1. Before watching the film, it was revealed that the male protagonist and the old cleaner were the same person. When I watched the film, I guessed that the whole film was actually the old man’s memories and narration of his life before committing suicide. The girlfriend, the parents at different times, the stage The performers on the show are all people in his memories or desires. What struck me was the sense of loneliness, and the details made me think the film was too skillful. It's my favorite movie so far.
(1) The sense of loneliness may come from the contrast between the various desires of the male protagonist shown in the film and the reality - the contrast between clouds and mud.
1. Like his life
(1) He aspires to be a physicist, loves literature and art (hee hee, this is described as earthy), and looks forward to having his own insights into books and movies (in the second half he and his girlfriend talked about a movie in the car , has a unique opinion, but after reading the film review, I realized that the words he said were all from a book, and there is a close-up in front of the heroine picking up the book in his room. So it's just "expectation" ); but he ended up just working as a cleaner and knew exactly how many bathrooms the school had. And the story of the "pig with maggots on its body" is actually his evaluation of his entire life. In the end, he has to comfort himself "why are there maggots? There are always people who want to draw lots to be maggots."
(2) He needs to reconstruct his life through the narration of others (in his mother's narration, he is sometimes a genius, and sometimes he is a little boy who is not smart but hard-working; in his girlfriend's narration, his concern for his mother "in this It is very rare in society, and it is very admirable.") But after decades of life, this is the only thing I can talk about.
2. Such as his feelings:
(1) He is delicate and shy, and longs for someone who can connect with his heart (his conversations with his girlfriend in the car are all seamless, not like a dialogue but more like a paragraph divided into two people); but in fact , that girlfriend may just be the girl he had a crush on at a party 40 years ago but didn't have the courage to approach him (the girl was looking for a boyfriend at school, and when describing her boyfriend to the cleaner, he said "he was staring at me at the party" , very annoying" "Can't remember what it looked like. Asking me to describe him is like asking me to describe what it felt like to be bitten by a mosquito 40 years ago").
(2) He may have had several girlfriends in his life, and the heroine is the comprehensive image of the several girlfriends he has had. But several girlfriends will also have some things with him that cannot be fully communicated between people [there are several shots, he and his girlfriend are talking about something, one second she is drowsy (reality), the next Seconds but smiles and agrees with his words (hope)]
(2) Details.
1. For example, the heroine's clothes and accessories will change, prompting us that "this heroine is not the same person in the same period";
2. For example, some metaphors: the endless stairs are like the male protagonist being trapped by thoughts and reality.
2. Resonance
1. The male protagonist said "I often forget how sweet they are" after ordering a hugely sweet ice cream - I resonate with this very much! Relying on sweets to relieve stress, I sometimes feel a little annoyed after eating, and feel "why eat such a sweet thing again".
2. From the heroine's monologue: "Jack sometimes needs me to recognize his value, which has become the value of my life."
3. The poem
Going home is scary
Coming home is terrible
Whether or not the dog licks your face
whether the dogs lick your face or not
No matter what is waiting for you at home is a wife
whether you have a wife
Still lonely in the shape of a wife
or just a wife-shaped loneliness waiting for you
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