Let me add a few more here.
1.
How many successful puppet manipulators on TV are like Craig. He is a talented young puppet manipulator, but suffers from no opportunities and no attention. There is a scene in the movie where Craig is watching the news. A crappy but world-renowned puppeteer said in interviews that frequent exposure had disturbed his life and artistic creation, and he even regretted that he should not be famous. Craig smiled bitterly, yeah you are really upset. He knows how important opportunities are. Even if he can have the same opportunities as people on TV, it will only be himself. Today's embarrassing life forces Craig to give up his talents and dreams and be forced to switch careers, while the puppeteer on TV complains about giving up the generous material life under the banner of being loyal to his dreams. How hypocritical.
2. Elevator
This elevator is very interesting. Craig's working place is on the seventh and a half floors. When the elevator runs between the seventh and eighth floors, he must press the elevator to make it stop due to an emergency failure, and then use a steel bar to open the door and climb out.
Comparing the current you with the original you, is it the opposite? What was stubbornly chasing as a child, is it still persisting now? Or, like craig, you have to bow to reality to make your life more stable? Sealing up your true pursuits, trying hard, racking your brains to climb out of the elevator, and into the seventh and a half floor, a world that is unchanging and lifeless, and can never make you straighten up.
I suddenly remembered that there are two ways to accumulate material wealth. One is called work. You don’t love it, you just look forward to the money you send out every month, and your life goes round and round, muddled. The other is a career. You are willing to work tirelessly for it. What you gain is not only money, but also a sense of accomplishment and presence, which makes one's life full of passion and value.
Three, animals
There is no love between Craig and his wife Lotty, but their marriage is very respectful. Lotty lives in a sloppy life, with many animals, dogs jumping around, ulcerated lizards, orangutans with trauma in their hearts, parrots that disturb neighbors and so on. Craig couldn't tell these animals and didn't care about them. One night his wife asked Craig if he could let xxx sleep with them, and Craig asked who was xxx? The wife said that it was the orangutan, which was relatively fragile recently. Craig answered politely, of course, but I'm going to the studio in the evening. As a result, Craig ended up sleeping in the studio all night.
Many people don't know why they want to do this, but they just feel that it is time to do it, so they must do it. Marriage is not because I love you, I love you so much that even the minor ailments of your body are like an inspection treasure. It is just because it is a need of social nature, and we happen to be able to live on each other peacefully, so it’s just that. Live a lifetime! These annoying little animals are like the special habits of the other half. Don't wait until you get married and then complain everywhere like Xianglin's wife: I knew she had a habit of cleanliness at the beginning, I knew him so badly, I knew he was lost, I knew her cooking was too unpalatable, this marriage shouldn't be married!
Marriage without love is too risky, and the trivial things in life are terrible.
4. John Malkovich,
everyone can feel a different world through John. A fat man who is often laughed at enters John’s brain and feels how cool it is to have a beautiful appearance, although he is still that fat man without self-confidence after fifteen minutes... And lotty, that sloppy sloppy only knows and The woman who stayed with animals rediscovered what her desire is through John's body. In other words, lotty is lucky. What she finds through John is herself. She wants to be a man and she loves women.
When John himself crawled into the cave, he saw all kinds of himself, coquettish singers, elegant gentlemen, noble ladies, humble waiters, etc. All the people in this world were full of John's face. ! Which one is the real self? In fact, each one can be himself, what kind of thought controls the brain, you will become what kind of person. From different angles and perspectives, the world we know is different, and the self we know is different. There is an old fable that every animal tells the tiger that you are a donkey. In the end, the tiger really thought he was a donkey. If you feel lost, don't rush to shape yourself. See and try more. Only a correct thought can achieve a true self.
5. Puppets
should be the most ironic place. As a doll manipulator, Craig has amazing skill in manipulating. He loves this profession because he can transfer his thoughts to the doll, give the doll a soul, and also find a cathartic outlet for his feelings. It is precisely because of this that he can successfully enter John's brain. In order to get Maxine, Craig used John's prestige to develop his own puppet business, and eventually gained both fame and fortune. In fact, everything that Craig got was actually John's. When Craig left John's brain, he still had nothing. Maxine is the only person here who hasn't gotten into the hole to experience being John. This woman never concealed her true thoughts, she didn't want to experience John, she was to be her true self. This is the purest and most real person in the movie. So Craig and Lotty both fell in love with her at the same time, and did everything they could to get her. Maxine loves John's body, so Craig becomes John, and leaves John to save Maxine. Craig is ironically manipulated by maxine. No matter what you are at the beginning, your attachment to desire will eventually make you lost. In the end, you are manipulating the body of chasing fame and fortune, or the life that does not belong to you is imprisoned. What about the real you? I'm afraid I can't tell the difference.
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