"I dream that I will be reborn." In order to write the script for the Orchid Thief, Charlie began to "dream" and insisted on his ideal to write a script that does not fall into the formula of Hollywood commercial movies. This film shows how Charlie persists in his ideal "dream process", inner hope, anxiety, frustration, helplessness, disillusionment, powerlessness, meaninglessness, blankness, confusion, effort, attempt, temptation, hesitation, and weakness in behavior. , coercion and avoidance, all of which are expressed in the camera by means of stream of consciousness. The audience seems to use a magnifying glass to peek into the unknown area of thought and behavior that Charlie (ordinary person) hides in his head and his room. Not just peeping, but during the 114 minutes of watching the film, our consciousness also flowed with Charlie's thoughts. He was confused by the orchid thief, we were bewildered by him, and we and John experienced blank, meaningless, fragmented and fragmented content of consciousness, and a life full of surprises.
Humans have never been able to face this "private field of consciousness". Some people have a very large area, while others are very small. Some people are aware of it, and some people are not aware of it. The attitude towards this piece of "ignorance" determines the value of the piece that is "self-evident". Those who are self-evident in ignorance will end up in a panic for a lifetime, and those who fall into ignorance and pursue their whole lives will go from depression to mental illness. 114 minutes of stumbling consciousness activity that made us experience "uncomfortable" feelings. And this feeling of "déjà vu" seems to be hidden in our own hearts, as if it will emerge unconsciously. After watching the film, the horror is not the orchid thief or Charlie or the car accident or Susan, but myself - my own ignorance.
2. The flower thief and the heart thief
In fact, the whole film has nothing to do with orchids, and it is not about the flower thief, but the thief-heart thief. John steals wild orchids from the reserve and cultivates, reproduces, and sells beautiful violets. The legendary career of this orchid celebrity has been on the edge of the law between thieves and non-thieves. Of course John was a flower thief, but he was not a heart thief. Facing life with magnanimity, he is like catching a thief naked and shaking hands with Charlie calmly. He is a flower thief, not a heart thief.
Susan interviewed John personally, facing him in the swamp mud, facing the man who loves orchids, and facing the flower heart and flower love carefully cultivated in the conservatory, she collapsed. She said, "I thought you were the devil, sorry!" She finally left the man next to her and flew to Florida to enter John's legendary life. Susan stole John's life in an attempt to save the devil in her. Although John didn't know about it, Susan became a thief - a thief of the heart. Her heart thief has not been redeemed, mud, men, orchids, drugs, sex, screaming, can't relieve her heart thief, so Charlie makes her "guilty" and let her "kill it and then hurry up". After John died, Susan hugged her heart thief tightly and murmured, "I want to go back to New York!" No. 1 heart thief - Susan.
The second heart thief - Charlie. After Charlie's success, he wanted to be reborn again, but the road to rebirth fell into a mysterious orchid bush. Despite her unconventional efforts, she dared not face Susan in the elevator. Through the interaction of the twin brothers' life interventions, disputes, dialogues and behaviors, we can peek into Charlie's private, ignorant spiritual world. The irony is that years of struggle and confusion have been redeemed in real life that is like a commercial film—speeding, crashing, shooting, blood, hunting, and death. After "Dead to die, escape to escape (Taiwanese)", after crying to his mother, and after the death of the other self; "I love you", the old girlfriend replied "I love you too", and he was relieved of the thief. to real life.
3. Thieves of the Heart and Thieves
No. 3 Heart Thieves—every audience. You, me, and every audience member had a thief in our hearts when we first watched the film. After watching the film, we felt that we were a thief. Because of "stealing," we steal Susan's heart and Charlie's heart while watching the video. After watching the film, everyone asks themselves - is there a thief in your heart? Everyone always rubs up the taboos and needs in their hearts, and always tries to throw them into other people's baskets to get points. We are unwilling to face our own mistakes and faults, and we always steal other people's hearts, other people's feelings, others' forgiveness and our own sophistry, to make up for the west wall and the east wall. We are always like thieves, sneaking into the private world of ourselves or others, or stealing the love of others, to prove our wealth in broad daylight. Really thieves - each oneself.
