After reading it for the first time, I have many questions in my mind. Then start by listing the puzzling plots of the film on your own paper and try to give a reasonable explanation yourself. When I watched it for the second time, I recorded the newly discovered clues while watching, and unknowingly listed more than a dozen clues. Then I tried to wear all the threads, and I was amazed at the wonderfulness of this film.
There are two generally accepted conclusions about the film. First, the meaning of spider is desire. Second, the professor and Anthony are simply one person.
Desire has always existed, it has been lurking in the heart of man, and it is uncertain when he will emerge. Like the spider in the protagonist's mind that lingers. The contest between the professor and Anthony refers to the protagonist's self-directed and self-acted design to get rid of the other self.
Then we must find out, who is the noumenon and who is the mind, the professor and Anthony.
To figure this out, we first need to determine what the film is trying to convey. In fact, shortly after the film started, the director gave the answer. The professor talked about "the dictator's desire to control" in his lectures. With the help of the professor, the director emphasized that "this is very important and needs to be written down!" Not only that, but the director also deliberately repeated the fragment of that sentence twice to emphasize the importance.
I think the most important thing in this passage is the sentence "some wily dictators try to control everyone". The protagonist is the one who understands the real meaning, because he also wants to control everyone, which is the wife and daughter in the film. ticket.
The reason for the story is that the protagonist realizes this, so at the beginning, the professor speaks eloquently, but he looks listless and preoccupied. The professor's mind was that he knew he was playing "dictator's control." At this time, the bud that wants to get rid of another idea in his heart has been born. As soon as a colleague recommended a movie to him, the professor started to act.
Here are the details from the video:
1. After the professor found someone who was exactly like him, he traced the phone number of Anthony's house in various ways. The wife immediately heard that the caller was her husband. The dialogue mentioned that "Anthony" was the name he used in his acting career. It means that the two of them are the same person, and Anthony is the stage name that the professor once used.
2. The professor took Anthony's home address very carefully. At night, the wife found a note of home address in Anthony's pocket. It shows that they are originally one person, and the explanation is: the professor's behavior is that he is looking for another self that is schizophrenic.
3. When the professor called for the second time, it was Anthony who answered the phone. There are two suspects in this plot. The first is that the professor entered the room while talking on the phone, and then the camera flashed, and it was Anthony who came out of the room. The second doubt, when the wife checked the phone, she found that the number was not displayed. Explain that the phone call between the two of them is just a conversation between themselves and their own thoughts.
4. Before the night of the car accident, according to the plot design, Professor and Anthony had already changed their clothes. But when I kissed my girlfriend at night, my girlfriend questioned Anthony's identity on the grounds of the ring print. Anthony said suspiciously, "I have always had it." It means that the professor who has been in contact with the female ticket is actually the same person as Anthony. family members.
There are many plots in the film that are difficult to judge whether true or false, and many plots are probably just the fantasy of the protagonist. But there's one character who doesn't lie, and that's the protagonist's mother.
5. Soon after the film started, there was a message from the mother, saying that she had seen her son's new apartment and expressed concern about her son's condition. The new apartment obviously refers to the house where the professor and the woman voted, with simple decoration and simple furniture. That means that the protagonist still has a house, and that is the real home, that is, the house with luxurious decoration and complete appliances.
6. The professor later found the mother's point of advice. My mother said something, "You now have a decent job and a beautiful house, and stop dreaming of being a third-rate actor." What is certain is that the ontology is undoubtedly a professor.
Then there is another question. Anthony likes blueberries for sure. When the professor gave him blueberries, the professor said that he didn't like blueberries. Mother expressed surprise, of course you like it! (I don't know what you like to eat for such an old lady who raises you?)
Why doesn't the professor admit that he likes blueberries? As the professor said in the class, "those cunning dictators use information censorship to control people's cognition in order to achieve absolute control." The professor is to deliberately create doubts, deliberately draw a line from his own thoughts, to strengthen His own consciousness "Anthony" really exists. Only by convincing yourself that Anthony has always existed is there a reason to get rid of him.
So why did the professor want to get rid of "Anthony"?
At the beginning of the film, Anthony takes the security guard to the nudist club. This is another hint of desire and sexual desire, which is actually true in the professor's heart. But out of the constraints of morality, responsibility, etc. He didn't want to admit it was himself. So I replaced it with my thoughts, and put all the responsibilities on "Anthony", and I felt no guilt in my heart. On the night of the car accident, the professor was unable to sleep and sat on the sofa crying, crying and saying sorry to his wife. At that time, he had realized that it was not "Anthony" who made mistakes, but his own.
Let's sort out the story from the beginning:
There was once a third-rate actor who played some minor supporting roles under the stage name Anthony, but later gave up because he had little success. The actor went through another experience to become Professor Adam. Not only has a house and a car and a successful career, but also his wife is six months pregnant. During his wife's pregnancy, the professor couldn't control his desires, so he joined the nudist club and became a regular customer, and also found a girlfriend to fill the emptiness. Through his own isolation and censorship of information, he is able to navigate between his wife and female votes with ease, realizing his desire for "dictator to control everyone". Later, the professor worried that he would destroy himself if he went on like this, or because of conscience discovery, he began to direct and act, trying to create an "Anthony", and let Anthony take the blame to achieve self-redemption. Finally, after successfully getting rid of "Anthony", tempted by the key, the desire in the professor's heart came out again. (The wife becomes the symbol of the big spider)
Two other conjectures about film reviews:
1. Female votes are also schizophrenics.
According to the setting of the film, the professor is alone, and the apartment he lives in is very simple. The female ticket likes the professor. When the two kissed before the car accident, the female ticket exclaimed about the ring print on Anthony's hand, and Anthony said doubtfully that I have always had it. It shows that the person who interacts with the female ticket is originally a person. But in her heart, she kept implying that her professor was just a professor. When the truth finally came out, she couldn't accept the fact that Anthony was a professor and her temperament changed drastically.
2. The wife does not exist in the first place.
The second time I watched it, I was a little confused. When the mother talked to the professor in person, she said to him, "You have a respectable job and a beautiful house now, so don't daydream about being a third-rate actor in the future." According to the setting of the film, the professor and Anthony It's a person, even if the professor is schizophrenic, why doesn't his mother mention the daughter-in-law at all? Even if there are cultural differences between the East and the West, his daughter-in-law has been pregnant for six months, does your grandson not care at all?
Another question is, in the last scene. The protagonist is obviously not very surprised that his wife has changed into a big spider inexplicably. Just sighed a little helplessly. The OS in my heart is probably: Oh, why did you appear again...
There is only one truth, the wife does not exist at all. The so-called wife who is pregnant for six months is just the setting of "responsibility" in the professor's heart, which is used to suppress the desire in his heart and realize self-redemption. However, after some painstaking design, the protagonist finally lost to his own desires.
If you watch the movie according to the setting that the wife does not exist, it will be another story. Even his wife's every move was set by the professor, in order to promote his plan to get rid of Anthony...
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