Erica, her delicate shield, and her mother were all locked together in a cheese plate with a glass lid. Only when someone outside grabs the round handle on the top of the glass cover and lifts it up, the glass cover will open. Erica is a small insect in amber. It is eternal and will never grow old... ------- "The Piano Teacher"
first saw this movie a few years ago, and later I read it several times, and after reading it, I wrote a diary seriously. I only found it interesting a few days ago. Decide what to prepare to write.
The film is starring Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot and Annie Girardot, and directed by German director Michael Hanek.
The film is adapted from "The Piano Teacher", one of the representative works of the famous Austrian female writer Alfred Jelinek, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature. And won the 54th Cannes Film Festival, won the Cannes Film Festival jury and best actor and actress awards.
Throughout the film are three distorted characters. Erica, Cremer and Erica's mother. Erica's mother is an authoritarian and stubborn old lady. She controls Erica's life with her authoritarian image, even the 40-year-old Erica. Erica is a woman with the same strong and aggressive personality, but with a somewhat distorted soul. She has a good piano in one hand, serious and old-fashioned. She and her mother have been living in an environment where men are absent. Kremer is a talented and handsome piano student. The role of Erica's father does not appear directly in the movie, but from the dialogue we know that he has been disgusted by the two women in the family and died in a mental hospital.
There are multiple personalities in Erica's body: one is the desires of women on her body, such as she peeping at the sexual behavior of others in the car, secretly watching and admitting movies and not knowing who left behind with the taste of semen Toilet paper. If these are somewhat abnormal, then her jealousy towards the female student shows her female psychological characteristics. The second is that she has a long-standing concept of chastity. For example, she always sits tightly and sternly resists men in life. Third, she resisted and suppressed her desire spontaneously due to the compulsory influence of her mother. The fourth is that she recognizes the gap between her role and the student she loves. The appearance of the multi-personality wife makes our Erica destined to be sad and desperate.
About self-harm. . . . . . . .
Before watching this movie, I think I must first determine what kind of mentality do you use to watch such a movie that seems to be a bit BT. At first, I was peeping, but in the end I felt sad.
A friend said that the most unacceptable part of the movie was the part where Erica hurt herself in the bathroom.
The plot is like this. Erica was in the bathroom, calmly cutting her lower body with a blade, and then saw the bright red blood in the white bathtub, and then Erica calmly washed away the blood and went out. Eat with mother.
My friend said that BT is at its extreme. I think such a paragraph is still worth seeing. This paragraph is actually a superposition of several kinds of psychology of Erica. I think there are three reasons.
1. The bleeding from the lower body symbolizes the female's menstrual cycle. Erica was indoctrinated by her mother since she was a child, she can't love beauty and can't wear colorful clothes. So that Erica, who was 40 years old, was almost completely black. She has slowly retreated her feminine characteristics in such a growing up environment. So she emphasized her female identity through such behavior.
2. Self-harm in the lower body symbolizes self-punishment. Erica has always resisted and been hostile to the opposite sex. She felt that she should not fall in love with Kremer because it violated her acquiescence in her childhood. So such behavior is her self-punishment for herself.
3. The bleeding of the lower body is the manifestation of the first night. Erica in the movie is not married, but she is eager to keep her virginity in pursuit of emotional and physical stimulation.
4. The self-mutilation of the lower body is actually a castration of herself by Erica. Erica grew up with almost no gender differences. When her female sexuality was almost annihilated, the sudden emotional wrestling made her gender consciousness awakened. So this move is actually her return to the female role through the castration of copying.
Regarding sexual acts. . . . . . .
Erica has always been perverted and tough from discovering Kremer, a young man with musical genius, to falling in love with him. When they had a relationship in the bathroom for the first time, Erica's mental rape of Kramer was manifested. There is no man in Erica's life and self-repressive resistance to men. When Kremer appeared, Erica challenged Kremer boldly and vindictively from a sexual perspective. In fact, it is not so much challenging Kremer or revenge for the trauma her father caused to her since her childhood. It is better to say that Erica, who is excellent in music, wants to challenge the male role from any angle-even sex.
After the first pervert and rape sex, Erica's second sex in the ball room seemed somewhat less resistant. This time it was still interrupted by Erica's toughness. At this time, Kremer's traditional male concept of sex has been completely subverted. As a result, he later imposed fist and forced sexual behavior on Erica.
Erica's concept of sex is distorted, so she chose to commit suicide at the end of the film, escape the distorted environment of the past, and seek relief. Kramer chose to leave. This ending is undoubtedly sad but acceptable to us.
Therefore, Erica's request of abnormal love from a normal young man became the saddest part of the movie.
About the background and music. . . . . .
This is a film full of psychological analysis, so the background of the film is composed of large areas of white, black and gray, which resembles a mental hospital. You can't see ease or joy in the movie, because the background deliberately created monotony and paleness makes people feel chilly.
The soundtrack of the film "Piano Teacher" is based on Schubert's movements, supplemented by Bach, Beethoven, and Chopin's movements. Especially in the movie, some live performances are used to outline the emotional struggle between Erica and Kramer.
It's a pity that I didn't find the original sound in it. I was most impressed by the section of the Conservatory of Music exam when I was watching the movie. The piano is a musical instrument that is endowed with magic and flexibility, or the joy of self as in "The Pianist on the Sea", or the copy of love as in "The Piano Love", or the tension of fate as in the biography of "Mozart", Either eagerly looking forward to freedom as in "The Pianist", or-the repressive and distorted human nature as in "The Piano Teacher".
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