After watching this movie, what I think of the most is the director's famous work before, and it is also one of my personal favorite ten movies - "Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind"
It has to be said that the great success of "Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind" has given this French director, who has a typical French romantic thinking, great confidence, allowing him to bring out his already distinct personal style more vividly. Let him begin to delve deeper into the relationship between dreams and reality. If Jin Min's dream is a classical oil painting, Nolan's dream is a series of wonderful mathematical formulas, then Gondry's dream is Picasso's work, which reveals the truth in the strange. And as he goes deeper into this discussion, we become more and more aware of the hypocrisy and powerlessness of our grasp of reality.
Let's revisit "Eternal Sunshine of a Beautiful Mind" first. "Beauty" is about a company in the near future that is in the business of helping people who are emotionally troubled. As long as you give them a spare key to the house, then take a sleeping pill and lie down in bed when you get home at night, they'll send someone with a device to modify your memory and remove the person you want to forget from your memory. Then search forward a little bit and then delete it. Plus, they'll help you dispose of all the items in your home that are related to that person by the way. That way, the next day you wake up, you can start a new life without stress. The heroine, played by Kate Winslet, and the man, played by Jim Carrey, are a couple whose relationship is tottered by the daily chores. Finally, one day another quarrel caused by different opinions became the last straw on the camel's back, and the heroine decided to delete the hero from her memory. The male protagonist, who was saddened to learn about this, also booked the same business in order to get revenge on her. But just as the operator searched for her memory in his mind and deleted one by one from the last memory forward, he in the dream gradually awakened his feelings for her by revisiting these scenes, so he took the memory with him. In the middle of the year, she hid in the dream, and finally successfully avoided the fate of being eliminated. After waking up, the male protagonist came to the place where they met for the first time with the last remaining memory, but found that the female protagonist was also there. It turns out that the female protagonist also experienced the same mental journey when deleting her memory, and also managed to retain the last trace of her memory of the male protagonist. At the end of the film, the two of them looked at each other and smiled awkwardly. Combined with some small details that appeared earlier in the film, one could not help but wonder: Is this the first time they tried to delete each other? Is this feeling shackles or sunshine?
From the plots of "Beauty" and this "Sleep" and the themes they both try to convey, we can see that the director has been thinking about the issue of "the authenticity and reliability of feelings". The male protagonist in this film is an artist who can't distinguish between dreams and reality. By chance, he met another female protagonist who also has a wild imagination, so he quickly fell in love with her, but faced with not so simple , and the reality became increasingly heavy day by day, he was worried about gains and losses, hesitating, and finally exhausted from temptation and suspicion, and chose to prefer to stay with each other in a dream for the rest of his life, rather than dare to see each other in reality. This character, shaped by the lines full of French charm and Bernal's divine acting skills, can be said to be completely comparable to Jim Carrey, and is also so realistic, or too realistic, to the point of outrageous.
He broke his blood for love, but he couldn't see the truth of his cowardice. All of Stephanie's rejections and betrayals of him were hallucinations he rehearsed alone; he finally (dreamed) plucked up the courage to convince himself to hide in the dark waiting to give Stephanie a kiss, only to retreat to Stephanie's Covering his face on the cot: "Can you pretend you didn't see me?"
All dreams are his subconscious. The subconscious told him that he longed for Stephanie, the heroine of his old age sitting on a bench and recalling the absurdities of his youth, the woman the world had assigned him to communicate telepathically through the chaotic system, but he was afraid To be rejected, he fears betrayal, he fears loss. So he struggled in the dark one-man show, getting hurt and hurting others. Only in dreams can he dare to express his feelings unscrupulously, but he can't tell the difference between dreams and reality, so he often tries to suppress himself in dreams, but tries to let go of himself in reality, with the result that both It ended in failure, bringing him only a double sense of frustration. So at the end of the film, when the two worlds were already a mess that could never be sorted out for him, he took the heroine and rode the slowly galloping cloth horse, went to the cellophane ocean, and jumped on the long The white boat of the white tree sails to the depths of the white cotton clouds hidden in layers... Is all this a dream or reality? The director did not explain, and this issue is no longer important to the male protagonist, isn't it?
Every time it is labeled as a cure but it is extremely depressing, every time I tell the story of a dream but it is extremely true, Michel Gondry, it really makes people love it and hate it.
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