"Piano Teacher" is a heart-pounding movie. Directed by Michael Haneke, the original author is Nobel Prize winner Alfred Jelinek, starring Isabel Huppert. It was a close to perfect combination.
Elika, a Vienna piano professor in her forties, lived in a closed environment with her bossy mother for a long time. Her mother restricted her freedom in the name of love. She was not allowed to go back late and she was not allowed to buy slightly out-of-the-box clothes and monitored by phone. Her whereabouts, everything is under the control of her mother. In this way, there is no love and no man without the heat of life. He always eats with his mother and even sleeps in the same bed every day, and is accompanied by his mother during the performance. This is maddening, and she is also annoyed by the ubiquity of her mother, and even the mother and daughter have had fierce fights, but they can only be confined to this mutilated and deformed home.
As a social person, she has the calm and introverted temperament that fits her noble profession, with curly hair, black, white, and gray clothes, her face is almost expressionless, her mouth is pursed, her head is slightly held up, showing a long length. neck. She is proud of herself, watching everything, and treating students harshly. He seems to be a well-behaved teacher, pure-hearted and low-spirited.
And after get off work, she would go to the pornographic video room with a confident expression, ignoring the eyes of the men. She would pick up someone else's dirty tissue and put it under her nose to sniff, the same expressionless face. She will spy on couples having sex, and run away in panic after being spotted. She would hide in the bathroom and mutilate herself with a razor blade, and then she would rinse off the blood with skill. She used all kinds of abnormal behaviors to express her long-repressed sexual desire. If it weren't for the pursuit of student Huade, perhaps he had found his own way to balance his body's desires.
Walter is a healthy and energetic young man, he fell in love with Alika. The more indifferent Alika is, the more he desires to conquer. He ignited her and broke her inherent balance. She had a passion to destroy everything on the surface, just like Shishui.
At first she still indifferently refused, but at the concert, Ward comforted her students to make her jealous, put broken glass into the students' pockets and ruined her hands. At that moment, Ward realized that she did it, and realized that she actually had a strong desire for him. When looking for her in the bathroom, she gave him oral sex, but did not allow him to urinate. She controls him. She began to wear colored clothes, lemon yellow and rust red softened her. Then, she solemnly wrote a letter to Walter. She told Walter all her most secret sexual fantasies. She said that for several years, she hoped that someone would beat her by gravity and tied her next door to her mother. Make love rudely with her. In her philosophy, perhaps this is love. But Walter despised her sickness. Trapped in the mud, she began to be at a loss. She surrendered to Walter in humiliation, trying to obey his way, but couldn't, always frustrated. Distorted, she has lost the ability to love and sex. Later, Walter, who was repeatedly irritated but unable to release, rushed into her house and raped her in the manner in her letter. When her fantasy came true, there was no pleasure, only painful harm. Before leaving, Walter said: Love is really nothing. Love is also gone at this time. It's just that the young Walter, who sees love as a game, forgot about her in a blink of an eye, but with her, she lost everything and completely collapsed.
Severely tortured and trampled on her body and mind, she still returned to her mother. In the end, she could only ask for love from a loved one who was constantly hurting herself. It was heartbreaking to look at.
Meeting Walt again at the concert, he still greeted her cheerfully and easily. There were still bruises on her face, she turned around, drew a knife, and pierced her shoulder, a blood flower blooming cruelly and beautifully. After putting away the knife, she still walked towards the street without expression. It was dark outside.
The performance of Isabel, Elika’s actor, was shocking. She is almost expressionless from beginning to end, but she can delicately convey the turbulent inner world. Stiff hands, slightly moving corners of lips, subtle changes in eyes, and awkward face, her world is divided into two, light and dark, grace and insignificance, indifference and passion, tranquility and noise are all in this expressionless Face. Inaction wins, and the power of restraint destroys the dead.
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