"No Love to Tell" - the third film of the Russian film "Leviathan" director Sarkinsev that I watched recently. In a way, I like this one better.
Humans cry out for love and long for love. Love is the single most important force in the universe—for humans. If all activities in the world are regarded as the result of chemical reactions, love is undoubtedly the most important chemical reaction for people.
If there are no people in the universe, the universe has no "meaning". If people do not have love, their existence will also lose all joy.
Therefore, the cornerstone of marriage is love. The cornerstone of love is "love".
But "love" is not so simple.
"Love" is an ability.
"Love" requires your heart to be full. Only then will you be able to give love.
"No Love to Complain" tells the story of a couple who are going through a divorce, each of whom has a new love of his own. In their eyes, the 8-year-old child has become the "burden" of the new life that is about to start, so the two sides argue endlessly, and neither wants to assume the custody of the child.
The child overhears the argument between the parents, finds himself a superfluous burden, and cries secretly, in pain. The parents, in the quarrel, struggled to make peace with each other, and went to sleep with their own sullenness, unaware of the existence of their children, and even less aware that the children secretly overheard their conversations.
How did the couple come together in the first place?
This somewhat handsome middle-class man has always been a flower-hearted man who likes to live among flowers. His wife is his girlfriend who is not known for the first time and is pregnant. The boss of the man's company is an Orthodox Christian who believes in and maintains the values of marriage and fertility. The man probably didn't want to lose his professional future, so he advised the woman not to have an abortion and give birth to the child.
This constitutes a marriage, a family.
Shooting is cool. The trembling of two bodies, the pleasure of sex, and many other aspects can be ignored. But marriage is a more holographic relationship. Each other's weaknesses and inner black holes will be exposed.
Marriage requires the responsibility of love and dedication to each other.
Marriage is a serious business.
But modern people who have lost their beliefs, who live in fragments, and who live in strong narcissism, have actually lost this ability.
Yes, in short, modern man has lost the ability to love.
The biggest characteristic of two people getting along in the family space is that they are impatient with each other, and they are busy immersing themselves in their own world. What is the modern world? cell phone. You can see that when two people are in the same space, the air is silent, and both of them are absent-mindedly swiping their mobile phones. On the night when he and his wife quarreled fiercely over the custody of the children, the husband slept on the sofa and did not forget to turn on his mobile phone to take a look before lying down.
The mobile phone has made modern man a slave.
Wherever you go, you can see people taking smug selfies with their phones.
Modern people love only themselves.
The playboy man casually went to the marriage hall with the woman, in fact, he was not prepared at all. To put it bluntly, this kind of person is not qualified to enter the marriage hall. It's fine for him to continue to live a life of gunshots. At least you can constantly get instant pleasure. But for the sake of work and for the future, he not only chose marriage, but also had children. This choice is not out of love, not out of the joy of new life, but out of a self-interested thinking. He took that step without thinking.
Yes, choosing a way of life without thinking is like entering a supermarket and throwing the items on the shelf into the shopping cart to checkout. Modern people are full of frivolous casualness. Thus, evil and retribution awaited him.
He doesn't love his children.
He didn't actually love the woman who became his wife, and soon lost his freshness.
Of course the wife cannot be a saint, "perfect". She is also a product of this era. She has as many flaws as men.
In the movie we see that she has a horrible mother. As long as she appeared in front of my mother, my mother spoke to her in the most vicious language.
too frightening. Home is like hell.
Because he has not been treated well in life and has not enjoyed love, he treats his children in a harsh and perverted way. This viciousness is no less than the viciousness of the enemy on the battlefield. But this viciousness is often unconscious. If the person concerned does not reflect on the way he treats his children, he will not even know that the family has been turned into hell! He also believes that he has dedicated everything to his family, so he should complain about the cruelty of fate, and express his anger at his children who are not satisfied with him.
As everyone knows, this poisons the minds of the next generation. The next generation who cannot enjoy love, and who has only learned to treat others harshly, will have no chance to "evolve" when it comes to treating others, even their own children. There is also no chance for those around you and your children to enjoy love.
This is the intergenerational reproduction of tragedy.
The poor 8-year-old in the movie is not only heartbroken when he hears that his parents don't want him, but also in daily life, he has not received the love of his parents, and some are used to cold and malicious words.
So, the day after the couple quarreled, the child disappeared.
The couple had to start getting anxious. It's your own child after all.
The child's mother called the police. The police came to the door to understand the situation and registered. Then the police told the child's mother: According to statistical probability, most children who run away from home will return home due to difficulties within 7-10 days. And the police department has a huge backlog of cases. It will take a while to deal with this case.
