The director used an illusory technique , is it an epiphany to let Mada see who she was? From a subjective perspective to an objective examination, just like a soul looking back at its "body" after being separated from the body, can the "truth" be revealed? So the corner of Mada's mouth pulled out a line of grief, because she saw the contradiction between her yearning for love and her disbelief in love.
In the film, there is a dialogue between Mada and Tom, which is meaningful, because it is not only a confrontation between a woman's sophistication and a boy's simplicity and naivety, but also a confrontation between the material world and the spiritual world. The boy loves her, not wanting to kiss her, not want to sleep with her, not want to travel with her, so he said "don't want" over and over again. We know that this is love. There is no need. As long as we can see each other, we can be satisfied. Apart from love, we have no extravagance. But the woman is confused, because she has long decided that there is no such pure love, or she has long decided that there is no love, she thinks she is a bad woman, so she also wants to let the boy recognize the essence of love. She even thought that the boy peeked at her in order to peek at her sex with other men, but she didn't know that love for the boy was a pure spiritual belief, and the body was not what he needed. As long as he saw her happy, he would be satisfied, and he would not hesitate to do so. Be a milkman, do stupid things like stuffing invalid money orders into her mailbox. Some people say that the boy called the police and lied that the gas leaked because he was jealous and because he couldn't stand it, but I think it is precisely because the boy is out of love and firm belief, he is different from those men who ask for women's bodies, even with Unlike Martin, who has also peeped at women, Mada is the most holy symbol of love to Tom, so I think Tom's approach is just to protect the purity of love.
However, Martha insisted on breaking this beautiful fantasy with her own hands. She tried to use her body to explain love to the boy. One second, the boy shyly said that Mada was as pure as glass, and the next second, Mada told him cruelly and decisively "that's what love is all about".
The ideal world collapsed suddenly, revealing the ugliness and unbearability of the real world. Tom's painful departure awakened Mada's sleeping desire for love, but the boy could no longer remain indifferent to the collapsed ideal world. The boy once asked Martin's mother: "Why do people cry?" "Because of people's pain and the weight of life." A woman cries because of her desire for love but does not believe and struggles with the contradictions in the cruelty of life, while the boy cries because The shattering of the beautiful fantasy of love. He chose to commit suicide, not only because of the holiness of love and the despair of being trampled on, but perhaps more because of his disappointment at Mada's disbelief in the simple existence of love and her so-called commentary on love. Love his rebellious emotions unnecessarily.
And Tom's departure had an epiphany in Martha's heart, and she began to peep at the boy desperately like the boy before. Desires, anxiety, and fantasies are all the lover's urgent feelings. From the boy's point of view, the woman seems to be more able to understand the indifference and indifference of the loved one at that time. The rapid change of position just shows the essence of love, which can pierce the mask that the world wears on the face for various reasons. However, will Tom after waking up still believe in love as before? The bright flower of love may have withered from now on. An
unforgettable scene: after Martha agreed to eat ice cream with Tom, Tom was so happy that he was running wildly with a milk cart under the sun. His bright smile was as clean as mellow and rich milk. That is the only smiling face he has stretched out in the film. Behind the smile is his silent and fanatical soul. His love is so pure. The cruel thing is that the woman he fell in love with no longer believes in love. They were both poisoned by love. Marta insisted on her own view of love, struggled and finally woke up but was unable to save it; Tom lost in his own spiritual world, but was insulted by reality in the end. , and more of a painful sobriety.
"Love" was originally a simple emotion, but people use social values to measure it, add the distorted thoughts of human nature and selfish desires to it, find and create various shackles for the purest feelings in their hearts, and indulge in control It is a game between the master and the controlled, until the opportunity to experience life and love as equals is lost, and the love can only be broken, which will only add to the sadness.
"Love" seems to be visible and trustworthy, yet love is absurd, a paradox - the moment you approach love, it leaves you. This film also seems to expound on love and death. Love and death are like two poles of a statement, but they are only two sides of a piece of paper. Even if this death will not burn a man's statement, it has destroyed his spirit and belief.
Often wonder, if they hadn't caught that bus at the time, would it have been different? Can a boy's clean heart awaken a woman's silent inner feelings? Is the boy's suicide a kind of spiritual rebirth? It is a painful masochistic growth, and maybe since then, he has lost all attachment to love.
"Long and Short of Love" is a story about love, it can be a comedy - the woman re-believes in love and the boy's happy life; it can also be a tragedy - the boy who wakes up may no longer believe in love, But every detail of it, every stare, is so flawless, it only needs to be seen once, once is enough, it makes people miss and reminisce for a lifetime.
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