It is not that we pass through time, on the contrary, we stand still and time passes through us.
Charlie Kaufman is well-known in the film industry for his eccentricity, and his new work "I Want to End It All" takes this dark, bizarre, and psychologically suspenseful character to the extreme. Some people say that movies are nothing more than reproducing the relationship between people, the relationship between people and nature, and nothing else. In this two-hour and fourteen-minute film, the author deeply explores the relationship between human beings and time. Time is not an entity, but a real existence in nature. All things, all emotions, cease to exist once they are separated from time. So, do humans depend on time to live? The film also gives a clear answer - yes. Although we don't want to admit it, don't want to admit aging, don't want to admit that people will die, and don't want to admit that we are mediocre and unknown all our lives. But the reality is cruel, human beings are not worthy of aging. Young and admirable.
The protagonist of the film, Jack, takes his girlfriend home to meet his parents. The two seem to be in harmony, but the heroine's point of view is "I want to end this." His girlfriend is a poet by profession. When we got to Jack's house, everything became weird. The horizontal camera position, the slow push and pull shots, and the extremely symmetrical medium and close-up composition made the sky over the farm shrouded in a dark fog. A pig with maggots, a dog that appears and disappears, Jack's parents who haven't shown up, a wall with pictures of his girlfriend's childhood, a basement that scares Jack, and more. This interior scene is my favorite part of the film. This scene can be taken out of the film alone without affecting its integrity. Every foreshadowing that appears in this paragraph is explained later.
People who can understand "Mulholland Drive" should understand it easily when they watch "I Want to End It All". The former tells the story of an ideal self and a real self, dreams and reality intersect, and dreams beautify reality. To understand "I Want to End It All," a poem recited by a girlfriend in the car can serve as an entry point.
The following are excerpts from the film, sentence by sentence:
Going home is scary
Whether or not the dog licks your face
No matter what is waiting for you at home is a wife
Still lonely in the shape of a wife
terribly lonely at home
So that when you think back to the place full of heavy air pressure you just left, it also brings some fondness
Because once you get home, everything will be worse
You think wistfully of the vermin clinging to the straw
Long rides on the road, roadside assistance, and ice cream
There are also some special shapes of clouds
And silence because you don't want to go home
home is scary
In this section, it can be confirmed from an indoor scene that Jack visualized his fear of family, but he told it through his girlfriend's mouth, because the girlfriend herself is also a perfect combination of wisdom, beauty and talent from Jack's lust. female. Perfect to the point that his profession changes at any time. The indoor play has the visual sense of a stage play, breaking the traditional linear narrative and showing the life trajectory of Jack's parents in a limited space. It is not difficult to see in a few scenes that his father is irresponsible and his mother has a strong desire to control. The frequent quarrels of his parents left an indelible shadow in the young Jack's heart, and the dark basement became his childhood nightmare.
About perception
Color only exists in the brain, it's just the brain that colorizes the electromagnetic frequencies. Color is the trail and bitter fruit of light, and time is something that only exists in the brain. The origin of the film lies in the organic combination of audio-visual technology, which is equivalent to the fusion and expansion of the existing human senses. The feature of this film is that it teaches the viewer how to perceive time and perceive the origin of all perception—the human brain. At this point, in fact, the theme of this film is obvious. Dissatisfaction with real life, escapism stimulates the reprocessing of the human brain, dyes the black and white canvas with colorful colors, and makes up a vast sea of knowledge for oneself, romantic love, A happy family, nowhere to put the charm. All are brutal escapes from reality. The reality is unbearable to look directly at, and when I take off my coat, I am a mediocre cleaner who has been indifferent in middle school and has no sense of existence, and is the pig full of maggots in the pigpen.
The only thing I don’t like about this film is the sloppy strokes at the end. After the gorgeous corridor ballet, it still ends with standing on the Nobel Prize podium in a dream, which also shows the essence of this film as a fable of the world. . After digging out the ugly truth of life, he is still indulging in the sound of sleep. In addition, the author's ambition is evident about the inconsistent aesthetic style before and after the film. I wanted to make this film a film that integrates suspense, thriller, and plot. In the film, I also tried the mode of play within play, nesting of movies, surreal animation, stage play, and musical theater mode. However, the presentation of the results can only be said to be 70% complete (relative to the integrity of Mulholland Drive).
In a word, the final impression is that there is a lot to do.
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