In Woolf's "Haunted House", two couples who have died in their lives are constantly searching and searching in the same house. The treasure they are looking for brings their memory activation. What is this treasure hidden in the old house? they do not know. They can never find it, but they find it from time to time. This treasure is the trace of two people living in this old house, and it is the love of two people. But in "Ghosts and Ghosts", which uses this as the second language layer, the loneliness is magnified to an unbearable height. The pursuit of two people or two ghosts is always accompanied, and love always exists between the two. They can communicate and remember together. Maybe they can't realize it, but the difference between two and one is not just a simple horizontal, but a subject, an object, and a world. C and M were thrown into two worlds because of this, and they couldn't even cross over in a way that people and ghosts are still in the dark. This approach of magnifying realism has forced the pain of loneliness and love to a suffocating level. The two who exist in different ways will inevitably choose to live in different ways. M survives in the world, her life can only move forward, and the only way to choose to move forward is to forget, all the history and traces in the house cannot be erased, only escape. C's life has come to an end, and there are only memories in front of him, so his obsession can only pursue history and traces. M's life is still in her own hands. Even without C, she can take the initiative to control her own life trajectory. C's search in the old house of the two, the act of searching for the treasure between him and M is like a joke made by God, the constant pursuit but throwing can't match the destruction of the house of memory, the dead people lose their sense of obsession Seeking suicide again. It is difficult for us to determine whether C's existence is real, but his existence cannot be erased, whether as a human or a ghost.
The five-minute pie-eating scene was the most painful in the entire film. The habit of overeating when in pain gave me a basis for empathy, but this pain was far more than experiencing M revenge-eating pie. C was motionless. Standing in the corner of the camera, looking at M's pain, as a ghost, he was powerless, and couldn't even give her a trace of comfort. M's pain is between the knife and fork and the pie, between the chewing of the lips and the teeth, between the entry and exit of the esophagus, and the impact of the body can not soothe the slightest. C doesn't move, but his existence is the body of pain. He doesn't move, but the pain overflows the screen. The life, death and movement of the two are like spears and shields in this shot, turning the roses between the two worlds into blood and tears.
Contrast is so common in literature and art. This is no exception here. C is not a special exception. When he was waiting and patrolling in the room, he found a ghost in the opposite room. They are waiting together, maybe this is an arrangement made by C who can't bear to be too lonely, but this ghost wearing a small floral sheet has brought us even more unbearable loneliness. After life stopped, time seemed to stop too. After waiting for an inexplicable time without seeing the active life, the two instinctively asked "who's there?" when they accidentally saw each other by the window. Generally "it's just me". Just me. No matter how long they waited, the answer was already written in the ending.
Lonely people are not shameful, they have no choice, forgotten stories are false, any life will exist in a person's life in a unique way, when an emotion ends in any way, we will form a grudge . Whether we choose deceptive forgetting to continue, or we can't bear it and leave, we will always be alone.
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