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Thelma (2017), a Norwegian thriller and fantasy film, is a typical fantasy, psychological, and stream-of-consciousness masterpiece. The plot is simple, the metaphor is deep, and it hurts brain cells slightly.
The opening scene of the film is on the white snow. The father takes the little Thelma to hunt. He originally aimed the gun at the deer's father, but secretly shifted the direction and aimed at Thelma. why? Is there a problem with the father? In the end, my father put the gun down.
Then, the plot officially began. Thelma is a biology student, and like all students who study away from home, Thelma has parents who are worried about her. However, Selma's parents are a little more concerned than ordinary parents. Her parents checked her class schedule by means, that is, they have a strong desire to control Selma's whereabouts. They have to talk on the phone once a day, even When Thelma doesn't want to answer the phone, you have to wait until Thelma picks up the phone.
One day, Thelma went to the library for self-study. At this time, a girl sat next to her. Suddenly, the bird outside the library slapped wildly, and Thelma also fell to the ground, like a seizure. Same.
Thelma went to the doctor. The doctor said that she needed to contact the doctor who had treated her before. Thelma didn’t want to let her parents know about her condition. The doctor said that she just checked her previous medical records and informed her parents. The matter is up to Thelma herself.
Then, when Thelma was swimming, a girl, Anya, talked to her. She was the girl next to Thelma in the library. She asked about Thelma's condition with concern. Thelma began to follow Anya from then on, and began to read her Facebook, and learned that she has a boyfriend and many friends.
At this time, Selma's parents came to see her, and they ate together in the restaurant. Selma happily chatted with her parents about her classmates, but his parents were uncomfortable and criticized her, saying: rich knowledge is not enough Show that we are better than others, don't talk like you know everything. Thelma's eyes turned red after hearing this.
After that, Thelma's father had a heart-to-heart talk with her. It could be seen that the father wanted to know all the information about the daughter, but the daughter did not want this, so she concealed it.
After her parents left, Thelma found the places where Anya often came and went through Facebook, and then pretended to pass by Anya inadvertently.
Anya recognized her and greeted her warmly. In this way, Thelma smoothly infiltrated into Anya's small circle.
On this night, Thelma dreamed that Anya came to her downstairs, and then woke up. She looked down from the window, and sure enough, she saw Anya, and hurried downstairs to meet Anya. The moment I saw it, Thelma had another seizure.
A foreshadowing was buried here. Anya said that Thelma asked her to come downstairs to meet her, but Thelma did not know it.
Then, Anya followed Thelma to her room, and the two of them slept on a single bed together.
Since then, the two have become good friends who can talk about everything. They go to class and travel together. Thelma even violated her beliefs and started drinking and smoking, just to get closer to Anya.
Just when Anya took her mother and Thelma to the theater to watch the performance, Thelma couldn't help having a seizure again, and Anya held Thelma's hand to comfort her. But Thelma couldn’t restrain herself in the end, and quickly left her seat. At this time, Anya also followed, and the two of them started hugging and kissing tightly in the dressing room. Thelma was very happy, but she was more afraid. She pushed Anya away and hurried away.
Thelma began to pray to God, asking God to take all those thoughts away from her. Then I found a boy that Anya also knew and began to try to date.
When Thelma got together with her friends again, they started to take turns smoking the same cigarette. After that, Thelma fell into a hallucination. Anya took the initiative to kiss her, and a snake went around Thelma's neck. Thelma's mouth began to deepen.
A girl came over and pushed Thelma, making her sober, realizing that what she had been doing before was just a fantasy, but she couldn't help but vomit.
Thelma returned to where she lived and burst into tears.
After Thelma had a brain scan, the doctor said that she could not yet determine her condition and would send her to an epilepsy clinic. She also told her that she had a seizure when she was six years old, and that the doctor put her on a sedative, which may be a bit overwhelming for a six-year-old's body.
But Thelma was not impressed.
At this time, the director let us see Thelma's childhood. Thelma wanted to be close to her mother, but her mother was busy taking care of her newborn little brother, and she let Thelma play alone. Later, when the mother put the younger brother on the cot, when he came to look for it after a while, he found that the younger brother was missing. The mother grabbed Thelma violently and asked her where she had hidden her brother. Thelma said that she didn’t know, and then the cry of her brother came out, which came from under the sofa. The mother couldn't lift the heavy sofa by herself, and she needed to work with the father to carry the younger brother out.
Back to the main line, Thelma went to the epilepsy clinic. The male doctor stimulated Thelma to have another epileptic seizure through a step-by-step induction technique, and then determined the type of Thelma through the detection of brain waves. of epilepsy.
Just when Thelma had a seizure, she saw Anya, she was in pain, and because of her strong desire, Anya disappeared, and then Thelma's symptoms gradually eased.
The doctor took Thelma's EEG and told Thelma that she had psychogenic epilepsy (non-pathological epilepsy). This type of epilepsy is caused by external pressure through the subconscious mind. She also told Thelma that her grandmother also had this disease, and she couldn't see it at the beginning. It was diagnosed after years of observation by psychiatrists.
