Marian's Awakening

Janiya 2022-04-19 09:03:11

Movies that have been passed down for a long time are really treasure-like existences. "Marriage Life" is like a stage play. The film spans ten years, but it does not reflect the ten years in the appearance and shape of the actors. This drama is the first drama that I want to recommend not only to female friends, but also to boys.

At the beginning, Marianne didn't dare to mention love. When a reporter asked her "Do you love him?", she would transform her love into other things and affirm her love by affirming others. Knowing that in the second episode at work, she met a middle-aged woman who had been married for 20 years. When she came to deal with her divorce-related matters, the woman said with certainty, "There is no love in our marriage... Love, trapped in a bottle." The camera swoops from the woman's close-up to Marianne, making both the viewer and Marianne uneasy. But I understand the second half of her words more: "My life has wiped out all opportunities. My sense, sight, hearing, and touch begin to disappear. I can see and touch, but my feeling, Has dried up, gone", this passage seems to be a prophecy of my recent life, I have always wanted to oppose the restricted area of ​​thinking change and dare not touch...

Marianne came back to the wooded cabin late at night when her husband from a business trip came back to her wooden house and confessed to her that she had cheated on her—the next day she and Paula would go abroad for more than half a year—afterwards, she began to reflect in the collapse, this matter, It is the husband's explosion and change, and it is also the beginning of the wife's review of the old life and the pursuit of a new life, although this beginning makes people collapse and despair. When my husband said that I hated you four years ago, I hated you for this and that, the way you taught your two daughters to be pretentious, and the way you washed your body over and over after having sex, so frankly in front of each other I can feel the resentment of men and the guilt of women when I express my disgust. At this time, women may still be in the stage of finding their own faults when they have problems, and have not evolved to reflect on their own environment and others. . First of all, I was amazed that the husband confessed his cheating to his wife, and the wife was able to cry and ask her husband for details, instead of going crazy and hysterical as shown in the usual TV dramas. The wife makes breakfast and sends her husband out. This is a way of doing things that amazes and admires me. In fact, at this time, I sympathized with both husband and wife. The husband was so disgusted that he acted against his love for his wife, and the wife completely lost herself at this moment, not even from marriage, but was disciplined in childhood as " Submissive, traditional and good" character, she hides herself unconsciously and spontaneously in marriage, and puts her self in the depths of the ocean of consciousness. Emotional sources of guilt and self-blame, and even problems with other people at all.

From separation to divorce to remarriage, ten years have passed. The symbolic meaning of the two to each other has changed, but they are still objects of chat, listening and release. I love that the husband in "Paula's time" revisits the cabin in the woods, the wife reads her diary after the two eat and drink, she reflects on her childhood, her repressed subject, her loss of ability to love, humility and force to please Others finally realize that this makes them unbearable, but as for her husband, he has been in loneliness all the time. In fact, it is also a typical personality trait, and it is also a sequela of gradually hiding himself as he grows up. He is so confident that he is even a little arrogant. Focusing on material things, determined to overcome mediocrity, but avoiding problems, and finally breaking out when "running away", at that moment I felt it was a relief, for both, although this relief was the beginning of the misfortunes that followed, I still support using this Action breaks the illusion of marital harmony. Can be seen as the male version of "Nala".

In the fifth episode of the ignorant, the two signed the divorce agreement in John's office. The emotional ups and downs of the two were quite high, ranging from the tenderness of stroking each other's cheeks, to the resentment of tit for tat, saying the most mean and ruthless words. Duan Li's wife's self-awareness and her relationship with the marriage have become more like a bystander's clarity, but her husband is suddenly hesitant. The conversation between the two, in this small office, is like a coherent stage play, which is fascinating. In the last episode, the relationship between the two has finally evolved to the ultimate friendship that transcends marriage, a contract-like binding relationship, transcends love, and mixes family affection. I think it's rare, the title of this episode is "Late at night, in a dark house somewhere in the world", I don't know if I should call this country act "an old friend meeting as fresh as an extramarital affair" or " An extramarital affair full of memories like meeting old friends", no matter what, I applaud the relationship between the two at the moment, it is rare to have such a person in this world, you know each other best, and at certain moments you are extremely disgusted and resentful of each other To the extreme, they accompany each other at other moments and talk to each other affectionately. The content of these mutual talks includes memories of the past, reflections on common life, awakening of self-consciousness, trivial matters in the current marriage, and loneliness. There is an untouchable sense of security. I love what Marianne said when John put his head on Marianne's shoulder: "I stand by myself and enjoy my life, trusting only common sense and what I feel in my heart". At this moment, John was all weak, and he showed this side to Marianne, even ten times more honest and trusting than during the marriage. Even if Marianne said the words above, she would still wake up in a nightmare, and she dreamed that she was only left with Torso without hands, and finally, in the end, Marianne murmured, I was in pain, I felt like I had never loved or been loved by anyone. Have you ever been in love, and what is love?

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  • Kiley 2022-04-24 07:01:25

    After smashing the illusion, you will discover the cruelest truth, and finally learn to compromise with the broken life. Narrow enclosed spaces, simple everyday layouts, suddenly enlarged close-ups, and compositions with overlapping eyes are alternately used in overlapping and separation of mutual love. Perhaps lovers will never be able to grasp the appearance of love, and only build a tower of lies to escape their own cowardice and helplessness. Loneliness brings marriage to a corner full of scars, but we still believe that someone can let us escape from the devil called life. The connection of souls may only be in one corner of the world, but it is worth making us risk our lives.

  • Elias 2022-03-24 09:03:48

    Must watch the TV version. The film version had to cut a few scenes, and the plot was interrupted. Full of inner strength. Marianne's desire to recover was very accurate. Jan Malmsjö as Peter is Alexander's father in Fanny and Alexander! deep impression. Bibi Andersson is too old to recognize.

Scenes from a Marriage quotes

  • Marianne: Sometimes it grieves me that I have never loved anyone. I don't think I've ever been loved either. It really distresses me.

  • Johan: I don't know what my love looks like, and I can't describe it. Most of the time I can't feel it.