In 2001, Michael Haneke adapted it into a movie of the same name, which won numerous awards, and quickly made it to the hard disk hot list, becoming a must-have product for male animals on seven continents and four oceans.
It is a pity that as an A-film, it is too willful, hot and cold, does not take care of the feelings of the busy hands in front of the screen at all, and loses the chain at critical moments. For example, when the protagonist and the protagonist are passionate, they don't make persistent efforts to achieve good results, but they collapsed in the middle of the business before half of their business, and rolled to the side and vomited. For another example, the hostess sitting by the bathtub, spreading her legs, did not take a good little action of comforting herself and comforting the audience, but cut her lower body with a blade, and the blood was brushed. I see this? Negative Ratings!
There are many similar erotic scenes in the movie, but as everyone knows, I am a serious person, so I still button up my clothes and go back to the movie to talk about the trivial meaning behind the body.
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Jelinek said: My literature is the literature of angry resistance.
In "The Piano Teacher", Jelinek is as angry as ever. She is almost vicious, using ruthless narratives and powerful details to push readers into a survival gap, forcing us to examine the surly and crazy people among them. , Complete the liquidation of the love of slavery.
What would we become if our parents imprisoned space, economy, and spirit in the name of love?
Erica's tragedy is the answer.
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At the beginning of the movie, it was a closing action.
Erica returned home and locked the door behind him. The outside light ends here. She entered the dark room and faced her mother's long-prepared questioning, taunting, and body search.
This initial action is a hint.
A self-claustrophobic space.
Two claustrophobic people.
Erica and her mother stand in the center of the camera like a pair of pathological symbiosis, disgusting and relying on each other.
Erica is nearly 40 years old, freckled, and wrapped in a cool old-fashioned trench coat all year round. My mother is in her sixties, with narrow eyes, her mouth pursed, and her eyebrows raised. She always keeps fresh in a posture that she loves to play.
Father is absent. We have no way of knowing whether he died or left. All in all, in the blank space for men, the mother gradually alienates, speaks for the patriarchy, and becomes “a figure who is recognized as the interrogator of the century heresy court and the person who ordered the execution in the national life and family life.”
She sets order, issues laws, controls finances, and controls all of her daughter's life. Under the strong pressure of her mother, Erica became an oddball. She was ugly and cold, awe-inspiring, her hair pulled up tightly, and she harvested an old-fashioned bun with a strong sense of security behind her head. No friends, no love, no sex, no economic freedom, like a properly manipulated machine, operating in a strict procedure set by the mother.
But behind this spotless mask, there is a self-harm, voyeurism, stalker, porn lover, masochist, schizophrenic pervert.
She closed the bathroom door, sat by the bathtub, and scratched private parts with a blade.
She buys vulgar books and DVDs.
She was in the toilet of a pornographic video store, “picking up a piece of facial tissue that was soaked with semen and becoming hardened from the ground, and put it on her nose. She inhaled deeply, inhaled, watching, killing some life time.”
She was in the car theater, peeping at the lover's car shock.
After being ridiculed by her mother, she pressed her body.
...
Wild lilies also have spring. Here comes Walter Kremer, a young, strong, and full-blown boy. The point is that he loves her. Seeing this, we couldn’t help but want to be happy for Erica, ah, we finally waited for you. Fortunately, I didn’t give up. Happiness came so hard...
But, we didn’t expect that Erica was in 40 years In sexual repression, the ability to love has been lost. Not only can she not enjoy the pleasure of sex, but she also replicates the way she treats her own desires on the suitor.
She had experienced an undesirable hunger, so she let him taste the same hunger and thirst.
She hurt herself, so she hurt him too.
She had peeped at other people's intercourse, so she pushed open the toilet door to satisfy other people's possible peeping.
A sexual struggle between conquest and anti-conquest, control and anti-control has begun. She tried to control the overall situation, when to do it, how to do it, and how to do it. It is a pity that Kramer did not obey. Out of male instinct, he has been anti-conquer and anti-control, wanting to be the master of her emotions and body.
He refused her SM request and said, Erica, you are sick... you make me sick. Kremer's refusal and departure made Erica crazy, and his dominance and superiority disappeared. But out of instinctive self-salvation, she did not want to give up this love and pursue him in turn.
Erica found Kremer on the court, lying on the floor in the dressing room, and said, come, take me. She is willing to surrender, to cater to him, to obey him, and to commit herself to him in the manner of being a male superior or female.
But when the passion was raging, she spit out a piece of rare object. This is a hint of despair, and it makes Erica realize that she has lost her sexual ability under the long-term self-harm.
