With the vicissitudes of life and the turbulent crowds, there are fewer and fewer people who believe in love. The boring real life and the colorful on-screen love make love believers often have to face a paradox, the warmth and warmth of orange. After all, pink romance only exists in the illusory world of light and shadow. The more beautiful colors and touching pictures, the more the virtual nature of this love is reflected. Even if it is not hypocritical, it is at least out of reach; if there is love around it, it is definitely not a movie. In most cases, it presents the paleness and mediocrity that the movie does not want to show.
We enjoy love in the movie. What we see is only the shadow of love. The love we are experiencing and giving to each other, because it is too ordinary, but cannot be recognized and praised, so that true love is getting further and further away from us. In the end, we are really only Can find love in the movie.
Until I saw "Broken Waves". Like a simple flower in the rubble everywhere after the catastrophe, its simplicity exudes a shocking power, which makes all the gorgeous love of pretentiousness dim.
In a coastal town in Northern Europe, pure Beth fell in love with a stranger, an offshore oil driller Jane, and got the permission of the local elders and the church, and they got married. After a short and sweet honeymoon, Jane went to work at sea again, accompanied by endless lovesickness. Then, a tragedy happened. Jane was robbed of the ability to act by an accident. She was paralyzed and the future was dark. Memorizing the love life of the past can only bring him more pain. In order to make Jane stand up again and gain the courage to live, Beth finds other men to have sex, and then tells every detail to Jane who is ill. Under the stimulation of this virtual sex, Jane's condition started to improve. Beth was despised by the people in the small town and was driven out of the church, even unable to enter her mother's house. Jane's condition deteriorated again, and the exhausted Beth resolutely embarked on a sadistic boat. Jane miraculously recovered and stood up again, but Beth left her favorite of this life forever.
Danish director Lars von Trier’s 1996 film did not belong to the later famous Dogme’s work, but his image style and shooting techniques were very mature at this time. Dogme required portable photography, natural light, and no filtering. The true colors of the mirror, simultaneous recording, and the rapid panning of the lens are also the hallmarks of this movie. An extreme love story, with the same extreme performance techniques, makes it very different from our love movie experience. The pale and cold, even to the point of cold color, a lot of shaking the lens and irregular composition, make this love return to the original environment in which it happened. Such a combination should have made this kind of love a sense of reality, but because of what happened here. The feelings are fierce as never before, and the story is even more terrifying than any Hollywood bizarre love, but it is difficult for our hearts to accept it. Ordinary people are accustomed to ordinary feelings and expressions. What they look for outside of life is only a romance that can be understood and imagined, and then they continue to live a routine life; once there is a feeling that is so strong that it cannot be understood by daily life and experience, we It will also become a brick on the gloomy church in that cold town, indifferently rejecting and disgusting with fear. But our hearts cannot withstand the huge collision and burning, does it mean that there will be no other hearts with stronger love power?
When I was watching a movie, when I heard Jane asked Beth to ask her to find someone to have sex, I felt a little absurd at first, but I could see that Beth endured great pain, humiliation and inner division for her Jane, step by step towards reality. When the world was in desperate situation, I gradually felt the tremendous shock brought by this love in my heart. I remembered watching "Dancer in the Dark" last year. At that time, like some people, I felt unreasonable about the stupid details of life in the story and Bjork's excessive kindness, so I didn't like it. Now I know, it’s like putting Beth’s love in a small town with a Puritan background. The world’s narrowness makes any naive fantasy and kind behavior appear shocking, but it becomes unreal, just like a song and dance film. The resulting alienation effect. The real power is in the great emotion, not in its form. The director is actually talking about love fairy tales. To face them, one must have a strong and pure heart. Only if it is strong can it withstand its cruel power; only if it is pure, can you understand its unselfish giving. For the soul that has been soaked in the dust for a long time, they are unreal; for the heart of the innocent child, this kind of love is real.
Bjork has a natural feeling of being a child, and Beth, played by Emily Watson, is also innocent enough to make people sad. At the beginning of the movie, she answered the questions of the elders like talking to the camera, describing Jane, that unabashedly innocent love overflowed, making her purely not like a mature woman about to get married and start a family. After marriage, her devotion and attachment to Jane made the whole town even her mother displeased, admonishing her to learn to be patient, and her reaction to this depression was also a childish, heart-piercing roar. She is used to talking to God alone, thanking and praying, and her expression and tone are extremely natural. For her, it is not just believing, but actually living in God’s love. No one is more sure of this love than her. strength. That's why she believes in Jane's statement, even if it may cause normal people to split their hearts and cannot be tolerated by society and their relatives, but she firmly believes that there is no degeneration for the sake of love. As she sailed towards that terrible big ship, she burst into a pure smile, like a newborn baby asking for help from God. God has forgiven her in love, or, for her love, no one has the right to forgive. Even God.
Jane stole Beth's body. He didn't want Beth to be buried in a loveless land, to return her to the pure sea. The image that had been working hard to show the sense of reality suddenly changed. The door of heaven was opened for Beth, and people heard the long-lost bell ringing from the distant sky. The director said that this is a fairy tale; if you believe it, it is also true.
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