The biggest theme of the whole story of "Aberrations" is actually "Mask." The male protagonist is a best-selling author who writes about success. He is best at teaching others to use clever social rhetoric, but the irony is that he increasingly hates and fears his hypocrisy, and this meaning is designed in the play The "mask" of the puppet: Not only does the protagonist feel that he is wearing a "mask", in his eyes everyone's faces are combined and split. Kaufman therefore specially kept the cracks on the puppet's face. This design looks weird at first, but it actually fits the theme of the movie. There is a scene in the movie about the protagonist’s dream. When he feels that the entire hotel is plotting against him and ran into the hotel corridor, his "mask" suddenly fell to the ground. This grotesque and weird The scene well interprets his inner fear and panic, everything is like a poster of this movie: the protagonist stands in front of a misty mirror, wipes the foggy surface, but sees a specious and difficult to judge the truth. Fake face.
"Mask" not only exists in the face, but also in the "language". The protagonist is designed to be a person who promotes "speaking skills", which is already an irony in itself. At the beginning of the movie, the protagonist has already explained the protagonist’s fear of "social language" through dialogues between the actor and the people on the plane, the taxi driver, and the waiter in the hotel. The dialogues of these social rituals made the protagonist tired and irritable. . There is a very special design in the play. At the beginning, when the actor took out the letter from his ex-girlfriend on the plane, the ex-girlfriend’s narration was dubbed by the man. This suspense has been spreading backwards until it is slowly revealed to the actor. In this world, all women’s voices are male voices to him: they sound the same, rigid and low, and often mixed with a lot of anger (many of the foul language in the movie comes from women). Until he met "Lisa", a girl who was actually not beautiful and inferior, but the hero saw in her the "truth" and "gentleness" he hoped for. He called her "Anomalisa (abnormal)". The normal Lisa seemed to him to be the most "true" in his heart. It was a straw to save his "mask". At the end of the play, Lisa revealed that another deep meaning of Anomalisa was actually "heaven". goddess".
The most gimmicky scene in the play is the sex scene between Lisa and the male protagonist. The sex scene on the puppet character looks extremely unconventional, but the contrast between the form of stop motion animation and the character sex scene just expresses that share. It seemed a little lonely. To some extent, the actor wearing a "mask" is already a "sexual impotence" and "love impotence" who doesn't believe in anyone, but Lisa aroused his desire for "sex" and "love" at this time. , Her voice became an aphrodisiac, and when they were combined, the voice was the only "reality" that the male protagonist could perceive. Unfortunately, the "love" was beautiful but short-lived. When they had breakfast the next morning, the sound of Lisa's teeth made him more sensitive again. He even vigilantly tested whether her desire for control was too strong, for a moment. In between, Lisa's voice became male again in his ears. The sound of Lisa's teeth actually reflects his fear of "language". In his eyes, no language seems to be true (the moment he fell in love with Lisa, it was precisely because Lisa was not good at words at all). Therefore, in the movie, the background sound is deliberately designed with a lot of people's chirping environmental sound, including the environmental sound that continues when the ending credits are released, and many angry or arguing people appearing around him, in the actor. It seems that these voices are all noisy and noisy, and all he can choose is to remain indifferent, lonely and withdrawn, just like his character name-stone.
In a speech scene at the end of the movie, the male protagonist fully declared his repression and fear to the public. After forbearing, he finally couldn't help venting his emotions and criticized the US government for a few words, but this move But it drew a boo from the audience-they actually just wanted to hear him talk about "Success Studies", not to hear his true views. Kaufman used this scene to fully express the protagonist’s complaints about modern society and his doubts about himself. While he said that each individual life must live a special life, his speech is to teach everyone to be uniform. He began Questioning that he is false and has been alienated by society into an animal with no emotions, he said: "I twisted my face into crying, but I couldn't squeeze a tear." He could only pretend to smile, just like what he taught others to socialize. The skills are average, but they are effective. This scene really shows that what Kaufman wants to express in the drama "Aberrations" is not just the simple mid-life crisis, but the torture of truth and falsehood. How can people be considered to be alive? There is also a word repeatedly mentioned in the movie-zoo. According to the taxi driver, there are many endangered animals in this zoo. People who live "real" are not endangered creatures in this society, but in the eyes of many people, they are "abnormal"?
The actor finally returned home. His wife arranged for many friends to have a party to greet him, but he said that he knew no one. His wife questioned him angrily: "who are u? who is anyone?" This sentence was once again asked at the end of the film: who are you, who am I, and who are you all? People wearing masks, people living in the same civilization, which are true and false? At that moment, when the male protagonist sat desperately at the top of the stairs, the Japanese erotic puppets on the side suddenly heard a beautiful female voice. I really like the design of this scene, which reveals an unspeakable irony and sadness: In the end, he was on the puppet to hear the truest voice.
At this moment, who is the "Puppet"? Who is "abnormal" (real)?
("Beijing Youth Daily")
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