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Before evaluating the film, let's briefly talk about Iceland and Icelandic films, Iceland is located in the westernmost part of Europe, is an island country in the North Atlantic, covers an area of about 103,000 square kilometers, and one-eighth of the country is covered by glaciers, because it is located on the edge of the Arctic Circle, which is called "the end of the world".
There are many films filmed in Iceland. This may be because the special geography has created a variety of strange landforms in Iceland. For example, in Game of Thrones, most of the scenes north of the Great Wall and the Great Wall were filmed here. The birthplace of Snow and Jergrith's love affair is also a hot spring cave in Iceland. It is also known by many as the most alien planet-like place in the world, such as "Star Wars Episode VII", Nolan's "Interstellar", Scott's "Prometheus", "Tree of Life" and other sci-fi blockbusters have also been filmed here. Not only is it curious, but its scenery is also beautiful simply. A lot of realistic movies will come to shoot here. Coupled with the fact that the Icelandic government has introduced many preferential policies, the country's films have also developed well, and local films have also begun to flourish. Iceland, which has only 340,000 people, produces only a few films a year, but once it is released, the people celebrate it as a cultural event. Moreover, they are buying far more domestic films than foreign films, and the Icelandic film industry in 2015 ushered in an exciting harvest season. "Ram", "Sparrow" and "Virgin Mountain" three films, a total of more than 100 international awards. Among them, the Ram won the top prize in the "One Kind of Attention" section of the Cannes Film Festival, and the film's director Grimaud Hacknallson called these three films the "New Wave of Icelandic Cinema". You may think that three movies can't be counted as a wave, but as far as Iceland is concerned, it is a big event to produce three such movies a year.
Dag Kali, the director of Virgin Mountain, is a very important character in Icelandic cinema. His debut novel, "Icebergs Sailing to Tropical Islands", was the most watched Icelandic film on Douban before "Virgin Mountain", which is a work with unique Nordic black humor and cool temperament. Today's "Virgin Mountain" presents more of a feeling of warm sketches. The film's soundtrack is sparse and in harmony with the characters in its surroundings. In the few places where there is a soundtrack, it is also a very simple instrument, giving people a feeling of loneliness. The color of the film is also a strong cool tone, with low saturation and high contrast of brightness, which sets off the loneliness of Firth himself. Let the audience better understand the characters. However, there is still a brief tonal change in the film, and after The psychological growth of Fors, the director turns the picture to pink, bright and bright, reflecting Fors's happy mood. Then it came back, like a dream. The characters in the film are ordinary people in Icelandic society. This makes the feeling of the movie very real, for example, the appearance of the heroine Sjoven is more ordinary, but if you make it a beautiful woman, the story becomes bloody and untrustworthy.
The male protagonist, Firth, is a bloated technical man. He was often looked at by strange eyes from around him. It will be bullied because of its weak personality, but at the same time it has a simple warmth and kindness. Whether it is for Stephen, the mother, the little girl's family, it is reflected. This is true even for colleagues who clearly bully him with malice. However, when he faced some important issues, he was able to show decisiveness. For example, if he hadn't seen Sjöven for many days, he would not hesitate to break the glass and enter the door, touching his own bottom line, such as when his colleagues forced him to have sex with prostitutes, and he could also exert the power of "honest people".
The other characters in the film are also very three-dimensional, whether it is a small hair who has a good personal relationship with Firth, or a neighbor father who apologizes for his suspicion of Furth's behavior, or a colleague who often bullies Foss but expresses concern in his own way, there is no simple distinction between good guys and bad guys, which also makes the character shaping more real and believable, thus increasing the sense of reality of the whole movie. Talking about the details of the movie, when Firth takes the little girl back for a ride to see the police, it is easy to think of another Nordic movie, "The Hunt". In that film, a divorced middle-aged man is caught up in a sexual assault scandal because of a little girl's lies, and he can't escape the fate of being misunderstood for life. When seeing Firth, who had a similar experience, the audience couldn't help but worry about him. Fortunately, this policeman is more experienced. On the wall behind him were several pictures made by children, indicating that the police may also have families and that he could understand children. The question was pertinent, and when he found that Firth answered seriously, not like the perpetrator, he put it back.
When Firth went to a dance class, he didn't dare to go in when he saw that everyone was familiar with each other. Some people may not understand, but in fact, the unfamiliar environment or too many occasions of strangers is indeed easy to make introverts feel embarrassed and afraid. It reminds me of when I was very young, when my teacher asked me to go to a rehearsal, and I walked to the door to find that everyone had already started. After hesitating, he turned his head and went home. I don't know if you feel that many otaku do not lack theoretical knowledge of love, on the contrary, their theoretical knowledge is often exceptionally rich. It's just that he is often stuck in the action link, just like when Stephen invited Firth to come in for tea, Foss actually understood the meaning of the phrase "drinking tea". But he was afraid of the process of turning theory into practice, and many otaku fell down at this step. But if the otaku do break through this hurdle, their theoretical knowledge will help them make better moves. When Firth plucked up his courage, he would be more considerate than the average person.
