"the world to come" is more like talking about the afterlife! tears
Let me go to "Portrait of a Burning Woman" and review it warmly! Cry while watching!
Abigail and Tully were also part of this half-dream.
Come on, let's go to jail like birds singing in their cages. "Abigail thinks that even in a cage, she can still sing. But Tully is different, she can't make a sound in the cage. So, she fled to Abigail, from the asphyxiation. She escaped from the iron cage woven by life. She tried to escape from her husband's control, escape from the so-called confinement of women's morality, and finally became a martyr.
Her two different attitudes determine that this kind of love is mutual appreciation in a specific environment, but it is not soul resonance.
The most prominent feature of "Open Heart World" is the diary-style narrative inherited from the original work. There are obvious risks in this approach. On the one hand, the large amount of narration quoted from the novel overwhelms the emotional expression of the image itself. The perspective also caused a sudden break in the film's narrative perspective.
But despite this, the diary style is still a necessary form that "Opening the Heart World" has to adopt, supporting a profound thematic expression that touches the fate of women. As Abigail said, "ink is like fire", in recording and writing, the existence of women, their struggles, emotions and desires can be seen and preserved.
Various forms of documentation appear in the film, one very interesting one being an atlas showing escape routes. The map of Upstate New York that appears with the title at the beginning of the movie has fully demonstrated the importance of the image of the atlas, and in the following story, the atlas acts as a marker to divide the scenes, which is also a thoughtful gift from Tully. The gift also guides Abigail to embark on a dangerous journey to find a lover and complete a spiritual escape.
Open Hearts enriches the stereotypes of women that have long existed in male literature through the female gaze. Through a lot of writing on female characters, the film profoundly discusses the positioning of women in the non-modern patriarchal society. In this social environment, women must follow in the footsteps of their husbands and devote themselves to the family. They have to sacrifice self and freedom in exchange for family harmony, and serve as unrecognized helpers to help their husbands achieve life goals. In the eyes of their husbands, they should not have their own preferences, thinking, sovereignty, and independent personalities. Nor can they refuse their husband's sexual needs. From the perspective of traditional Orthodox men represented by Finney, the husband has the absolute right to dominate the wife's body, and the wife's rejection of her husband's sexual needs will be regarded as "infidelity". Under the double pressure of physical violence and religious ideological oppression, the wife's self-confidence will be quickly destroyed, so that she can truly submit to her husband wholeheartedly.
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