So the conclusion is: the police can hardly be expected to quickly help find the child.
Whether this is a satire or a true revelation of the current state of Russia.
But in the face of anxious mothers, the police still offered a piece of advice: you can find a non-governmental mutual aid organization. Once the non-governmental mutual aid organization agrees to intervene and promise to help find the child, the efficiency will be much higher than that of the police!
Is this an irony?
Are public welfare organizations far more efficient than state machinery?
Is the power of the state apparatus only used to maintain stability?
The person in charge of the mutual aid organization came to the home to learn about the situation of the child's disappearance, took over decisively, and began to help find the child.
What follows is a really touching scene.
The film spends a lot of time showing how the mutual aid group helped the couple find their child.
The search party consisted of twenty or thirty men. The captain led the team, divided into several groups, and searched separately.
The search team is disciplined and well-trained. Experience.
In the cold winter, members of the search team set foot on every suspicious jungle and urban corner without turning back. It was as if they were looking for their own children.
If the child sees the search team's efforts somewhere at this moment, he should feel a deep love.
The search team also contacted each hospital to see if unidentified children were accepted. The captain also asked the child's classmates and where the child might go. This inquiry was conducted by the captain himself, very professional and psychologically intelligent, and finally asked a child. possible hiding place.
Looking at the very professional and attentive performance of the captain, I feel that he is a folk hero!
The lack of love and care between families and husbands and wives is reflected in the search operations of mutual aid organizations!
They are so patient in helping others find their children, even more meticulously than the child's parents!
For example, when a female member of the search team followed the child's parents to the child's grandmother's house to look for the child, the couple basically chatted and inquired with the child's grandmother, while the female search team looked around. When the search team was going to enter a closed room to check, the child's father said, "There is obviously no trace of the child here." The female team member said, "I'll go in and have a look." After that, she walked in by herself. Room.
You even felt that the female search team member was a more competent mother.
The film undoubtedly criticizes modern Russians as individuals, those who have lost love and patience, those who are addicted to themselves, distracted, and lack the ability to love. The counterpart to these individuals is bureaucratic, inaction government agency.
You can even imagine that the people from these government agencies, when they return to their homes, are exactly the same as these impatient and loving couples and parents.
However, the film still sets such a glorious example - civil society. They are simply the most competent ministry of God. A person who carries the power of love and radiates the radiance of God.
The film seems to imply that modern man sucks, but it's not entirely hopeless.
While the film shows the professional and moving search crew at work, it doesn't schedule a bright tail. At the end of the film, the search team leader leads the couple to a hospital morgue. There is the remains of a child there. As the medics removed the covering on the body, the captain said, "You guys have to be mentally prepared, it can be very uncomfortable." How thoughtful.
After seeing the body, the couple was emotionally broken.
The film does not directly show whether the remains are their children, but through their reactions, it can be inferred that the child died, and died horribly. The movie doesn't tell us exactly how the child died. Just ruthlessly throw out one result.
Then, lens everything, years later. The couple each formed a new family with their new love. The divorced husband is in his new home, with his new wife, with their newborn child under his knees. The family space is also full of boredom. The wife was doing housework, and the husband was sitting on the sofa watching TV. He thought that the child was too noisy, so he carried him into the stroller and let him cry. He still watched TV on his own. The new couple, who once had a passionate expression of love in bed, are now numb, and the husband who has lost a child has not paid more attention to the child and is more delicate.
A person who lacks the ability to love, even if he has more experience, still has not learned to love.
The divorced wife also lives in a more luxurious and spacious house with her new boyfriend. Obviously, with the help of marriage, she has made an obvious leap in material conditions. However, the two no longer have the same you and me when they were dating. When they are with their husbands, the space is full of silence. The new husband is just like his original husband. The wife came to the balcony alone and started working out on the treadmill.
If there is a person standing outside the house at this moment and seeing everything in this house, she will think that she is really a beautiful, happy and enviable woman.
However, her face was still indifferent...
The cinematographic footage pans away from his wife exercising on the balcony, to the outdoors, to a tree, with a plastic strap hanging from it. The sky is grey. That tape was thrown into the tree by the child when he was playing alone after school before he disappeared. That tape tells the world how lonely his life was and how lacking love and care.
Modern people who have lost faith have fallen into the abyss of narcissism and fragmentation, becoming individuals who need each other but cannot provide love. Modern people are full of hustle and bustle, but they are destined to be lonely.
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