The struggle and disillusionment of human beings towards the ultimate emptiness and meaninglessness of life runs through the film. The film begins on a snowy morning. The two protagonists are indulging in making love. Their young son wakes up in the morning and silently Walking around the room, looking for the sound, I found the scene of the two of them hugging each other, then left quietly, climbed up the window sill, and jumped downstairs.
This primitive metaphor expresses the ultimate emptiness and meaninglessness of human beings towards life, life is meaningless, and meaningless reproduction of life is equally meaningless. In this rootless and endless emptiness, human beings anesthetize themselves by immersing themselves in the primordial animal instincts dominated by nature. The heroine represents a pure materialist, and this absolute materialism brings about the inevitable ultimate disillusionment and emptiness of life. The hero represents another kind of human value, a practical materialist. The hero in the film is a psychological A counselor represents a common practical value of human beings. Regardless of whether life is really meaningful, if it exists, it must be lived. A psychological counselor represents a universal metaphor for the idea of living.
The young son in the film represents the hopeless spark of mankind’s pursuit of the meaning of life in this sense of emptiness. He has been supporting the already desperate mankind. In fact, he has long been a weak pillar that exists in name only, and mankind is addicted to eroticism. The occasional flash of rationality in the anesthesia is enough to shatter it. When the only illusory self-consolation is gone, the heroine begins to lose control. In fact, "she" has already lost control, and this time it is completely in reality. manifested,
When the last hopeless spark of the heroine's pursuit of the meaning of life was extinguished, she finally could no longer hide and suppress herself. This disillusioned value moved from the backstage to the front. At this time, the male protagonist, who represented practical materialistic values, began to He helped her find a way to make her give up thinking about the meaning of life, and started therapy. He asked the heroine to find out the root cause of her fears. The hero who represented practical materialism listed several social things, but none of them were. Finally, the heroine said She finally found the image of the forest. The forest represents nature, that is, the pure natural laws outside human society. In the film, there are two scenes in the forest, one is a rotten fox and the other is a fox. The young bird that was attacked and died by ants pointedly reminded the ruthlessness of natural laws and the impermanence and meaninglessness of life.
The hero's treatment plan is to let the heroine accept the domination of nature and admit the unsolvable reality. The two representative scenes are that the heroine imagines that she is in the environment of fear and despair, and asks her to lie down. Accept this environment and melt into it. Another therapeutic segment is to let the heroine put her foot on the environment of her fear and despair and try to walk. These two scenes represent the pragmatism that makes her incomprehensible to life. Compromise and transformation, in the extreme pain and complete despair of the heroine, she temporarily accepted this concept, and even rejoiced at one point, but this kind of treatment can only be superficial, and cannot go deep into the core of the problem and solve her heart. Ultimate emptiness and fear, just like the heroine in front of the movie, once she has a panic attack, frantically has sex with the hero to anesthetize herself and seeks to forget for a while, this kind of treatment can only have the effect of raising the soup to stop the boil at most. But there is no doubt that this kind of cover up is ineffective. After a period of time, she finally broke down again and returned to the biological instinctive anesthesia-sex. At this time, this anesthesia has become more crazy and self-abusing under the stimulation of utterly desperate pain. , in order to hide and transform her pain, the heroine asks the hero to abuse herself and slap herself. Finally, the contradiction turns to the representative of pragmatism that tries to persuade and transform it, the male protagonist. At this point, the film has reached a sharp high point of intensification of contradictions. The two views of life have moved from compromise to opposition, representing the pursuit of the meaning of life. The unresolved emptiness and despair of the heroine turns her anger to her once attempt to transform (in her view, this transformation is a deception and the destruction of the pursuit of life), her pragmatic hero,
who says: Our existence is meaningless! At this point, the core expression of the film has been pointed out.
After severely wounding the male protagonist, he self-harmed and cut off his own organs of life and death, representing the complete abandonment of the realist comfort tool and the ultimate failure of realism in front of him, and fell asleep in numbness. Killing the heroine represents the ultimate victory of human practical compromise materialism. At the end of the
film, when the hero walks in the forest with a cane, and picks and eats wild grass and fruits, his unmoved expression reveals that human beings are facing After the incomprehensible pursuit of the ultimate meaning of life, it is a state of being content with reality and trying to live. Finally, when the male protagonist walks to a mountaintop, he sees countless people walking up the mountain, and finally surrounds him. Return to the real human society since the beginning.
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