Thelma always thought that her grandmother had passed away long ago, but she didn't expect to survive in the world. So I went to see my grandmother.
Unexpectedly, Thelma’s grandmother did not respond to her arrival at all.
The care worker next to her said that her grandmother always thought it was her fault because of her husband's disappearance, and she couldn't get out of the guilt.
Thelma's father therefore drugged her grandmother, and it was suggested that the dose was too large, which could have serious consequences, but Thelma's father didn't care.
In this way, Thelma's grandma was completely immersed in her own fantasy world because of the drug, and she could never get out of it again.
After Thelma went back, she wanted to contact Anya, but found that she couldn’t get in touch. So I went to Anya's house and was surprised to find that Anya really disappeared. Frightened, Thelma started contacting her mother and wanted to go home.
Back at home, the parents prepared tea for Thelma to sleep in and told the truth that had been hidden for a long time.
It turned out that this kind of thing happened when the heroine was young. Anya originally had a younger brother, but always disappeared for no reason, and all this was caused by the heroine. Until one time, after the heroine's younger brother disappeared, the parents searched the house and couldn't find it, and the heroine pointed her hand to the lake. It turned out that the heroine's younger brother was moved under the ice, and the heroine's father watched his younger brother through the thick ice and died.
Therefore, the heroine's mother tried to commit suicide, but failed but broke both legs. Therefore, the heroine's father used a large dose of drugs on the heroine, and then used religious rituals and strict control to ensure that the heroine would not do it again. out such a thing.
But now, something happened to Anya, and the heroine was once again strictly controlled by her father with religious rituals and inseparable company.
The father fed the heroine three meals a day with medicine, and made sure that the heroine swallowed all the medicine. Until one day, the heroine asked the father: Are you trying to make me like my grandma?
Father did not answer.
After the heroine fell asleep, she had a dream. She dreamed that her father was sitting on a small boat. Under the sunlight, his body suddenly ignited spontaneously, and finally his father died in the lake.
After the heroine woke up, she hurried to the lake and found that there was only one boat there, so she knew that her father had an accident.
The heroine jumped into the lake, perhaps to save her father, but she didn't expect to see Anya.
After the heroine returned home, the mother searched all over the place and couldn't find her father, so she wanted to ask the heroine to understand, but the heroine left without looking back. Before leaving, she asked her mother to stand up.
The heroine returned to her school and was happily with Anya ever since. The story ends here.
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After watching the movie, I fell into deep thinking. The heroine used her superpower to kill her younger brother when she was a child. When she grew up, she couldn't accept that she was gay and made her lover disappear. After returning home, she didn't want to be controlled by her father and killed her father. Does the director really want to tell such a story? Are you kidding me, when is it legal to kill?
Later, I realized that no one has superpowers that can make a person disappear, and if they want a person to die, let a person die, so the director wants to use the heroine's superpower, which is an external expression method, to make a person disappear . Express the decisions we made as we grew up.
When the parents' attention is focused on the younger brother, the younger brother is the most powerful person in the family at this time, and even the heroine will be manipulated by the younger brother. Then it's all the lady's fault.
The heroine didn't want to let herself be manipulated by her brother, so she chose to ignore her brother and no longer pay attention. However, in the eyes of the heroine's parents, the heroine's actions are outrageous, so for the first time there was a serious disagreement between the heroine's parents and the heroine, but the heroine insisted on self-independence.
When the heroine goes to college and meets Anya, the performance on the computer is that Anya's approach or even kissing is the result of the heroine's subconscious manipulation. However, in the emotional world, who can tell? Can you decide whether the person you like is a man or a woman in one shot? Can you decide that the person you like must be someone under your own given conditions? I think the director just made everyone realize what the heroine thinks by strengthening everyone's impression.
Therefore, the heroine wants to be close to Anya, and Anya also wants to be close to the heroine, they are consensual. But the heroine can't accept the fact that she likes women, so the heroine wants to forget Anya, but the more she wants to forget, the more she can't. So the heroine decided to leave the place where Anya was, and returned home to let the relationship between herself and Anya cool down naturally.
However, how could the female lead's very strict discipline family allow the female lead to be gay?
The parents of the heroine are very afraid, and naturally want to control the heroine by all means that can be thought of and implemented, so that the heroine can throw away her own ideas and replace them with the same 'orthodox' ideas as the parents.
The heroine originally went home to rest, but I didn't expect this to be a place like entering a wolf's den. The heroine did not want to be controlled by her father's strong pressure, so the heroine broke away from her mother's control and returned to school when her father was away from home and could not control her.
On campus, the heroine saw what she really wanted, that is, love with Anya.
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In terms of rating, I only intend to give this movie a three-star rating. After all, I am used to watching popcorn movies. It is really difficult to understand what the director is saying when I occasionally watch such obscure literary films.
Overall, this movie is still very good, and people who like this kind of difficult to understand movies can give it a try. In fact, the 6 points I gave is really low, and the director's ability is not bad.
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