I think this sentence can roughly summarize my feelings after watching this film. After watching the entire film I tend to think that Anthony, the spider, and the woman are just Adam's psychological self-projection or dual personality. Remembering that there are several important motifs that keep appearing, analyzing these recurring themes can give us an idea or intention of what the film is trying to convey.
1. Spider.
If I remember correctly, the spider appears three times in total throughout the film.
The first time it appeared was in an unknown club or club where the hero of the title entered. In fact, after watching the entire film, you will know that this plot is quite ambiguous, which can be understood as a place that actor Anthony has been to or lingered on long ago (this is from the reaction of Anthony's wife to his suspicion and the Later, when Adam entered the apartment after changing roles with him, the dialogue with the apartment management staff in the elevator can be inferred), or it can be understood that it happened in advance of the event completed by Adam in the future.
The second appearance is at about 60:57 in the whole film. After Adam and Anthony met for the first time, Adam panicked and ran to his mother to tell the story, and asked if there were other brothers he didn't know about. After getting a negative answer from his mother, he appeared of. There are several details of this conversation between Adam and his mother that attract attention:
(1) The conversation with his mother and the reaction after Anthony's wife Helen secretly visited Adam
, Adam's reaction after the first meeting with Anthony and Adam looking in the mirror
The scars on his chest, etc., proves that Adam and Anthony
are exactly the same in appearance and voice. (2) The mother said that the male protagonist is keen to eat organic blueberries, which Anthony
Has the same habit, but Adam says he doesn't like blueberries, which involves Matrix
2. (3) In the dialogue, it is mentioned that Adam and his girlfriend are entangled, implying
that . (4) The mother advised Adam to give up his dream of being a third-rate actor. This
sentence is also quite ambiguous. Whether it implies that Adam has always dreamed of being an actor before or whether it is a
matter of fact is unknown.
The third time at the end of the credits, Adam discovers that "wife" Helen has become a giant spider.
2. Blueberries.
It appeared three times in total: the first time was when actor Anthony asked his wife if he had bought organic blueberries, and said that he liked eating them, which was good for his body, as compared to the two in 1·(2). The second time is Adam's dialogue with his mother, see 1·(2). The third time Adam and Anthony switched identities, Adam entered Anthony's room and found blueberries in the refrigerator.
3. Women.
There are three female characters associated with the plot throughout the film. Adam's mother, girlfriend Mary, Anthony's wife Helen. The mother is the only normal person in the whole film, which can be used as a kind of reference for us, which to a certain extent implies the life and mental state of the protagonist. The opening phone message hints that Adam's life is bad, and the conversation that follows hints at many other details. The other two are irritable, sensitive or neurotic, and depressed, each bringing distress to the lives of Adam and Anthony.
4. Adam's lecture on "dictators".
There are two appearances in the film, explaining the tactics dictators take to control thought and culture, saying that this is a pattern that history repeats. As for whether to imply that Adam's life and thoughts are suppressed in the same way or that Adam is schizophrenic and in a trance, it is a matter of opinion.
5. Movie name: Where there's will, there's a way.
The landlord thinks that it is to imply that Adam's dream of being an actor will finally come true, but it will be realized in another person.
6. The bed scene.
There are several "not a good death" bed scenes in the film. We don't know whether Adam's sexual life is not harmonious, impotence or sexual psychological depression and distortion.
7. Scars.
There are two appearances in the film: the first time Adam and Anthony meet, Anthony shows Adam the scar on his chest and asks if the latter has it; the second time Adam looks at the exact same scar in the mirror.
8. Envelopes or keys.
Through the confirmation of the key in the opening clip and the key at the end (the landlord thinks it is the same key) and the dialogue in the elevator, we know that Anthony is a member of a high-end club. desire.
Overall, the landlord felt that Adam's long-standing monotonous, lifeless life and repressed desires had led to schizophrenia. These desires, dissatisfaction with women's desires, and neurotic fears have imagined that giant spider with surrealism, which always grows, invades, traverses, and rages in your sleep, mind, and loneliness in the loneliness that falls like silence. middle. It blocks your hearing, pulls away your thoughts, alienates your spirit, and alienates your personality. Human thoughts, desires, hallucinations or temporary psychological situations are as numerous as the sea, and only a surreal giant spider like a dream can be realistic. Based on this notion, if someone said he was completely real, I would have to laugh it off.
Human nature is just like that. It is complicated and complicated, but it is actually quite simple. For thousands of years, human nature has never changed. Seeing the moon is sad, seeing flowers weeping, being greedy and selfish, preferring indolence to work. It's a little gloomy to think about it this way, but just like seeing the devil, you won't doubt the existence of God; seeing the dark part of human nature, then the light that stands on the opposite side is the direction we pursue in our life. These are never self-abasement, or the Bible will not say that people are born sinners, only your choice determines what kind of person you are.
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