since there is love, why did the death of my aunt make her lose confidence in love? She has never been involved in the world, and she doesn't understand the sinister human heart. If there is true love, she can love to the death; if she really suddenly understands the difficult and sinister truth of the world, then there is no need to dedicate her life after her aunt's death. Saxophone man, one night stand can make her so enlightened? Obviously, the love story is unconvincing. In my opinion, the relationship between her and the saxophone man is at best a goodwill, not love, even if this goodwill was established with the help of her aunt. She returned to the world from the monastery because of the ties of family rather than love; her one-night stand with the saxophone was not because of her need to vent her lust, but a special commemoration for her relatives; she returned to the monastery not because of disappointment in love and The worry of the world, but the departure of her relatives, made her feel that there was no one to care about in the world.
The recovery of family affection is the main reason for Ida's return to the mundane world. In the process of searching for the remains of her relatives, Ida understood why her aunt "was ill and drinking every day", and she also recognized the pain and vulnerability of her aunt's loss, which made her feel obliged to come back to take care of her This only relative, and this kind of care should be permanent, even for the aunt to have a happy old age, she seems ready to give her family happiness, otherwise, when her sisters take the oath, if there is no future meeting Indefinitely, she will not shed sad tears. It's a pity that it was a step late, and the day he came back was when her aunt died. Next, she mourns the passing of her only relative in a special way. She put on her aunt's high heels and the dress her aunt had let her wear but she didn't wear, drank the wine her aunt had drunk, tried smoking, it was not so much an anesthesia, it was a memorial, she realized Aunt's pain of losing a loved one. The following actions still show her respect and nostalgia for her aunt. These actions are to satisfy her unfulfilled wish before her death. She wore secular clothes to attend her aunt's funeral as her only relative, showing her true face. She was dating a saxophone man, showing the needs of a normal person. These were all mentioned by her aunt at the beginning. On the first day we met, Aunt Wanda tried to ask, "Are you going to wear this hijab all the time, you have red hair too, right?" When referring to the lust of the flesh, she added, "I'm sorry, you You should try it, otherwise, how much have you sacrificed to swear to God?" When she expressed her true feelings for Ida after drinking, she said: "I love Roza very much, you are so similar, I will not let you waste your life. Ida stubbornly rejected the aunt's words at the time, however, Ida's last few acts are all related to these words, so we have reason to believe that Ida's actions are actually fulfilling my aunt's last wish, so as to Seeking inner peace is also a kind of redemption.
Some people may say that since the sin is to be atonement, why not continue the earthly life according to the last wish of the aunt? I think it should be explained like this: If my aunt Wanda didn't die, she probably would, but once my aunt died, she would lose her support. After all, she didn't know the world and people's hearts. At this time, a boyfriend who didn't have a deep relationship with her was no longer than her childhood. The large convent made her feel more secure. It can be said that her return to the world and her return to the monastery is due to family affection. (Text/Slate Planting Flowers 2015-03-23)
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