After seven years, I picked up this movie again.
Before the rebroadcast, my deepest impression of the movie was just the perverted mother.
She has perverted behavior and mind control over her daughter. Erica, in her 40s, still lives under the same roof as she currently does, and even sleeps in the same bed at night.
What Erica dresses, when she gets home, and who she interacts with is strictly controlled.
She was not allowed to wear brightly colored clothes, and she wore a dull-colored overcoat tightly wrapping her body.
She bought a colorful dress, and her mother tore it up. Although Erica was furious and wanted to fight, she finally confessed that she was wrong under her mother's tears.
It's not that Erica doesn't know that she is controlled by her mother, but she is used to this kind of control.
Her interactions with people are strictly controlled, and she looks arrogant, but she is just severely suppressing her desires. This desire seems shameful and stupid to her, but she still succumbs to it, and even obtains pleasure through self-abuse of the blade.
Breaking the peace is the young, handsome and enthusiastic 18-year-old student Walter.
Walter is passionate and sunny, and his love also grows in the sun. He fell in love with Erica at first sight, and his love was resolute. There was no trace of worldly bondage in him. Age difference, status, expressing desire and love regardless of place, he never considered.
If asked if Walter loves Erica, my answer is yes.
Walter's mentality is normal and healthy. In his eyes, Erica is noble and dignified, he respects and loves her, and is gentle and longing for her.
It's just that he doesn't understand Erica.
Erica longed to be abused, to be bound, to be whipped, to be humiliated. The erotic videos she even watched were rough oral sex where men don't treat women like normal people.
Walter, who grew up under the sun, was shocked. He didn't understand Erica's psychology and could not understand Erica's desire for sadomasochism.
In Walter's eyes, Erica was originally noble and cold, like a goddess aloof. He couldn't accept that the goddess in his eyes was mean.
Of course, sadomasochism is only in the eyes of someone who sees sex as tender stroking, affectionate kissing, and good sex.
This is where Erica and Walter have their differences.
He loves her and hopes to cherish and love her tenderly and carefully.
She loves him, but wants him to abuse her roughly.
The first time was in the toilet, kissing and hugging each other, but she controlled not to let him approach, because at this moment she was still accustomed to being controlled by her mother, she did not allow men to come close to her and defile her "from the inside to the outside" Like a baby" innocence. She remained indifferent and asked him to do as he ordered. Seriously humiliated Walter's dignity.
But despite Walter's frustration, he still didn't put his grievance on Erica. He comforted Erica, "It's nothing, relax, and it will pass soon."
Until Erica showed him her deepest desires, he couldn't accept it, thought everything was disgusting, and slammed the door to leave.
But both Erica and Walter succumbed to their love, one went to him again and again, willing to let him do what he wanted, and the other forgot the previous unhappiness.
The second time was not good. He couldn't accept that she vomited during oral sex. He felt that it was disgust for his body, so Walter, who was frustrated again, humiliated Erica, and Erica fled in a panic.
The repeatedly frustrated Walter's emotions finally broke out, and the desires that were repeatedly suppressed made him lose his mind. He rushed to Erica's house and slapped her, insulted her, and beat her bloody as she had longed for before.
Walter didn't understand that despite Erica's desire to be abused, it was all based on love and understanding.
Even if she keeps saying "I want the same thing as you want". But Walter didn't understand.
Deviating from the abuse of love, it was just beating, she didn't feel any pleasure, so she didn't expect to have a relationship with Walter and be raped like a corpse.
In the process, Walter also expected Erica to respond to him, but Erica did not, she only felt that she was violated.
Once again, Walter is frustrated with Erica, thinking that the woman is nothing more than a desire to be treated rudely and doesn't love him.
At the end of the movie, Erica is about to take the stage, and she has a knife ready for Walter's arrival.
Walter looked as if she had retreated and returned to her world of sunshine, leaving only herself, a monster whose clothes had been ripped off and exposed to the sun.
She was in pain, and she couldn't vent. She could only insert a knife into her body to cover up her inner pain through physical pain.
Finally, he pushed the door and walked out of the cage.
The movie came to an abrupt end.
Was Walter really back in his own world? The movie doesn't give the answer, and the movie isn't going to explore the answer. Movies just show us a perverted female psychological world that represses itself.
I think two people love each other. It's just that two people live in two worlds.
It's not wrong to be obsessed with "sadism" itself, it's that Erica forcibly imposes it on Walter, who is not in the same world.
Walter doesn't understand why someone is obsessed with pain, of bondage, of being humiliated. So he doesn't understand that abuse is based on love, consent, respect and safety.
Although the sadomasochistic culture has developed to this day, many abusers and abused people have gradually deviated from the basis and theme of "love" in the process of seeking stimulation and enjoyment, but it cannot be denied that this is a seemingly confrontation and conquest. The mutual satisfaction of being attached and being needed love.
Lewdness and vulgarity should be shown in front of someone who understands that it is naked exposing themselves and putting their own trust in another person's hands.
He/she understands all your needs and trusts, and love is compatible and mutual respect. All love should not be confrontation and conquest.
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