About the end of the film, Sjøffin invites Mr. Foss to move in. The sudden refusal of Firth when he first moved in may confuse many viewers, but in fact, Stephen may have suffered from a mental illness called 'bipolar disorder'. According to David Miklovitz's Bipolar Disorder, the key feature of this symptom is an extreme mood swing, unlike depression, where the mood only goes along underestimation. The patient's mood switches back and forth between the two extremes of peak and trough. When patients are at their peak, they have a cheerful or euphoric mood, such as when Sjofen first met Firth, she seemed very cheerful, optimistic and talkative, and even took the initiative to teach Firth to dance. Their minds will be very rushing, and it is easy to jump from one idea to another. Sometimes their activity and energy levels also increase suddenly, which is why Sjøffen paints the walls on a whim.
However, when patients are in the trough of extreme depression, they will easily become sad and depressed, and have no sense of security. Like people with depression, they have a low level of self-identification at this time and are not interested in anything. So we can see that Sjofen will hide in the room for many days, and at the end of the sentence, Sjøffin suddenly asks Firth to move back because he is in a depressed period. Sjøfen said she works at a florist and may also be linked to bipolar disorder. Look closely at the florist's reaction, and it's possible that he didn't know Sjøffin at all. And one of the big symptoms of bipolar disorder is that patients can easily overestimate their abilities and conjecture experiences that don't exist, and Sjøffin may be lying here, of course, this is just an explanation. In the film, many people want Firth to become a better person. But it was a kind of 'better' that they subjectively imposed, and did not consider whether Fence could do it or not, whether he would try or not. The mother and her boyfriend wanted Tors to have more contact, but Fors did not adapt, and his colleagues forced Forth to have sex with prostitutes, and this extreme imposition touched Fors's bottom line.
Fence, who had experienced this, understood the pain. He wasn't willing to impose others, so he didn't explain much when the neighbor dad had misconceptions and prejudices about himself. When Sjoven hid in the cupboard and refused to come out. He was also just waiting for himself to get out of the haze.
Later, he moved to his girlfriend's house as agreed. Sjøfen suddenly asked Firth to move back. It frustrated him, but he didn't say much because he himself knew best that human change could not be imposed. Only those who are willing to change can change. Fors was initially afraid to go to dance class. Sjofen told him that the dance class wasn't that bad, and he could take him with him, so he might as well try it. Fors began to try dancing. Mother forcibly arranged for Firth to take a dance lesson, and Firth would rather hide in the car and wait for the lesson to end. Sjørfen hid in the cupboard and did not dare to come out. Firth gave him time for her to gather courage and walk out voluntarily. If Firth had forcibly pulled her out, there would have been no good result. Sjøven's dream was to open a florist in a cottage along the street. Firth renovated the house according to the wishes that Sjoven had asked him, but he simply put the key in an envelope and threw it into his door. Let her discover for herself. If you force the store key to him, it will feel like he has fulfilled his dream for Sjøven. And that's not the way she wants it. Because. If you want to change a person, you can't directly pull him into the larger world. You can only show him the bigger world. Tell him there is another option waiting for him. He could walk back on his own, but he couldn't pull him over, as did Mr. Fors's neighbor, who had always been prejudiced against Mr. Fors. But there is no way to forcibly change this. It wasn't until later, through a long time together, that the neighbors saw that Firth was not the kind of person he first remembered. Finally understood him and changed the way I thought about him. A friendly apology and goodbye to him.
Firth has always been in a closed world. It was Sjofen who told him that there were foreign countries in the world and that he could go out and have a look. He offered that he liked sunny places, and Firth realized that there was such a place in the world. Only to find Egypt, a country with brilliant sunshine. Sjørfen showed him what a woman is like? What intimacy is all about. Firth began to think proactively about how to treat a woman, how to make him happy, how to get along with him. That's exactly how Firth came out. And the reverse is true, when Sjofen is at an extreme low, Firth puts breakfast at his door and cleans her up. Maintained job opportunities that may have been lost. He did not forcibly pull Syofing out of the closet. Instead, he prepared a warm world and waited for him to come out voluntarily. The film doesn't have a perfect ending. Although in the end Sjøfen's state of mind fell to the bottom again. But a renovated florist was waiting for her. In the future she may regain her strength because of this. And for Fors, although Sjøffin did not let him live with him, the two did not end up together. But this experience allowed him to get out of the original world, and he realized that he and the opposite sex can also communicate and coexist. Outside of this world. Sun-filled Egypt is also available. Maybe there's something beautiful waiting there that I didn't think of before. At the end of the film, Fors shows a relieved smile, which is a step forward for Fors. In front of him was a larger world to be discovered. The huge "Virgin Mountain" in his heart also seemed to have been chiseled through a crack.
The story is accompanied by old wine, the Ming Dynasty reunites, life is hidden in the poem in the movie, the story is the scenery hidden in the poem, I am waiting for the poem and waiting for you.