Can two people have the same dream?
- "Flesh and Spirit"
01
The beginning of the film is a picture of two deer in the snow, cold and lonely, covered with white snow.
The camera then turns to the slaughterhouse, cattle and machines, cuts and blood all over the floor.
One is the white snow and the spiritual deer, and the other is the herd of cattle being slaughtered in the slaughterhouse.
Freedom and kidnapping, clarity and turbidity.
In this slaughterhouse, there is a left-handed superintendent, and a new inspector.
The new inspector is a cold-looking woman who is always expressionless and refuses invitations from others. She doesn't have a cell phone and goes to see a psychiatrist. After communicating with the doctor, she was persuaded to see an adult psychiatrist. The doctor wrote on her face: hopeless.
Loneliness, the loneliness of living in one's own world.
Maria, who has an excellent memory, can remember the dates of everything and all conversations with other people. The psychiatrist asked her when was your first menarche. She said, March 29, 1997. Hearing her answer, the psychiatrist was surprised and asked her, why do you remember it so clearly, there must be something wrong.
Loneliness, being different The misunderstood loneliness.
Maria likes to use two dolls to retell her conversations with Ender, who is disabled in her left hand, to look at her own life from a side-by-side perspective.
Loneliness, loneliness that is alien to self-existence.
02
Ender, who is disabled in his left hand, is the financial director of the slaughterhouse. He lives alone and often goes to a nearby canteen to buy two cans. When he got home, the finished dinner was accidentally knocked over on the floor. He picked it up and carefully placed it on the plate. The dust on the things made Ender angry. Turn the TV on, turn it off, turn it back on, and spend every night like this.
Two lonely people, because of a psychological test and finding the intersection.
When asked about the dream, Maria and Ender described the same dream.
Are you guys playing any tricks? The psychiatrist reluctantly questioned them.
Maria's life has changed, a crack has appeared in her life that can let light into her white life.
She and Ender begin to meet as deer in their dreams, and when they wake up, they communicate in human words.
"Let's sleep together ," Ender invited to sleep with Maria every night.
For Maria, who had been repressed for a long time, Ender's initiative frightened her. So, she began to feel the world.
She watched intense porn, went to the grass to look at men's bodies, and observed couples kissing and stroking. Maria finally opened her icy world to feel a touch of warmth.
However, when she was about to meet Ender, Ender rejected him.
Maria came home, shattered the glass, cut her wrist with the glass, and listened to love songs.
Blood was flowing from her wrists, and Maria was like a slaughtered cow in the slaughterhouse.
The scary thing is not loneliness, but the powerlessness to get rid of loneliness.
03
For the first half of her life, Maria lived in a dead forest. When Ender appeared as a deer in her dream, she felt the connection with people's hearts. And then Ender's refusal made her unable to live a lifeless life before she got used to it.
Her feelings were awakened, and letting her own thoughts die would kill her.
At the end of the story, while Maria was bleeding, Ender's phone came.
I love you so much, Ender said.
Me too, Maria replied.
04
Loneliness used to be Maria's safest castle, then it became the cave she wanted to get out of, and finally loneliness became a monster enough to swallow her life.
On the night she was about to leave this world, Maria stopped the bleeding with a bandage and went to Ender's bed.
At that moment, she finally felt love.
Body and soul, touch and communicate.
This movie is chicken soup for autistic people, which addresses all possible loneliness, gives them the antidote - to feel the world, and finally gives a painful but almost perfect ending - to be loved.
Maria had her left hand circumcised, and Ender was disabled. When Ender was on top of Maria, her right hand supported Ender's left - both were able to rest.
The more perfect the movie, the sadder the movie-watcher.
Because from the beginning of the movie, two people have the same dream and meet in the form of a deer in the dream. It has already been announced that everything that happens in the movie is just a dream.
"Could two people have the same dream?"
is it possible? Is it impossible?
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