This is a movie about life and self under the cloak of gangster theme.
1: Jack's monologue is his "self" consciousness, that is, the "I" that people usually say in their consciousness and mouth.
2: Those who explained the split personality of the protagonist didn't understand what the director wanted to express.
There are two golds in the play. One is a big scam designed by Avi. The fictional mysterious gold uses this mysterious identity to trade drugs with the black boss Mark; the other refers to those who secretly manipulate people's hearts-emotions. Desire, avi explained while guiding the protagonist on the roof.
The first rule of the game: Only by playing against the wise can you gain wisdom.
The second rule of the game: the more complex the game, the more cunning the opponent.
When will the game end: Until you answer: Don’t let them play with you.
Deceitful thinking: They should believe that their opponent is the best friend. Gradually, when your opponent is challenged or questioned. At the same time, it means that the victim's investment is also intellectually tested/questioned. No one can accept/admit this fact, not even they themselves. And they will protect their good friends by any means. ——The protagonist used this trick to deal with the Eddie trio. Lie to the Eddie trio saying that they are in urgent need of capital turnover for some profitable businesses. If Edison lends the money to Green, he will get a good interest. Even if you think it is very risky to lend money to someone who has a holiday, you are willing to give a small sum of money to try. As long as Green gives them interest on time, they are willing to lend more money to Green. They even borrowed a lot of money from the gang boss to get more interest. In this way, they were locked up step by step, Green hid with the money, and the end of the Eddie trio came. This type of deception is still heard in recent years, but it is just a new trick. In order to protect their investment, the trio kept secret their transaction with Green, and even the black boss sent to investigate Green saw that huge interest rates had also joined the transaction. Human greed. Green will make them believe that Green is their best money-making partner-pretending to be their best friend. It wasn't until Eddie's trio was beaten by the black boss that he confessed that Green had taken all the money away. The person sent by the black boss to investigate also said that Green was not behind the ghost for the high interest rate return, so he believed that the three had been panicking. As a result, just like the deceptive thoughts mentioned earlier, in order to protect my investment, I killed myself.
Chess art thought: I gave you the chess pieces to eat, so that you think that you are very clever to eat my chess pieces and think that you have completely mastered the situation. It's like throwing a bone to a dog to find its weakness. Give him something to make it feel satisfied, so as to distract the opponent and let it consume itself. It can be said to be a roundabout strategy, just like the ancient thought of "retreat for advancement". The older the deception, the bigger the easier it is to succeed, because they tend to think that their opponents will not use such old and big deception. They are defeated by this kind of thinking. It can be said that the thinking of deception and the skill of chess are interlinked.
The best opponents are always hard to find, and will not be noticed until the end.
For the neighbors-chess masters and scam masters-who the protagonist in the film has never met in seven years in prison, some say that they are real and some say that they are just a split personality in Jack's mind. They are real, and they know that the tricks and chess skills that Jack learned from them after he was released from prison are enough to avenge himself, but not enough to defeat the "self".
The mysterious man in the film-gold, no one has seen his true face. It is an omniscient existence. After analysis, it can be found that gold was created by a scam master and a chess master. It is a huge scam used to trade drugs with the gangster Mark. They were released from prison two years earlier than the protagonist, relying on their own abilities and the money hidden before the protagonist went to prison to build a hidden intelligence network and fabricate a big boos like gold. The mystery and power of gold when the protagonist was released from prison has been known to many people, indicating that the two of them did a lot of things with the identity of gold before the protagonist was released from prison. The two of them arranged to control everything, just to help the protagonist get out of the prison of the soul! Details-There is a chess mark on the leather bag where the two of them let the protagonist do something.
Gold does a drug business with the black boss Mark, and then Mark's drugs are stolen by the two masters of fraud. Then he sent representatives to pressure Mark. In order to maintain his business with Gold, Mark chose to buy drugs from another gang at a high price. However, all of this was under the control of the master of fraud, who ransacked drugs and cash at the trading site. Then there is the plot between the gangsters. The two used Gold's identity to do drug business with Mark, and used the same strategy as the protagonist to deal with the trio-using his greed and fear to trap him. It's just that the scam set by Avi is bigger than Green.
The two of them deliberately created a mysterious veil of horror for Gold, in fact, they took advantage of the fear in people's hearts.
One point is repeatedly emphasized in the play: he is the greatest enemy, he is hidden in our hard-to-detect corners, and he is hidden in our brain consciousness-he pretends to be yourself and makes you believe that he is you!
Gold quietly pretends to be yourself, and secretly determines all your words and deeds. He makes a decision, and your body does so. He becomes easy to distinguish when you feel painful, and gold hides in your pain. People are always reluctant to face their own pain, and it is naturally difficult to find the existence of gold.
The cheat master and chess master are here to help him defeat the gold in his consciousness. Free his mind and get out of the mental cage controlled by gold!
