, and the echoing starry sky is
still used to wipe away the tears. The
dead are still used to wipe away their tears. Please return to your heaven to
see the ending of Lars von Trieus’ "Out of the Waves". Suddenly remember these. Line of poems. There is a difference between the silence in the poem and the pain in the Laplace movie, but the core is actually the same.
Lagrange's movies are always so shocking. He is used to crushing kindness and beauty a little bit before his eyes, allowing you to experience the carnival of suffering in extreme depression. From his movies, I experienced the spirit of Bacchus Nietzsche talked about, and I also understood why he said that "tragedy can purify the soul."
Like Selma played by Bjork, Beth, played by Emily Watson, also looks abnormal-Las Vegas always let this kind of paranoid person interpret the ultimate story.
——And What's your talent, then, Bess? ——I
can believe.
Yes, she can believe. She often talks to herself, talks to the god in her heart, and even her expression is vivid. This should be the result of long-term mental solitude. She does not believe in the gods of the masses, nor does she believe in her own will. Her belief has only one direction: love.
It is a pity that according to the old habit, anyone who regards love as faith will eventually have a tragic ending. Beth is not immune.
The whole movie is divided into eight paragraphs, and the structure is somewhat similar to "Dogtown". The music at the beginning is very good, and there are those scenes, from the seaside cottage to the winding mountain road, to the flowing water, everything has its meaning.
Indeed, the wedding at the beginning of the movie is reminiscent of "Deer Hunter", and all the initial frenzy in that movie has become a tortured memory for a lifetime. But Beth's wedding was not smooth, even a little flustered. She first accepted the interrogation of the priest and the squires, her expression was so obsessed. Then the bridegroom Jane was late. Beth is angry. She seems to be angry only this time in the whole film. When Jane's helicopter landed, she rushed up. Friends all advised her not to do this, otherwise it would stain the wedding dress. She didn't understand that in Beth's heart, she couldn't accept a flaw in love at this time.
"Beth, you have the broadest mind, and you always give your own things to others." This is the evaluation of Beth by someone who has been helped. On the one hand, this shows that Beth is a good person in normal times, but the most important point is that those things are not important to Beth. She only wants love, so when others are shocked by the sudden marriage, Beth thinks it is the result of her prayers for many years.
The church where they held their wedding did not have a bell, so no one rang the bell of blessing for them. This is a metaphor with ulterior motives, everything is doomed at the beginning.
Later is the life of two people, as happy as ordinary people. When making love, Beth will say "thank you". While sleeping together, Beth had only a sweet smile listening to Jian Rulei's snoring. When watching the film, this kind of smile is stinging. Everyone knows how hateful the snoring in your ears is when you most want to sleep.
Jane is an oil worker and he has to leave home to go to the construction site. However, it was the happy memory that caused Beth to suffer after separation and almost entered a spiritual crisis. Beth called Jane from the phone booth, immersed in the memories of the two people's sex. Beth prayed to the god in her heart, hoping to let Jane go home.
Jane had an accident at the construction site and was paralyzed all over, and was admitted to the hospital in his home town. Time passed, everyone thought that Beth and Jane's love had been tested.
Jane tells Beth that she wants her to have sex with another man, and then tell herself the experience so that she can live. Beth disagreed at first, and later engaged in a fierce ideological struggle. She really thought that Jane would die if she didn't. For Jane, for her love, she agreed to find someone else. So she first found a doctor who liked herself, and after drinking at the doctor's house, she lay naked on the bed. However, the doctor rejected her. Beth wrapped herself in the blanket sobbing.
From Jane's point of view, he did this for Beth's sake, and he didn't understand that this was precisely the most devastating to Beth. Beth began to give up her self-esteem and her original concept for Jane. She did what Jane said, hoping to arouse Jane's desire and improve her condition. Her personality began to split, love and body were completely separated, and she was completely isolated from the secular society. In the end Beth's mother kicked her out of the house.
Later, after being raped by a sailor, Beth, dressed in a prostitute, was chased and humiliated by a group of children. She fainted to the ground. Local decent people came to chase the child away, but they would not give her any help, or friends all came and sent Beth to the hospital. Beth, who was dying, went to visit Jane before the operation, but Jane, who was also dying, still showed no signs of getting better. Beth died in the hospital. Friends all prayed for her in front of Jane's bed, hoping that he could live, and stood up and walked.
The last part is Beth's funeral, full of people's spitting. And Jane actually survived and stood up and walked. In the night, he stole Beth's body, and he couldn't let Beth sleep in this humiliating land. Lagrange, who has always been somber and gloomy, used a romantic ending here. When Beth's body was sunk into the sea, the screen was dark. Then came the bells remembering.
In the blue sky and white sun, the film's perspective has completely turned into a bird's-eye view, which is the bell from heaven. As everyone said to Jane: "She is sacrificing for you, she doesn't care about herself anymore." Beth's love can only be sounded with her own life.
This ending dilutes the tragic atmosphere of the movie and becomes emotionally acceptable. In fact, how could Jane stand up? Even if you regard love as faith and give everything for it, who can guarantee that your dream will come true? The human heart is unpredictable, let alone the heart of God.
"Out of the Waves" also contains Las Vegas' torture of conscience. Just like the children in "Dogtown", the children in this movie are so shameless, and the oppression of the weak makes people shudder. And like Selma's friend Linda in "Dancer in the Dark", Beth also has friends. Lagrange’s protagonist is often a woman, and men are so weak in it, and only women can shine with the power of compassion in times of crisis.
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