A few tips

Melyssa 2022-11-06 23:01:28

The whole film's viewing idea, if the overall story is arranged according to the time line, is like this: Six months ago, the male protagonist (there is always only one person) Xiaosan didn't know that he was Xiaosan, and found out that the male protagonist was married. Contradictions, a car accident. (The male protagonist may have a scar because of this). Then the time went back to earlier, the male protagonist was reluctant to recall these things, and happened to meet a person who was a bit similar to himself at this time. The male protagonist ran over to check with his mother. The mother comforted him and pointed out the involvement of the previous mistress. Since the male protagonist was reluctant to recall this memory, similar dual personalities began to appear. (It doesn't feel like a split personality, both know each other's existence, and finally there is a vague reunification of personalities). As a result, the male protagonist, who is controlled by feelings such as guilt, affects his memory and compiles a memory of his own innocence. Then just now, according to some clues, the male protagonist recalled the previous events, cheating and other things, felt ashamed and regretted, apologized to his wife, and felt ashamed. Finally, it's the end of the film. Now, the male protagonist can't hold back his desires and wants to do bad things again. The spider representing the male protagonist's evil desires has finally found his innocent self. The male protagonist, he can only sigh and tell himself to commit a crime together happily.

Throughout the film, the timeline is chaotic, and the scenes are both true and false. But there are a few things that can be confirmed: the scene where the male protagonist is alone may have illusions, but for those scenes and dialogues where she exists, it can basically be regarded as a fact.

The time line should be (six months ago, the male protagonist was a teacher and sometimes an actor, and he took the security guard to watch a performance, and released the spider representing the male protagonist's evil desires. Hooking up, cheating. On a date, Xiaosan found out that the male protagonist was married, and then had a car accident after arguing ------->>>>>Earlier, the male protagonist accidentally met or saw a person who looked like him, In order to verify with his mother, his emotions affect his memory, and the male protagonist made up a pseudo-innocent personality for himself. The pseudo-innocent personality, when recalling the past, encountered contradictions and gradually recalled his derailment. The wife apologized. In the process, the male protagonist also gradually slipped to the edge of evil. The evil desire spider gradually approached him. -----> At the end of the video, the male protagonist remembered the performance again, and wanted to deceive his wife and go again , In the end, the innocent self was finally found by his own evil little spider, the male protagonist sighed

(For why I insist on only one person, in addition to those dialogue prompts, there are also some scene prompts. The most important thing is that the incomplete photo that the film starts to teach the male protagonist to compare with the photos on the website is a photo frame in the actor's male protagonist's wife's home. From this, it is determined that there is always only one person. Then the contradictory scenes can only be viewed by using the method of thinking that there is a problem with the memory of the male protagonist of one person, and then assuming that the dialogues and scenes of other people are true.

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  • 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.