DECALOGUE NINE
THOU SHALT NOT COVETTHY NEIGHBOR'S WIFE
. Just look at the commandments in this episode, you know that it must be related to extramarital affairs. Judging from the literal meaning of this commandment, there was originally a strong patriarchal color. After a woman gets married, she becomes a man's accessory. If you think of the last commandment, you can’t take away people and property. Women are treated as objects. Laoji, of course would not do this.
At the beginning of the film, a dilemma was set. The man was found to have sexual dysfunction. This plot setting was later used by Lars Von Trier, but his film focuses on women, while Laoji pays more attention to the reaction of men while balancing. Indeed, this is no less than half a death sentence for a man who is a legitimate man. Different from the positioning of women’s sexual values, men play an offensive and proactive role in sexual roles. To a large extent, sex is not only a physiological need, but more importantly. A manifestation of this kind of psychological value, so when we see him being honest with his wife, what we see in our eyes is peace, but in fact, what is flowing in our hearts is the unbearable pain of ordinary people.
At this time, the man asked the woman for divorce, and then told his wife that she could be allowed to find a lover, but the wife categorically rejected it. Some people may ask, this shows that this man still wants to get rid of it. Isn't it impossible to act in the latter part of the scene? Wrong, this is another manifestation of not understanding the psychology of men. I believe that if a man loves his wife, he will always say this when encountering such a situation. Note that I only said "talking". This is a manifestation of a high profile to a certain extent. In fact, it is fundamental It does not represent their hearts. In fact, when a person has lost something very important, it is impossible for him to allow more important things to slip through his hands. This is especially true for men with extremely strong desire for control. But why should I say this paragraph again? Hypocritical? It’s not hypocritical, but you can also think of it as a bit self-defeating, just like a player’s mentality when a team is behind 0:4 in the second half. Although it is giving up, no one will be happy to lose one more goal. . But this passage is very important, because it is spoken from the mouth of a man, and to a certain extent, it provides a certain degree of legitimacy for a woman's subsequent affair—this legitimacy does not provide a woman with a sense of guilt. Consolation, it is better to say that when a man encounters a wife cheating, he finds that the end is even more dead-there is any way you have acquiesced.
Next, the man seemed to stabilize a bit, but when he went to work the next day, he found a young man walking towards his house. And the small cabinet in the car can't be closed like a ghost. This is Keith's usual method. One is to reflect the irritability and anxiety of the character's psychology, and the other is that the explanation with a bit of metaphor will change underneath. At this time, there was another episode. The man helped a neighbor repair the car by inserting one end of the funnel into the fuel tank to refuel. The metaphorical meaning of the uneasiness in front of the association and the close-up of this lens need not be said.
The phone is a very important prop in the film. Its first appearance was when a third party called by our proverb came to find the woman, and the phone happened to be answered by a man. This really aggravated his suspicion. It’s a bit strange to me in the movie that there seems to be a woman’s mother living in their home. Although she has not been on the scene, the woman keeps her very personal belongings in her mother’s cabinet. The man uses the opportunity to install the phone. Eavesdropping device and copied the key of the cabinet. So he heard the first conversation between a third party and a woman.
The man used the number from the "reconnaissance" to call a third party-this was the second time the phone appeared, and it proved his guess. He is still unwilling. That night, he went home early and sat on the doorstep, listening to the gasps of his wife and another person. Don't think that he uses this way to restore his abilities, not everyone is as cold as the man in the waves. A man’s heart is more painful than ever. Although doubts have always been there, he is still a fragile porcelain when facing the facts, but what is even more helpless is that, as he said later, everything is because of him. "Incompetence", so he felt that he was not qualified to rush in to expose them. At this time, the feeling of incompetence was not only physical, but physical and mental exhaustion. What can he do at this time? You can only do it on the stairs and wait helplessly for the third party to leave before going home. Even if you are angry and angry, you can only pretend to be work. Perhaps what comforted him was that the woman's guilt after cheating, she walked into the car downstairs, and the lights and horns kept flashing-pay attention, it's the car again, pay attention to the end of the fourth paragraph.
People have a lot of desires. Although they can't realize them all, there will always be vents. The danger is that once one mouth is blocked and the others are blocked, what should be done? The situation of a man is similar to this, except for riding a bicycle, he has no other catharsis. Sexual repression leads to human repression. To put it aside, if the Austrian corporal did not unfortunately hurt that during World War I, I am afraid that the subsequent world war would have been avoided. To make matters worse, the man knew Wuwei, so he continued to monitor, but the last time he monitored, what he saw was the break between his wife and the third party. It's hard to tell what kind of feelings a man feels in his heart? Perhaps under the shell of a little hypocritical pity and sympathy for your wife, you will say in your heart: You should have been this way, and continue to doubt it. But the problem is that the woman found the man peeping in the closet. A sense of humiliation and distrust made her very annoyed, but soon she found that the man was so helpless at this time, so she hugged, tears... …
If the story ends here, it would be no more than a slightly higher-quality eight-point stall. The trouble is not over yet. The man wants the woman to go to a ski resort so that everyone can be sober, but the third person is still unwilling to give up. After his wife is gone, the man finds that the younger man has also bought a pair of skis, and he gives it to His house dialed a phone call-it was indeed the same place... This last straw finally crushed the camel. The man was riding fast on the highway, trying to evaporate his tears through sweat, but finally he did not control it and flew out. The highway, all of this, was under the sad eyes of the messenger of God.
The woman really broke with the third person this time. After she found that the person had also come to the ski resort, she knew that something was not good, so she threw the skis and drove back. The parallel montage of this section really feels like a thriller with a tight plot. After returning home, she only saw the letter the man had left her on the phone. Needless to say, tears must have flowed again after reading it. At this time, a man in a bandage in the hospital called her.
"Are you okay?"
"I'm fine."
In fact, there is a branch plot. The man is the attending physician in the hospital. There is a girl who has heart surgery because her mother wants her to be a singer, but her heart load is not good. , But she doesn't think so much. The man helped her to get rid of the operation, but the girl changed her mind. Mentioning this paragraph introduces the most shocking soundtrack from the Ten Commandments series so far. Spitzner adds a female humming full of motherhood and compassion to the traditional theme of the Ten Commandments, which completely raises the whole atmosphere to a new level. Level.
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