Watching this film, I always think of Roland Barthes' sentence: Language is skin.
In the novel "Lovers' Whisper", it is full of lingering dialogues between lovers. So is this movie.
obscure subject matter
The whole film is very obscure. I feel that I have not been able to grasp the main point of the film, perhaps because of my limited life experience. I hope I can understand this film in the future.
There are two clear central themes in the film: love and war.
But why the film combines these two themes, and how the two are related, is beyond my grasp.
about ethics
The heroine in the film is a tragic figure who always falls in love with the wrong person at the wrong time and in the wrong place. As a young Frenchman, she fell in love with a German soldier, and after marriage, she fell in love with a Japanese man who already had a family. It seems that she had a bad relationship in her previous life, which always made her suffer in love.
Different people will have different opinions about the heroine's behavior. You can think of her as not a faithful wife, immoral and immoral. You can also think of her encounter with the Japanese man in Hiroshima as a romantic encounter, a novel affair, a passion for the heroine's quest for the perfect love.
How the heroine's behavior is viewed depends on the viewer's values. The point of the film is not to discuss whether this moral choice is right or wrong, but to focus on the delicate psychology of women in romantic relationships.
war trauma
The damage of the war to the heroine is obvious.
The heroine's first love was a German, and in times of peace, the lovers might be able to get married. But in the context of grievances between countries, this combination seems too out of place. Maybe that explains why the heroine went to Hiroshima to shoot the film and visit the museum built after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
After the communication with the Japanese man gradually deepened, the heroine gradually recalled the past and told the story. This is the hidden trauma buried in her heart. She was able to face the source of this pain with encouragement. Later, she became stronger
self-destruction
After falling in love with a strange Japanese man, the heroine gradually reveals the urge to self-destruct.
In the Western world, the choice of holiness or perdition is always the theme of art. Human beings are both attracted to things that are pure and sacred, and they are also seduced by depravity in desire. When the heroine finds out that she has fallen in love with the Japanese man, she finds herself torn between giving in to her desires and choosing a marriage that is faithful to the world.
These two forces dominate the heroine's heart, and neither can prevail. This made her gradually lose her mind, and as she herself said, "I've gone crazy."
The suspense of how the heroine will make a choice remains until the end of the film.
The understanding of the film can be very Eastern or very Western, and there is a lot of room for interpretation. This is not only a story of a slutty woman who doesn't obey women's ethics, but also a story of using love to heal a woman's trauma. The story is both sleazy and vulgar and equally pure and beautiful. This is the best story.
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