The gloomy and depressing emptiness and sense of powerlessness pervade the whole film (but it fits the current mood), and it has nothing to do with sex addiction. Brandon looks like a body without a soul, mechanically repeating meaningless actions day after day. , as if compelled to do so.
Boredom, emptiness, loneliness, we are lost in life without vitality, and everyone has their own way of killing time. Some people hide in the piles of old papers to find fun, and some people entrust the rest of their lives to brainless TV variety shows. Like Brandon's sex addiction, we are all in the mechanical repetition of meaningless actions, looking for time-consuming (life?) The best way to fill that endless void. Emptiness has become the master of life.
Brandons can't understand a stable marriage, but deep down and hysterical, they hope to have a stable long-term relationship of their own, consciously make various logical explanations for their behavior, and subconsciously do what they do for themselves. ashamed. In the long staring shot, you can almost see the two little people fighting in Brandon's mind.
In the endless emptiness, shame grows secretly; when the emptiness is briefly satisfied, shame doubles up.
There are so many things to shame us today, and so few people to care about. I use mathematics, philosophy, English, Japanese, movies, novels, painting, music, work, travel, games, and fitness to fill the emptiness, but it creates an even bigger emptiness. Fortunately for Brandon, there is a bastard sister who may bring him redemption. Where is the redemption for others?
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