A god like a spider, or a spider like a god? Who is the noumenon and who is the metaphor? Who is in reality and who is in fantasy? Or, to see or not to see? When Karin, who is mentally ill, stood in that empty room in the early hours of the morning, she heard the voice calling to her, which she called "them", and "they" seemed to be waiting for another "He" seems to be away from "him" again, and for Karin, who met "them" in pajamas, bare feet, and the sea breeze, in this world that has not woken up, she must be in A choice between "them" and "him".
In fact, the world is not empty. There are different "hes" in front of her. As the novel creator's father David, and her husband Martin with drugs and needles, Minas, who has grown into an adult at the age of 17, is the Dad, he's the husband, he's the brother, they're all "he", all around Karin waiting for her, but none of the three men heard that voice, didn't seek God, didn't wait Making a choice, it could even be said that Karin is just a person in front of them, a woman coming home from the hospital, a patient who cannot guarantee her full recovery but needs to be by her side.
They provided Karin with a reality, when the four returned from swimming in the depths of the sea and landed in a world where the sea and the sky were the same, they entered a small reality, but the laughter seemed to herald a normal life. In the beginning, their home by the sea, this house, was isolated from the hospital and seemed to be isolated from the disease, casting nets and fetching milk, and she and them were entering a story of their own reconstruction. But this is nothing more than an appearance. In this reality, what Karin should have is a different kind of love. As a daughter, she will feel fatherly love by David's side. As a wife, he will gain love from Martin's care, As an older sister, I found the love of my brother and sister in my study and chat with Minas.
However, fatherly love, love, and love between siblings did not unfold in the expected way. The lives of the four people crossed in an empty water area and in an empty house. The reality is not to provide complete The love of her is not to better build a normal life, but precisely in the isolated world, what they bring her is alienated love. Martin always felt that he loved her and wanted to be by her side forever, to be the anchor of life, yes, his friend Edgar was in charge of seeing Karin, telling him about Karin's condition, and when he returned to the island, he also Carrying those medicines with him, in case of the special danger of Karin's illness, when Karin screamed frantically that she saw a god like a spider, he injected an injection into the struggling Karin, and let him go. She quieted down. And by Karin's side, Martin has always taken care of her carefully, always comforted and protected her, always treated her with tolerance, no complaints, no regrets, "You never made me feel uneasy."
AKA: Through the Dark Glass( Desk) / Through the Mirror in the Dark / Through a Glass DarklySpring
But Martin, as a husband, seems to be doing everything to get her back to health and a normal life as soon as possible, even if she knows she is cured. The possibility is very small, but he also gave her confidence in front of Karin. However, with such care, relief, and dedication, Karin in front of him was not actually a wife, but a patient. Being a protector in this way highlights Karin's identity as a patient. In addition, he did not seem to awaken her desire for love to Karin from the depths of her heart. When night came, after coaxing Karin to sleep, he turned off the light, and then slowly fell asleep, and after falling asleep he entered his own dream, Karin was awakened by some sound, he did not know; Karin left The bedroom went to the empty room, he didn't know; Karin walked into David's room where he was writing and finally read the day David was writing, he didn't know, even when she returned to the room after dawn, Martin was still in the dream.
Martin treats Karin as a patient, which is undoubtedly a kind of alienation of love. Karin can't feel the feeling of love in him at all, but she comforts him in turn, "We will live a normal life, and I will be like a wife. The same." Karin, who was awakened by a certain sound, knelt down in the empty room, and then fiddled with her hair and stroked her body, as if looking forward to a pair of men's hands in a state of anxiety, expecting A kind of affection and love that touches the heart, just self-satisfaction, and when she finally fell into a state of fear and madness, she knelt barefoot on the floor while Martin sat on the stool, "Kneel down, Martin, For me." Karin's plea was more of a loss without love. So in front of Minas, Karin said, I've been pretending, I'm leaving Martin.
And in front of father David? She is a daughter and he and she should be full of the purest father-daughter bond, yes he came back from Switzerland with gifts for everyone, especially Karin what he thought she liked best, but that It was just an outdated gift; he had said to Karin and Minas that he would not leave after returning from Switzerland, but at the Moonlight Dinner, he said that he would soon go to Yugoslavia with the cultural group. He is the master here, but no one can have a sense of belonging, and in the diary in the drawer, Karin, who woke up in the early morning, saw this passage: "Her disease cannot be cured, I lied Myself, what's even scarier, is so curious, eager to observe her condition..." He took her as an object of observation, he wrote her into his latest novel, she was a kind of fiction of his, and he used her condition to fill in the emptiness.
"You took advantage of her!" Martin commented on David, so in front of David, she was just a sick daughter living in the novel, and he did this because he couldn't face the reality, because he chose to escape, when his wife It was because he became mad that he lost everything, and now, Karin has inherited such madness, so he can't face the reality, going to Switzerland, writing novels, is a way for him to escape, even when he was in Switzerland, he He chose to commit suicide, but the car he was driving broke down, and David, who finally climbed out of the car, failed to complete the suicide, but he could never live again. The inner love exists, but when it was shown in front of Karin, it was so clumsy. That diary seemed to destroy the father-daughter love in Karin's heart. Isn't this another kind of disguise for love?