In the end, Kremer beat and raped Erica outside his mother's door in order to get rid of his sense of control. With the help of male symbols-violence and sex, fist and penis, he completed this ritual-like event and achieved the conquest of her.
This is the end of two people.
But Erica's life continues.
When I saw Kremer goodbye, he was smiling and relaxed. As if nothing happened. After he ran away, she knew that everything was irreversible. She took a dagger from her bag, "twisted her neck vigorously to one side, showing her teeth like a sick horse. No one guarded her, no one took anything from her. She looked back weakly from her shoulders. Go. The knife should have pierced her heart and turned there! The remaining part of the strength necessary for this is not enough. Her eyes did not fall anywhere, and Erica was not angry, and pierced her shoulder without excitement. In one place, let blood spurt out immediately. This wound does not hurt people, but dirt and pus cannot get in. The world is unscathed and does not stop. "The
world is unscathed and does not stop.
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Jelinek has always been obsessed with writing about sex and violence. Like the evil instinct, like the violent nature. The sense of attack is very strong. The film did not destroy this texture. Repressive images, extreme details, abnormal behaviors, and morbid emotions are all challenging people's bottom line.
Some people say that "Piano Teacher" directly watched him climax.
It was also said that "Piano Teacher" took her up. It's not rhetoric, it's a real physiological response. Her stomach churned, she left the computer and rushed into the bathroom. Then, crying while vomiting.
This is a fierce, crazy, and twisted tragedy.
At the source of the tragedy, Erica's mother was sitting upright. An octopus-like hand flew up and down, pushing the sick Erica in front of us.
Erica was trapped for half her life, but she didn't have the courage to rebel, because she loved her.
Just as the controlled will fall in love with the person who makes the rules, the weak-willed will fall in love with the loudly voiced person, and the victim will fall in love with the avatar of violence. After the failure of the rebellion, Erica made herself fall in love with her mother out of self-protection and self-deception. This is a reverse-formed psychological defense mechanism. When we are unable to digest pain, we subconsciously transform our emotions and fall in love with each other in order to forget the harm. This is also the reason for the spread of Stockholm syndrome.
She leaped over and kissed her mother with tears in her eyes.
Under the old woman's iron-handed methods and gentle policy, Erica's 40-year destiny has been heavily blocked: space, time, money, lust, and spirit.
Not being free is the root of Erica's tragedy.
5. Space is not free. At
40 years old, she still lives with her mother and shares a double bed. The only thing out of my mother's sight is the bathroom, but if it takes longer, my mother will howl. When Erica was talking with someone in the room, her mother was under the cover of the TV sound and posted on the door to eavesdrop. Then, after hearing the content, she mocked Erica.
For totalitarianism to occur, first of all there must be a closed space. The crowd stayed inside, unable to come and go freely, and it was easy to rule and rule.
The movie "Dog Tooth" also depicts a perverted family. This family, like the House of Erica, fits all the interpretations of totalitarianism. From childhood to adulthood, the three children lived in a deep house, never left the towering, closed wall, and regarded the world outside the wall as an extremely dangerous existence. In that enclosed space, the father ruled everything smoothly.
The same is true for Erica’s mother. She monitors all the spaces in Erica, spies on her, and examines her, trying to use moral rules and deprivation of private space to make her daughter a ladder of desirelessness and lead her. Enter the upper class society.
However, people always have some secrets that need to be faced, digested or dealt with on their own. Even if not, there is a need to be alone. If not, all personal problems will be backlogged and become subconscious, which will be vented in an abnormal way in future life.
6. Time is not free
In addition to space control, Erica's time is also not free.
After returning home for half an hour, the mother would stand at home with a stopwatch in her hand, ready to interrogate, preach, search, and beat her.
Participating in the crowded concert, the mother will accompany the whole process.
If you didn't go home on time, there must be a call to check the post to the school.
You must spend the weekend with your mother.
Space and time are occupied, no different from prisoners under custody. Erica is also a prisoner. The walls of the prison are the mother's order: you must do something at a certain time, and see someone at a certain time.
I remember that for a certain period of time in a certain country, the time of the people was publicly owned. Work at five o'clock and finish work at six. The order is neat and there is no elasticity. No one has no private time to use. Once there is, it is a crime.
In this small dictatorship, as the mother of the monarch, she also arbitrarily deprived Erica of her personal time in order to achieve her family dictatorship.
A person is a period of time. Time is firmly controlled, where does freedom start? She could not pursue what she loved, could not make friends, could not participate in activities, could not expand the scope of life, could not appreciate everything broader. Only claustrophobic, depreciating the inherent instincts, become spiritual eunuchs.
7. The economy is not free.
I think if Erica is rich, she should not be so absurd and sad.
