The beginning of the film is the only mother's message that expresses her feelings and attitudes twice: "Darling, I am your mother, and I am very grateful for you to show me your new apartment (the apartment when you were hanging out with "friends") , I'm very worried about you, how can you live like this (the quality of life of your son and mother's life is very different)? Anyway, can you give me a call, let us be together again, love you." ( In fact, it turned out to be relying on his mother to live a prosperous and better life than now, which also proves the difference in their values)
Jumping directly to the dialogue with the mother, walking into the mother's studio, it is obvious that the mother is an artist (painter), walks vigorously, dresses well, speaks firmly with a commanding tone, and the family is better than the son. - Fully embodies the sense of existence a dictator should have! Distills its core phrase: "You're still in enough trouble with the woman you're stuck with, right" (speaking of a woman rather than a girlfriend or wife, indicating that the mother does not recognize her son's relationship with the woman ). The most important thing is the following dialogue, Xiaoji: "I don't like blueberries" Mother: "Of course you like it! And this thing is also good for the body!" I gave such a translation of the mother's personal characteristics as a "dictator" and the context in which it appeared. If there is something wrong, come and argue with me~ This sentence reflects the fact that a strict mother leads all the consciousness and thoughts of her son. Perfect performance) "I'll pretend you didn't tell me anything" (as long as it's something she doesn't think is impossible, she doesn't even think about it, doesn't think about it from her son's point of view and has a tough attitude, in rude language is "Don't bullshit It's like a lunatic, this kind of thing can't happen at all") Xiaoji: "I need your advice" (the mother is the master who has always dominated his thoughts, and the son has been looking for the final answer from her) "You don't need advice at all, and I don't want to listen to this useless crap. The only conclusion we have come from our candid chat is: You are my only son, I am your only mother, you have a decent job, and Nice apartment; I think you should give up your third-rate movie star fantasies and eat all those blueberries" (As a successful artist, watching my son's performance in local movies confirms that my son is definitely not in this Success, throwing off the napkin, getting up and leaving, not giving her son any chance to answer, all of these fully demonstrate the discipline of a successful, self-confident, authoritative, uncompromising and controlling mother on her son, imposed on her son's college teacher It is far better values than being an actor who has no idea, and eventually caused the double loss of id and ego).
After finishing the chat with my mother, after I can't get the final answer I want from my mother, I can only resolve the intersection of the two personalities by myself. In fact, the whole film (novel) is nothing more than telling you one thing: behind the split personality, whether it is family or society, it will definitely give you an absolute authority and absolute cognition, when your strong human desire cannot When you are satisfied, the long-suppressed id and ego will explode at the same time, and when you still want to continue your normal life, forgetting the other self will not solve the problem at all, and both will die. But the history of human beings is the history of human nature, from tragedy to farce, from the dead to life again and again.
Finally, let’s talk about the director’s use of narrative shots and the form of expression:
“The so-called chaos is the order that has not yet been interpreted”, which expounds the rationality of the entire film (novel), that is, the so-called chaos in the film expressed by it is in our eyes. There is a reasonable but indescribable existence in today's orderly life.
The protagonist Xiaoji and a tall man (the one who opened the door for Xiaoji in the new apartment) held the key to open the door to watch the performance. The camera was shown to all the audience, all male and older. It clearly tells the audience the nature of food and sex, but it can only be suppressed and released in this closed environment. It is completely out of the helplessness imposed by social morality. Xiaoji is also in it. Although he covers his face, he leaves the place for his eyes. , which clearly reflects its contradictory heart. In the performance, the spider appears for the first time, and it comes in the form of a "big meal" from the female performer, but it is small and will be trampled under the feet by the female, meaning that there is no inflated unvirtuous desire obviously can be taken by the female Left and right, and women themselves are full of desires like spiders. The camera was given to Xiaoji, obviously expressing his affirmation of this as well.
Xiaoji went to class decadently, and the montage technique told the audience that control was the main cause of his split personality. And use the language of education to prove the spiritual rationality of the whole film in real life! (The mother is the dictator in the textbook) Of course, the tragedy and farce mentioned in the latter lesson are also the manifestation of the film's structural form and the cause of the split personality itself.
When Xiaoji wanted to contact another self, his mother called, but he didn't answer. (When the id wants to find itself, even a dictator representing absolute authority cannot stop himself)
Finally, there is the timeline of the whole film: in the film, Xiaoji’s last film that played the role of the dragon was released in 2005, and Fox, who appeared many times in the film, was of the 2012 model, which means that he has retired from filming for at least 7 years, 7 Although he was married and his wife was pregnant with a child, he told his wife that he was still a movie actor, but he secretly followed his mother's advice to become a college history teacher and lived a double life. He visited pornographic venues and had a girlfriend. Although his wife forgave his affair, he couldn't stand his split personality and he still had the desire to continue cheating. He tore up a group photo (the photo was shown in 2006) and left. Him (that is, the final scene, when he takes the key and wants to go to the show again, and there is only him and the inflated spider in the house). From then on, he stopped patronizing pornographic performances, and only had regular classes during the day and appointments at night, but over time he felt bored by his id, and then found clues about himself, and wanted to go back to the time he was with his wife and put it on. The wedding ring that was originally taken off, the gun friend found out that he was furious and did not give up, causing both of them to die in a car accident.
In general, the film is less than 90 minutes long, and its expressiveness is acceptable. Although it is aimed at the protagonist Xiaoji, its performance is not as good as the source code and prisoner. I hope the expedition to Everest and Nightcrawler can bring more surprises.
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