I have always been a movie lover and have never written a movie review, but after watching this movie, I feel like I have too much to say. I haven't read the original book. In my understanding, only the cleaners are real humans throughout the movie. The rest are just his avatars, and can't be called fantasy, the parents are real, the male protagonist is himself, and the girlfriend is a complete fantasy, so the girlfriend's name and identity are constantly changing, because she is not a real person, she is The most dangerous avatar, the entire movie, is that the cleaner wants to end it all, but the other avatars keep stopping his process.
In fact, from the characters and dialogues in the film, we can piece together the life of the cleaner himself. As far as family is concerned, his parents have a bad relationship. There have been scenes of quarrels in the kitchen. When he was young, his mother was very controlling and would be very fierce. When I talked to him, my father never understood him. The paintings in the basement were his works when he was a teenager, but they were shown to his father by the avatar of the heroine. His father always said that he didn't understand, that there was no human face in art, so why could he Expressing sadness probably means that his former hobbies were not understood, so in the end these paintings appeared in the basement, and the basement represented things that he did not want to recall at all, such as these rejected and attacked art, such as The identity of the cleaner (clothing). In the end, his parents grew old and died, and he was left with only himself, living alone.
From his own point of view, he is not smart. He studied hard when he was a child, and finally got the medal of diligence, not the medal of intelligence, so there is a dialogue that people always say that God closed a door and opened it for you. You're not smart enough to have the consolation prize of the genetic lottery. He didn't fit in with others in school, so when the male protagonist was diverting to middle school, he said that every day at school was so fucking long, he must have been bullied by the school, and that the misfit children he had met ended up Appeared to work in the supermarket in the town. In fact, the girl in the ice cream shop with the rash on her hand should also be his doppelganger. Then he went to work. During his part-time job, there were other beautiful and flamboyant girls who pushed him away and laughed at him, but he had strange fantasies about them, so he didn't want to face them again.
There is also a life partner. The heroine is his imaginary girlfriend and his most dangerous avatar. He enriches the process of his love and acquaintance through the romantic TV series he sees in his daily life. There is also his childhood room, inside There are a lot of books. In fact, he is also very smart and literary. He has an understanding of physics, art, and movies. He is rich in emotions and covers a wide range of subjects. Full of charisma, changing occupations and names, doctors, physicists, these are all occupations that only smart and excellent people can do. His mother also mentioned excellent physicist couples at the dinner table, but these are all fantasy in the end , does not exist, he has not found a partner and has been living alone.
In the last dance and his solo on stage, I have two understandings of my own. First, in the dance, two people fall in love and get married. Does it also mean that he was married when he was young? Later, a cleaner came out and killed the male dancer. Does it mean that after their marriage, the male protagonist became more and more boring. Later, he became a cleaner and killed the original interesting self, and then the female dancer (wife) left him And go. Second: He fantasized that he finally won the Nobel Prize, gave a speech on the stage, his parents, girlfriends and people who used to bully him and regarded him as air sat in the audience and applauded him, which was recognized by everyone And praise, finally no longer alone.
Why do you say that the heroine is his most dangerous doppelganger, because the heroine keeps saying that I want to end all this, when the heroine is in voiceover, the hero is always interrupting her, and she hardly says a whole lot of what she wants to express If so, this is also the discomfort of the whole movie, especially uncomfortable and embarrassing. In the ice cream shop, the female avatar is preventing her from moving forward, telling her that the front is very dangerous, the female protagonist can stay, and all the avatars are preventing the female protagonist from going. Go down, think about it, talk about it. This is because the heroine's thoughts are very dangerous, she is thinking of ending it all! In the end, all the obstacles were unsuccessful, the cleaner committed suicide, froze to death in the car, induced hypothermia before death, saw the ice cream queen in childhood (this may be his few happy memories), and followed the fantasy naked. The rotting pig that died across the snow and across the campus ended it all. Why do I think he succeeded in committing suicide, because the final picture is not the cleaner's truck, but the male protagonist's car, which is covered with white snow. On campus, no one is coming back.
This is a thriller movie. Many people have been asking where Gao Neng is and why they are not thrilled during the viewing process, because the real thriller is not ghosts and gods, but themselves. The male protagonist belongs to the majority of all living beings. Not smart, read a lot of books, learned a lot of knowledge, painting, talk about physics and economy at the dinner table, but no one has ever understood himself, no friends, no lover, living alone, sending away his parents, becoming a real person The lonely man who works as a cleaner year after year is the one who is occasionally ridiculed in the eyes of the students, but most of the time ignored, like a transparent thing, people's eyes don't see you, but pass through you, maybe I have had a dream when I was young, and maybe I thought I would be an unusual person, but in the end I was just lonely, living my life mediocrely, not wanting to end all this all the time, but other avatars are blocking you again, telling you this. Life is worth it, you still have a lot of good, and the thought of ending it all triumphs over it all.
This is just like ourselves. The hardest thing for people is to admit that they are ordinary and that they will live an ordinary life. Yes, you may be very interesting, and you may know everything about astronomy and geography, but is this really you? Like a voice-over in a basement, are we really ourselves, or are we just people stuffed with information from this world, are our words our own? But it's all other people's words. Other people's thoughts are just spread from us. There was a popular saying that the books you read and the paths you traveled will eventually become part of your body and mind. Really part of you? Or did they make up a you? Of course, this profound topic of id and ego cannot be explained in one or two sentences.
Who doesn't think that they have different fireworks when they are young, who doesn't yearn to be noticed and a successful life, who would think that your dream now is a house, or that you will be unemployed in mid-life crisis, who will know your whole life It's just an ordinary and ordinary time in the office in the cubicle. Are you willing, do you accept it, there is no voice in your heart telling you what the fuck is this, am I always thinking about ending it all? But you won't end it because you have other responsibilities, other ties tell you to stay, life is worth it, and if it's not worth it in the end, losing parents, losing a partner, nothing to achieve, you will end it all ?
This movie brought me not only the embarrassment and discomfort during the viewing process, but the whole process of holding my breath and wanting to shout and vent, and the psychological horror after watching it. The more I think about it, the more sad it becomes. A bleak life is to still love life after recognizing the truth of life, I think I am not now, I think there is always that little voice in the heart of some people, I want to end all this, I want to end all this... Don't let her beat you, don't let her really end it all.
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