Text/White Tea Heart
<h1>1． A beautiful and debauched woman</h1>
This is a beautiful woman, smiling, walking and moving, so that the eyes of many men are chasing her. People who meet for the first time are attracted to her, people who work together are attracted to her, and people who pass by are attracted to her.
This is a debauched woman. At the beginning of the film, the heroine Sylvia, played by the goddess Theron, looks tired and smokes naked by the window. It was a dark morning, with a white human body and a dark background, in stark contrast.
On Sylvia's bed, there was a man with a vague face, and she told him to leave at once, as if she didn't want to see him anymore. In fact, they had only spent the night of debauchery last night.
Sylvia
This woman runs a seaside resort restaurant. The restaurant business was good, but her private life was a mess. She slept with all sorts of strange men, some cooks, some restaurant guests, and all kinds of strangers.
She also wanted to break up other people's families. She seduced the cook who loved her and said, Leave your wife, follow me. Let's leave and go somewhere else.
This is also a self-harming woman. She often needs to disappear from the restaurant for a while to smoke to relieve her exhaustion. She also scratched a deep wound on the inside of her thigh with a stone, as if that would make herself more comfortable.
She wandered over all sorts of men, but had no feeling of enjoyment. In bed, she was insensitive, as if it were an exercise that did not do anything, and the body was not her own at all, just an object that needed to be tortured and broken.
Sylvia is the son of her mother's lover
It's also an escapist woman. After her mother's death, she followed her mother's lover's son away from home. She left the place where she had grown up for more than a decade and began a career of wandering.
You might have thought she would settle down from now on. Because she had a husband, she was pregnant again. But on the second day of giving birth, she carried a suitcase and fled her daughter, who was only 2 days old, and escaped from her husband, who loved her deeply.
When the child's father was unconscious in a plane crash, the 12-year-old daughter followed her father's friends to find the missing mother and wanted to take her back to her father. Sylvia changed her name, saying they had identified the wrong person. She ran away in a panic, unable to face her own daughter.
<h1>2． A heavy and unforgettable past</h1>
Why did this woman do that? As the story of the multi-line structure progresses, we learn that this woman is saddled with a heavy past. As a teenager, Sylvia's mother had an affair with a husband with a wife.
Such a sneaky affair let the sensitive daughter find out. Sylvia followed them, watching them meet, doing things inappropriate for children, and she felt deep shame and anger.
Later, she put a lead on the outside of their secretly trafficked motorhome. Ben was a prank to scare them, not wanting to ignite the gas canister, causing the caravan to explode and kill his mother alive.
Mother and lover
Because of this incident, she carried an indescribable heavy psychological burden. She resented her mother for love and did stupid things. And because of love and very much, he remembers his mother with the son of his mother's lover. I think that at first she may have blamed herself for burning his father, with guilt in her heart.
In their memories, their grief and love and hatred for their respective parents have been released and mourned. Later, they fell in love and did something that no one else could understand. Discovered by her father, Sylvia had to embark on an elopement.
However, the sin of burning her mother has made it impossible for her to let go and forgive, so she is debauched, self-harming and evasive, using these actions to numb herself and punish herself. She also identified herself with her mother through these repetitive actions.
Being with her mother's lover's son also made her feel both nostalgia for her mother and guilt and self-blame. So she can't enjoy a normal family life and can't take care of her daughter.
It was like a dead knot that was difficult to untie, and the life that she could have lived happily was like a dress mothed by insects, and like a pool of hopeless stagnant water.
<h1>3. A journey of forgiveness and love of redemption</h1>
Sylvia did not want to admit that she knew her husband, and after not wanting to recognize her daughter, her heart was also very painful. After hesitating for a long time, with the help of her friends, she frantically found her daughter.
Her husband's best friend prevented her from seeing her daughter. But the daughter forgave her and gave her a chance to meet. She apologized to her daughter, telling her that she felt unworthy of having her daughter because she was afraid, and that she was afraid that she would ruin everything again.
The daughter felt her helplessness and love, the blood was thicker than water, and soon the daughter accepted her. The daughter accepted her with love, and her heart began to change. Moreover, from her daughter and her husband's good friends, she learned that her husband loved her deeply.
However, she was still afraid to face her husband. What worries her is that her husband has not woken up and may have to saw off his legs. But without waking up to him, she was able to face it reluctantly. So, in front of her unconscious husband's hospital bed, she confessed to him that she had burned her mother and his father.
Sylvia's confession
It was a huge trauma that could only rot in her heart, and in the face of a comatose person, she was able to confess without scruples. This painful outpouring made her let herself go.
And the way back is also the way she faces herself. She recalled the past and her mother, recalled the struggles and hardships of these years, and began to gradually let go of psychological baggage.
Therefore, when her husband woke up, she had the courage to take a step, catch up with her daughter, and walk into the ward together to her husband who was recovering, with the encouragement of the child.
Sylvia untied the dead knot because forgiveness and forgiveness allowed her to let go of her mother and herself. Because of the love of her husband and daughter, she no longer escapes, no longer continues to live a life of numbness, debauchery and self-harm.
She also rekindled her love for her daughter and husband, her desire for the future, and she let go of her sins and punishments for herself, thus finally completing the road of self-redemption and embarking on a new life.
That's it, the film tells a story of forgiveness and love, acceptance and rebirth. Roland said: "Love is the flame of life, without which everything becomes night." "It is because of love that Sylvia can go from night to dawn and eventually to the beautiful day.