Thoughts after watching the Requiem and feelings after substituting into my own life

Alyson 2022-01-22 08:03:32

Just finished watching "Requiem". To be honest, it's really a desperate movie. I can only watch the heroine Michelle finally leave her family and enter university, her life is improving and having joy, but she falls into some unknown disease after a week, and all the methods of salvation are useless, no matter what Is it to see various doctors or to exorcise? The tone of the movie is dark, and some shots are really good, especially for the long face shots of Michelle dancing or walking. The soundtrack is also interesting. Because the story takes place in the 70s, the movie is full of psychedelic rock from the 70s. At first glance, it doesn’t seem to match the keynote of the film. However, the sound of the organ and the guitar are also true and magical. Isn't it like the story itself! The heroine dancing under the sound of music is blurred, as if she has completely escaped from this world, enjoying the joy brought by the music. The story is adapted from the real Anneliese Michel exorcism incident in the 1970s. The heroine's appearance deliberately chose a face similar to Anneliese, and the hairstyle was cut into Anneliese's style in the movie. The same theme as this movie is the 2005 movie "The Exorcism of Emily Rose", but it is clear that "Exorcism of Emily Rose" has gone the same way as a Hollywood horror film, while "Requiem" is a Art films. Finally, in the psychedelic music, Michelle seemed to have completely accepted her destiny. She seemed to be about to become a martyr, or just facing simple death... The scenes of death and suffering were not specifically photographed, just used Mentioned in fine print. But the sense of despair has been conveyed. There are always things in the world that cannot be stopped by any means or any method. Unknowable pain is one of them. Anything seems to lose its meaning in front of it. From the beginning to the end, the story does not show that the devil is a phantom in Michelle’s brain, she is just crazy, or the devil really has her body-whether it is God deliberately inflicted her to suffer, or some parts of the infinitely sophisticated brain finally go crazy ——It really happened to her. She yelled: "Why me!" She is just an ordinary girl, unable to stop her destiny at all, nor can anyone else.
For Michelle's life experience, I also have a lot of empathy. That is the family. Michelle's mother cared about her harshly. Obviously reluctant to let her daughter suffer a little bit of hurt, but never knew that her own behavior is the biggest source of her pain. When Michelle's clothes were thrown into the trash can by her mother mercilessly, her mother commented that Michelle wore those clothes as "like a prostitute." Notice! How did the demon in Michelle's head insult her in the first place? It's a "prostitute". A girl who lives in a rigorous Catholic family (she didn't even dare to let her parents know if she had a boyfriend), her life really began after she entered college-take off her old-fashioned clothes, change her old-fashioned hairstyle, and Friends party, swim, and handsome boyfriends.
But one sentence of "prostitute" is enough to tear all the happiness apart.
Finally in the chapel, Michelle looked at her mother again and again, what is she expecting? I might feel the same way. She wanted to expect her mother to apologize to her, a look in her eyes, but her mother ignored her and sang poems intently. Finally Michelle ran out of the chapel unbearably, and cried on the bed when she returned home.
Everything she did seemed to be denied. Her mother seemed to only care about her body alive, but she wanted to drive her spirit to death. This is what I can feel from her perspective.
When Michelle was driven home by her boyfriend, she weakly accepted the food from her mother, and then spit up her mother's face like she was possessed by a demon, and started yelling and smashed. Something, crazy, the smile when she deliberately fell on her father before going upstairs! Only those who have experienced it can truly understand the feeling, what kind of anger is that, the anger seems to tear everything, the black dog hidden in the heart can drive ourselves to kill anyone, we become like ourselves, without fear, Desecrate anything.
Because no one understood her, they just asked her to see a doctor, take medicine, and pray, but they didn't want to hear what she said was blocking her. If these were useful, she would have been relieved long ago! She did it hard! Behind her, she was so numb that she couldn't feel her limbs, every dangling step and split mouth smile, reckless kisses and hugs, I have also felt that kind of feeling. With fireworks blooming in her mind, no one can shake her, all the words are like wind outside the glass window.
What happens when she calms down after the violence?
She apologized, she just believed more and more that she was possessed by the devil. She escaped, because her own strength could not save her. She hoped that the exorcism ceremony could save her-or that she had given up her life a long time ago and only hoped to go to heaven like a saint. I personally do not agree with the existence of demons. If demons exist, they just exist in her brain. Because I used to have similar situations often, I seemed to be controlled by something more powerful in my brain, my bottom line was cut, and killing seemed to be just something I could do easily. (Sounds a bit like a fine score)
Anyway, it’s a good-looking film, some of the soundtracks in it are not easy to find... I can’t find the band light of darkness anywhere.

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  • Dewayne 2022-04-20 09:02:25

    I hope that when my life is going through many trials, there are friends like this who will never leave me

  • River 2022-04-24 07:01:23

    The first 80% are spent in boredom. Plus the viewing is too bad...