Blindsight is an experimental film that explores the world of the blind. In order to better imitate the blind world, the editing in the film is endowed with human consciousness, which is the thinking flow of the heroine Ingrid and the figuration of her inner world. She recreates everything in her pre-blind memory through her imagination, suggesting the source of her unease.
At the beginning of the film, Ingrid is using her imagination to recall the scene before she lost her sight, trees, cucumbers, dogs, apartments, restaurants, offices, shopping malls. Use your imagination to the fullest, it's just that sometimes it's not so real.
Back to reality, after her husband went out, Ingrid started to make tea for herself as always, and she became careful to do anything that seemed simple when she couldn't see anything, and even this would always hurt herself. Ingrid was alone in a clean, almost white and transparent room. There was nothing in the room, it was empty. When Ingrid sat alone facing the window sill, she seemed more lonely and lonely. On the contrary, the outside world became noisy.
Ingrid seemed to hear her husband quietly come back to peek at her. After confirming it, I knew that it was just my fantasy. Ingrid turned on the radio and sat by the window all day.
Accompanied by inferiority complex about her own disability, anxiety about marriage relationship, and hidden desire for eroticism, Ingrid took her imagination to the extreme and imagined all kinds of strange characters:
A voyeuristic Einar, full of sexual fantasies, he resembles a mirror of Ingrid's own primordial sexual desires.
One is Irene, who bears Ingrid's inferiority complex and suspicion. She carries Ingrid's life experience and is vulnerable and uneasy. Einar has been spying on Erin, stalking her in the supermarket, fantasizing about accosting her, when in fact he doesn't dare, he has severe anxiety.
The third is to express his unease about marriage, the fantasy husband, who has always put online dating in mind.
Ingrid's world of stream of consciousness is so strong that it is not bound by any time and space, and can be constructed and transformed at will, without interruption, like a cloud of flowing water. The image changes here just reflect the transformation of Ingrid's thoughts. There is no logic, switch at any time, block.
The husband did not leave him because of sympathy, and at the same time, he was looking for an online lover, Irene, behind his back, all kinds of teasing. Thinking of her husband taking the initiative to ask to meet offline, I began to feel a little uncomfortable. Ingrid blinked and turned Irene into a blind woman like herself. From here on, Irene has become another self, dealing with things that she doesn't want to face.
They are all in Ingrid's fantasy space, and their every move changes with Ingrid's physical and psychological changes. When Ingrid is sleepy, everyone in this space is sleepy, no matter what she is doing at the moment. This is also the image simulation of the world of blind people's mind, which is vivid and somewhat cute.
Ingrid's mind isn't always so clear, and she sometimes forgets the personas she's created. For example, Erin and her husband are dating at a restaurant, and Ingrid doesn't remember that Erin is blind in the first place.
It wasn't until the child's question that Ingrid's mood fluctuated that she thought of restoring Irene's identity as a blind girl. Ingrid was in a very bad mood, drinking to drown her sorrows. Irene's status as a blind woman brought her a lot of inconvenience and embarrassment. I don't know if there is any sign of revenge on her husband - turning his lover into a copy of his wife. Ingrid's thoughts are often interrupted, and when she encounters something she can't understand, she will stop, drink and pace. After solving a problem, Ingrid also has a sense of humor.
When night fell, Ingrid was sleepy, and Irene, who was having sex, was sleepy immediately.
After Irene became blind, Einar dared to approach him, which also stems from the fact that Ingrid's fictional characters are somewhat inferior.
The husband invited Ingrid to the party, but Ingrid declined.
After her husband left, Ingrid imagined that Irene was pregnant. When Irene wanted to tell her husband the news on the bus, the husband deliberately shied away and told Irene not to pester herself. Irene was pregnant but was about to be abandoned. She wanted to scold her again, but she was tangled in her heart, but she gave up.
In the evening, Erin showed up at the party wearing out-of-season clothes and heavy makeup. Erin soiled her dress at a party and found out her husband didn't take her to heart at all. In this way, Irene was confronting her husband, and it was also Ingrid who was confronting her husband.
husband accuses
Why do you write your characters so tragically and write me so promiscuous and unconscionable. Look at your current state, too pessimistic, you can't go on like this.
Ingrid woke up, faced up to her original appearance, reconciled with herself, no longer suppressed her desires, and liberated the characters in the fantasy space at the same time, Irene treated Einar kindly.
The real Ingrid finally accepted the fact that she was pregnant and told her husband, her husband's smile dispelled all Ingrid's doubts.
Love makes us recognize ourselves, accept ourselves, and no longer be alone . That's what this movie is about.
Some people say that "Blindsight" is a literary film with a Nordic temperament. The director visualizes the world of the blind without losing the sense of beauty, and focuses on restoring the world of the blind with stream-of-consciousness editing. It relies on similar situations, character dynamic editing points, and the character's subjective flow of consciousness to edit.
To a large extent, the film weakens the plot of the story, but through delicate images, it explores people's hearts and internal exploration, showing the meaning of people's mind, thinking or life. For example, fantasy, which is intertwined with reality and reality, can enter Ingrid's life anytime, anywhere, without logic, and changes with the change of Ingrid's subjective thoughts. Ingrid blinked, and Irene was suddenly blinded and unable to see. Ingrid felt sleepy, Irene fell asleep even while having sex, and Einar yawned. Ingrid feels her inner world through her characters, and contacts the world through them.
These characters with strong subjective colors project different aspects of Ingrid, one represents lust, indulged in pornography, unable to extricate herself; Added to Erin. The same is that they are all lonely, they all want to break through themselves, get rid of this emptiness, and find a normal life. The third represents her anxiety about marriage, and Ingrid imagined another way of her husband. Project your unease about marriage on your husband. The husband cheated, and in the fantasy world, he would still abandon his lover who is also a blind woman again.
At the same time, Ingrid tries to keep her fantasy characters in an uneasy and embarrassing situation all the time, which is the embodiment of Ingrid 's extreme insecurity and vulnerability .
In the end, Ingrid reconciled with herself, and the characters in the fantasy space also have a good home. Irene is no longer helpless, she has a new life and a new beginning.
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