What about Minas? A boy who is growing up, a boy who is a little rebellious, in front of his sister, is not caring for that kind of brotherhood. He would talk and laugh with Karin all the way, but he would spill the milk while fetching the milk and then scold Karin and tell her to get out; he would learn Latin sentence reconstruction with Karin, but he saw women in Karin He was furious when he took pictures of him; he would accompany Karin to the empty house, but he would flee with fear and terror... He was contradictory, he was emotional, and that scene played out after the Moonlight Dinner." The dark power of art", but also "the tomb of fantasy", on that stage Karin is the dead princess, Minas is the king looking for love, they meet, he expresses his inner love to her, but she But she said that her world is a tomb, as long as the lights go out, the door of the tomb will be closed, she hoped that he would go into the tomb to be with her, but she finally escaped when the lights went out, because he said "I want to go home" . "I hesitate, I tremble, my love is gradually forgotten, and only death awaits me." Love is death, but it rejects death in a way of escape.
This is the "walking in the clouds" in reality, this is the dark force in art, Minas is like the king on the stage, on the one hand longing for love, on the other hand afraid, so Karin is also in front of him It is nothing more than the sister in the hallucination, he will approach but must eventually leave. The wrecked ship that sank by the shore is an existence isolated from reality. It is a symbol of death. When Karin was lying in the cabin alone, Minas found her, as if she had entered the drama. The tomb, she wanted hugs, she wanted water, and Minas was no longer a younger brother in her eyes, but another object of love, even a sexual fantasy, the rain was falling violently outside, and inside the cabin. They cuddled together, and they heard themselves calling out "God," as if praying for a love to come, and as a repentance for the transcendental scene.
This is Karin's reality among them. Father, husband, and younger brother, the three men each constructed reality, but brought her into an alienated life. She is an incurable patient, and she is a character written into the novel. She is the personification of love and death shaped so for Karin the reality is actually more terrifying, alienated love is more terrifying, so she will hear cries at night, so she will walk into an empty house, so she will Leaning against the wallpapered wall, so she would see "them", they were together, they were greeting her, they were waiting for another "him": who is he? He is God.
"Every morning, a firm voice wakes me up, and that voice is behind the wallpaper, and I enter into it, into a large, warm, bright room, their faces glowing, and it makes me feel safe "The door to that room was pushed open by Karin herself at first, but when she went in and closed it, it seemed like someone had opened it, "God opened the door, and he's right in front of me." The reflection of the sea water and the cracked seam in the wallpaper brought Karin into an illusory world, he was with them, he was with God, "my illness is a dream", but in fact for Karin In other words, reality is alienated reality, and dreams are not alienated dreams. The God who appeared in the room that woke up in the middle of the night, the God who appeared in the diary of a father faced by a man, the God who appeared in the cabin of the dilapidated and passionate reappearance, the God was the temptation that made Karin unable to control herself, so She opened the door and heard voices in the cracks in the wall, so she opened the drawer to see the diary, so she tried to resist in the worse cabin and couldn't do anything.
But who is God? Did God really appear to Karin? Where was God when Papa David hid in the house at moonlight dinner? Where was God when brother Minas was looking for Karin? There are only empty shots, there are crying and shouting in the empty shots, and finally they come back, but their backs are turned to the light, as if they were victims, leaving a sad back, and Karin, when building that god, the house It was still empty, there was nothing in the crack of the wall, "the door opened, and it was not God, but a spider, and it came to me with a grim face, it wanted to enter my body, it climbed up my body Chest, my face..." God became a spider, which was another alienation after Love was alienated into a patient, a character in a novel, a princess who died on the stage, and this alienation made Karin again. Push back to reality.
"I don't want to live in two worlds." She wanted to say goodbye to this island and return to the hospital. A dose of acupuncture calmed her down, a pair of sunglasses and a pair of shoes let her go out the door and get her on a helicopter. Going back is the illusion of leaving alienation, and it is also the dream of leaving alienation, but when David, who stayed on the island, and Minas face to face, the question of Minas is: "Who can prove that God will show me." Wei stood by the window, looking at the distant helicopter, and said to Minas: "Love does exist, love, all love, all kinds of love, whether it is desire or rejection, whether it is trust or doubt. , whether humble or great, love is always there, and love is God, who saved me and will be by Karin's side."
Love itself is God, the called God, the imagined God, is love An imagination, an image in a mirror, a seeing "Through a glass darkly" - Quoted from the New Testament, 1 Corinthians, Paul said in a letter: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know even as also I am known. , still behind the camera is "Finally spoke to me". David and Minas, father and son who have been isolated for a long time, discussed love and spoke words. Although they were abrupt in the fusion and expression of love, they finally found their faith in love. Through the blurred mirror, Only then can we face each other, see God, stay away from all kinds of alienated reality, and find true love after being distorted and deformed.
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