Elaine has a figure that can attract all kinds of men, but she is as naive as a child. Like Axel, she was enthusiastic about her dreams and tried all kinds of flying machines tirelessly, and that's how it was that attracted Axel. She is loyal to what she likes and doesn't shy away from how she feels about her body, and all of this is very natural, and she doesn't feel anything wrong. Such a person, especially a woman, especially a woman who can already be a grandmother, seems very out of place in Arizona. Although the young boys liked her, others avoided her. She bravely defended her love and drove Axel's uncle away with a shotgun, but she felt inferior because she was no longer young, and she was afraid that Axel would leave him eventually. So, she said to Axel with anger, "Do you think I am old? I am old, you are young, and we are both disgusting! Can't you find a girl as young as you? You are just a child, you need one Girl, young and gentle." Suddenly, Elaine's nervousness, fickleness, and irritability became understandable. She was only afraid of losing when she was serious.
Axel has an obsessive and serious attitude towards his dreams. He always dreams of a silver fish. He can happily and tirelessly tell others about his dreams, he will treat people who dream like him as his friend, and he even helps others to complete their dreams. What Elaine attracted to Axel was not just the hot figure wrapped in a celebrity suit when she appeared on the stage, but more importantly, her dream that always felt like she was flying. Elaine squatted on the chair and told Axel about her dream, and then the table and chair slowly rose and rotated slightly, the moonlight was like water and the breeze was blowing, and Axel's eyes were blurred and deeply attracted by her. Then he started trying to make various flying machines for Elaine. Only then did he stay in Arizona without returning to New York in a hurry. In the second half of the film, at Elaine's birthday party, Grace slowly rose up from a chair, making Axel confused between reality and dreams, so he knew that he was in love with Grace. Regarding the silver fish he dreamed of, I always thought it was Axel himself, who originally lived in the Arctic, but came to Arizona in his dream abruptly and got into Uncle Leo's fish tank. At the end of the film, after Grace died, he suddenly realized that no matter what life became, he was still satisfied with life, so he appeared in a dream, and he and his uncle released the silver fish that was knocked out. . This also symbolizes that Axel finally woke up from the Arizona dream.
Kusturica’s films are always full of madness that is different from ordinary people, whether it is in "Underground", the poor people who live underground still think the war is not over, or in "Black Cat and White Cat", forced to marry The boy of the dwarf sister of the rogue, or the Axel trapped between the two mother and daughter in this movie, behind these cheerful rhythms, what remains constant is Kusturica's thinking about nation, race, culture, and war. Different from Manchevsky's pity, Kusturica used cheerful Balkan music to cover up his sadness, so his films always have a humorous element and there is always hope. Many people laughed when they watched his videos, but after laughing, the embarrassment left on their faces is more of a loss.
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