This is a legendary classic film and an exemplary model of relationships and psychology. CHARACTER ANALYSIS Joe didn't experience tragedy without warning, and he set the tone early on when he first met Mrs Norma, that he intended to develop a pathological adoration and attachment to Mrs Norma. There are many ways to help a mentally ill person, but spending the night with her as her narcissistic projection on New Year's Eve isn't really helpful—Joe has a chance to realize it, but he chooses to suppress it so that " I'm in love with her and I'll save her" beliefs are rationalized. He not only missed a good opportunity for Norma's psychological transformation, but also failed to take responsibility for himself. This self-sacrificing participation in the other party's narcissistic drama was hypnotized by Joe as a "helpless choice". It seems that Joe is helpless, and he seems to be indifferent to the wealth Norma has given him, and even a little ashamed of the "image of a pillar man" promoted by the times. In fact, he is not really helpless, but really willing. At the end of the film, in order to take care of Norma's feelings, he rejects Chev in front of Norma, and specifically emphasizes how important wealth is to him - he actually cares about wealth, but this important is only this morbid attachment relationship The important supporting role in , or in other words, fame and sadism are twins for him. In the end, Joe makes a decision that is liberating for him: let himself leave Norma, let Chev leave him, and get back on his feet to live his own life. Norma is an old caged bird who is deeply shackled by the character's sexuality. Whether the cage is gold or silver, the cage is a cage after all. The industrial commodity system only squeezed her youthful beauty and didn't care about her—so she rightly subscribed to the idea that the young, beautiful and ever-popular character was her, the much-anticipated rising star: Noah Ma Desmond. Perhaps for the Freudian school, she would be a classic mental model of narcissistic personality disorder. For herself, she has undoubtedly put the most severe chains on her own life. She must live in a gorgeous fantasy of her own making. But her soul has long lost its vitality. She greedily longs for more admirers, but the pride in her heart cannot extinguish her desire for companionship. Instead, it burns her desire into anger like fuel until one day, that The man in the subconscious script finally came to her withered mansion. There are no sharp weapons or doorknobs in the mansion, because Norma lives in a state of despair that is on the verge of exhaustion at any time, and the loneliness created for the sake of role-proud psychological activities make all kinds of contradictions wrap her, and in her world, she must be. The most popular, the cutest, the most beautiful, the most controlling, This kind of cognition made her force her three husbands away (and the first husband mutated). Then, Norma's attitude in intimacy must be a control freak, she wants to imprison her lover in her own little world, where there are untold wealth and her eternal beauty, faithful servant and noble life. She killed her lover's freedom for her all-powerful narcissism, which may be what we are doing inadvertently. The freedom to stifle a lover is also reflected in Norma's first suicide attempt. She said, "I will kill myself again, I will kill myself again!" In fact, she didn't want to die, she wanted to threaten the man in front of her with suicide, So that men can't leave themselves because of guilt. This is why when Joe left, she finally couldn't hide the twisted love in her heart and turned into twisted hatred: no one would accompany her to create illusions with her, she needed the man who created illusions with her, or a tool. She doesn't care whether her lover is free or not, her life is filled with the words Norma Desmond, she is the center of her world. Max is the person who made Norma. In fact, this role is quite important. He is the cultivator behind the Gu. He treats Norma as his work of art and cherishes her more than one person loves a movie, not one person for another. This is also the reason why he chose to stay by his wife's side after his divorce and became a servant who was obedient in every possible way. In the depths of Max's consciousness, Norma and her are conjoined. No matter who Norma marries, she is his work, he created her, and she represents Max's honor, achievement and life. The value of Max, like Norma, also wants to reclaim its former glory. His methods also hide viciousness in their warmth. Fake fan letters to kill Norma are his means of seeking the integrity of his work. He's been defending the proud, shining Norma character, not caring about Norma herself, the one tormented by herself. Discussing about age Age is a symbol of the film's emphasis on depiction. Social phenomena are the mental states of the combined effect of groups. Even today, we can still hear a sentence in the air: "I don't allow people to grow old, especially women." Behind this sentence is a cluster of related ideas: "Younger and younger", "Youth forever, happy every day", "Youth is king"... This is a subconscious denial of life experience in the commodity society. The value of it is delineated into the beautiful appearance, and tells people: enjoy it well, and don't allow extravagance. As a result, many spiritual things have been obliterated, and the elderly seem to have become "expired". People make themselves into something on the supermarket shelf, which is a group work. With maximum irony. Of course, youth is definitely worth affirming, and the fetish for old age is as morbid as the fear of aging. What is important is that the concept of life can no longer be limited to specific functions, but must affirm the transcendent and intuitive experience. Note that a flower is a complete process from budding to blooming, and then to withering, in which there are many mutually supporting functions, and the significance of each stage is incomparable. If only one aspect is noticed, then it is equivalent to starting a self-hypnosis similar to Norma. For example, people may lose the wisdom born in old age because they are obsessed with the beauty of youth, and they may lose the vitality of youth because they are obsessed with the seriousness of middle age.
Age-only functionalism and appearance anxiety are rooted in self-hatred.
People who hate themselves always get together to torture each other, and use torture and being tortured as the driving force of their lives, and there are many clever sins and clever punishments.
When watching movies, I always remind myself that I can’t always see the characters from God’s perspective, because those characters are people who can hear, feel, and think just like the audience, so a good movie is like a mirror, which can finally make us Understand the relationships in our lives and the self-hypnotic mental dramas of those we know well, including ourselves.
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