The twelve monkeys themselves have many meanings, and the film is confusing and confusing, making people confused after watching it. I also read other people's analysis and felt dissatisfied, so I wrote a copy of it myself. At the beginning, I believed that the protagonist James Cole was from the future, but I always felt that there were some things that couldn't be justified, like bones in the throat, there was no way to calm down. Everyone's analysis also has its own reasons, but there will always be contradictions or incomprehensions of one kind or another. I used another method, the method of contradiction, first assuming Cole was a mental patient, and then reasoning. Unexpectedly, everything became meaningful. In fact, the answer is already given at the beginning of the movie.
This was originally the interview record of a patient with schizophrenia delusional disorder.
My final conclusion is that Cole is a mental patient. He fantasizes part of things, and reality and fantasies bring him pain.
Let me tell you that the part is true. It is a fact that Cole witnessed the airport gun case when he was a child, and it is also the foreshadowing and foundation of the whole movie. Cole was arrested into the police station and disappeared from the mental hospital. It was a real reality, without any part of fantasy. From the beginning of Catherine's speech to Cole's disappearance from the woods, it is the part where reality and fantasy are intertwined. The rest is Cole's fantasy.
The whole story goes like this: when he was young, Cole witnessed a shooting with his parents at the airport. The shooting had a huge impact on Cole's young heart. Finally, Cole became a mental illness in adulthood. He imagined that he came from a future world, where it has been destroyed and human beings are lingering. Later he escaped from the mental hospital, kidnapped his psychiatrist, and brutally killed her. Later, Cole was shot to death by the police or was completely crazy. The final outcome of Cole was not given here, because it can be found wirelessly in the movie.
Reality Fantasy
of devouring spiders in a mental hospital Catching cockroaches and spiders
on the surface of the earth Bears in the shopping mall outside the airport Encountering bears while observing on the surface of the earth
The trial team formed by the doctors of the mental hospital. The scientists who ruled the world in the future world
wore a transparent raincoat when they were first arrested in 1990. The isolation suit worn by the future world
was caught and bathed when they entered the mental hospital.
Cole took the elevator up the future of the world is lifted up as a volunteer
jury has a mouth spray to the doctor what the future of the world's scientists to mouth spray stuff
hospital examination of the patient through the machine a second time using the machines
reality of Kohl had A great influence, the things or people Cole saw in reality more or less became the material of his fantasy. In particular, the director said a lot of irony and philosophical words through the mouth of the mental patient Jeffrey. When I was writing this analysis, I revisited "Mulholland Road" with my friends, which inspired me deeply. It turns out that the scenes that are weird and illogical, but are indeed inextricably linked, all have profound meanings. It takes a lot of space to clarify these connections. Please be patient and read on.
We already know the whole story. Now, what is going on is to show off a complete "world of mental patients".
Cole was affected by the shooting since he was a child, and felt the sins of mankind, so he imagined that mankind in the future world would be destroyed by a sudden virus. He fantasizes about living in a ruined future world, being traveled through time and space to find virus samples and save the future world. Such a fantasy setting allows Cole to get rid of the fantasy and return to reality when he is caught in a madness, to explain the psychiatrist's such as "who are you, why are you here, and how do you prove that you are from the future" problem. He had no way to prove himself in reality, but he imagined an absolutely logical reason. He was sent back, so he could get in touch with the psychiatrist in 1990.
One of the psychiatrists in charge of Cole is a female doctor named Catherine. However, in fact, the real Catherine is not the heroine, not the one who has been with him all the time, but the only woman among the scientists of the future world, that is, the woman who sells insurance later on. The woman who ran in the Cole shooting imagined being her own doctor. Because Cole witnessed the shooting when he was a teenager, the woman who waited for the shooting when Cole became an adult could not be as young as before. Cole gave the image of the shooting woman to his doctor. What's interesting is that Cole actually likes the Catherine he fantasized about, and in reality he wrote a love letter to Catherine.
After being judged as mentally ill, Cole was sent to a mental hospital in southern France. Crazy people are very easy to accept hints. The lunatics in the psychiatric hospital influence each other, and at the same time, the lunatics will also incorporate the things they have come into contact with in reality into their own fantasy. Taking a bath before entering the mental hospital is exactly the same as taking a bath after returning to the ground. The care of the mental hospital allows the patient Jeffrey to familiarize him with everything about the mental hospital. Here, the mental hospital does not treat mental patients as human beings, does not want to contact them, and is even violent. He was already threatened when Cole took a bath, and then let the patient take the patient, which made the patient more serious. The caregiver tricked Jeffrey into taking Cole to familiarize himself with the surroundings. During the bargaining, it was obvious that the caregiver was already familiar with the road.
