In my opinion, as one of the most powerful carriers of rich information, movies will have a certain impact once they are released, regardless of the final box office. Therefore, even in contrast to the harsh limitations of journalism as a public (official) medium, films should not be so loose and casual that they exist only for pleasure.
Blind, Norwegian film, Chinese translation "blind", about a blind woman and her fantasy world. The camera lens has the inherent coldness and restraint of Nordic movies, the tone has always been dim, and the editing seems to be so detached, it is even difficult to capture the director's warmth.
Such a movie that should have fallen into the inherent female paranoia template, the screenwriter has filled the flesh and blood, depicting a world of lust and loneliness. The blind girl used to be a teacher with perfect vision. After she became blind, she was afraid to go out, but the dark world has sensitive all her senses. Outside the fantasy world, she scratched her head and gestured at her husband who didn't exist in the air, and even took off her clothes and stood in front of the window, morbidly craving attention.
In her fantasy world, she has a low self-esteem for her own disability, anxiety about marital relations, and lust for lust, and she has created various strange characters: single mothers looking for sex friends in online chat rooms, voyeurs with anxiety disorders Crazy went to the cinema alone to watch sci-fi movies, there were still mountains of pornographic movies on the computer, and the "fantasy version" of her husband was a matter of course. The relationships of these characters are intertwined and influenced by each other, and the development is so wonderful that the blind girl is deeply involved in it, and she can hardly distinguish between the real and the fake, and the dream is in the dream.
These characters in the fantasy world are actually the reflection of the blind woman's inner panic. Her thirst for attention could not be released, and the repression was almost sick, but on the surface she had to pretend to be serene and peaceful, as if everything was fine. And the voyeur in her fantasy even learns to wear a bandage on her head to pretend to be injured in front of a TV show, so as to obtain the comfort and attention of pedestrians while walking on the road, or even just a hug from a stranger.
The blind woman's urgent need for love and attention from others, as well as her lingering sense of loneliness, all make her bizarre fantasy realm of extraordinary rationality. Human sensitivities and concerns from modern society are perfectly magnified by the director through extreme examples.
Never before has a film made me feel so strongly that human beings are forever accompanied by lust and loneliness.
In Wang Xiaobo's golden age, lust and loneliness came from the times and the limitations of time and space. In modern society, who is really needed by whom? And who really pays earnest attention? Perhaps, rural stories, celebrity trivia, and fashion trends are more needed by people. No one cares about the loneliness and cries of others. Even if you are surrounded by people, in the fantasy world, you and I are still the voyeur who pretends to have a head injury but just needs a hug.
In this vast universe, everyone is a lonely planet. Spinning on its own, eternal loneliness.
Although the end of eternal loneliness feels overwhelming! But I still have to talk about another movie. It was born in 2014, and also the theme of "Tuina" with blind people. The director is Lou Ye, who seems to always have erotic scenes in the movie. There are no directors who have not lifted the ban... Among the
sixth generation directors, Guan Hu ("The Cook and the Showman") rushed to the road of commercial films, and he and Jia Zhangke were the only ones left to depend on each other in the literary and art circles, focusing on life and the people at the bottom for many years.
Lou Ye's films are always about love, caring for little people, keen understanding of society, and peaceful and profound human touch. The same is true of the new movie "Tuina", universal love, simple, entangled, ordinary but intense - who said blind people can't have sincere love? Whether seen or unseen, love itself cannot be mistaken.
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