When watching this film, I turned on the dual-display subtitles inadvertently. With the help of a subtitle of a director's comment, it is very helpful to understand the director's intention and plot.
The plot is not as described above. The correct plot is that the male protagonist has a successful career and a happy family. The day after his 40th birthday, he underwent an ordinary intestinal lens examination in the hospital. The result was a medical accident and a bubble embolism. , become a vegetative person, and eventually die. This is an objective plot.
It doesn't look like it has anything to do with the Homicide Hospital. But we clearly saw that the hero went through various horrors in the hospital. This was the director's intention. Until the end of the film, when the black nurse was cutting off the hero's fingers and toes, the hero's family members entered his ward, including His brother, wife, son, daughter, we know that the original film has been describing the world in the hero's brain.
After the male protagonist entered the operating room, there was a flash of light, which marked the beginning of the male protagonist's encounter with bubble embolism. Since then, all the horror experiences we have seen are actually nightmares written, directed and acted by the male protagonist. Not real, these are just in his mind. From that flash, the male protagonist has never been able to return to the real world, never seen his relatives again, and has already embarked on a road of no return. In the end, the male protagonist committed suicide in the nightmare he wrote, directed and acted, which ended the nightmare and ended his life in the real world.
So put it together, the plot is: The male protagonist with a successful career and a happy family, the day after his 40th birthday, suffered a medical accident of air bubble embolism during an ordinary intestinal lens examination in the hospital, and became a vegetative state. From then on, the brain began to experience uncontrollable and unbearable nightmares. In the end, the male protagonist chose to commit suicide in the nightmare he wrote, directed and acted. When the nightmare ended, he also ended his life in the real world.
Not only did he tell the audience the truth until the end of the film, but the director actually had a lot of ideas and hints.
First of all, the beginning of the film also echoes the ending, and it is also the reason for the final death of the male protagonist. In the beginning, the male protagonist fell from the height of the painting in a dream and was woken up before landing. His wife comforted him and told him that many people woke up at the end of their nightmares and were safe and sound, and hoped that he would not think too much. It is based on this theory that the male protagonist cannot wake up in the nightmare after the embolism occurs, and the only way to try is to choose to jump from a high place in the dream (the 7th floor of the hospital). Of course, he didn't wake up in this nightmare, and life in reality left him. Here, the director wants to make an assumption and discussion on the relationship between dreams and reality, and how people's dreams and psychological hints affect people.
The core theme of this film, the director wants to explain the theme of fear. Where does human fear come from? The director believes that it comes from the unknowing of the future. The stronger, the more successful, the happier a person is, the more fearful they are, the fear of losing all of them.
The male protagonist is a high-paid IT consultant, white middle-class, his wife is a full-time housewife, has a son and a daughter, and has a healthy and happy family. On the PARTY of his 40th birthday, his family and friends have prepared the best gifts for him to welcome him in a new stage of life. All we see is happiness. However, in his heart, there was always a trace of fear for the future. What is he afraid of? Even a small routine, physical examination, would trouble him. Or from the few words at the party, or from his memories of his life before he was admitted to the hospital, compared with his nightmares, it is not difficult to see that he is afraid of his wife cheating him, he is afraid that his son will go astray, that his daughter is gay, and that he is afraid of medical malpractice. , afraid that the friendship of his friends is false, afraid that he will fall into an uncontrollable and unknowable environment, afraid that lawyers will not be able to provide him with protection, afraid that people of color will harm white people, afraid that the current system and guarantees will be subverted... He all Fear. These are his fears.
According to the director's own statement, he also has several intentional hints and extensions. The hero's name is George, huh, what is the name of the current president of the United States? George Bush. The director asked the male protagonist to represent the United States today, arrogant, healthy, superior, successful, seemingly happy and happy... But this does not mean that the United States is not afraid of anything now, the director thinks it is just the opposite. The doctor who operated on George was an Iranian, and this was also the director's intention. It was the unintentional negligence of this Iranian doctor that caused George's eventual death.
Remember what the black nurse said while riding on his chest,...you're afraid...you're even afraid of President Lincoln's wrong decision...
and the olive tree, the tattoos, the beautiful female nurse who appeared after George was in a coma, the nurse's skirt changed Short and tight, and even began to apply lipstick and untie the neckline; and the eagle (bird) symbolizing George's soul... There are still many details.
The director also mentioned a detail that impressed me deeply, that is, the back of the female nurse wearing the close-fitting nurse uniform was shot with a very close lens, which is very sexy and very attractive.
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