Monday, April 20, 2020
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Synopsis
Drama set in a repressed, deeply religious
community in the north of Scotland, where a naive young woman named Bess
McNeil meets and falls in love with Danish oil-rig worker Jan. Bess and
Jan are deeply in love but, when Jan returns to his rig, Bess prays to
God that he returns for good. Jan does return, his neck broken in an
accident aboard the rig. Because of his condition, Jan and Bess are now
unable to enjoy a sexual relationship and Jan urges Bess to take another
lover and tell him the details. As Bess becomes more and more deviant
in her sexual behavior, the more she comes to believe that her actions
are guided by God and are helping Jan recover.
