宗教 - breaking the waves
been watching a couple of movies, jot them down before i forget them. they are not easily forgotten though.
BREAKING THE WAVES
a very heartbreaking story about love. never seen movies about the triumph of love that turned out to be so devastating. Bess, a simple girl in North Scotland, married an outsider of her village, Jan, who works for an oilrig.
This village is governed by the tight fist elderly, a representation of the conservative christianity who're cruel and dogmatic. Bess found her simpliest and purest form of love and joy with Jan, which she enjoys as much from having sex with him and sleeping in his snooring arms.
an accident in the oilrig paralysed Jan, and he wish Bess to find a lover outside and have sex with him, and then tell Jan about it. Sound like redicule, but to simple Bess's mind, she will do anything for him to make him better, so against the religious virtuals, she started dressing like a whore and hooking on other men in town.
THE MOVIE IS INTO 9 EPISODES, A PROLOGUE, 7 EPISODES, AND AN EPILOGUE. this is an interesting intention, though i can't figure out why he decided that, except to disect the movie and dilute the emotions. the story is actually straightforward and interconnected.
SIMILARITY IN CHARACTER. Bess in the movie, has a strange resemblence, to me, with Selma 'DANCER IN THE DARK', pure, simple characters, almost naive, has a sort of double 'split personality', with God and with Musical, and suffers from being 'good'. the devastating trajectory of their lives, vividly and progressively spectated, drives the audiences into a psychological struggle of pity and hatred, one the one hand paranoid of how 'stubborn and stupid' the characters could be, that lead to their end; on the other hand symphathizing and pity on their purity of viewing life, and how we all desire to be as 'clean'. Bess, her last line, 'maybe this is all wrong, afterall' intend to break through all her devotion to the love of Jan, but this tolerance, satrifice and unfaltered faith towards loving a person is so powerful that it overwhelmed the stiffened ceremonial christianity, and their origin of equality and love. The irony is that, the elderly, at Bess's 'funeral', condemed her to hell.
DOGMA '95. the entire movie is made with handheld camera, but into video and recorded back into film. this gives the movie an intimacy that pulls the audiences into the lives of the chracters, at the same time presenting the movie in the likeness of a documentary, probably stressing the vividness and universality of the storyline. the use of avaliable lighting, no extra prop gives the movie a real life protrial, which made the story convincing, without any melodramatic twist and very real. this elevated the representation of storylines, and aided the emotional nausea that is aimed at the audience.
MORAL JUDGEMENT. from DOGVILLE, one could easily experience the painstaking stabs the director has provided targeting the existentiality and morality of human being, from the long conversation between Grace and her father. In this movie, there's also a judgement pressed on the dead heroine, which the court has queried with the doctor,
'so, in your medical opinion, the deceased was suffering from being good. And perhaps that's the psychological defect that led to her death?'
this tells how volnerable and difficult one could be 'good', which is seemingly seen as a 'psychological defect'. this is a matephor, perhaps, a reflection of devotional love, sacrificial love.
a 'simple love story' could actually include so much discussion. please don't say that love is a chliche.
BREAKING THE WAVES
a very heartbreaking story about love. never seen movies about the triumph of love that turned out to be so devastating. Bess, a simple girl in North Scotland, married an outsider of her village, Jan, who works for an oilrig.
This village is governed by the tight fist elderly, a representation of the conservative christianity who're cruel and dogmatic. Bess found her simpliest and purest form of love and joy with Jan, which she enjoys as much from having sex with him and sleeping in his snooring arms.
an accident in the oilrig paralysed Jan, and he wish Bess to find a lover outside and have sex with him, and then tell Jan about it. Sound like redicule, but to simple Bess's mind, she will do anything for him to make him better, so against the religious virtuals, she started dressing like a whore and hooking on other men in town.
THE MOVIE IS INTO 9 EPISODES, A PROLOGUE, 7 EPISODES, AND AN EPILOGUE. this is an interesting intention, though i can't figure out why he decided that, except to disect the movie and dilute the emotions. the story is actually straightforward and interconnected.
SIMILARITY IN CHARACTER. Bess in the movie, has a strange resemblence, to me, with Selma 'DANCER IN THE DARK', pure, simple characters, almost naive, has a sort of double 'split personality', with God and with Musical, and suffers from being 'good'. the devastating trajectory of their lives, vividly and progressively spectated, drives the audiences into a psychological struggle of pity and hatred, one the one hand paranoid of how 'stubborn and stupid' the characters could be, that lead to their end; on the other hand symphathizing and pity on their purity of viewing life, and how we all desire to be as 'clean'. Bess, her last line, 'maybe this is all wrong, afterall' intend to break through all her devotion to the love of Jan, but this tolerance, satrifice and unfaltered faith towards loving a person is so powerful that it overwhelmed the stiffened ceremonial christianity, and their origin of equality and love. The irony is that, the elderly, at Bess's 'funeral', condemed her to hell.
DOGMA '95. the entire movie is made with handheld camera, but into video and recorded back into film. this gives the movie an intimacy that pulls the audiences into the lives of the chracters, at the same time presenting the movie in the likeness of a documentary, probably stressing the vividness and universality of the storyline. the use of avaliable lighting, no extra prop gives the movie a real life protrial, which made the story convincing, without any melodramatic twist and very real. this elevated the representation of storylines, and aided the emotional nausea that is aimed at the audience.
MORAL JUDGEMENT. from DOGVILLE, one could easily experience the painstaking stabs the director has provided targeting the existentiality and morality of human being, from the long conversation between Grace and her father. In this movie, there's also a judgement pressed on the dead heroine, which the court has queried with the doctor,
'so, in your medical opinion, the deceased was suffering from being good. And perhaps that's the psychological defect that led to her death?'
this tells how volnerable and difficult one could be 'good', which is seemingly seen as a 'psychological defect'. this is a matephor, perhaps, a reflection of devotional love, sacrificial love.
a 'simple love story' could actually include so much discussion. please don't say that love is a chliche.
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