Love Short Film - What is Love?

Marcia 2022-11-15 06:01:34

Type of film: Religion, don't be deceived by the title of the film, this is a film about religion, another work by Kieslowski, the director of "Ten Commandments", the whole film is full of strong religion color. At the beginning of the film, it is pointed out that this is a short film based on the sixth commandment of the Ten Commandments. The length is less than an hour and a half. The story is simple and the dialogue is sparse. As for the moral, I don't really understand much.

Film style: Sleeping wind, the inevitable trend of drama films.

Movie recommendation index: Don't watch it if you are in love or single, and if you are bored and planning to make it, you might as well start watching it.

At the beginning of the film, it is pointed out that the film is about to clarify the sixth of the Ten Commandments. So I searched the Bible and found that different sects have different commandments. Kieslowski is Polish, probably a Catholic or a Lutheran, because only these two churches have the sixth commandment, while the other denominations put the seventh commandment. Therefore, it was found that there are several aspects to the content of not adultery. Extramarital sex, homosexuality, and sexual immorality all belong to the scope of adultery. And this film is about the uncleanness of thoughts and ideas, and explores the big topic of love in depth.

It's a lot more interesting here. Could it be that the director is a lover who admires Plato and is ashamed. The story is actually very simple, condensed and edited into a ten-minute micro-movie. The younger brother Tommark, who works in the post office, fell in love with Magda, a charming woman across the building. He observed her life with binoculars every day for a year and a half. During this period, he fell in love with her. So, he was no longer satisfied with watching from afar, he began to interfere in her life and approached her. He intercepted her letters, sent her fake withdrawal slips just to meet her, applied for a milkman to deliver her milk, called her to hear her voice, and disrupted her sex life. In the middle of the night, Tommark saw Magda crying alone, so he couldn't wait to tell Magda of his existence. There was someone who participated in her life from afar and witnessed her joys and sorrows. Magda tries to seduce Tommark, because in her heart, the so-called love is just dating, kissing, and going to bed, and Tommark realizes that her love is desecrated and defends her loyalty to love by suicide.

Kieslowski tried to use a Tommark to illustrate the essence of love. Tommark kept the Six Commandments from start to finish. Advice, in Chinese, means advice and vigilance. Repeatedly admonishing himself not to have lust, in the process of observing Magda, he did not have thoughts of impurity; when Magda came to the door, he did not do lustful things, in his heart, love is noble, like the sky The hanging sun can be looked up to and admired, but not a little blasphemous.

If this is love, then all the otaku men and women in China have done it. They love the gods and goddesses scattered in the second and third dimensions so deeply and so pure. Just this kind of love, you are in love with your own love.

This feeling is the same as in Haruki Murakami's "Sputnik Lovers", a woman who falls in love with the soul she has created. After watching this type of movie, the heart will be very low, very low, low into the dust, beating hard with the mud. Love exists because most of us are lonely, so we need to extract the same thing from a certain part of our body, give her a soul, teach her to love, and then fall in love with yourself.

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Extended Reading
  • Ernestina 2022-05-30 21:11:03

    "Peeping" has become another expression of love under the blessing of secret love. Everything you see, everything, is beautified with a halo. However, there are always some flaws that will come into view, and there will always be some embarrassment that cannot be added. Can you deceive yourself in the name of love? Perhaps your secret love is just an existing fantasy with a carrier of reality, and your "voyeur" is just a mirror, layered on top of the other side flowers.

  • Deondre 2022-05-30 22:45:43

    8/10. The scene frame followed the character and continued to correct the composition. Tommark ran out of the post office and called Magda to admit that he was involved in a set of emotional reaction shots that were not arranged in advance, like a documentary, with red bedspreads, tapestries, telephones, oil paintings, window frames and transparency. Shooting through a mirror reveals a passionate desire to be surrounded by a dim living space. At the end, Magda's eyes are close to the telescope and toward her room: caressing the overturned baby bottle in tears, and Gu Ying expresses her love and loneliness.

A Short Film About Love quotes

  • Magda: Why are you peeping at me?

    Tomek: Because I love you. I really do.

    Magda: And what do you want?

    Tomek: I don't know.

    Magda: Do you want to kiss me?

    Tomek: No.

    Magda: Perhaps you want to make love to me?

    Tomek: No.

    Magda: Want to go away with me? To the lakes, or to Budapest?

    Tomek: No.

    Magda: So what do you want?

    Tomek: Nothing.

    Magda: Nothing?

    Tomek: Yes.