Awe will let you understand why everyone dare not take any rescue measures when Jacques’ father had a diving accident; yearning will let you understand why Jacques will eventually loose the diving rope and swim deeper with the dolphins without hesitation. Abandon Johana, who loves him so much on the shore, and the new life in her belly.
This is a movie that not everyone can understand, this is a movie that not all plots can be understood. Because it is too rich and too deep, just like the sea it wants to express. BTW, I feel that the translation of the title is very poor. Whether it is the title or the plot, there is only the blue sea, not the blue sky. In the mermaid story told by Jacques, "the sky is forgotten."
Jacques' heartbeat becomes very slow when diving, and he can communicate with dolphins. If you have watched "Wallace Mermaid", you will definitely think that Jacques is a mermaid, to be precise, the offspring of a mermaid. Who is his mother is almost completely unexplained in the whole film, but "didn't leave, just returned to the United States." His father said that he went to the bottom of the sea to find a mermaid. In my opinion, Jacques’ mother was a mermaid, and later returned to the bottom of the sea for various reasons, and Jacques’ diving talent was inherited from his mermaid mother.
Enzo, a combative Sicilian, his diving skills are completely acquired. Although combative, Enzo also loves life, and people who love life will cherish life. So I think the point of Enzo's last dive was not that he wanted to beat Jacques, but that he also wanted to see the same underwater scenery that Jacques saw, because he loved the sea like Jacques. Reminiscent of a line in the "City of Angels": I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss of her mouth, one touch of her hand, than an eternity without it. At the same depth, he was not a mermaid after all, and finally exhausted the last bit of energy for his pursuit.
In the same pursuit, Johana also rushed to Jacques like a moth to a fire. She said to Jacques: My world is you. In order to complete the pursuit of love, Johana gave up her job, abandoned New York, and sacrificed everything. This is true love, and the vast Atlantic Ocean cannot stop it. In reality, people often fail to work or live in the same place, and "we are in love together on graduation day", and then say that this is love, so fragile and worthless. Actually? It's not love at all, it's just an illusion produced by impulse.
Jacques does not understand Johana (note what I said in the third natural paragraph of this article). There are two possibilities I can think of. One is that Jacques really loves Johana, but he loves the sea more, so he finally I chose the sea; second, Jacques really loves a mermaid, and imagines Johana as a mermaid, but never loves Johana itself. I think the latter is more likely. When he was stopped by Johana before he decided to swim to the depths of the sea, the indifference made him desperate.
In addition, although Johana loves Jacques deeply, she doesn't understand him. Johana once madly said that the underwater world is dark, cold and illusory, what's so good about it? I am real. It's like saying to a fan, what's the point of so many people grabbing a ball, why don't you just send one to play? Enzo once told Johana that Jacques was from another planet, and Johana obviously didn't understand this. After Enzo died, there was no real understanding of Jacques, so Jacques was very lonely. This is loneliness, not loneliness. If you don't want to be lonely, you can only swim deep into the sea, to find Enzo who is buried there, to find dolphins that can play with you, and most importantly, to find a true love-love with a mermaid.
Some people say that Jacques abandons his wife and children and has no sense of responsibility. I think Jacques is indeed wrong, but if he is responsible to Johana, he will always be wrong. I said before that there should be no necessary connection between responsibility and love, because responsibility is passive. The so-called responsibility is something that is moved out as a shield when a certain state cannot be maintained subjectively. Persuading unity and not persuading division, this kind of stubborn feudal thinking is never a virtue.
In reality, we are fettered by various "responsibility", so we are not Jacques, we are not even our kind of Enzo. Do you dare to abandon your well-paid job and go to another place to pursue your beloved girl? Do you dare to abandon your girlfriend who doesn't really love so much and go to another place to do what you really want to do? Do you dare to abandon the world or be abandoned by the world to choose a lonely lifestyle?
I hope I dare.
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