A reporter asks her whether it's true that she composed her husband's music. I didn't really feel like that question was ever answered in the film. Am I dumb or was this left unresolved?
"You provide the prose poems, I'll provide the war."
Well, I wouldn't say that you're dumb.
This film doesn't spell things out like a typical Hollywood-production. It's all about small things/details....
Try seeing it again, or read this old topic:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0108394/board/nest/16627058
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That’s the only thought in the entire movie (the weakest of the trilogy).
It’s the only thing TO question.
I don’t think she wrote it. It helps her feel that he isn’t missing, or gone, if she thinks she did, either as a muse or otherwise.
Kieslowski was being coy to be coy. If you're vague as an artist people will mistake that for being deep, as people are afraid to ask questions to appear "dumb". Nothing was dumb about your question. It's a great one.
I feel like the question was answered.
Yes, she did. That's why she knew something so particular as how many corrections were in the unfinished piece, and how many corrections were the norm. That's why Olivier said that the public had to know, when discussing the authorship of the final work (if it had been customary for the public to know the truth, there would be no reason to stipulate that the public had to know).
We got women talking back. We got people playing stringed instruments. It's the end of days.
I also think the same and it makes me think about the freedom theme. In one sense she sets her self free when she takes controll of the music she supposedly, at least partly, composed. She is no longer standing in the shadow of her husband. Also she finaly makes sure she will not be "placed in the shadow" of Oliver when she returns to complete the work.
shareAlso in the beginning, when she's talking to her lawyer, she says something along the lines of "No one can ever know." I doubt she was just talking about he instructions to sell her belongings.
shareI don't think she did. I think maybe she helped her husband more and more with his work, and at the end would have known how it turns out.
My parents are composers and my father said that discussing and going through his pieces with my mother is after decates of marriage like talking to himself. He doesn't think it makes his work any less his own, only she helps him with it as any life decision. (I don't know if I translated his thought very well but...)
Wait! Does this also mean putting out doesn't get you love?