Exquisite egoist, or cold-blooded imitator, which one is a good breed of animal?

Cristina 2022-10-21 14:48:20

I scored four stars at the beginning and five stars for the second time. The new generation has excellent appearance and acting skills, double-sounding + calm and cryptic script + neurotic BGM. This movie gave me the feeling: It’s like playing an RPG game. You collected all the pieces along the maze and assembled them into a box at the end. I had a foreboding that there was something hidden under it. I couldn’t open it, deduct a star, and open it. One star is added to the treasure, and two stars are deducted if it is found to be rubbish.

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Regarding which fragments the author gave:

Lily: A beautiful and innocent egoist wrapped in vanity in the upper class. ① Hypocrisy: High school papers are plagiarized, and almost every key idea in the movie is not hers (even the last sentence It's only weird if you make it weird is Amanda's line). Fake homework, fake internships, lie and meet at no charge, and even the friendship between the two is fake (it was a long time ago when asked at the party to say good friends). Fake cry after killing stepfather and setting up trouble. Never read Amanda's letter. ②Vanity: Don't mind plagiarism, but mind living with people who have the same behavioral problems. Amanda said in the wine cellar: "I think most of our country's moral codes are born out of the old Puritan shit. Life is not a sacred thing. There is nothing sacred to make a baby with 1 and 0. If this baby still does A bunch of bad things, this is a malfunctioning machine." Lily answered, "—a lame horse." At this time, Lily thought she was commenting on Amanda's Nazi thinking, but didn't realize that she was dealing with the horse in front of her. (She thought) the lame horse; but in fact the lame horse is herself. ③Selfish: The stepfather pointed out venomously: "We are all your servants." Exquisite egoists, don't you hear these words? Are there such people?

Amanda: The slandered truth and the freedom to be kidnapped. The origin of most of the external absurdity of the film, but with itself stitched up the tearing and despair shown in the film. ①The cold blood on the surface: Killing the horse that has been with her for many years is just a task in her eyes. Position one's emotions as imitating the emotions of others, or even imitating tears; psychiatrists think this is an anti-social sign, but in fact it seems that Lily has done it too, and the real anti-social is Lily. ②Inwardly aware of the human heart: claiming that I can't feel joy and guilt, but in fact I can detect the most subtle hatred and lies, and smile at the pictures of two people at the end of the film. He took the initiative to drink sleeping pills, and when asked why he replied "My life is meaningless, I am just an imitator". ③Horse's sign: Amanda is an equestrian prodigy. The positioning of the future is to not go to university and start a business all the way. In the dream, there is a horse's head and a horse's voice. It dreams of a free thoroughbred horse occupying the country. In reading comprehension, it is said that horses, like flags and eagles, are symbols of freedom.

——So about the author’s treasure chest. Hypocritical empathy, acting on occasion, and seemingly non-existent sympathy and selflessness that still instinctively reveal, which one do you think is a good breed of animal?

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Thoroughbreds quotes

  • Amanda: Well, the shrink would sure like it to be. First it was borderline personality, than severe depression, now she thinks I'm antisocial with schizoid tendencies. She's basically just flipping to random pages of the DSM and throwing medications at me. But at the end of the day, I have a perfectly healthy brain. It just doesn't contain feelings. And that doesn't necessarily make me a bad person. It just means I have to work a little harder than everybody else to be good.

  • Amanda: You should be honest about your feelings. Otherwise it starts coming out in passive-aggressive ways.