Churchill famously said: Democracy may not necessarily produce the best results, but it can avoid the worst!
This statement can be applied to Hollywood film production - Hollywood does not necessarily produce the best film art work, but it can avoid the worst film production.
No matter how bad Hollywood movies are known as industrial mass production, there is a standard. This standard is a quantifiable technical level. The technology is not only the technology of shooting and special effects, but also the technology of screenwriters and directors. Compared to looking back at domestic parallel movies, there are no bottom lines.
From the plot point of view, the story is about a doll who lost her mother, was unsuccessfully raped by her stepfather, and was sent to a mental hospital by her stepfather after killing her sister by mistake. Later, he helped Pea escape from the mental hospital, but he was subjected to amnestic surgery.
The story is very dark, and the whole film is dominated by black tones, giving people a very depressing feeling. But the story cleverly uses the mental patient's imagination to show various fantastic scenes and relieve many depressed emotions.
On the surface, the theme of the story is the doll's efforts to be free, and the price paid. In fact, it's about him.
At the beginning of the movie the old man tells the doll. Five items are needed to gain freedom. They are map, fire, knife, key, and the fifth item is a mysterious thing "It is the reason. It is the goal. It will be a deep sacrifice and a perfect victory." This mystery The thing the film tells at the end is the doll herself. The problem is that the protagonist Doll wants to be free, and now even herself is one of the conditions. In the end, only the peas managed to escape, which is enough to show that this is not the story of the doll. There is only one protagonist, Pea himself. The end of the film clearly states "It is you".
The doll is not a real person, she represents a character - self-realization is the freedom Pea wants in his surreal imagination. The "death" of the doll also verifies the old man's sentence "It is the reason. It is the goal. It will be a deep sacrifice and a perfect victory." Similarly, the four items outside the two are not real items. , but rather refers to wisdom, enthusiasm, courage and opportunity. These are the five elements of success. But there is one hidden element missing - the guidance (the old man).
The film is about the process of rediscovering the inner ideal of self when lost.
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