What caught my attention the most was Van Stratten's uninterrupted anger.
I'd rather believe that Arkaddin did lose his memory. Wells appeared in his works in the image of a tall and heroic figure, surrounded by fog and rumors, all of which sought the sympathy of the audience - we hope he has the dirtiest past, and at the same time we hope he can get the most tragic ending. Mystery, fatherhood, and fragility revealed/acted in front of Van Trasten, we see more than one nature of Arkadine, and the film revolves around, as he says in the film The allegory of the scorpion and the frog, and Van Trusten, whom he hired to investigate his own life, was of course the frog who carried him across the river. What I want to stress is that Van Trusten is indeed helping Arkadin.
Is the nature of Arkadine the blood soaked by the first pot of gold in capitalism? Is it the coldness displayed by modernity's spiritual cleanliness? Or did you say the evil of the river demolition? These are naturally easy to summarize, because ordinary people can feel the bewitchment and harm of these evil spirits in the real society. Correspondingly, these "sex" tend to be considered as "social" in people. It is a reaction to the outside, and there is still a certain gap with the fundamental characteristics of the word "nature" from the inside out.
Also in pursuit of his own past, Reiner in Nolan's Memento makes an apt comparison here: they are also accompanied by killing. Just as Reiner needs Teddy's help, Arkadin needs Van Stratten's help to begin his retrospective journey and, at the end, murder the latter. Reiner succeeded, and Arcadin crashed and died in his own plane, but it was actually the same story, although the results were not satisfactory - Arcadin believed that Van Stratten was the same person as him from the beginning of his employment, However, the widow does not have to taste the pain of living with conscience. Arkadin also only saw the sociality similar to him in Van Stratten, but he didn't know his true nature - self-loathing, at the cost of killing - he must kill all those who know, because, knowing The person already has a past self in his mind, and he must kill that self. If that self is in his mind, he can choose to lose his memory; but if that self is in someone else's body, then he must destroy their body. However, no game is simpler, more original, and more captivating than a game you can play with yourself. Such a stupid game, but he's the guy who's willing to pay for the same thing repeatedly. Stratten's sentence "How about let somebody do a report on you." seems to have given him great inspiration, and it was at this time that Arkadin took off his mask and revealed his majestic face. In this seemingly terrifying close-up, Wells undoubtedly ignites a raging flame for Arcadin, like the terrifying beard. In fact, he was getting excited about this terrifying game of hunting to explore himself—
Akadin's true nature, to use the parable of the scorpion and the frog, is that the scorpion knew he could not cross the river, but he had to. River, when he finds a frog who can help him cross the river, he must kill the frog too - because the frog knows that he can't cross the river.
Scorpions don't have to cross the river either.
In this game, Arkadin kept fouling. Not saying that because he kills, but because he didn't tell the hooligans he hired in advance that it was a game. He is constantly doing the same actions as Van Stratten, which Arkadin himself presupposes. Arkadine pre-sets the route, letting the smugglers go first, and then catch up on his own - this is simply the easiest game of hunting. In this hunting game, Van Stratten, the prey, maintained a violent performance. He only occasionally heard about a million-dollar business, so he was imprisoned for a while, and when he came out, he was biting and barking about the business like a bulldog. He rudely treats everyone, including his girlfriend, including the old man he is about to save, including Mr. Arkadin, who is playing hunting games with him. Such violence is incomprehensible. From the beginning to the end of his violence, there is no explanation for a reason, he seems to be born this way. He has to roar the dirtiest deeds in a cynical manner. He has to impatiently let all the clues come later, eliciting the various philosophical opinions of the characters about reality, and those words are exactly what the cynical he likes. When he asked Yanna to kill his father for his own life, he would only ask him if he wanted to know the truth.
I can only think of one answer to Van Stratten's constant violence and irritability: disgust.
Arcadin died, Van Stratten survived. Van Stratten didn't have to suffer from knots like Arcadine, but he seemed to know it was a boring world. From nothing to existence, from existence to nothing, from birth to death, from death to life, there is only one thing in between, and that is disgust. Arkadin hates his past self, and the self who can't change the past, while Van Stratten has no goal, he hates everything, he hates itself, he can make everything more disgusting, especially every self.
Therefore, he could only be angry and irritable all the time, without any reason.
Wells was deeply influenced by Shakespeare, and we can see the greatness of Shakespeare's dramatic tradition in his works. It's also a great tribute to Wales itself, because there's no arguing that he's been a part of that glorious tradition long ago.
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