When I read Greek mythology when I was young, I remembered a story of a handsome boy who fell in love with his reflection in the water, but he didn’t know that it was just a phantom. He stayed by the river for a long time without a response. Until death, he later became a daffodil, which can grow by the river and look at the reflection. And in "The Devil's Substitute", you can also glimpse some of these narcissus loves. In fact, this kind of feeling is very easy to understand. When Mr. Rochester in "Jane Eyre" proposed to marry him, he once said to Jane, "You are so similar and different from me." Their similarity lies in the inner part, in their soul, and the difference lies in their origin. , And in this film, the two male protagonists are not the same in origin and inside, but they have exactly the same faces (the only difference is that Udai’s eyes are 0.5 mm larger). Curiosity is the beginning of love. Facing one A person who is exactly the same as himself, but with a more noble soul, Uday could not stop curiosity from the beginning. For Latif, he showed unprecedented tolerance, and even said love to him many times in the film. This word, he "created" Latif, and his feelings are like that of the artist who fell in love with the stone statue he carved by himself, although there is a somewhat narcissistic projection (even Latif is listening to Wu Dai said "I like you too much" and then retorted that "You like Uday") is actually more of a desire for perfection.
The role of Uday is very hateful at first glance, but gradually, as the plot develops, we can see the nature of the character’s fierceness and inner weakness, of course, this does not mean that his actions are worthy of forgiveness (because of a villain Poorly forgive him/her for being a very stupid Virgin. Although my villain always said that I was a Virgin, because I was always trying to empathize and understand everything, but my understanding never meant approval. Usually I just do it like that. In order to prevent himself from making the same mistakes and to stay away from people who would do such wrong things), this character was born rich but had an unfortunate childhood. It can be seen from the film that his relationship with his father Saddam is not close, it can even be said to be full Contradictory, he witnessed Saddam’s men sending him women when he was very young, and when his father and other women were upset in bed, his mother was sitting outside the room. The lack of attention and weakness in his childhood made him grow up. A man who always wants to prove himself, a man who is not savvy enough can make himself feel fulfilled only by conquering women. When he grows up, he plunders women everywhere, regardless of whether they are willing, coercive or lured, he uses whatever means. The most pitiful thing in the film is the woman who was taken by Uday at her wedding. She was like a broken doll when she committed suicide. Although only a few minutes of the scene, it is extremely distressing.
Latif, who is in contrast to Uday, possesses the best qualities of a soldier, fortitude, decisiveness, cleverness and filial piety to his parents. Without the misfortune brought about by that face, he should have a good life. Perhaps it was sacrificed on the battlefield to become a hero, or perhaps it was to survive again, retired, inherited his father's electrical appliance shop, and lived a life of ordinary and extraordinary. '
Actually, the story of this film is good, but I always feel that it is not good enough when I watch it, but I can't tell the specifics about it. But Dominic's performance is really a plus.
Many years ago I read some series of articles about soul-calling scams (sometimes I felt that I had a wide range of reading when I was a child) The so-called soul-calling, most of them were actually scams. The walking posture, sitting posture, and other small movements, even with the sachet often worn by the deceased, are similar in smell. There are still some methods that I can’t remember, but the top scams actually require broader knowledge. , Through contact with the deceased or inspecting the corpse, they observe the fine lines on the face caused by the long-term expressions, and in the process of evocation, they reproduce the deceased’s expression, tone, posture, etc. (be a Top scammers are not easy.) Their scams can deceive almost everyone. And what Dominic did in this film is actually similar. At the beginning, the two characters are all different from expression to stance, accent, and tone, so that many people really think that the two characters are different people. (Speaking of which, it’s weird that the Iceman and his twin brother weren’t played in such a movie. When watching "A Bear Named Pooh", everyone regarded each as an iceman, because they were so alike. ), but since Latif was arrested as a stand-in, gradually, the difference between the two people is no longer so obvious. Even in the end, we can see anger and fierceness in Latif’s eyes, just like He himself predicted at the beginning of the film, "You are inviting me to a path of self-destruction." At the end of the film, he finally understood what anger is. While he abolished Uday, he actually killed part of himself. .
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