"Piano Teacher": Pathological Psychology Guided by Women's Double Inferiority Complex

Darius 2022-01-01 08:02:10

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I am used to deducting a large piece of mystery philosophy from a small point of experience. It is a pity that in this philosophical labyrinth created by myself, I am often lost and at a loss. Suddenly there is something if something is lost, and suddenly it is lost and regained. The Austrian film "La Pianiste" (La Pianiste) also comes from a man who is accustomed to refining the spirit-Michael Haneke (Michael Haneke), he does not avoid the secret experience and the tragedy of life, throwing coldness in the human heart His bayonet, with a cold blade and bloodthirsty brutality, asked the world for innocence. Foucault once wrote about the sudden death of Camus: Camus involuntarily threw his life on the question that only God can answer. I think that at the end of the movie, Erica pierced her chest with a sharp blade to test her spirit.

In the piano classroom, Erica once said when she met with student Walter for the first time, “Do you know how Adamu commented on Schumann’s Fantasia in C major? He talks about the hazy state, not the irrational Schumann. It was before, before the very moment. Schumann knew that he was going to lose his mind and was very painful, but he seized the last chance. At that moment of self-knowledge, he was on the verge of giving up completely." This hazy state, this edge state is very Ambiguous, it's natural that ordinary people can't appreciate it. Erica may try to grab the last straw and get rid of the state of falling into the abyss, but that is of no avail. The more she tries to break free, the deeper she falls.

Another portrayal of Erica’s life in the film is the tenor singing Schubert’s "Winter Journey" on the stage: "Don’t let me fall asleep, when I fall asleep. My dream is over, I’m asleep. What else is there in the crowd?" The humming piano accompaniment in Schubert's music is looming, as if to pull the high-pitched tenor from the sky down Pingchuan, entangled with loneliness and rebellion, breathtaking.

Erica is indeed about to have a mental breakdown, and her morbid psychology is hopeless. At the beginning of the film, she argued with a mother with obsessive-compulsive disorder over a valuable piece of clothing, and the hysteria against motherhood highlighted the abnormality of her lack of paternal love. In Erica's dictionary, fatherly love is a rare and precious thing, she has never touched or tasted it. The death of her father in a mental hospital also implies that Erica not only lacks paternal love in personality, but also distorts and misunderstands paternal love. Freud’s psychological analysis said that the lack of paternal love in adolescence is the cause of schizophrenia after adulthood, and the distortion of the Electra complex is the castration of human nature. Indeed, the incompleteness of human nature has also caused a lot of morbidity in Erica's personality. She watched self-service porn videos casually, cut the bottom of her body with a razor coldly, and peeped at others having sex in the car. In such potentially aggressive behavior, Erica achieves the satisfaction and intoxication of self-deformity consciousness, which is the pleasure of playing with pain under the stimulation of physical self-masturbation and voyeurism.

In the formation of Erica's morbid spirit, her mother is tantamount to "pushing the flames". She does not have the tenderness of motherhood in the family. She is authoritarian and tyrannical, and is in a strong position in the process of getting along with her daughter. Even though at the beginning of the film, the daughter argues with her endlessly, but in that long shot, the mother is always at the center of the shot, and Erica can only cling to the surroundings. The metaphor here is self-evident. In addition, in the family concert, when the host introduced the violins made by Pischule to his mother, she watched her daughter's every move vigilantly, and even told the audience about the status of the family. The letter to Walter laid the groundwork for it.

Erica's distortion and alienation of love is deeply ingrained. She is still single when she is more than 40 years old, living under the same roof with her mother. On the one hand, she longs for love and longs for a man who makes up for the shortcomings of life to come into her life; on the other hand, she rejects love, she hates men in society, always keeps a high head, and scorns men. For Erica, the man she needs is the "perfect" she imagined, and there is no doubt that Walter is a substitute for her "father" who unconsciously desires and psychologically tries to compensate for her incomplete self. This kind of "love" is an alienated and deformed erotic desire. Its process must start with violent sadism and end with violent destruction.

From the moment Erica put broken glass in the female student's pocket, her crazy sexual abuse psychology broke out. She completed the psychological rape of Walt by coercion and temptation, which is similar to the seduction of Stie by the female teacher in "Classroom Love", imposing her unsatisfied desire on relatively disadvantaged students. Of course, Erica's rape of Walt in the toilet is still on the psychological level, and her deformed psychology is arbitrarily satisfied in Walt's painful sexual struggle. Water's weakness and submission also exacerbated her desire for control. In the subsequent letter to Walter, she even imposed masochism and sadism on the male psychology, swaying aggressive behavior and ravaging the male psychology like giving orders. And these are nothing more than to satisfy the double pleasure of sadism and masochism, and to fill in the regrets of the incomplete self. Although Kundera said, "Flirting is not fulfilling the promise of sexual intercourse," but when a man's desire cannot be satisfied, it will induce a more frenzied backlash.

In one night, Walter vented his unsatisfied sexual desire to the disabled family according to the instructions in her letter. Erica's mother was thrown into the room, helplessly listening to her daughter being beaten and raped. Both the flesh and the body are greeted with devastation. Male violence finally dominated this cruel but uncomfortable tragedy. When the abuse really came, Erica lying on the ground could not feel any pleasure at all. She prayed to stop, but Walt remained indifferent and would be three times. The backlog of lust was completely and forcefully vented, raging her weak body and broken soul. Although Erica has instantly changed from a strong position in sex to a victim of male violence, her pathological psychology is impossible to realize. After bearing all the consequences blankly and numbly, she chose revenge and masochistic revenge. At the end of the film, in the concert hall, a sharp blade was inserted into the chest, and the blood slowly bleeding out from the placket was bright and cold. In the "Lifeline" chapter of "Ten Minutes, Old Age", the slowly fading red makes the restless life calm, and the red of the film makes life pay the price for the crazy nerves.

Perhaps women are animals with low self-esteem. They guard against men and rely on men. That is double low self-esteem.

05/02/05 2:24 published on March 21st Guangzhou New Entertainment

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  • Kamryn 2022-03-24 09:02:19

    In addition to the writing of desire, there may also be a layer of writing about the disaster (désastre) mentioned by Blanchot. Adorno's evaluation of Schumann during the first dialogue between the two points out that bad luck will always come suddenly but not at this moment. , the alien other than the right turns into absolute persecution, deprivation, torture in the return, and tends to the form of sadism-masochism. want to think.

  • Kaela 2022-03-27 09:01:11

    8.75 Haneke is better at calm dialogues. In the film, when the two people quarrel, the director is at a loss, and the scenes that need to use pictures to tell the story are even worse. The late French dub of Haneke's German-speaking actors, led by Lothar, got me seriously out of the way. I don't know if it's because of the French writing, the lines are not as speculative as the director should be. It is recommended that the director voila c'est ça should not use the unnutritious spoken language.

The Piano Teacher quotes

  • Walter Klemmer: Just then, I was under your window and I was jerking off. That's what you want, huh? You want to...

    [making obscene signs]

    Walter Klemmer: is that it? You're a witch, a pervert! You want to give everyone your illness, don't you? Not me!

    Erika Kohut: I did apologise.

    Walter Klemmer: Fuck your stupid apologies!

  • Erika Kohut: Do you like me calling you darling?

    Walter Klemmer: It's absolutely marvelous.

    Erika Kohut: You must be patient. I'll give you all the names, we'll play all the games you want.

    Walter Klemmer: You know you really stink? Sorry, you stink so much, no one will ever come close to you. You'd be better leave town until you don't stink so bad. Rinse your mouth more often, not just when my cock makes you puke.