Enemy: The Damned Desire

Eli 2022-11-28 14:10:28

=Because I felt like I didn't understand it, and when the big spider came out at the end, I was completely stunned and just wanted to shout WTF! ! ! Then after watching it late at night, I started racking my brains to recall the whole movie, schizophrenia? Or is it all a fantasy of the male protagonist? ? Which character is real? Which character is fake? Who is the main character? Who is the sub-personality? Falling asleep with a sluggish mind. . . Then the next day I was unwilling to read it again roughly. . In fact, I think I still have a lot of confusion, but if I find a suitable explanation logically, Anthony is probably the main character, and the history teacher Adam is the sub-personality~ The film should discuss the desire for people Devouring, especially in married life. The reason why it makes us feel confused is because the whole movie is mixed with real and fake, and the timeline is also disrupted. My understanding is that Anthony is unwilling to be lonely after marriage, and often goes in and out of certain erotic places, and then may cause a car accident due to derailment. , The body left traces of injury and the wife learned of her husband's derailment. It is also because of the influence of the derailment car accident that Anthony began to experience the mutual interference of the two personalities. Before that, the two personalities were independent of each other, and neither was aware of the existence of each other's personalities, or Anthony was completely normal before, and the history teacher was just a role he played suitable for cheating, and after encountering a change, it was derived from The independent personality Adam of individual consciousness? What's more serious is that the two personalities can't coexist and harmoniously change, and they are aware of each other, so there are situations where the two meet, and even "wife swap" occurs later. Personally, what is more interesting is that Anthony is the main character, but he is also the direct transmitter of the idea of ​​cheating. After contacting the sub-personality, he immediately has the idea of ​​changing his wife. In fact, it is very close and unified with the cheating psychology of the male protagonist; and Adam has always been a derivative. A derailment practitioner, but wrapped in the serious coat of a history teacher, he is always repressed and a little guilty. Unlike the protagonist actor, he leads a conventional and respected social role, which is probably a kind of protagonist. Avoidance and clarification of cheating behavior, but at the same time guilt is also a real psychological mapping. In fact, the two personalities began to communicate and influence each other. Anthony's guilt began to breed, and the wife was actually tired of his cheating, and he planned to passively confess after self-destruction, leaving behind Adam, a sub-personality more suitable for family life; After all, he still has the influence of Anthony, so Adam who got the key at the end of the film still opened the door of desire and chose the same path as Anthony, and the stare of the spider is the torture from the deepest and secret desire!
In fact, it is the wife's attitude and reaction that easily interferes with the viewer's judgment in the film. The only thing that makes sense is that the wife does not know the side of Anthony's career as a history teacher, that is, Anthony does teach in a university. , but his wife did not know, it may be that Anthony still yearns for the social role as an actor, but in real life, he has to teach to support his family, but he does not want his wife to know this. And the wife didn't know her husband's second personality until she went to the university to confirm, so there will be some strange reactions in our opinion. Later, in the solitude with the sub-personality, I can see the sympathy and acceptance of the wife, and probably thought about the possibility of leaving Adam from the bottom of my heart! In addition, the role of mother is somewhat clarified. At least it confirms Anthony's main character. He loves to eat blueberries and dreams of being an unprofessional actor, but at least Anthony, who has a decent job as a college teacher, is the son that his mother knows well!
I don't know if this is the right way of understanding, but I feel very brain-burning, and I'm going to make myself dizzy when I go around it... Some parts of the film's expression are more obscure and stream-of-consciousness due to the weird soundtrack and pictures, something symbolic There are also a lot of things, such as spiders, keys, rings, and the words that Adam repeated in his lectures... It's not ordinary to see it = =
So, desire, it is really something that can carry a boat and capsize it, and as a human being We are too easily manipulated into applause by desire without knowing it. The spider of desire is always watching us in the dark, and we must always remind ourselves not to be devoured!

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Enemy quotes

  • Anthony: Control, it's all about control. Every dictatorship has one obsession and that's it. In ancient Rome they gave the people bread and circuses. They kept population busy with entertainment but other dictatorships used other strategies to control ideas, the knowledge... how do they do that? Lower education, they limit culture, censor information, they censor any means of individual expression and is important to remember this, that this is a pattern, that repeats itself through out history.

  • Teacher at School: Where There's a Will There's a Way.

    Anthony: It's true.

    Teacher at School: No, it's a movie, I saw it a little while ago but um... I remember it was... I liked it.

    Anthony: Hmm. Where There's a Will There's a Way.

    Teacher at School: Yeah, that's it. Local film, if you...

    Anthony: I'll keep it in mind.