Breaking the waves

Keven 2022-01-02 08:01:35

Written before learning more about Emily Watson.
After only reading part of the plot of this film, I thought that it should be a work with deep pens. Then I saw the face of the heroine Beth and determined that it was worth two and a half hours to see. "She is Lonely Than Fireworks" is the only Emily Watson movie I have ever seen. Her lack of outstanding appearance made me spend a considerable amount of time adapting to the fact that "she is the heroine". (Okay, I admit that I am a "shameful" guy belonging to the Appearance Association. However, I really like this actress.)
Beth appeared in front of the camera in a wedding dress. Marry Jan. He and her took a wedding break and stood in the bathroom to complete the first marriage. There was blood falling on Beth's white wedding dress. Yes, not romantic enough. But it's like a game played by two kids. It doesn't matter if you are close to each other, it doesn't matter if everyone applauds or cheers, just two people like it.
For Jan, there is no strong affection or dislike from beginning to end (except that he really thinks that this man is a little fat, but a film with such a heavy literary temperament was originally not intended to please superficial boys and girls, so fat is not regarded as an evaluation man. A ruler of the protagonist is out). I like to watch the scene of the two of them together. Whether it's sweet whispers or pure sex, it's all based on the respect for Emily. Said it is admiration, this word is a bit too formal and official, but I haven't thought that another word can be substituted, so I will use it to fill the seat first. Probably this kind of emotion: I totally admire her performance. If she is what she looks like in the movie, the brilliant smile that absorbs all the sunshine and the cursed pain and hysteria, then I love her with a whole heart.
Beth is the daughter of a god who is too pious, at least she herself is convinced. She will share all her sorrows and joys with her "father". She is grateful to the "father" for giving her such a perfect husband and full of love (there are no utilitarian indicators in her heart, so it is easy to get "perfect" happiness); Jan must leave home to work, Bei Silk kept praying to the "father", asking him to come back soon, so that after Jan's accident, Beth decided that her selfish and willful nature harmed Jan; when her life was completely chaotic, she came to the invisible "father" She said: "Dear father, what's going on?" But there was no response. She was like a greatly wronged child, but sobbed restrained and squeezed out in panic: "Father, where are you?"
When she died, Jan stole her body and carried out a sea treasury for her with her friends. Probably because after the church people tried Beth, Beth would go to hell. How did Jan willing to go to hell. On the second day of the sea burial, a bell appeared in the sky, which was the sacred sound that had been missing from the church they used to visit.
Until now I haven't figured out whether Jan made her make love to another man for herself or for Beth. Because this is a rather complicated psychological process. What is sure is that they only love each other from start to finish, and two clean people do what others see indecent with clean ideas. In fact, it is simply summed up, it's just the intercourse of a young couple, and the difference is through the bodies of other men. Just borrowed other media. I think at the beginning, Jan was distressed that his little wife could no longer have sex with herself, and was worried that she would be lonely and intolerable (I hate the term lonely and intolerable, it has the dusty atmosphere, but it does mean this). And he also hopes to tell himself in this way that he still exists in this world. Without love, there is no proof of survival. The key to the tragedy is that Jan didn't tell Beth that there should be a correct way to find a man who really loves her. But he didn't do it. He was a patient who was paralyzed with his eyes full of potion. How could he use theory to guide Beth in practice? So after the silly girl Beth failed to appeal to the doctor Richardson, she began to look for men: on the bus she sexually harassed a man who was close to old age; dressed in a leopard print pretending to be a prostitute mixed with the man; finally encountered a sexual sadomasochism , Died of SM. Richardson belonged to Beth, a gentleman from beginning to end, but in another sense, he and Jan pushed Beth into a state of mental breakdown and spurned by the world. And I like the development of this story. If he accepts Beth and Beth finally likes him, then the pure relationship between Beth and Jan will face disintegration, and there is no difference between the real extramarital affairs in the world, and the story will lose the need for narration.
The beauty of this movie lies in its destructiveness. Destroy the simplest Beth into a slut. The fascinating thing is that Beth always thinks she just loves Jan. He was dying and firmly believed that Jan would get better because he had sex with a man, and completely ignored the pain because of this joy. She died of these injuries.
In the end, Jan slowly recovered and could use a cane to direct his friends to send Beth's body into the sea. Originally, I was very angry about this ending. Because I insisted that Jan must die. Beth made a heavy sacrifice, but he did not respond to Beth's sacrifice with death. At this point, I suddenly thought that using JAN's improvement to show the significance of Beth's sacrifice is also a good way of romanticism. Because JAN is not dead, it is a miracle, and Beth made the miracle happen. Well, we all pretend to believe this.
The Chinese translation of the name is out of the waves. I have a little bit of criticism here (sorry, the meaning overlaps, but it doesn't matter). Breaking the waves is closer to praising men's perseverance and finally winning, and the backbone of this film rests on Beth, so the word seems too male and soft. I prefer it to be called "die death". When the butterfly dies, its body will gradually shrink and lose its original brightness. But at least, she has always been beautiful. In addition to the word "death", when chanting death, the upper teeth touch the lower teeth, and the increase in strength is continued over time, and the whole person becomes hysterical.





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Breaking the Waves quotes

  • [first lines]

    Bess McNeill: His name is Jan.

    The Minister: I do not know him.

    Bess McNeill: [coyly] He's from the lake.

    The Minister: You know we do not favor matrimony with outsiders.

    An Elder: Can you even tell us what matrimony is?

    Bess McNeill: It's when two people are joined in God.

  • Jan Nyman: Love is a mighty power, isn't it?