The core puzzle of the film is: Is Manny real or Hank's fantasy?
The answer is: Hank's fantasy. manny is the other me of hank.
As long as the premise is determined, many puzzles will be solved, and some deeper things that the film wants to explore will also surface.
Some supporting details:
1. Hank wakes up Manny, using his mother's song.
2. When Manny first saw Sara, he believed Sara had something to do with him. Although Hank's performance is enough to indicate that he has nothing to do with manny.
3. Manny was sitting on the bus that Hank made for him, looking at the "scrolling scenery" outside the window. This is simply Hank's daily memory. In manny's hallucinations, only Sara instead of Hank, also illustrates this point.
4. A very important detail. Manny remembered Sara's full name. But Hank never told him Sara's full name. Therefore, both of them know Sara, and a more reasonable explanation is that the two are the same person.
5. When Hank found the cell phone signal, Hank read the text message his father had given him. But there was no reply, and no help. Instead, I went to see Sara's social networking site and other people's photos. This shows that Hank does not want to be rescued subconsciously, or that he knows that he is not dangerous.
6. When Hank found pictures of Sara and other men and went back to Manny, he told Manny that he had discovered something. Manny said he also found one thing. Hank said that he deceived Manny, manny had nothing to do with Sara, and asked Manny to help him escape. Why did you say this after seeing pictures of Sara and other men? Why not continue to deceive manny so that he can help him escape? The only reasonable explanation is that after seeing the photo, Hank told himself that he had nothing to do with Sara.
7. What did Manny discover? Obviously it is not what Hank said, he has nothing to do with Sara. Because after Hank finished talking about this matter, Manny was stunned for a moment, and then said that he also discovered this matter. The look before is obviously happy.
8. To be precise, Manny is the id of Hank, and Hank is the external self domesticated by society. Manny saw the picture of Sara and others. And want to let Hank die. He said to Hank, why hide everything? This also confirms the relationship between the id and the external self.
9. What is the relationship between Manny and Hank? Gay love? Perhaps a word that has been mentioned in the movie can be more accurately summarized: masturbation.
10. Dragging Hank to the manny and fled to Sara's backyard. Manny spoke fluently like never before when facing the little girl begging him to save Hank. Hank has been trying to hide the weirdo of manny. Finally when Sara arrived, manny died again.
11. Another obvious detail that cannot be more obvious. Hank was called manny by reporters. Again, these two people are the same person.
12. After Hank became aware of the death of manny, a powerful existence capable of saving himself but unable to show himself in front of others, Hank finally chose to give up everything. Facing the contempt and misunderstanding of everyone, he chose to accept his own orders. People are astonished and disgusted by the self. All the way back to the place where the two first met, trying to wake Manny.
13. The last detail that proves that Hank and Manny are the same person. At the end of the ending, Hank is like manny. Fart.
Therefore, this story is not about the interaction between life and death, nor is it a relationship between human corpses. This is a dick who chooses to exterminate herself in the end, but is still awakened by the desire for love between people. The story of trying to save yourself and accept yourself. Is the story comedy or tragedy? The ending depicts two scenes: it is possible that the protagonist is crazy, or it is possible that there is a magical manny and hank is believed by everyone. And what is it actually? Maybe it's not that the protagonist is really crazy, nor is there the magical corpse of manny. It was the hank who was unloved. He chose to save himself, accept himself, and love himself, but he could only watch that self go away, leaving the maddened self facing the disgusting eyes of everyone. Perhaps it can be comforted that that self has returned to the sea again, drifting and flying freely. It seems that as long as they see the energetic self, others can cast affirmative eyes.
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