Ondine

In the same contrast between the Dr. Hannibal Lecter's violence and his preferred music Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach,
one hears the terrible silence of the stag who lost the head under a rain of golden stars in an extreme tenderness:

With her hand turned blue red by the coldness, Salome seems to wish to keep the St. John Baptist's head with her.

The shrink-wrap on the Hsiao Kang's lips prevents any kisses between the life symbolised by the Salome's blue eyes and
the death in the closed eyes of St. John Baptist

in front of the carcass of the frozen meat of stag that one guesses among the ice in background.

Credit for the picture: Atom Cinema in the Tsai Ming-Liang's interview for 首頁 [Pots] magazine on Sept. 25, 2009.