According to the description of the
film: At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist's mother said on the answering machine, "Thank you for showing me your new apartment. I am very worried about you, how can you live like this?" The
mother's words explained two points:
1 . The male protagonist does have (lived) two residences;
2. And it doesn't seem like a normal life with a marriage.
Then, the male protagonist saw himself in the past through the movie, but was shocked. Maybe it's because of what happened that he has forgotten his past - this is the reason for the split personality.
The split Anthony's personality is far from Adam's. Because that's the old self--a married self, a self with a glamorous and beautiful residence, a handsome and sunny self who was groomed by his wife.
Anthony's infidelity while his wife was pregnant eventually led to a car accident. His wife was killed in a car accident, but the male protagonist survived (this is where I differ from others, and the reasons will be explained later).
The injury on the male protagonist, under the ribs, should be the scar left by the operation. This injury is also reflected in the different postures of the two personalities - Adam has always been hunched over and his neck is always uncomfortable, while Anthony is only injured, but looks healthy.
A traumatic blow may force a person to lose their memory -- even if it cuts out the photo. But the wounds will not go away.
So when Adam saw the injury on Anthony's body and reflexively escaped, he may have touched a corner of the painful memory that was blocked in the deepest part.
Now let's talk about Adam's "girlfriend". From my mother's words: "Isn't it annoying enough to be entangled with a woman?" It can be roughly guessed that "girlfriend" was the object of derailment at that time. And judging from the way Adam and his "girlfriend" got along later, in addition to sex, it was indifference. And the "girlfriend" also realizes that he is only the object of venting. It's just that Adam doesn't care much about the departure of his "girlfriend" because of his split personality.
The process of Adam looking for Anthony is a process of re-creating memories. As Adam said in class: "The creation of memories, of something, of someone, is always influenced by emotions."
So where to go to investigate, meet security, meet wife, meet apartment janitor, etc. , are part of the fiction in the process of memory re-creation. These are not real. But it is somewhat suggestive. For example, the security guard said that he did not come for 6 months, and it happened that his wife was pregnant for 6 months, but from Adam's inability to remember this, it means that the 6th month of pregnancy was the time of the car accident.
Another recreated memory is a car accident. Adam, with guilt, hoped that the derailed Anthony and his lover Mary were the ones who died in the car accident. It also corresponds to what he said in class: "Big things happen twice. The first time is a tragedy, and the second time is a farce." ——The death of his wife is a tragedy. And the second fictional car accident was a farce.
In the end, the wife turned into a spider, which is the most straightforward explanation: telling us that all this is a memory created like a dream.
So far the storyline is over.
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Here to answer 2 questions that may be asked:
1. About the ring mark:
Based on the above plot description, Adam even cut the photo, and the ring must have been removed very early. So now Adam naturally has no marks on his fingers. And being discovered by the "girlfriend" of the ring mark is a deadly plot created from a fictional memory-Adam wants Anthony and his lover to die logically.
2. Why is it said that the wife was killed in the car accident?
Adam had no reason to cry if his wife hadn't died.
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