Because money is more exciting possibilities.
With the summoning and guarantee of money, her rebellion will be more confident and powerful. Then, this state of slavery can be more or less loosened.
The big deal, the old lady flashed people with a suitcase of money. There are no mothers left here, but there are places to leave mothers. Can you still be forced to death?
Unfortunately, from the beginning of the movie, we knew that Erica was economically unfree. Even shopping for a skirt would arouse her mother's anger. Even, tore it up.
The checkbook is public, and my mother can check it at any time to calculate Erica's money. When you encounter a slightly higher consumption, you will get furious. Under this kind of restraint, Erica has no cosmetics or high heels, and wears the gray, white and black like a funeral all year round, swaying like a shadow.
This family totalitarian ruler, by controlling economic power, constantly ignores and bullies Erica's personality, repeating the pattern of patriarchal ravages against women.
Furthermore, the family itself is also embarrassed. In the novel, we can see that the house is rented. They bought a piece of land and are preparing to build a house. Money has become a top priority. Erica is the only source of income for the family. In order to buy a house and live, Erica passively and at the same time actively suppresses material desires and gives up the wonderful visits. In the embarrassing life, he becomes a moldy old frog, watching the wellhead slowly distorted.
8. Sex is not free.
She has always worried that sex and love will take away her daughter and cause her to lose the only asset in the family.
In order to avoid these possibilities, during childhood, her mother used temptation and coercion to make Erica give up beauty in order to alienate men.
She prevented Erica from contacting the men, "pounced in front of every man, so that the man could not get close to her fawn and succeed on her." "The coat that the daughter took off was carefully checked to see if it was moved by the man. And shake it clean after inspection."
She urged her to contempt instinct and pursue success with concentration.
She ridiculed Erica’s sexual desire, “The world is getting worse, it’s no surprise... if you recruit two more men, you can open a chicken shop sooner or later...”
So, under this kind of grace, Erica continued to despise, Degrade one's body.
Later, after a long period of depression, she no longer had normal desires: "Erica felt that her place was like a solid piece of wood, and that was where the carpenter made holes for the real woman. It was a piece of sponge in the forest. A qualitative, decayed, lonely wood, and this decay is still going on."
Erica's spirit and flesh, inside and outside, are deeply divided.
On the one hand, she is elegant and arrogant, playing Schubert, Schumann, and Beethoven affectionately in front of the piano. But on the other hand, she is obscene, cruel, and obscene, peeping in car theaters and pornographic video stores, stalking male students, and skillfully cutting her own genitals.
Self-harm is self-abuse.
Self-abuse will inevitably expand into abuse.
Battering is often accompanied by abuse of others.
All this is vividly interpreted in Erica. Her alienated life became the footnote of Freud's theory: the healthy development of a person comes from the normal development of personality and the normal satisfaction of desires. If the instinct is improperly suppressed, it will cause mental disorders or abnormalities.
9. The spirit is not free. The
body is the work cultivated by the mother, and life is the product of the mother's control. Even Erica's spirit is also the result of the mother's penetration.
She sets up hobbies, ideals and careers for Erica.
Erica did not show musical talent. But the mother insisted on this illusion, and transplanted this self-deception to Erica forcibly, "I chose the career of an artist early for Erica." When he
grew up, the concept of celibacy also came from his mother. Erica says, you'd better celibacy. "Erica accepted, she thought," after many years of membership mother, she must no longer belong to a man. "
aesthetics is the mother," mother Erica Talking about natural beauty, it does not require artificial decoration, it is beauty in itself. Erica, so are you." In the
end, her mother successfully brainwashed Erica and made her a puppet, tool, and object of anger. Erica has already alienated her personality in 40 years of spiritual penetration. She also positions herself as a moral model, a beautiful model, and a genius musician. She is willing to cut off the natural life desires and accept abnormal exploitation for the sake of art.
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There are powerful figures in every corner of this world. It may be in a country and a nation, or in a smaller space such as family, school, workplace, and community. As long as there is power, distortion is inevitable.
Therefore, Erica's tragedy is not isolated or accidental. Her struggle and sinking, rebellion and despair are the spiritual trajectory that everyone has experienced more or less. Maybe if we are not careful, we can be around and find an Erica, a group of Erica, or even Erica ourselves.
If you are equally sad and fearful of it, worrying that the abnormal genes in your body are uncontrollable and becoming Erica's distant relatives, then go the other way and go free!
Let space, time, economy, lust, and spirit be as free as possible without crossing the boundaries of others. Only when you are free can you face the other, without distortion, paranoia, or control, just like a drop of water meets another drop of water, compatible with each other, loving each other, and fulfilling each other.
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