Dominic held two roses in his life, which can be understood as two beauties with different names and faces, or the two most important things he always struggles with in the film: career and love, or it can also be understood as the two splits between the two. Heavy personality, even the time point when the contrast between youth and twilight appears.
The rose is a strong symbol. When the film is delivered to the audience, how anyone understands it is right.
The third rose does not appear until the end of the film, "and the third? where do you want me put the third rose?". After all, its appearance is synchronized with death, which can be understood as: it may exist, but it cannot be owned.
Looking back at the various possible metaphors of the rose hypothesized earlier, for Dominic, indeed, no matter how bizarre life is, it cannot be divided. We are not.
Coppola completed this work many years later. He is already an old man. An old man cannot help but think about his life and think about his life. Even his works in his prime are mostly heavy in subject matter. Youth without youth is even more obscure. It is also like a director's life projection.
Two hours, gloomy tone, there are too many questions to talk about, what is the most important thing in life and how to choose, this is enough to be unsolved, and it also involves some other grand theories, such as psychological subconscious theory The Chinese and Western versions of the book, the origin of modern linguistics, the hypothetical four-dimensional time dimension, as well as history and theology, are really mind-blowing movies.
LZ is a science fiction fan, and more thoughts related to it are also listed here. For example, in linguistics, the latest evidence from scientific research has been supporting "language affects thinking". Language refers to the mother tongue, which does affect people's cognitive ability and Thinking structure, how does it work in terms of physiological indicators, for example, people who do not have blue in their language can't really see blue; there is also a rise to the perspective of quantum physics to see personality splitting, or we also put the subconscious self, id, Dreams and other similar splits are considered together: whether the split is possible to materialize, that is, whether it is indeed possible to differentiate into two visible and tangible individuals, or is it done in parallel spaces.
I often feel sleepy when I watch it, and it makes me sleepless when I look back.
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