Communication between the View and Model in MVC

Question

After reading from many different sources, I am very confused about how View and Model should communicate in the MVC pattern. To my understanding, the accepted answer of this po

Answer 1

There is more than one answer. Eventually you can do whatever you thing suits your needs. I use a controller + ViewModels to connect to the view. The view never use the model. just what the controller gives him.

There is a nice explanation of all models in steven sandarson book, Page 49 (variation on MVC).