His works are full of rich images and metaphors. Especially the space metaphor. In "Life of a Puppet", it is the seventh and a half floor in a weird building, a narrow door and a secret passage leading to someone's brain, and a small stage for a puppet show with a blue curtain. In "The New York Synopsis," it is a house that is always on fire, a copy of New York City that is miniature in a huge setting shed. Watching Charlie Kaufman's film is an interesting process of disassembling these metaphors, so I took some notes and saved some of the thoughts in my mind at the time.
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1. The seventh and a half floor, where everyone can only be shy, bow their heads and bow their waists, and cannot walk upright in this space, which is more like our survival dilemma. The floors (classes), the embarrassment of kneeling, the embarrassment of being difficult to walk straight forward, are more like human beings.
2. Maxine, a weird and fickle woman, represents the face of desire. Everyone is bewitched by it and pursues it in every way. Even if you lose your mind, lose your true self, and become someone else in the process of searching, it will not hesitate. ——The film shows Craig and Lottie's love and desire for Maxine.
※Interpretation from the standpoint of John Markovic ※
3. When the will of others penetrates your brain, you will become a puppet manipulated by others. On the other hand, conscious manipulation, manipulation in the abstract sense, is far more terrifying than commands and compulsions in reality. Because the former allows you to take the initiative to act according to the will of others.
4. You lose your heart and do things that you can't even understand yourself. Because you are controlled by the other, by the will of the non-self.
5. When you enter the black hole leading to yourself, you will see countless selves, some of them are hideous, some are ugly, some are coquettish, some are pretentious, but they are all you. You can see nothing but yourself. This implies an over-gaze on the self, which is extremely narcissistic. ——When Markovic climbed into the small door leading to his brain, all he saw and heard was Markovic. Markovich, a big-breasted woman with a changed sex, Markovich, a dwarf, Markovic who changed his profession to become a waiter, and even the dishes on the menu are called Markovich. He speaks out, and the syllable is "Markovich", a coquettish singer Markovic lay on the piano and sang Markovic in his mouth. Countless Markovic gathered together. He was trapped in Markovic, also surrounded by himself. The so-called self is sometimes such a huge vortex.
※Interpretation from Craig's standpoint※
6. You have to give up and annihilate yourself if you try to enter the bodies of others, the brains of others, control the thoughts of others, interfere with and share the lives and experiences of others.
7. If you have been parasitic in the body and life of others, you can only see the world through the eyes of others.
8. Sometimes you think that you can and are controlling a puppet, but you don't know that all your expressions must rely on the body of the puppet to complete. You think you are in charge of the tools, but you are actually attached to and limited by the tools. When you control the puppet, you have to become a puppet, blend into the puppet, and you and the puppet are as big as the puppet-Craig manipulates Markovic to perform the puppet show.
9. Sometimes you want to be successful, have wealth, status, power, fame, sweet wife, luxurious life, and want to do what you want to do, you must annihilate your true self and become someone else. ——When Maxine was kidnapped by the group of old men and threatened Craig to withdraw from Markovic’s body, Craig said: Without him, I will have nothing.
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10. The so-called multi-personality is that too many others live in your brain at the same time. So in your subconscious, there are a number of sub-personality. Sometimes they love each other, but sometimes they fight for the occupation and dominance of you.
11. Your complex and chaotic personality will be passed on, and your weak and vulgar desires will be passed on, digging into the minds of the next generation and manipulating the body of the next generation. And the pursuit of desire has been endless from generation to generation. Finally, Markovich, who was possessed by a group of elders, chose a new parasite and entered the brain of his daughter Emily. They are still in the shadows and will get it here. eternal life.
12. Everyone can become a Makovich, a puppet of the other. No one can rule out this possibility. No one can know for sure and affirm whether a mysterious door is open behind one's brain for others to enter and leave, allowing them to occupy our thoughts and guide our actions.
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