I am more concerned about the relationship between Max and Norma. At first, I thought they were just a relationship between fans and stars to be guarded and guarded, so I was not surprised that those fan letters were written by Max, he seemed like someone who could do anything for his idol , numb, egoless person. He builds himself on Norma, so he can accommodate any Norma behavior, which is the content of his existence. Until he confessed to the male protagonist that he used to be one of the three famous directors, and Norma was the star he unearthed, he eventually changed from her first husband to her footman.
After this scene, I began to understand that this movie is about two people who are paranoid about their memories, trying to get back to their glorious, all-encompassing past. Norma obviously did, and Max did too, in a covert way. When he counted madame's past excitedly, those piles of fan letters, those reputations, were they also recalling his own past? The two directors who are side by side with him have continued their career as a famous director, and he has long been forgotten by the world. The relationship between Max and Norma is more like a symbiotic relationship. On the surface, it seems that Norma has retrieved Max, but in fact Max has been waiting for her order.
After learning the background of the film, I began to appreciate the cruelty of the director, who manipulated the memories and lives of all the leading actors by confusing reality with fantasy, uncovering their scars and replaying those painfully reminiscent moments over and over again , he turned the real pain of Max and Norma into entertainment materials, and presented them in the form of images, alienating the distance between reality and fiction, and reducing the concentration of emotions. It can be said that he exploited the lives of these two people. Only by starring in this movie can they come back, and starring in this movie is undoubtedly painful.
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