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Old 13 Apr 2003, 00:04   #12
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Nu ne-ai zis unde poate fi gasit... dar oricum, cred ca n-o sa ma aventurez....

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In "Breaking the Waves", the central character, Bess (Emily Watson) is a few cards short of a full deck. Her love for her husband Jan is so obsessive that she literally will, and does, do anything and everything for him. Jan goes off for a long time to work on an oil rig. Bess misses him so much that she prays God will send Jan home. In a tragic accident, Jan ends up back home in the hospital. Is God answering her prayer with anger and cruetly? Or is this merely how she interprets things? It is unclear.

It gets worse. Suffering delusions, Jan starts speaking in ways that show he is not himself. While in this state, he asks Bess to go and prostitute herself with other men. It will make him happy. The whole situation seems rigged to punish Bess's loving heart. Naive to the point of being mentally handicapped, Bess is incapable of reasoning that this is unfair. Although fearful, she does as he asks...because she loves him.

For the next hour and a half, the audience is forced to watch this girlish, cherubic, funny young woman comitting perverse and reckless sexual acts with other men. To make matters even worse, her constant conversations with God bring her no mercy, at least not until the audience is nauseous with watching her "sacrifices".

When the bells ring out at the end of that film, some audience members hear a note of grace and mercy; surely, that is what the bells represent.

http://promontoryartists.org/looking...rinthedark.htm

Precum si:

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I think that this may be true as old Lars is a bit of a wily git. Avoid at all costs - if someone asks you what you though of it at a dinner party and you didn't see it, then just mention the above and that will make them shut up and think about their sad little lives (that's only if they liked it). If they have some points in criticism then okay.

http://us.imdb.com/CommentsShow?0115751

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