Donner, Charlie's twin brother, is a thief without a heart. He lives in the real life world, relying on his instinct to eat, drink, and play. When he can't, he can't - never think too much, when he can - never hesitate. He went directly to visit Susan, and he replaced or led Charlie to do everything he dared not do, think about every idea he dared not think. He doesn't seem to have ignorance, no, it's that he doesn't allow himself the space to touch ignorance at all. (Charlie stares at his own ignorance every day and is self-evident!). However, he was still a thief, and he broke into the battle between Charlie's mind and the real world. Sadly, he became cannon fodder. His days seem to be independent, but he seems to live only to complement and guide Charlie. Fleeing in crisis, after rushing out of the car window, he became a dead thief. He wasn't shot or hit, he died long ago.
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Flowers are blooming and falling, and the image of the city flows day and night with the people and cars in the morning and evening. Flowers, people and bees, are they in love, in love, harming each other, laughing at each other, or in mutual benefit? Orchids are the king of flowers, but they are only "plants" after all. Even the reproduction of the lineage group has to rely on the bees and people of animals. The more exotic flowers and rare grasses are hidden in the deep mountains and swamps, the more they are excavated, cultivated and copied in large numbers. For the sake of flowers, the vicissitudes of life are like this, blood and tears are intertwined in front of us. A person with seven emotions and six desires is implicated in a flower without the seven emotions and six desires. Just like a lover, always lost in the ruthless. When people look at each other, they may not forget, but when people look at each other, they must cherish each other. Just because people have self-evidence, self-evidence has feelings; people have ignorance, and ignorance hinders. John, Charlie, Charlie's girlfriend, and -- all of them are true lovers. There is only one person who can't see the true heart
- Susan, when she whispers "I want to go back to New York!"
Facing the time when only I can see that I have "the head, the brain, the hands and the feet", the "confidence" that I rely on for a lifetime is depressed, the stars are dimmed day and night, the throat is hoarse, the dizzy, and the hands are shaking and shaking frequently. . Why is there a thief in my heart? If you insist on what you want but can't get it, if you insist on not wanting something but can't avoid it, there will be thieves in your heart. The thief of the heart makes people want, and makes people exhausted and unable to be themselves. The thief of the heart makes people humble, humble, shameless, and shameless, and the thief of the heart makes people slander the etiquette of the world and the honor of the world.
The heart is too thief, and the accumulated disappointment and expectation turn into hatred and disgust. The thief of the heart has fallen into the devil, and he can only live by biting the soul of himself and others. Just like Susan, Susan in New York, Susan in Florida, Susan who was chasing Richard, and Susan who was crying to go back to New York. She treats the people around her as food to eat, eats John's life, eats Donner's life, and eats her own soul. Such demons, both male and female, either hidden or manifest, flooded the human world. They don't want to be treated, they just use white silk scarves to dry the blood on their lips and say "I'm going back to New York"!
How to protect a "heart"? How to exorcise thieves and demons? If there is no desire, then you will be rigid. If you don’t ask for anything, do you have to have no desire and no desire? Charlie was born again, by going home, by the love of his lover. In the film, it does not point out where the heart belongs? Donner, who likes to talk while lying on the ground, and John who is calm—all are dead! Horror heart, let us be alert, alert our "heart"? Whatever the "heart" thinks or thinks, it is "true" and "right". Therefore, the thief of the heart bites the goodwill of others, devours the love of others, and uses it to feed the soul that feeds its eternal hunger.
In the end how to do it? The Orchid King Is Dead, The Orchid Thief Who Stole The Orchid's Life - Back To New York? Looking for your next prey? Eat the next soul? From the beginning of the original intention to the average life span of 75 years, what kind of instruments can be used to measure and adjust? The answer may lie in the word "good", in not doing all evil, and in practicing all good. Perhaps, as long as one can "purify one's own mind" and keep one thing that does not do evil—unwilling to cause pain to others, refrain from acts of attacking or hurting others, and furthermore have good thoughts—the idea of making others happy; then, no matter what. What do you want? Want what? or don't want anything? There will be no heart thief with heart demons.
Mind the good and the evil; whatever it blooms, everyone can be like Charlie—I dream I'll be born again.
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