Piano teacher's film evaluation

ThePianoTeacher is one of the best movies I saw in 200 1. Because it is adapted from the original semi-autobiographical novel (1983+0983) by Austrian woman writer ElfriedeJelinek, this film focusing on delicate psychology and humanity is even more powerful.

The behavior of female professors conforms to the clinical explanation of "obsessive CompulsiveObsessiveDisorder" in medicine: (patients) are constantly suffering from repeated thoughts and behaviors, which they know are excessive and unreasonable, but they can't effectively resist their appearance. Common symptoms include: … repeated involuntary thoughts … involuntary stealing and voyeurism, compulsive observance of special rules and rituals, and excessive emphasis on symmetrical, accurate and compulsive collection. Patients also have some special anxieties, including fear that their repeated thoughts and behaviors will be discovered by others and uncertainty anxiety about whether they can be "accurate" ... Watching hard-core porn in Erica's porn shop, smelling other people's toilet paper full of semen, squatting by the car to peek at people having sex in the car, and cutting off their private parts are all "rituals" to satisfy (or output) their desires by repeating their own cognition. However, she strictly requires students to show the accuracy and feeling of Schubert's music expression when playing the piano, which can be regarded as evidence of "paying too much attention to accuracy". Erica forced herself to chew the unchanging order and reason in daily life. When Walter, a male student, broke into her world, she even tried to control him with the set of "rules" she worshipped. In the girls' public toilet, she ordered him to watch himself during oral sex and asked him to be violent to her according to the regulations in her letter. It was not until this evenly matched and even better male student gradually ignited Erica's stronger desire and jealousy that the orderly world she built collapsed. Following the camera, we fell into a spell-like situation of the film, driven by family violence and excited by the desire violence of love. It was a tit-for-tat struggle between people. After the critical point of rationality, it became a cruel theater of human nature. It's this good-looking movie that awakens us from the sanctimonious faces, perhaps a shallow sleep or a sleeping beast. The audience wrestled unevenly on the ethical balance, as if the movie had caused them to fall into the abyss of human nature, but it was the abyss of human nature in everyone's heart that would be connected with the filthy human nature cut open by the movie. The dark side that you don't want to face at ordinary times allows you to face it with your own eyes in a dark screening hall. It is hard for you not to be oppressed and swallowed up by this heavy force. Furthermore, the director did not forget to give the hero Walter the depth and complexity he deserved because of his ink on the heroine. In the public toilet scene in the film, Walter expressed his hope for fair "rules of the game" after his courtship was frustrated. At the last concert hall, Walter smiled strangely, just like when he walked out of the public toilet. This ambiguous facial expression reveals his painful victory? Pleasant frustration? Or disdain disdain? Erica's strange sexual addiction and hurting Anna, a female student, are really shocking, but Walter's "playing" attitude in dealing with this relationship seems to violate the image of a sincere admirer, which makes people wonder whether his original pursuit was only to conquer an invincible woman. And this woman has issued an emergency call for help. The identity of the victim and the perpetrator is no longer clear, and even the position has been exchanged. Walter is no longer just a lost lamb. At the end of Steel, the director let us see the hero's smile and the creepy smile of the teacher we once (or maybe still) loved after the whole rational world fell apart. Issbelle huppert is an outstanding actress. A controversial character like Erica, if not careful, can easily be played as a superficial villain. In details, her abstinence dress has a very strong symbol of self-abuse. Other subtle and fragmentary movements, such as the body language of dismissing shoulders for fear of being infected by bacteria, or the stiff hand movements when being hugged by beloved students in your room, as well as embarrassing facial expressions, subtly convey Erica's divided inner world, as well as the coexistence of lewdness and nobility, indifference and enthusiasm, loss and satisfaction, turmoil and tranquility, which is amazing. Because of this multi-level performance, the audience also joined this abused group. What's more gratifying is that this film did not become Huppert's solo show. If the director does not pay enough attention to other aspects, or fails to grasp the strength, the overall performance of the film will be greatly reduced. What is rare is that Piano Teacher is not only Hooper's film, but also directed by MichaelHaneke. Because on the one hand, the director let the audience see Huppert's superb performance, on the other hand, he also considered other delicate textures of the film itself, such as the parallel contrast of characters (manipulation between mother and daughter, manipulation between men and women, manipulation between teachers and students) and the psychological complexity of the protagonist. One of the best ways to examine the director's steel skill is to see how he uses the image of "cage" to symbolize the predicament faced by the people in the play. The film Iron and Steel is presented and composed in a consistent way from beginning to end, emphasizing the invisible cage caused by Erica's own ideas, civilized ethics and the limitations of the surrounding environment. When Erica followed Walter to the stadium for the first time, we saw Erica stop in front of the fence and watch him leave. In the last scene, Erica hurried out of the concert hall. In the distant view, the audience suddenly noticed Erica walking in the railing of the street. Does she want to break free from this closed cage? Because there is no narration of the protagonist in the film, the audience seems to be unable to see it at a glance. But when I think back carefully, in the first half of the film, whenever Erica teaches the piano, the sunshine outside the window is extremely dazzling, but she always looks out of the window; After oral sex and vomiting, Erica rushed out of the door more urgently. The director grasped the essence of speaking with images, and brilliantly hinted at her desire to get rid of it. These themes are so heavy that people can't breathe, but when describing conflicts, the film also has transcendental humor. The so-called accidental conflict between normal people and abnormal people often makes me laugh. In the closed consciousness of an old maid who has never had sex, all sexual concepts are obtained from vulgar pornographic images. She gave oral sex to men, although it was a "show of love", but it used the language of command. She thinks this is normal sexual behavior. Of course, compared with her normal behavior, it is only equal to the abnormality of the hero, because the so-called normality of the hero should be kissing, caressing and sexual intercourse first, and then more kinds of oral sex or games, sexual abuse and so on. This is a kind of conflict, cognitive conflict ... the intensity of the conflict is no less than that of the Spanish who met pagan Indians in those years.