So I returned to reality, destined to kill myself.
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First of all, Saber is definitely a very good surreal movie. Mank as part of his id. In the movie, he is responsible for revealing the true desire of the male protagonist. First of all, I can feel that the director's skills are very deep. First of all, he can achieve a light comedy in the scheduling of the plot, but it is also a feeling of tragedy in nature. He often buries a burden in a small bridge, and then breaks the burden. In fact, it is very rare to be able to create such a comic effect.
In terms of scene scheduling, for this kind of film similar to survival on a desert island, when he is only on a mountain, the settings on the road are not limited, which is more interesting. With Manny's help, he explores. On the soundtrack, when some of the more frustrating scenes appear, the joy of the music can give people a sense of sadness. Sometimes it helps people laugh outright, but overall the film's soundtrack is brilliant. In addition, the male protagonist is actually a very contradictory person. His choice to commit suicide should be a relatively world-weary performance, but in the world he has a yearning for life. He not only chooses to dream in an illusion, but also has an impulse to always want to break the illusion and find reality. Essentially , the male protagonist is very contradictory. One of the very interesting anchors in the movie is cheesecake. I think this is the definition of Rosebod in Citizen Kane. It represents something that the male protagonist once wanted very much, but didn't have. . This small anchor was later enlarged and pointed to the heroine, who was also the one the hero wanted but couldn't get. So it's not so much that he fell in love with the heroine, but I think it's more about his obsession and thinking about something. Another point is his definition of a friend I think is also interesting, he sees a friend as a multi-purpose robot that serves his needs and desires. So Mank was also projected by him. He thought Mank was his friend, but a little utilitarian was that he thought Mark was something that could be used out of the box. I think it reflects the society's disrespect to him personally. At the same time the society's disrespect for him causes pain to his individual. The part about psychoanalysis: Manny is his id, and his id is being repressed. for example: Returning to the life of society will lead to Manny's death, but he still has to do it, as if there is always an invisible force to push him, let the id disappear, so as to integrate into this society, and to integrate into this society, also. It represents the suffering of his id until death. This kind of contradiction seems to be killing him in the real world. Later, when Manny began to speak, he also began to guide the male protagonist to speak, because when his body was gradually awakening, he would have his normal reactions. For example, when he mentioned love, he would get an erection, because This is a very normal sexual function response. But these things actually suppressed it. He also mentioned about masturbation. The male protagonist's thoughts contradict his thoughts, which also reflects the identity gap between the id and the social identity. It was also expressed at the time that the id began to fight against the world. There is a scene between Manny and the male protagonist's kiss, which is a pseudo-climax, representing the mutual reconciliation of the ego and the id, and is saved after falling. Corresponding to the beginning and the end of the sea, Manny sailing into the sea is actually a tragic optimism: it is to let the id die with dignity.
It's back to the surreal until the end: the director lifts up the dreary ending and turns it into a half-hopeful, half-absurd bubble. In the public eye, the id and the ego are reunited and become reality.
Very old question about the core of this story: still talking about Freud. Maybe this will affect the award, but it will not affect the director's ability to express the story very well.
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