We can only guess the reason why the film title takes the revolver. It can be regarded as a metaphor, a person living in a muddle-hearted life is like a revolver without a soul! Guns are just a tool for humans to hurt each other. The revolver, with six bullets in the wheel, symbolizes the emotions and desires of human beings. As a gun, people cannot control themselves-every time an emotional desire erupts, bullets are fired to hurt others and cause suffering. The runner is a metaphor for people's repeated out-of-control emotional desires, causing mutual harm between humans and turning the world into a "sea of bitterness."
The method of defeating the gold in his heart forced him to show his true shape-making himself feel painful. This is the method given in the play.
"Personality humiliation and property loss are the most painful." So the scam master and chess master set up Jack to hand over the money to them. At this time, Jack's own inner monologue is Gold's disguised "self" opposition. This approach. They pretended to be loan sharks and gave money to people who obviously couldn't repay the loan. Then let Jack go to the door to force the debt by himself. When Jack found out that the old lady had nothing to do with nothing, even though he complained in his heart that the two of them still left some money for the old lady before leaving. At this time Jack's true self began to awaken. Chess masters and deception masters take the protagonist to another person who borrows loan sharks to force debts. They ask Jack to kill the person who can't pay the debts himself. This time Jack's true self became stronger and he took action to prevent them from shooting the borrower.
The protagonist suddenly fainted after leaving the casino and was detected by the hospital to be terminally ill. He had only a few days of life span. This scene is similar to "If You Give Me Three Days of Light". In this case, people are willing to think about what I really want. At this time, wealth has become dispensable for the imminent death. The two set up terminal illness and usury to make the protagonist understand that life itself is the most important thing, and break the protagonist's persistence in possession of wealth.
Master deceiver: Wake up, Mr. Green! Said it three times in total. The chess master stunned the protagonist with a revolver. It's been three days since I woke up. The two called to tell the protagonist that it was time to go for a medical examination.
The doctor informs the protagonist that he does not have the blood terminal illness that was previously checked. At this time, the protagonist began to fully awaken, and after escaping from the dead, he began to look back and reflect on his life. Has broken the persistence to the possession of wealth. Why did the two lend their money to those who can't afford it? Why did the two use usury to arouse their sympathy? He began to think about why? Why did you want to avenge the black boss Mark, which caused you to almost die? ? Why do you have to do all kinds of things? What drives all this?
The reborn protagonist began to reflect on his life like in "If You Give Me Three Days of Light"! When he walked out of the doctor’s house, he wanted to understand something: “Sometimes you don’t understand certain things about yourself, and you even deny that certain things happened. You didn’t realize it was too late until you remedied it! The only reason you get up early every day is also the reason you can endure your mean boss, as well as endure blood, sweat and tears."
"—Just because you want people to know: how awesome you are, how charming, generous, funny, wild and intelligent. Fear or respect me, but please acknowledge that I am special."
"We have a common hobby, we are all addicts. We are all driven by the smashing behind. And the gold watch, those fashionable fucks. Look at the clever boy with the badge, who is wiping his trophy-the glitter Crazy diamonds. In fact, we are just monkeys with clothes wrapped! Begging for recognition of ourselves. If we understand these reasons, we will not do it. Someone is hiding something from us. If you have Once again, you will ask: Why? Why did I do those things I regret?"
The first two paragraphs are the protagonist's monologues, which are the conclusions of reflecting on his own life after escaping from the dead with only three days of life left. I have been controlled by emotions and desires, and I use my pain to spur and use my reputation behind-the temptation of others' recognition of myself. If we are willing to reflect on ourselves, we will discover this fact.
When the gangs assassinate each other, the three people also talked on the roof. The rooftop meeting at one hour and fourteen is the core of the film. The two asked the protagonist about the rules of the game, and then the chess master said his aspirations-do you think I'm playing a brain teaser with you? Make him aware of the thoughts coming out of his heart. "This voice has always been with you, your best friend," he pretended to be yourself. When this voice is questioned, it is equivalent to questioning one's own intelligence, and no one can accept such a question. "It" is the root of all suffering and the person behind any crime and murder. The two are just guiding the protagonist to fight with the only enemy (preconscious self-gold). Where is the best hiding place for your worst enemy? ——It is a place you will never check until the end. -He is hiding behind your pain. It is your pain that protects him. You can win the game by embracing/accepting your pain gladly. The protagonist knows that "personality humiliation and property damage are the most sad." He knows what to do.
"If you can change the rules that control you, you have mastered the rules."-Master of Deception
The meeting on the roof is that after the protagonist knows that he is controlled by the gold in his heart, the two avi guide him how to get rid of the control and get out of the "heart prison".
They took the protagonist and donated the money to UNICEF in the name of their opponent. In the middle of the night, the protagonist came to Mark's room, put aside the dignity he had pursued and apologized for reconciliation. This is the fiercest moment of inner war. The chess master instructs him to "use the enemy you can perceive to destroy your true enemy. If you can't do this, then you can't be a free man."-The chess master warned him, "The place where you least want to go," You can find him-gold" So the protagonist with elevator phobia decided to take the elevator.
However, the non-existent elevator on the 13th floor was out of power, and the protagonist could hear the gold in his heart. In the end, the protagonist finally defeated the gold-fear in his heart. No longer being swayed by fear. No longer afraid, he naturally smiled at Mark, who pointed the gun at him, and walked away calmly.
