After watching it, I heard that I made a lot of controversy in this room, so I also want to join the controversy, and briefly talk about my views around a few elements in the film.
First, the sound of mowing the grass. When mowing the grass, the scythe falls, and the toiler breathes in and out rhythmically. When he was a child, the protagonist turned his head and cut off the webbed of a little duck after hearing this voice, and at the end of the film, he wept. What attracts him to the sound of breathing? I think it is because the regular movements satisfy his compulsion, but why did he cry later, I am more inclined to think that he has not obtained this kind of satisfaction for a long time, From hurting a little duck to skilled killing, he was in fact constantly being controlled by his emotions while letting himself go. He has not calmed down for a long time.
Second, the freezer door. The door of the freezer has never been opened, and the protagonist tried to open it at first, but it didn't open. Maybe for a long time after that, the protagonist never tried to open the door again. It was not until the killing experiment went smoothly that he remembered it again. . A door that was once difficult to open, finally opened relatively easily, and inside the door sat verge. This element is also very interesting. Maybe the back of the door symbolizes an area that the protagonist has been ignoring, but what has he been ignoring?
Third, the Verge. After watching the whole film, let's sort out the sequence again. It should be that the protagonist meets Verge, then the two talk and recall, verge leaves, and the protagonist dies. Combined with the unrealistic plot after meeting verge, I feel that verge is a person who does not exist at all, or, in other words, he exists in the spiritual world of the protagonist, from the very beginning, from the first murder of the protagonist, he has existed, verge said I have come to send him to the underworld, and the words reveal that he has sent many people. Some people may think that verge is an existence similar to the messenger of the underworld, living on the edge of the underworld and reality like his name, but I think that combined That door, verge, is more like the forgotten edge of the protagonist's spiritual world, which appeared when the protagonist's emotions were the most frantic and out of control.
Fourth, the street lamp theory. I think this street lamp theory is the most interesting concept in the whole film. It can basically explain that the crime of the protagonist is actually a kind of emotional out of control. The first and last are very obvious. The first time was because of the woman's noisy, annoying, and sometimes provocative remarks. After he solved the trouble neatly, he suddenly felt relieved. This made him realize that his emotions could be relieved in this way. The last time was a criminal ideal that made him excited and crazy. Because he was too excited, his brain was completely filled with this incident, like a CPU that had been used for a long time and finally couldn't stand the high load and burned itself. In the last crime, he bought the wrong bullet and didn't even notice when he tried to do it, and was caught again. Fortunately, he recovered a little bit of his hypocritical trick and killed two people, but the way of killing was also rough. There is no beauty. He drove the police car all the way back and parked the police car outside the door. He set up the gun and found that he couldn't aim it. The embarrassment reminded him of the second time he was dominated by cleaning obsessive-compulsive disorder, even more than the second time. At this time, he has reached his limit under the street light, and it is obviously beyond his sophisticated range.
Fifth, the house. The material of the house haunts the protagonist, but in the end it is verge who helps him make the perfect house. What does this house mean to the protagonist? I think to go back to the question he asked, is there a difference between an engineer and an architect? I didn't understand this
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