The narrative in the first half hour of "Star Map" is quite confusing. Except that they all live in Hollywood, the protagonists of the several groups seem to have no connection, and the film is not eager to build relationships for these characters, but patiently shows the audience the sickness pervading their lives. Actress Havana, played by Julianne Moore, is a mentally unstable and outdated actress. She strives to get her sanity and career back on track, but Agatha (Mia. Huaxi Kowska), reveals a nervousness that is difficult to hide in his gestures; his brother Ben Jie, who has been separated from Agatha for many years, has become a child star of Juvenile Dezhi, but he has also become addicted to drugs. His psychological counseling The teacher's father (John Cusack) and the agent's mother (Olivia Williams) also hide hidden secrets under the appearance of success. Cronenberg used a smooth lens and a symmetrical front and back to the composition of the picture to express the peaceful order of the world in the film, but only a harsh line can subvert the balance of the world, for example, Ben Jie is visiting a sick child. Movie fans mistakenly thought that she was suffering from AIDS, and Agatha's foul language after asking Jerome (Robert Pattinson) to beg for an opportunity in the extension car. Cronenberg’s carefully set visual details (the visual connection between Agatha’s burned arm, the cluttered symbols on the arm of the little fan’s death, and the heavy freckles on Havana’s arm) are different from a spell-like song The short poems that echoed repeatedly in the world of the characters also tease the nerves of the audience unhurriedly in the development of the rambling plot, paving the way for the terrifying truth about to be revealed in the film.
Similar to Cronenberg's several previous works ("Nie Kou", "History of Violence"), "Star Map" is also about the struggle between the protagonist and fate. The real protagonist of the film, Agatha and Benjie, experienced a childhood trauma together. After that, they tried their best to return to their normal life: Agatha tried to establish a normal relationship with the normal opposite sex, Benji tried to quit drug addiction and got rid of constant Entangling their own nightmare, but the hand of fate always leads them to the edge of madness. Cronenberg has always been obsessed with using the deformed body as an important metaphor in her works. In the "Star Map", Agatha's burned face and body symbolize the original sin she burdened-the injustice of her biological parents. love of. This unbearable original sin made Agatha and Benji almost suffocated under the curse of fate, and only through violence and madness can they break free. In this sense, the shining Hollywood stars in "Star Map" and the crowded Wall Street in "Metropolis" are essentially just imaginative background spaces (most of the shots in the two films are in (Filming in Toronto), the personal tragedies presented on these two stages are the subject of Cronenberg's most concern.
The short poem "Freedom" that appeared several times in the film was created by the French poet Paul Eluard and was widely circulated in the French resistance movement during the Nazi occupation. The "Star Map" also belonged to Agatha. With Benji's "resistance movement", they tried to gain freedom by overcoming fate, but finally found that failure was the only way to liberation. Only by abandoning memory can we regain hope, and only by abandoning life can we regain freedom. The two were born in fate and died in fate. The film’s end, like a dark fairy tale, is also mixed with madness and romance, despair and joy. It is these contradictory but wonderful co-existing qualities that make Cronenberg this This works cannot be classified, but has a long charm.
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