At this point, the protagonist has got rid of the rules that once manipulated his words and deeds, and walked out of the prison of his mind.
The next day, Mark learned that he had made a huge donation to the foundation in the headlines, and his vanity made him glad to accept the honor. After learning that it was the protagonist who robbed them of their drugs, he frantically retaliated against the protagonist's brother and took the little girl away.
The last two took the protagonist and drugs to see Mark, and the waiting time was also the moment when the two showed their identities to the protagonist. The protagonist's chess skills are all learned from him, and he deliberately lost to the protagonist before. This time the chess master easily won. Put down the key of the protagonist next to the chessboard, hang a match on his mouth to show off-we are your neighbors in prison.
"You are actually still in prison, Jack. In fact, you have never left." Because of the words of the chess master, some people think that all this happened in the head of the protagonist. All stories are produced by the split personality of the protagonist, or what avi is the split personality of the protagonist. Of course I do not agree with this view. Chess master refers to the protagonist's mind has been in prison, has been controlled by words and deeds.
After the protagonist understands, he asks why they did not bring themselves when they said that they went together? The chess master said, we will always take you along. They do this because they both like the protagonist, but the protagonist doesn't understand how difficult it is to get out of the prison.
The scam master and chess master lead the protagonist out of the prison, and finally ask him to return the black boss's money and drugs. Let go of the hatred.
It can be borrowed from Buddhist ideas, although Western psychology is far from being comparable to sophisticated Buddhist studies. Gold is probably equivalent to the thinking disorder of "greed, hatred, ignorance, and slowness" in Buddhism. Loaning here is exactly the same as Buddhist "giving"! In short, teach people to let go!
Borrowing from Confucianism, it can also be said in "University": "There is a bottom line for things, there are end points for things, and the order of things is close to the way." The order of things is to let people reflect on their motives. "Poetry cloud" trembling as if walking on thin ice, like facing the abyss" is the initial stage of self-cultivation-the psychological description of precept and reflection. "Sincerely compared to jade, gold is like a layer of stone wrapped in jade. It teaches people to reflect. The importance of precepts and reflection is because greed, anger, ignorance, and enthusiasm are deeply rooted and cannot be eradicated at once. It is like hand-carving a jade article: The process of learning from each other, and constantly removing the rough and fine details. That's why the gentleman is careful to pay attention to it.
If you borrow Taoist thinking, "Laozi": "Knowing others is wise, knowing oneself knows. The victor is powerful, and the self-victor is strong." Movies are about self-knowledge and self-survival.
The sea of bitterness is boundless, turning back is the shore! "Let go" in Buddhism is "repentance" in Christianity, and it is exactly what Taoism said, and it is also the reflection and forgiveness advocated by Confucianism! The great wisdom is all coincidentally! Both Buddhism and Taoism and Confucian self-cultivation have their own precepts. These precepts are actually for people to reflect on themselves from time to time! When people reflect on themselves, one thought of "greed, hatred, ignorance and slowness" has nowhere to hide.
"Heart is a form of bondage", emotional desires are innately brought by the body. Ordinary people are led by emotions and desires, and they become "heart-shaped slavery". Only by getting rid of these greed, anger, ignorance and slowness, can you truly freedom of mind?
Attachment: Words of Homecoming
Going back and forth, the pastoral will not return? Are you self-conscious and melancholy and sorrowful? To understand the past is not admonishment, but those who know come can be chased. It's not far to be lost, and I feel that today is true but yesterday is not. Zhou Yaoyao flicked lightly, the wind fluttered and his clothes were blowing. Asked the way before Zhenghuo, hate the dawn of Xiwei. Nai Zhan Hengyu, Zai Xin Zai Ben. Tong servants are welcome, and young children are waiting for the door. The three paths are deserted, but the pine and chrysanthemums still exist. Bring the children into the room, there are wine bottles. Introduce the pot for self-determination, and Ke Yiyan in the court. Leaning on the south window to express pride, the ease of judging one's knees. The garden is fun, and the door is often closed although it is set up. Supporting the old to rest, correcting the head from time to time and observing. Yun Wuxin came out of Xiu, and the bird flew away when he was tired. Jing Yiyi will come in, caress the lonely pine and hover. Come back and come back, please rest assured that you can never travel. The world is contrary to me, begging again? Happy relatives' love words, music and music books to relieve worries. The farmer told Yu Yichun that something will happen to Xichou. Or life towel car, or Zhao Guzhou. It is not only slender to find trenches, but also rugged and passing through the hills. Mu Xinxin is flourishing, and the spring begins to flow. When we are good for all things, we feel that our life will stop. Already done! A few times in the Yuxingyu. Don't commit to staying? What does Hu Weihuo want to do? Prosperity is not my wish, and the emperor's hometown cannot be expected. Huai Liangchen goes to loneliness, or planting a stick and sorrowing. Deng Donggao composes poems with Shu Xiao and Lin Qingliu. Talking about multiplying and turning to the end, the lover's destiny revives his suspicion!
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