In the mental hospital, Cole came into contact with only three sources of information: doctors, patients, and the television. The world of mental patients has seriously affected Cole's worldview, and the content of the TV set completes Cole's fantasy of the "future world".
The impact of Cole at the mental hospital: Jeffrey told Dr. Cole that he should not turn back the clock. In fact, it also hinted at the impossibility of Cole's traversal, and left a foreshadowing for Cole's subsequent doubt that the scientist did not exist. The mental patient "LJ Washington" told Cole that he was not an alien, and said that although he believed that there was Auger, it was actually a phenomenon of schizophrenia, which he had imagined. He is schizophrenic, so he can escape from the reality on earth that bothers him. This undoubtedly implies that Cole returns to fantasy and escapes from reality. Jeffrey told Cole about his life experience at night. The TV only broadcasts four kinds of programs: news, cartoons, TV series, and commercials. Among them, news and advertisements have the greatest impact on Cole. The inhumane practice of scientists in the news using animals for experiments led Cole to express the idea that humans should be extinct. While watching TV, Jeffrey took out the keys and helped Cole escape. Cole, who had taken the drug, opened the door and escaped after struggling. Note that at this time, the TV set in the hospital happened to stage a scene of a group of people running away. Television has a great impact on patients, and patients are also extremely susceptible to external information. After opening the door, a patient actually said that Florida is the best place to vacation, and Jeffrey just shouted a few stocks, which made all the patients restless, and even one patient said that he was insured. . When he fled to the corridor, the guard did not stop him, instead telling him to take another elevator. Note that the guard here has three details. One is reading a newspaper. The newspaper says: "bat child found in cave! Boy captured by explorers 2 miles underground!" The second detail is that the guard's face has changed. The third is that both guards are reading the same newspaper, and the news is the headline. Look carefully, isn't this guard the guard of the future world that appears in the opening movie? This person still appears at the end of the film. And it was accompanied by the voice of "Volunteers, please board at Gate 37."
Note that Cole wants to escape, he boarded the elevator, that is, the patients in the hospital are all on the basement floor. Isn't it similar to the future world Cole imagined? These details are explained below.
Then there was the love letter Cole wrote to the female doctor, which was read aloud by a male doctor. It was then reported that Cole had fled. The guard doctors of the hospital all came out to catch Cole. The guards were very violent at the time of the arrest, which shows that this is a common occurrence in mental hospitals.
Cole was arrested and then disappeared strangely in the hospital. Here, Cole should have escaped, using the vent in the movie.
Cole, who escaped, fell into his own fantasy once again, and was sent back. Unexpectedly, he made a mistake. He was sent to a battlefield and crossed again, directly to Baltimore in November 1996.
The Baltimore section in November 1996 was a real and a fictitious section. In reality, Cole fled the hospital and stayed away for six years. Six years later, he kidnapped his original female doctor. In the shabby theater, the irritable Cole killed people. In the animal protection club, Cole threatened them. Finally, Cole ran to Jeffrey's house and had a big fight. Cole killed Catherine and cruelly dismembered her. In the end, the police found him, and in the face of the real dilemma, Cole chose to escape from fantasy to avoid everything.
Being sent back for the third time is very different from the previous two. The key point is that this time Cole actively asked to come back. He imagined that he and his beloved woman would go far and high together. In this fantasy, both Cole and Catherine have undergone a role change, and their identities have become the protagonists of the shooting. In the end it all comes to death. Cole completed a cycle, he died, but he became the little boy again and could start a life again.
There have been five shooting cases. It is worth noting that the man in the yellow suitcase has changed. The first act did not appear, the second act did not appear, and the third act appeared, and it was Jeffrey. No in the fourth act, but in the fifth act, he became the assistant. There are clues here, and many people are not clear about it. The third act appeared because Cole saw Jeffrey in the real world and imagined him as a man in yellow. In Act 5, when Catherine was giving a speech, Cole met his assistant, so he imagined him as a man in yellow.
Regarding Cole's fantasy, Cole's fantasy is more or less related to reality most of the time. This is similar to "Mulholland Road", the role changes and the conflicts in reality are exactly the same. Grasp this, and then carefully taste the similarities between the different plots in the film, I believe everyone can see the clues.
Regarding the TV, the TV here has a great influence on Cole, and it also has an ironic effect. Television has even become a new religion.
The following films also have many features on TV, especially when playing animations and news, and even became Catherine’s helper in believing Cole’s words.
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