Spiritual victory is all in vain - "I want to end it all"
Today, let's talk about the movie "I Want to End It All".
The title is I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020).
The film "I Want to End It All" is adapted from the novel of the same name by Ian Reed. A rough look at the film tells a rather magical story, but after a careful taste, you will find the bleakness behind the story.
The male protagonist Jack takes his girlfriend home to meet his parents. The film begins with a sweet start, but gradually changes its flavor. The Jack family seems to be very strange. The whole thing does not seem to be a simple meeting with the parents...
"I Want to End It All" is not short in length, and can be roughly divided into three parts.
The first is Jack taking his girlfriend home. In a ghostly weather raging in a snowstorm, Jack drove his girlfriend, whom he had known for only a few months, to his hometown to meet his parents. Along the way, Jack didn't care about the monotonous scenery around him at all, and chatted happily with his girlfriend, who didn't forget to look at the scenery outside the window. The two are inseparable from each other, setting the tone for the subsequent development of the story. At this point, the film seems to be just a rambling road movie.
The second is that after Jack got home, Jack's parents chatted and ate with Jack's girlfriend. If the previous weird hints were not obvious, the time reversal of this piece of content completely exposed the story.
The chat interaction between Jack, Jack's parents, and Jack's girlfriend is completely different from that of a regular family. The story's strangeness is further deepened, and the thrilling atmosphere increases sharply. In this case, the girlfriend strongly demanded to rush back to her home, and the story entered the third block.
The third one is that Jack takes his girlfriend home on a snowy night. Along the way, they will encounter even more bizarre things. The sudden appearance of the ice cream shop and the high school campus has become the key to exploring Jack's heart.
With a confession dance, the truth of the whole thing is revealed at this moment.
Let’s talk about the conclusion first, I believe many people will also see the true story content of the movie.
"I Want to End It All" is about the end-of-life care that a poor man who is dying of loneliness creates for himself. The normal story is actually Jack, a high school cleaner, a big fantasy before his death.
After watching the movie once, you will understand the true story told by the whole movie. If you are unfortunate enough to be able to empathize with Jack's dream, then you need to take care of yourself more and don't be depressed by suppressed emotions.
All the seemingly non-linear processes and reversed chronological order in the film actually hint at the real situation of the whole film. If you're interested in going back and looking at the beginning of the film, you'll notice the hints are all over the place. The details always show that everything is what Jack has in mind.
In a trance, the film has an endless feeling of an infinite time loop. As the film continues to advance, the infinite loop finally comes to an end, and the whole story comes to an end.
We often say, dream, there is everything in a dream. In the dream state, the owner of the dream can control the development of the dream state, especially daydreams with a little waking state. The owner of the dream can create a dream that satisfies him at will.
I hope you don't feel the same way about Jack's experience. You live in a depressed mood every day, you are just breathing air, and your quality of life is extremely poor.
"I Want to End It All" is actually a daydream of Jack before the end of his life. He controls the characters and characters that appear in the dream, in order to satisfy his life full of regrets.
There are many true stories about Jack's life that can be learned from the film. On the one hand, the dream is the opposite, on the other hand, the story finally shows the real situation.
Jack's parents were cold and mean to him, feeling that he had accomplished nothing, and their words were very unfriendly. The misfortune of the original family is a major factor in Jack's unsatisfactory life in the future.
Jack saw a beautiful girl in the bar but didn't dare to approach him, and the girl's opinion of him changed.
The girls in Jack's high school laughed at his naive appearance, and even didn't hide the ridicule in person.
In terms of studies and career, Jack also has no achievements, no close friends, and no achievements in life. He spends his life cleaning the school corridors.
Long-term depression made Jack's life very miserable. On a cold snowy night, the elderly Jack finally chose not to live like this, but to give his life an end.
Before his death, Jack reviewed his life through dreams and made himself happy in his dreams.
Jack imagined the beautiful girl he had a crush on in the bar as his girlfriend, and arranged a story for him to strike up a conversation boldly. He imagined the high school student who had laughed at him as an ice cream shop clerk, and tempted him in every possible way. Arranging the parents to be amiable and amiable makes family life a little brighter. Jack is eager to be favored by female friends, hope to become a top academic talent, hope that his family will be harmonious, his parents will understand and support him, and he hopes to get support, encouragement and applause from relatives and friends
The campus cleaner Jack fantasizes about himself as a young man, and has achieved extremely high academic achievements in physics, and even won the Nobel Prize in Physics; Jack can perceive the content of his girlfriend's heart; The clerk had the same scars on his arm as Jack; Jack's parents appeared at different ages, and their mental status was erratic. Everything shows that these characters are Jake's own fantasy characters and do not exist.
On the surface, "I want to end this" is Jack's girlfriend's repeated inner monologue; in reality, "I want to end this" is Jack's desire to end his unsatisfactory life before his death.
The imaginary life is just a dream after all. In order to end the dream, Jack killed the imaginary young and handsome self with his own image.
Satisfied, Jack chose to end his life.
Spiritual victory is all but vain,
It's all over.
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