The confrontation between a man's desire pursuit and rational control

Bell 2022-09-29 05:58:08

First of all, many viewers of the movie "The Rivals" are entangled in who is the real main character. My answer is that there is no primary and secondary, and even the two characters are half-truths. OK. Let's analyze the movie further.
1: The title starts with a pregnant woman sitting alone on the bed, and her husband is Anthony who went to the strip club at that time. Here in the back Adam goes to Anthony and the janitor proves that it was the two of them who went together. , In fact, it is real here, but then all Anthony is imaginary, and Adam, only in the end is the real Adam.
2: Adam's two lessons in this movie almost mirror the whole movie, so let's talk about the first lesson first. Adam said a sentence when he appeared as his history teacher. Control, it is all about control. Control, control means everything. Notice this sentence, and then he compares man to a dictator, one to bread with other material bases, another to mind, the first is to suppress himself by the guarantee of basic life, the other is to restrain himself. We come to Adam's second lesson, a memory building, the memory of something and someone is always affected by emotions. On the other hand, when we look at the whole movie, it is almost a dull yellow, a kind of repressed emotion. What effect does this repressed emotion have on memory? Adam started the memory change from Anthony in the movie, or it was a conjecture.
3: In fact, the whole film is a memory. Anthony is now a history teacher, and he is also Adam. When Anthony was an actor, his material foundation was not enough to support him to cheat and have an affair, and when he became a history After the teacher, the material foundation began to solidify (Anthony may have changed his name to become a history teacher after he was not an actor), and in his first lesson, I also said in the previous article that if there is enough bread, that is, enough material, people will not Too controlled. The Chinese saying is to keep warm and think of lust. Adam, Anthony when he was an actor, began to fantasize about what would happen if I had the material foundation to cheat at that time, and no one knew what would happen to me, so he began to design the beginning of cheating, And Adam himself began to become imagination when he returned to Adam's house, so the imagination started after Adam finished the first stanza or after returning to the house with his mistress, and here you may ask Anthony the actor. Life and house are better than now, wrong! In fact, that's all imagination! The home he imagined as an actor is actually the home of his current history teacher, while the imaginary Adam is the home of his divorce and his mistress after he cheated. The way to exchange identities is to say sorry to his wife, reflect on his derailment, and compare his derailment thoughts to a car accident to make "Anthony" disappear.
4: The last part of the film is the real Adam after he turns off the car accident. He lives a normal life with his wife. Adam opens the bag where the keys to the strip hall were originally kept. Desires begin to appear again, and the consciousness after imagination begins to be swayed again. Desire prevails, and the last spider heralds the expansion of desire.
In the end, I still hope that the judges will let their rationality control their desires, take good care of their homes, marriage is not easy, and the road of life will not always be filled with passion. When passion passes away, the most important thing is to live a life of snuggling with each other. isn't it?

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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.