The father's death: Her beloved father, once so philosophically mixed myths of "Elder Edda "with the
stories about nature; father fade away in a deep dementia... being a doctor. And what about Joe? At the
subconscious level she misinterprets her father's words that bare tree trunks are their souls: naked
people's bodies are quite different. Joe's gift for her father (ash's branch) was the key to the death' temple,
the key of anesthesia that could ease his fate, but finally led to the pain, agony and oblivion... A shameful
moment when Joe "was wet" can actually be traced back to an ancient subconscious reaction to the
death, which is combined with the conception of a new life - sex with... after an obsequies.
The image of the Ash: image of the ash with no leaves and black buds it is the mythological tree of
Yggdrasil, repeatedly told in the narrative Trier; this is the key to understanding. Naked Yggdrasil connects
three worlds - Hel, Midgard, Asgard, with Odin, which it hangs on it, dead, - it's almost a Christian symbol
of the crucifixion. The three worlds represent the the Holy Trinity. And the human being, here, is a bud, is
a promise to reveal shown once as a heart-shaped leaf. Will you wake up from the sleep of insensitivity,
will you love, or will you overcome the modern motto - "it's not time yet for..."? The nymph is an aborted
insect, not yet dragonfly. Nymphomaniac - is a human nymph... The primate becomes the God-man only
through true Love.
Bach: The sounds at the last minute of the movie are so eloquent and unequivocally, it is Bach's Choral
prelude «Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ» - «I call to You, Lord Jesus Christ" and also melodically citation of
„Solaris" by Andrei Tarkovsky, who once said very accurately: "We do not know what love is, we behave
monstrously to ourselves. We misunderstand what is to love ourselves, we are even ashamed of it.
Because we think that to love ourselves is to be selfish. This is a mistake, because love - this is a sacrifice."
Forked oak of Joe’s father: The image of the mother is almost excluded from the film, she is only
pretending to be patient (it’s contagious) and stands over the dead body, the father takes all the Joe’s love
for himself, his tree, a mighty oak has two souls in one - a kind father and a cold husband.
Joe’s tree: The ash which we see in the first part of the film was a male tree and its comparison with Joe
was the essence of nymphomania, but in the second part she found her true tree of soul - Rowan (Eng.
name "Mountain Ash", let’s remember the tree and its fingers in the ashes). In Greek mythology the ash
was created from the blood and feathers of an eagle (the Seligman’s phrase about "if you have wings, you