really a funny and cliche story.
A woman who is constantly exploring in terms of sex uses a tree with a crooked neck to describe herself, unconventionally throwing away the "women" and "shame" of social rules, but every time she meets her first love, she feels uneasy ripples in her heart. ——Is this really a story related to "female resistance"?
not necessarily. I think Lars von Trier himself didn’t think about it clearly. Otherwise, why does the old bookworm Seligman jump when a sad story of "Milfies, Lovers Empathize" comes to life. Come out to praise the chants of female resistance, the heroine Joe responds immediately, comparing himself with the independent crooked neck tree on the top of the mountain, and the desire to compare with the secular test-this is the most panic and anxious part of the whole movie, seeing the painstaking loneliness. Two or three years, a four-hour movie that was filmed, cut and cut to become a major movie, how can the former Dogma95 core film endure such "humiliation"? ! Not profound? ! Can not! ! ! Therefore, Russ ordered the two heroes and heroines throughout the period to take turns to come up with questions: We are talking about the resistance of women's rights! ! We lash out precepts and stereotypes through gender-based moral prejudice! !
But today's literary and artistic youths have read more films than the director imagined, so they are not stupid. The beginning of this flashback story begins with the jealousy of the unknown love and ends with the jealousy of the obvious love.
Whether you admit it or not, this is a cliche love story, and in the pursuit of freedom, the heroine loses, and the younger "baby bird" is the winner. Thinking about it, it's a bit of Qiong Yao's little sadness.
(The following involves spoilers, please cover your eyes if you haven't read it)
The story begins in a poor alley, where the heroine JOE is lying and injured. Our lonely old bookworm Seligman saw her and took her home. So, Joe and Seligman started a 4-hour chat. She started from her 12-year-old sexual experience: the first experience of the thrill of "frogs in the water", the first time, the game of hunting on the train, seven or eight times a night , The embarrassing story with the African brothers, SM, the love with the girl-in a variety of experiences, a man Jerome appeared repeatedly, this man gave her the first time, let her give birth to her first child, also Let her be the first mother who could not see her child, and finally, expelled her to the wasteland of love. (I really should sing here: ah~~ what a painful comprehension...)
This is simply a sad 21st century version of the "La Traviata" story, but someone must ask: What about so many sexual searches in that film manage? What about the ash tree that appears repeatedly as an intention? What about the "resistance to secular morality" that has been repeatedly asked?
It seems that they all serve such a sad love story.
In the movie, the word "fill my hole" appears many times-all emptiness is for fulfillment. For Joe, she needs sex to fill the emptiness and find solace, just like Seligman needs books and knowledge. Filling in the emptiness is the same as solace. But the comfort of various sexes disappeared one after another, and a sense of emptiness followed one after another. Only Jerome was always a symbol. This symbol, even if it was just a house number, made Joe shocked and at a loss. The secret of sex is love. Lars von Trier is afraid that we will not understand it, so he mentions it repeatedly.
Father often took Joe to see the ash tree, "all trees laugh at it". At this time, Joe is already sexually conscious. The ash tree and sex have become the two most important things in Joe’s original vitality in his childhood, and it will be more than 40 years in the future. Li (it is said that Joe is set to be 50 years old in the movie) has become the two main themes of her life-using sexual power and action to achieve the purpose of resistance. It's a pity that she failed. In her teens, Joe and her friend B set up a sex club. In a confession, B admitted that she was in love with Alex. Joe thought she had violated the common precepts and left in anger and went it alone. . She said: "Love is nothing more than sexual desire plus a little jealousy." In the following years, in repeated encounters with Jerome, she personally blended sexual desire and jealousy.
"Resistance to secular morality" finally became an excuse for "not to love" or "to love but not knowing how to get it".
Lars von Trier is very interesting, he will not let Joe say even the slightest serious love to Jerome (the only time the two talked about love was questioning).
I think he is full of pessimism about love. It was like that in a dim midnight: he and her had been entangled for decades, and she took out the pistol, ka ka ka, not loaded. He was stunned. Then he knocked her over on the clammy ground, and made her nose and face swollen. She gave him her virginity decades ago, and they lived together again more than ten years ago, and then they had children. All this has become an old fist without mercy and humiliating sex in the face.
From the root cause, although Lars's recent three works are all singing and destroying and resisting, in fact, what really hurts the people in the story is what they want to destroy.
This is his entanglement and anxiety, but also his sensitive and interesting place.
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