I didn't understand what the movie was talking about at the end of it. Later, I checked it online. It is a surreal movie full of metaphors, and it tells about a fantastic dream.
While watching the movie, I realized several contradictory points. Why is there only three people in the hotel in a big city like LA? (In fact, there are two, and a pair of voices appeared), why is there mosquitoes in the desert in LA? Why does the mosquito pack on his face disappear from time to time? Why did the little secretary who was driven away reappeared in the office the next day, why was there such a big fire in the hotel, but no one came out and no one rescued, not even a little smoke? And who killed that girl? What's in the box?
There are too many such small details. If you think about it on the surface, you can't figure it out. You can only understand it if you think about it in a deeper level.
I searched the Internet to find out that this movie is the same as the eight and a half movies, combining reality and fantasy, and because this movie has no clear dividing line between reality and fantasy, it is easy to enter Cohen Brother's trap, if we look at it as a normal movie, we can't understand it at all.
First of all, Button Fink is a writer, and a bit neurotic. The life of a writer is very painful, and Button Fink is in a spooky hotel, uninspired and lonely, and the double mental stress causes him to have hallucinations .
So we can roughly guess that Charlie is a completely fictional character, and he only lives in Barton's mind, and Audrey -- maybe there is such a person, but the fact that she came to Barton's room and was killed should also be What Barton imagined, basically we can conclude that what happened in Barton's room should be his imagination. His room is like a little paradise for him. When he gets out of the room, he becomes the poor writer who hits walls everywhere. .
Because of the unsatisfactory reality, I can only immerse myself in fantasy. This is a common problem for writers. My "best work" is denied by the production company. The production company told him that you can hit a writer by throwing any stone, but please throw the point. The side also shows that writers were very unpopular in that era. The production company only cared about selling points and money, and did not care about the connotation of the film at all. In wrestling films, they only cared about action, action, action. There's no way Patton will get ahead here.
No matter how difficult the writing process was, Patton was undoubtedly ecstatic after completing the script. He went to the ballroom to sing and dance to the fullest, shouting to the onlookers, I am the creator! I just finished my greatest work yet! Although it is definitely playing the piano to the cow, it also reflects the madness of Patton.
This film of Button Fink is very fake, most of the stories are fake, the characters are fake, but it is because of this "fake" that the writer's helplessness is even more reflected, they are contradictory and painful Yes, but also happy.
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