I don't know the director and the hero, I only like Nicole, so after watching it on and off, I decided to watch it for the second time from beginning to end. Of course, I still don't understand much, and I don't quite understand what the director wants to express, but it's only in the plot. Doubtful points, talk about personal views, PS: Nicole is so beautiful. . .
1. Lily cannot be killed by Nicole. From the beginning to the end, she was anxiously looking for the child, and when she helped Lily pack up and change her clothes at the beginning of the film, her eyes were full of pampering. It can be seen that in her eyes, Lily should be a replica of her youth, and it is in her heart. The repressed fanatical self. Even if she is confused after drinking, she is just imitating her daughter, but she will not hate her because of jealousy. Moreover, there is no detail to see that the daughter and the male protagonist are having an affair, maybe it is just random suspicion after the two sides lost their minds after quarreling.
2. Nicole may have been a JI girl or someone who behaved more dissolutely before marriage. The male protagonist once said Nicole: Lily is just like you used to do, do whatever she wants, and never consider other feelings. Nicole said: But you still married me. It can be seen here that the male protagonist tolerated Nicole's past, and Nicole must have changed a lot after marriage. But Lily's dancing when she was 6 years old may have frightened the male protagonist, making the male protagonist start to fear what Lily will become in the future, but Nicole thinks it is a manifestation of freedom. This can also explain Nicole saying on the phone: when your daughter was a ji girl, she started to go into a trance and drink heavily, maybe she thought about her past and started to put on lily's clothes and asked Bodie if she was like like lily.
3. The male protagonist is a good man who loves his family. From the first time I saw the back of the two children running away, but did not stop it. When Nicole went to the pharmacy to find him, he took his work more seriously. This seems to imply that there is something wrong with this father, and he refuses to be with his wife. The intimacy is too impersonal. But later he went to the desert alone to look for the child, ran to Neil's house and yelled at him, then beat Bodie, and finally wept and repented for not stopping the child from running away. family man. He is silently working hard, tolerant, and paying, but things are not going in a good direction.
4.lily is not dead. The last sentence of Lily's monologue at the end of the film is: I didn't disappear. Could it be read that I didn't get lost because I was killed? It can also be interpreted as I went where I want to go. A more positive guess is the latter. I also believe it is the latter. I think she is more like a symbol of freedom, willfulness and irresponsibility, and this kind of character may exist in everyone's heart.
5. Several inexplicable phone calls. The feeling that the first call without sound was from the male lead. A woman in the back said: Your daughter is a girl, she should be Bodi's sister. I don't think any of this is suspicious. But those snake tattoos, snake routes, black and white things, really do not understand.
6. Strange Land. The strange old lady said a word: this is because of this place. On the one hand, Nicole's family came to a strange place, and on the other hand, her family was actually unfamiliar with this place. As the so-called cause and effect, Lily's departure is actually inevitable, but it is a question of when and how far. Similarly, the younger brother also has the habit of running away in the middle of the night. Therefore, his running away is inevitable. It is also a question of how far he will go that time. What was different this time was that their siblings left at the same time, and they encountered a sandstorm after they left, and they walked for a long time. And all of this constituted a great panic, and all kinds of accumulated contradictions also broke out.
7. What does the film want to express. I always felt that it revolved around geography and unfamiliar places in the heart, interspersed with human nature, marriage, freedom, etc. There are two sides of human nature, one is decent and dignified, and the other is freedom. He clearly yearns for freedom, but he has to suppress his longing for freedom for the sake of life and the eyes around him. The two sides of marriage, the back side of the harmony of husband and wife with both children and children, turned out to be the helplessness of separation and discipline. Thought that escaping to a strange place would solve her daughter's problem, but found that her daughter's problem was not solved, on the contrary, it turned this strange place into a place of right and wrong. However, in general, each character does not have too many dark sides, and the overall is still positive and sunny.
In the end, maybe it's right not to understand, different people have different understandings, maybe, this is what the director wants to see. . .
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