The film opens with Brandon (played by Michael Fassbender) encountering a married woman he likes in the subway. The film's portrayal of the characters is particularly delicate. The woman runs away from Brandon because of shame. Here comes the text of shame.
In the hustle and bustle of the city, Brandon has always maintained his neat clothes, but he is addicted to sex. This is also the source of his shame. He was proud and depraved. With sharp observation and handsome appearance, he is admired by his boss and envied by his boss.
In a clip of the movie, the boss and Brandon went to a nightclub together. The boss found a woman to talk to and acted like a clown. Brandon's boss is a very shameless person. There is a family, but they do not refuse women, and they are stupid and use all kinds of vulgar ways to seduce women. In the end, after Brandon's sister slept with his boss, Brandon's sense of shame broke out completely under the accumulation of various events.
Xixi is Brandon's only sister. Like Brandon, who loves 60s music, but Brandon gave up for a decent living, while her sister insisted on being a musician. But his sister, while being herself, completely indulges herself in the world. And have a female-specific way of living dependent on others. For every man who favored him, she held it like a life-saving straw in her hand, and shamelessly prayed for the mercy of others. It can be said that Xixi and Brandon's bosses are ready to touch the fire.
Brandon is arguably the cleanest person in the movie. Although he has his own quirks, he knows the shadows, and he wants to get rid of them, but everyone accepts it for granted. When Brandon goes on a date with his female secretary, he deals with all his pornography, he wants to change, but finds he can't do anything about it. He is bound by his own body, and he cannot give to the person he likes.
He couldn't help but want to fall. The boss he despised said he was disgusting because he found a yellow screen on his computer. Brandon felt ashamed as never before, and his sister used her boss as a life-saving straw. Brandon feels like he's done, he'll never be able to escape, so he wants to at least be less miserable. He brings out the most hateful side of himself, he finds he has no one in the world to connect with except Hee, he wanders the streets, enters gay sex clubs(?), and later has sex with two prostitutes, becoming the climax of the movie.
The film's soundtrack is very good, using pieces from Bach's well-tempered piano pieces. It seems that only the vicious circle that Bach can never get around can match Brandon. When Brandon fell, he was not painless, on the contrary, he was unable to extricate himself. Like a swamp. Brandon climaxes with the prostitute door, there is no ecstasy on his face, just pain, and in the final shot, Brandon looks directly at the camera like he looks into everyone's heart. See this is everyone, this is how all people live in the world.
It's like a vicious cycle of drinking alcohol to drown sorrow and sorrow. Know that what you are after is not happiness. That's the pursuit of pain. Existing shame can only be redeemed by punishing it with greater shame.
In the movie, Xixi said that we are not bad people, but we are from a bad place. Maybe this bad place doesn't refer to their hometown, but the present world they live in. All of them have lost their souls and wills, and become walking corpses who only know sex.
When Brandon realizes that Xixi might commit suicide on the way home from sex, Brandon once again embarks on the same old path. He can't fall, he is Xixi's life-saving straw. It is impossible for him not to be ashamed, because Xixi is a real person. Retired civilization as a disguise.
Just as man is no longer some dull Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The moment wisdom was born, people began to pretend. Because human beings are spiritual, even if they lose their beliefs and zombies disguise themselves, as long as they have reason, they will be ashamed. But what about people now? In a highly aggregated society, everyone exists like a screw, running this dirty machine at high speed. That is no longer human. So they will not be ashamed.
Brandon wanted to escape, but he could only cry in the rain, he couldn't help himself, he lived in shame, but he had to live - because he was timid. It has its pride, but he remains in the shell of a mortal. He cannot fall, and he cannot not fall. The soul of an angel entered the body of a bug.
At the end of the film, the director gave people an open ending, and the married woman who made Brandon's favorite appeared again. Is it possible to escape?
I am still alive!
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