There is almost no climax in the film. I believe that the full screen of Austria's great rivers and mountains and the murmur of the heroine can make many viewers drowsy. The heroine follows an old couple to their mountain hut for vacation. The old couple drove to another village and left her and their dog to say that they would come back at night, but she never returned. The next day the heroine and the dog went out to find them, but they were "bounced" back by an inexplicable invisible wall in the middle of the highway. In the next few days they kept bumping into this huge hidden wall in the wild. The heroine gradually understands: She is cut off from the original world, and she doesn't know what will happen in the future. It is very likely that she will never go back. What made her even more unbearable was that she was the only human being here.
As a result, she began a new life, a primitive life where the sun rises and goes to the sunset. She cuts grass, firewood, picks wild fruits and hunts. It was the first time for her to feel the spring, summer, autumn and winter of nature so directly, enduring the fast and slow progress of time, and besides the original dog, there was a pregnant cat and cow that accompanied her. She found a stack of paper and began to record what happened every day, all kinds of trivial chores, moods and thoughts. These animals have long been like friends and relatives to her. She confessed in her diary that she still wants to live, but her motivation is not from her own, but because of her responsibility to take care of the animals. Therefore, she must hunt, which means that she must go against her original principles to kill. The film captured a heart-wrenching scene where a deer was beaten to death by her and twitched for a long time. She carried the deer back home with a heavy heart, unable to sleep at ease. She said that although hunting is getting easier, she still can't get used to ending animal lives in this way. Here, she is the only creature with perception, judgment, thought, who knows right and wrong, understands what to do and what not to do, and has compassion and guilt. However, this quality that distinguishes her from being a "human" seems to be superfluous here. She hopes that she can be as innocent as other animals and do whatever she wants. However, she knew that as an outlier from the civilized world, she had no choice.
She lived in this mountain for three years. In three years, the kitten, the calf and the dog born from the mother cat and the cow died one after another. The death of the calf and the dog can be said to be the only climax of the film and a bit weird. When the heroine and the dog came home from the wild, they saw a man with a beard and scumbag appearing outside the house to slaughter the calf. So the dog stepped forward to fight back, and the heroine rushed into the room in panic and resentment, took a shotgun and shot the man to death. At this time, the dog was dying by the man's knife.
The film did not explain why a second person suddenly appeared, why he killed the cow, maybe he also fled here, and found an edible cow. The film did not make the heroine doubt this. When she shot him to death, she didn't hesitate and feel ashamed as she did when she shot the deer to death in the first place. From the beginning to the end, she just didn’t understand why the man wanted to kill her friend. She didn’t expect at all: It turned out that she was not alone. It turned out that there was another kind of person in the same predicament as her. They might be able to "fight" together or find Companions. I feel that at this time she has completely integrated with the animals, and they are the same kind; and the new man is an outlier, a beast who killed her kind.
At the end of the film, there is still no miracle. In the cold winter hut, the heroine sits and writes a diary, while the female cat squats quietly next to her. She said that today is the last day for her to write a diary, because the paper is all finished. In the future, she will no longer record and continue to live.
The theme of this movie looks similar to "Robinson Crusoe", but there are still fundamental differences: Robinson is not in a closed place, many years later, he met humans and finally returned to his hometown. And this video did not let us see this hope. If you let Americans film it, you might make it a suspenseful disaster inspirational film. But the Austrians interpret it as a more oppressive literary film, which truly presents a woman and a human being in a closed state with sorrow and joy, but more of a peaceful and natural life, as well as to nature, life, loneliness, and loneliness. Self-thinking and questioning. As for the "wall", in reality, it should be everywhere. We often feel it but can't touch it.
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