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His hopeless low self-esteem also unscrupulously hurt the people around him.
Abandon the history, the image of those icons, this is a movie about three people. The heroine Edie, the hero Andy, the third of them, billy.
In my eyes, this is just a movie about Andy. About how an inferiority man hurts those around him.
(When I first saw Andy with his sunglasses removed, I forgot that this was a movie with a historical background. This actor was so brilliant that I couldn't think of him as an "Andy Warhol" shelf.)
One, Edie The beauty and Andy's ugliness.
This is undoubtedly a tragedy. Edie's tragedy belongs to her. The tragedy of Andy and Edie is derived from Andy's low self-esteem.
About Andy's ugliness.
The image of Andy in the movie is a pale and weak gay young man.
He worries about his ugliness all the time-even confession in church.
Two scenes are impressive: First, Andy tries on a wig at the beginning of the movie; Second, Andy's mother says that there are spots on his son's skin, and Andy is trying to cover them up with foundation.
Until the end of the movie, there was no way to show the audience what Andy would look like when he took off the wig. It's hard to explain whether this is kindness or more cruelty.
About the beauty of Edie.
Andy was attracted by Edie's beauty, only for a moment. Then he made Edie the heroine of the movie. Andy has a line: "Edie is too beautiful to be an artist, and the artist must be ugly. Edie is a SUPER STAR."
There are two points hidden in this line:
1. Inferiority complex Hostility to beauty.
While acknowledging and admiring Edie's beauty, she obliterated her thoughts. She is an empty star. This also laid the groundwork for Edie's imprisonment of being "vulgar" by public opinion in the future.
Andy's heart hides a strong jealousy of Edie, and this kind of jealousy is something he can't say.
2. The hostility of inferiority people towards themselves.
"The artist must be ugly" Andy laughed at himself in no way back, whipping his self-esteem. Andy and Edie also had similar lines when they wandered in the park: "I'm too ugly, so I can't do anything else" (Edie praises Andy as an artist).
At this time, going back to the beginning of the movie, Andy's debut: He confessed in the church, saying that he didn't have a pink coat for a while. It can be seen that instead of being an "artist", Andy wants to be a beauty "because of being charming and remembered by the world (he praises Edie)".
In a young man's mind, the "beauty" of the flesh is above all else.
2. Beauty and Sex.
Young people love beauty and hope that they are beautiful. Because beauty is about sex.
Regarding sex, there are two scenes that hit this topic directly: First, Andy and Edie are on the rooftop, arguing about Billy. Andy said: "Sex is too abstract for me." Two, Andy masturbates alone to the naked photo of the hunk. (BGM is Velvet Underground’s music, well matched~!)
In the first scene, Andy separates himself from sex with a single sentence; in the second scene, he is glued to his behavior. This scene directly reveals two points: 1. Andy is not without sexual desire; 2. Andy only has sexual desire for male bodies.
Masturbation is the only way for inferiority people to liberate their sexual desires.
"Masturbation behavior" also includes those pornographic movies filmed by Andy. (It is essentially the same as the voyeurism and self-harm of the female teacher in "The Piano Teacher".)
Andy and Edie, if there is no such sensitive factor as "sex" in between, maybe they will be a good couple getting along well. Friends, even soul mates. "Sex" is the key to Edie's attention, and it is also the reason for Andy's low self-esteem and autism.
Andy is jealous of the beautiful Edie, who can obtain sexual satisfaction at any time and capture the hearts of beautiful men at any time.
And it was Billy who directly detonated this factor. Rock stars, handsome men, surrounded by sexy aura. He was the key to the deterioration of Andy and Edie's relationship twice. His appearance exposed Andy's jealousy of Edie, and also highlighted Edie's naivety and ignorance, and Andy's suffering in low self-esteem. Edie thought Andy's jealousy was directed at Billy, but he didn't know that his youthful beauty was the ultimate cause of the breakdown of their relationship.
The relationship between Edie and Andy deteriorated twice:
1. Edie and Billy first met and their photos were published in the newspaper. Andy was angry.
2. Edie asked Billy to cooperate with Andy to make a movie, and Billy humiliated Andy. Andy didn't attack on the spot, but then broke with Edie.
It’s already a long time to write here, it’s not the length I’m used to, so let’s take a break.
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