If we meet in a dream
we will also be in the movie
in music
in wireless space
In the square
in the park
anywhere there is light
meet
light is curved
like a fountain
like a slaughterhouse
Sprinkled black sedative
--anonymous
The structure of the film is clear, a typical romance: encounter, acquaintance, conflict, reconciliation, and a happy ending. Rationality and mystery constitute the basic conflict of the drama. The rigidity of the hero and heroine's daily life meets the mystery of their dreams, which makes both of them have to re-examine their closed lives and open their souls.
The financial director male and the quality inspector female have obvious things in common: they are both empty office workers and numb rationalists. They are confined to their daily tasks, like puppets. Of course, they have a sense of morality. The so-called Kant morality, even the slaughterhouse is morally rational. You have to be kind to animals, but the so-called kindness is to lock them firmly with steel bars, then slaughter them one by one, and then Much kindness also numbs. The only bright spot may be the new employee and the wife of the dissolute human resources director. They constitute the only variable in the whole environment. The former is despised and the latter is despised, but it seems that everyone has something in their hearts. So two ideals: gregarious and free.
The sanctimonious will of course steal the mating fans, but the hero and heroine are subject to the investigation after the theft. You see, even the most private questions are asked by the investigation, and it is also a professional look. Professional sense is not necessarily bad, but not everyone is a psychiatrist.
Dreams have been the source of irrationality since ancient times. Freud found biological instincts in dreams and found the foundation of human existence. The hero and heroine meet and meet because of a dream, which awakens their souls, perplexes, stirs, and disturbs them so much that they have to act and come back to life. The male protagonist tries to avoid this stirring of the soul, he calls his buddies, the female protagonist tries to learn to understand this kind of touch, starts listening to music, watching psychiatrists, watching porn, watching people touch each other, to a certain extent, these It is precisely the products that cause modern people to self-isolate, such as the Japanese who have pornographic films or anime, do not need to marry others and have children (one of the reasons).
Here, it is not so. The heroine learned this in order to have sex with the hero. It is the dream that turns these products into works of art, the doors that open the closed relationship between you and me. When they are together, they stop dreaming because reality has become a dream.
It is not so much a love movie as it is a soul movie. There are many dimensions of the soul between the numbness and the perfection of love. Common romantic films will discuss the conflict of characters, the inconsistency of living habits, the passion and single-mindedness of love, the pure fate and lack of fate, but here we discuss the existence and non-existence of love, and the changes between two different lives.
The filming is soothing, and the metaphor of the two lines between dream and reality, although obvious, does not seem deliberate. Both the male and female protagonists presented the most indifferent performances (of course they cannot be compared with the bold women of the Tang Dynasty), the men were deliberately closed, and the women were ignorant.
Two more points must be said,
First, the trend of small and fresh movies has turned to heavy taste, although it is still small and fresh in the bones.
Second, as a straight man, I have to ask, the heroine is not ugly, what if she looks ugly? Will they fall in love because they met in a dream?
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