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Desecrated Love - Kieslowski "A Short Film About Love"
Leonard 2022-11-22 23:53:08
Love is complex, the pursuit of spiritual fit, the natural expression of desire. Spiritual love and lust love develop, change, conflict, entangle, until they lose their way. The male protagonist changes from the love of desire to the love of the spirit. When the spiritual love that he thinks is sacred in his heart is ruthlessly shattered, ending his life is a natural choice. The heroine goes from spiritual love to desire love. Desire love is often an escape method after spiritual love is frustrated, but the more you get, the more you lose, the more you escape, the more you have nowhere to escape, and you get caught in it unconsciously. When the light of spiritual love occasionally shines, revealing the absurdity and ugliness of the love of desire, it is impossible to get back the love you once had, and you can only continue to live in remorse and escape. The love of pure desire and the love of pure spirit are questionable. Humans are neither animals nor gods. People must stand on the earth and look up at the stars. Daoists and hypocrites who only advocate spiritual love are detestable and despicable, but in the era when the love of desire is promoted, people's selfishness, greed, and cowardice are all revealed, aggravated, and rampant in the love of desire. The occasional fresh air in smoggy days makes us think there is another possibility. Hypocrites blaspheme love with false spiritual love, and popular lust love blasphemes love with human weakness. Love is desecrated, doubted, and abandoned. In the dark world, people are isolated from each other, spied on each other, and missed forever in different time and space. But there are still people who are willing to keep the sacred love in their hearts with their lives. In the film, the so-called messenger of God passes by. He quietly observes all this. He cannot change or replace anything. People can only choose, bear, persevere, and redeem themselves.
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Magda: Why are you peeping at me?
Tomek: Because I love you. I really do.
Magda: And what do you want?
Tomek: I don't know.
Magda: Do you want to kiss me?
Tomek: No.
Magda: Perhaps you want to make love to me?
Tomek: No.
Magda: Want to go away with me? To the lakes, or to Budapest?
Tomek: No.
Magda: So what do you want?
Tomek: Nothing.
Magda: Nothing?
Tomek: Yes.