This gloomy and deadly film has been interpreted in various ways. "Possessiveness", "eschatology" and "abnormal love theory" are all accepted interpretations.
And I think what Anna brings to me in the film, or what Isabel Adjani's performance in this film shows, is more confusion and confusion, neurotic twitches or extremely distorted expressions of pain.
Therefore, I think what the director Zurasky wants to express is to be lost as a "modern person" in the middle and late last century. Adjani's sometimes empty eyes remind me of Beckett's "Waiting for Godot". She seemed to be really waiting, but she didn't know what she was waiting for. A few years ago, she became a full-time wife completely, which made her feel very confused. Doing laundry, cooking, and taking children to kindergarten is not what she wants, and does it really make her happy to have sex with her lover? Her husband's irregular vacation left her overwhelmed... She seemed to be walking in a black hole, traversing a maze. until I met the devil. And is the devil really Godot? If so, where did her crazy and lost eyes come from from beginning to end?
The Berlin Wall at the beginning of the film is not just a sign of an era. It is the framework of the whole movie. He held up the big curtain of the Cold War period, and all the plots unfolded under its shroud. Here's a better explanation of why the actor's lines are so obscure, and the dialogue even more baffling. As if a wall is between the two, the sense of distance and strangeness makes one's heart cold, just like the dark tone of this movie. People during the Cold War were undoubtedly full of confusion. And Anna is just the epitome of them.
However, is Anna the only one who is confused? Thinking about it carefully, everyone in the film is actually confused...
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