The answer is that he is indeed mentally ill. (Hey! Please don’t rush to refute me or call me an idiot. Look down slowly.) Those who disagree with my point of view can join me here to think about these two key points. Question:
1. We saw it at the beginning of the film. There is an obvious injury on the hero's left forehead, and it is attached with a piece of tape. This injury has always existed throughout the film, until and until our hero. Waking up in bed wearing blue clothes, we were surprised to see (of course, many people didn't pay attention at all), the injury on his left forehead was gone. The skin is very smooth, there are no scars, no injuries at all. The director gave us a lot of close-ups here just to let us see that he was not injured. ——So the man who called himself Ted was just his imagination.
2. This is another important clue, but it is easy to be misunderstood and overlooked by everyone, that is, at the beginning of the film (and the beginning again) the male protagonist vomits constantly on the boat, and he repeats a sentence. It's just water, he kept saying, I can ask, if as many enthusiastic netizens say, this Ted is real and he is not a lunatic, then it means that he did not kill his wife at all, nor did he fish it out of the pond. His three children, especially his favorite daughter, why is he so afraid of water? And since his wife was burned to death as he said, it is not very clear why there is a picture in this place in his dream. If you are interested, you can watch the DVD. The dynamics are more clear. We see him There was blood from his wife's belly, and there was water from his hands. If his wife was burned to death, how could there be so much blood on his belly because of injuries, and why would there be water from his hands?
After thinking about these two issues carefully, I believe most opponents will abandon their original views.
Later, we will explain the scene at the end of the film. As far as I am concerned, I think this is the best part of the film. It is full of humanity and heroism. The lines are just two sentences.
At the end of the film, our "Ted" still did not recall his tragic past. He said to his doctor in charge, "Let’s go, this place is terrible." Of course, his doctor in charge was very unbearable, but But I have to tell the doctors over there that they still failed, but please note that the main event has begun here. "Ted" said the last sentence of his life-Chuck. I have been thinking about a question: What is the truth? Should you live as a demon, or die as a good person? Which one is better? Then resolutely walked to the place where the operation was performed. How much meaning is contained in this short sentence.
First of all, he told the doctors who have been working hard to save themselves, I was really cured, and your efforts were not in vain, please stick to it.
Second, I still decided to die. Instead of living like this, knowing that my children are dead, and I killed my favorite wife, I'll go to die, at least so that I can continue to have my dreams there. I am an innocent person. (Before, the bald doctor also said, how I wish you could stay in your dreams, but then you have to go for surgery.)
Third, this meaning is not understood from the protagonist’s words, but he The doctor in charge of, he finally said, "yes, tedd." Here we see the glory of human nature, doctors try their best to treat patients, but in the end their purpose is not to "correct" all "errors", but to respect the wishes of patients . It was to cure them, get them rid of the entanglement of the disease, and finally find their own souls. In the end, Tedd still went for surgery, but this time who said it was not a victory of human nature. He went according to his own wishes, no one was intimidated, and he walked with dignity. This should be what medicine really looks like.
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