Synopsis: Erika ◎Kohute is a piano teacher in her 40s. She has lived under the high pressure of her mother since she was a child. Every word, deed, and even clothes are closely monitored. The young musical talents made her mother bet on her. Great enthusiasm to cultivate, but it is a pity that Erica failed at an important concert. She never turned over again, and had to become a piano teacher wronged. Because of her mother’s long-term harsh and pathological education, Erika’s personality and spirit gradually became distorted. In front of outsiders, she was a cold and proud woman, living a nun-like ascetic life, and music was hers. All; but in Erika’s heart, she suffers from the torment of lust all the time. Although she is nearly 40 years old, she has no personal space. She even sleeps in the same bed with her mother. Even so, she still changes Escape from the mother's monitoring by peeping on lovers, watching pornographic movies, and even self-mutilating to satisfy their own desires. The peaceful life of the symbiotic mother and daughter was broken one day by a man named Kremer. Kremer is a student of Erica, who is quite handsome. He admires Erica's talent in music and firmly believes that he can melt his iceberg-like female teacher with his own heat. Under Kramer’s fiery offensive, Erica gradually revealed her unknown side-she tried to subvert the traditional rules of gender, to control Kramer like her mother controlled her-all of this , Making Kramer feel insulted, in order to restore the dignity of men, he finally raped Erica and retreated. After experiencing this failed and cruel love, Erica also recognized the reality and retracted into her self-enclosed shell.
On the surface, Erica's tragedy seems to be caused by her mother alone, and it is an extreme case of pedagogy. But from a deeper level, her tragedy comes from two words: power. There are two representative figures: the centralized parental system represented by the mother, and the patrilineal dominant system represented by Kremer. Her mother deprived Erica of her freedom in the name of "love" and firmly anchored her to her side. Erica seems to have been living under the wings of "maternal love", but in fact she is just a slave to her mother, a mother. A victim of personal will; when Kremer appeared, Erica thought she could control this man in her hands with her unique personal charm. Centralized oppression was imposed on Kramer, and she subconsciously sought a kind of psychological balance. Unfortunately, she overestimated Kramer’s love for herself. When Kramer said "I love you", he actually He was saying "I want you." He fell in love with her only because her coldness and arrogance aroused his desire to conquer. Regarding Erica's request to take the initiative and leadership in the relationship between the sexes, it greatly damaged the dignity of men. Clay Merle could not tolerate his dignity being trampled on by a woman, and he eventually raped Erica in a brutal way. Erika, who suffered a lot of physical and mental damage, found that Kramer could easily return to his original sunny life, unscathed-she was a loser. Able to return to his moldy body dingy, bruised all over.
After the violence, Kremer said to her: "You can't insult a man like this."-This sentence tells the essence of the relationship between the two, even if it is a teacher-student relationship, even if Erica is more mature than him. , Being a woman can always only be a "passive" role in a sexual relationship. On the one hand, Erika wanted to escape from her mother, and on the other hand, she relied heavily on her mother. She hoped to achieve revenge against her mother by controlling a man. Unfortunately, it was herself that was injured in the end—she was the carrier of her mother’s personal will, and it was Kray. Merle was a tool to satisfy her desire for conquest, and she was enslaved and deprived of two kinds of "love" at the same time, and became a victim of "love".
For the mother, the book describes it like this: "My mother is recognized by Ren Yilian as a figure who combines the interrogator of the Century Heresy Inquisition and the person who ordered the execution in national life and family life. "She was premature and arbitrary. Her daughter chose life: Except for dedicating herself to music, Erica can never belong to anyone in this life. She forced her daughter to lead a Puritan life, she was not allowed to wear fancy clothes, she was not allowed to go out alone, and she was not allowed to fall in love. Erica would be interrogated or even abused when she returned home later. Nearly 40 years old, I can only sleep on the same bed with my mother. Although Erica hates her mother's centralization, she is inevitably affected by subtle influences in her heart: cold and arrogant, withdrawn, holding a kind of contempt and hostility towards men, and subconsciously defending her own virgin body.
Music seems to be the spiritual sustenance of Erica, but it is more often used by Erica to conceal his own mask, or armor. Because of the failure of an important performance, Erica lost the light of "genius". Although she has unique insights into music, in the eyes of everyone, she is just an ordinary piano teacher; as a woman, she has always been alone. Inconsistent with the value orientation of mainstream society, she often becomes the laughing stock of others. As she got older, Erica gradually twisted and transformed under the torn of two contradictory values-as a daughter, she did not become an excellent musical genius in her mother's mind; as a woman, she did not gain secular recognition. Perfect marriage or love. The double loss or lack of identity made her a stern, unsmiling piano teacher.
From the various oppressions of her mother on Erica, it can be seen that Erica has already adapted to this kind of life, but she is not willing to be completely at the mercy of her mother, so she provocations to her mother from time to time: buy some fashionable clothes, late go home. Self-harm and voyeurism are hidden provocations, proving that she is unwilling to be the kind of pure nun her mother requires.
Until Kremer appeared.
The film does not focus much on the mother, which is a pity. In fact, Erica's attitude towards men is mainly from her mother's influence. She chose Kramer not because she fell in love with him. On the one hand, it was the vanity of a woman. For the first time in so many years, a man confessed to herself; On the other hand, it is the desire to control, she hopes to transfer the oppression of her mother to another person. Thus, the love with Kremer became a hand-to-hand battle about who controls whom.
Battle one, location: toilet. The heroes and heroines had intimate contact for the first time here. Erica's abnormal sexual psychology is also beginning to show up: she plays with Kramer's penis, but does not allow him to come close to herself, nor does she allow him to ejaculate. The painful Kramer pleaded again and again, even crying down, but Erica was still unmoved, and his heart was as hard as iron. At this time, she seemed to have commanded and controlled a man completely, had the upper hand in the relationship between the sexes, and won a temporary victory.
Battle two, location: home. Kremer's enthusiasm for Erica continues. Erica thinks that she can completely control him, so she invites Kremer to his home and shows him the extremely private letter. Only then did Kremer discover that the female teacher's frostiness was only a superficial phenomenon, she was actually an SM masochist! Although she was a masochistic character, she used persecution to demand that Cremer follow her rules of the game, which greatly damaged Cremer’s self-esteem-it was also at this time that Erica’s The advantage is no longer, she was rejected by Kremer, and she has since been out of the disadvantaged position.
Battle three, location: roller skating rink lounge. Kremer seems to be going to retreat. Erica was unwilling to do so, not knowing whether it was because of inferiority or salvation. She found Kremer and asked to have a relationship with him-from the first stern rejection to the later grievances. Obeyed, she completely gave up her bottom line, and said in a low voice that she would completely obey Kramer's rules. Kremer changed his mind a bit, but it was a pity that Erica vomited during the process-which made Kremer feel fooled and hurt. This battle was even on the surface, but Kramer was actually defeated but still victorious. He went from the wind to the upper hand and grasped absolute control.
Battle four, location: home. Kremer, who was repeatedly teased by Erica, became irritated. He felt that he had been played with by this woman. In revenge, he broke into Elika's house and raped her without using the method required by the letter-in order to prove that he was the only one in control of the situation and won the final victory.
Battle five, ending. Erika suffered a great deal of physical and mental damage. She took a dagger to find Kramer, only to find that Kramer had already returned to his original life, happy and sunny, as if he had never broken into her. life. Erika realized in secret that she was facing a powerful world with an unshakable order. Under this order, she could only become a prey in peace. Otherwise, no matter how hard she tried, she would only be hurt in the end. .
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