4 Feb 2010

Chorar não chega




O filme começa e acaba com esta ária.

E começa com o acto sexual entre um casal que de tão envolvidos (brilhantemente filmado) não dão conta de que o filho empurra uma cadeira para uma mesa trepa à janela e tentando apanhar os flocos de neve, despenha-se e morre.
Para tentarem sarar as feridas de uma culpa partem para uma cabana isolada numa montanha.
Lá a tensão aumenta de uma maneira brutal e a luta física entre ambos no próprio acto sexual (atenção têm cenas explicitas de sexo)leva inevitavelmente ao delírio e ao fim.


Her sexual pleasure and torment are bound together by the fact that she was mid-coitus when her son died. The male/female union becomes a target of her guilt. Pleasure and pain are actually very similar physiologically so this kind of makes sense. As you can see in the film, the sex act becomes a mourning, self punishment.

(IMDB)

O filme está cheio de simbolismo e para quem esteja interessado coloca-se nos comentários uma das interpretações dadas no IMDB (atenção contêm spoiler).

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1 comment:

fado alexandrino. said...

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy is a form of child abuse in which a parent induces real or apparent symptoms of medical affliction in a child. The motivation for this abuse is attention and sympathy.

After the woman allows her child to die, she gets exactly what she wanted: constant attention from her husband. She even explicitly states in the intro that he was not giving her enough attention, when he allowed her to travel to Eden alone.

Her disorder is first revealed when he discloses the autopsy results, that the childs feet had bone deformations, and then realizes this was caused by the woman who was putting his shoes on reversed. Later it is revealed that she allowed her child to die, often the ultimate result of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

When he comes to her with the photos of the reversed shoes, her greatest fear is realized, that he knows what she is doing, and she cries that he will leave her. To prevent this she goes to extreme measures. When he escapes, she screams in panic.

The subplot of witches is also explained, with the implications that "witches" were in fact women who had Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. They were "evil" (as stated by the woman), and not at all innocent, because they did in fact harm and kill their children.

The tree, the bodies in the ground, and the women at the end all relate to previous witch-killings there around Eden cabin,and it was being there which caused the woman to become afflicted in the first place, as shown by the increasingly distorted writing in her journal.
IMDB