"A year with 365 movies is a new year"
May 22, 2018 Day 21
Title: Fear Eats the Soul
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbender / Germany
Length: 93 minutes
The movie is about a love story, but it's not a love movie.
I am afraid of being alone, so I am looking for someone to love. I am afraid of being alone because I am in love with someone.
Amy in the story is a German woman, but she's not well-dressed, she's stocky, lives alone, has a job as a cleaner, and she's of grandmother age. If Amy were a book, her story should have seen the end.
It was just a sudden heavy rain that washed away the original settings and erased all the clichéd plots and words.
Amy took shelter from the rain in a bar, a bar playing Arabic music. Here she met a young Moroccan who was several decades younger than her. His name was Ali and he had brown and black complexion. They chatted and danced, and the song hit it off at first sight, with similar auras, and then they both disappeared outside the bar under the surprised eyes of everyone.
This is the beginning of a classic love story.
The initial germination of passion is indistinguishable from the object, like the light suddenly lit up at night. Purely a little bright, and suddenly disappears, but for those who love each other, it is enough to illuminate the eternity of the remaining days.
Amy and Ali, like two characters from completely different books, shined brightly when they first met. This inevitably makes people feel a little puzzling, what kind of feeling is it.
Sometimes it is very simple, sometimes it is very complicated, sometimes it is a moment, sometimes it is a lifetime, sometimes it can be explained in a sentence, and sometimes it is impossible to spit out a word.
Between Amy and Ali, if you have to say, maybe it's just two lonely people who are eager to borrow some warmth from each other's bodies. Fortunately, they both know exactly what the other needs.
True love does not need to be calculated, one day you are walking on the road without any warning, it just falls from the sky, sooner or later, it hits you on the head impartially, and you faint in an instant, So you are in love. The beginning of Amy and Ali is such a story.
Amy ran to her daughter's house excitedly, planning to say what was on her mind. It happened that the unemployed son-in-law was complaining at home because many foreign workers like Ali were crowding out local employment opportunities. (The role of the son-in-law was actually played by the director.) As you can imagine, Amy was ridiculed and ridiculed by everyone, and the son-in-law even said, "There seems to be something wrong with your mother's head."
"There's something wrong with my head." This is what others in the story say about Amy and Ali.
If it wasn't for a brain problem, how could such irrelevant two people be together? Amy is old and poor, while Ali is a marginal person who is not accepted by the local area. They have developed feelings for each other, which are beyond the common sense of the people around them.
The people of West Germany also liked to gossip behind people's backs. Amy's female neighbors not only talked about their tongues, but also launched various things to make things difficult for her by the united front; Amy's son smashed the TV at home angrily after hearing about it; Even the owner of the grocery store refuses to sell for them.
These two originally lonely people, because they wanted to get rid of celibacy, were completely alone in this world.
There is a scene in the movie where Amy is crying to Ali, she said: "On the one hand I feel very happy, on the other hand I can't bear it." "We go to a place where it's just the two of us, and when we come back, everything will be gone. Same. Everyone will be nice to us." So they left everything behind and went on a trip.
Unexpectedly, after they came back, Amy's wish came true. When the story gets here, there is a sudden turning point, which is also the part of the movie where I think the screenwriter is very good.
Overnight, everyone suddenly became "friendly" to Amy again, because everyone needed her. The neighbor needs Amy so he can use her basement to store the sundries; the grocery owner needs Amy, and the business in the store is not good, so he is forced to keep customers; the family needs Amy, and the grandson needs someone to take care of him after school, Amy can help bring child. At this time, Amy showed her "generousness". She disregarded her previous grudges and even accepted everyone's "needs" for her with some joy.
She became the familiar "Amy" again. Back to her original position, let her no longer fear.
Deep in Amy's heart, she longed to be accepted. Once she had the opportunity, she ran as if to flee and plunged into the crowd, but she forgot the moments when she wanted to escape at any time, and it was because of the loneliness in the crowd. It was Ali, who made her desperate choice.
She seemed to be ready to defend against Qianjun, but at the last moment, she disarmed and surrendered. Those who yearn for company eventually leave their lovers behind and return to the lonely crowd. There may not be warmth in places with many people, but holding a group may give people the illusion of warmth, even if these people have nothing to do with you.
There is a clip near the end of the movie, Amy and Ali are dancing in the bar they met at the beginning, Amy wants to save Ali, so she said something to him, one of which is "We should be nice to each other, otherwise What's the fun in life?" This sentence was pleading with the other party, and perhaps she was saying it to herself.
The love between Amy and Ali is an unsolvable circular problem with no answer. The love that bursts out because of fear of loneliness, the love that ebbs because of fear of loneliness. From the beginning to the end, when the joys, pains, depressions, and struggles of the past have risen to the end, and the dust has dissipated, Amy is still Amy, Ali is still Ali, and loneliness is still there.
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