The film review "Ghost in Disguise", if you have an omnipotent transformation mask, would you discard it?
In the film review "Ghosts in Disguise", you and me behind the social mask, do you still remember who you were?
"Ghosts in Disguise" was released in 1994. It has been 26 years since then. It was re-watched by chance last night and it was still interesting. This film is an American fantasy comedy film co-starred by Kim Carey, Cameron Diaz and others. It tells the story of ordinary bank clerk Stanley who got a super hero to save the beauty because of his mysterious mask.
Stanley’s life can be said to be a mess. The broken car was sent to be repaired and was ripped off by the repairman. The landlady where he lived was harsh and acrid. The bank leader at work was a bad-tempered rich second-generation. He met Man’s beautiful female client when his life was very gloomy. Tina, of course he didn't know that Tina was the beauty part of the criminal gang. One day, he failed to enter the upper class dinner with his buddies, and exposed his embarrassment in front of Tina. He drove the car through the bridge in despair, but the car broke down. Stanley thought that there was a person floating on the water under the bridge, so he jumped to the rescue, only to find that there was only one. Wooden mask.
After returning home, Stanley accidentally put on a mask and turned into an omnipotent monster with super powers, so he indulged his heart's desire, punished the mean landlord and the car mechanic who ransacked, and robbed the bank to go to the nightclub and the beauty Na dances. Tina’s boyfriend, Dorian, the head of the criminal gang, snatched the mask and sent Stanley to prison.
Stanley’s dog helped him escape the prison and regained the mask. Stanley successfully rescued Tina and other celebrities who were threatened by Dorian. Finally, Tina encouraged Stanley to discard the mask and live as he was Back to the mask).
The following brief comment:
1. Stanley without a mask, do you know him?
At the beginning of the film, Stanley sent his broken car to refuel, but he was blackmailed by the repairman. He lived in a small rented house and was detained by the landlord’s wife for various reasons. The bad-tempered rich second generation finally went to a high-class banquet with his buddies and was turned away and splashed with muddy water. The goddess was embarrassed, the car broke down on the bridge at night, and the dive rescued only a wooden mask.
Stanley like this, we seem to have known each other before, right? Depressed, beaten, and punched again and again by reality, and then have to maintain a smiling face to go to work to socialize to face this boring and indifferent world? Just like the actor Huang Bo once said, "In the past, in the crew, I always met all kinds of people, all kinds of caution, but now (famous), all around him are good people, and every one is full of smiling faces. ."
It is conceivable that before the so-called success, before the Stanleys got the mask, many people endured the same life as him. The things they desire in their hearts look like mirages, and even the people they like are like stars in the sky. And, falling on the ground, drinking cold water and stuffing his teeth, the only death through the ages is difficult, but it is not easy to live.
Just like Yin Tianchou and Rumeng in "The King of Comedy" and "The King of New Comedy", whether ideal or survival, the persistence, hard work, ups and downs, and sorrow touched the hearts of countless people, because that is the reality. Of us, Stanley without a mask.
2. If you have an omnipotent transformation mask, will you discard it?
Fortunately, Stanley got the mask, punished the bank manager who bullied him, blackmailed his car repair worker, squeezed his landlady, and most importantly caught the criminal gang and rescued his beloved beauty Tina.
The finishing touch in the film is that Stanley, who has lost his mask, went to rescue Tina desperately, with a dog and a gun. At this time, he was brave and cute, and it was precisely when he had no superpowers that he could choose to rescue Tina. People, this allowed Tina to see Stanley's true self, the real, kind, brave, clever, and humorous man behind the mask.
Although Stanley won the final victory by regaining the mask by the dog, the mask at this time is not the original mask. The original mask was used by Stan to vent his personal hatred and satisfy his personal desires. The last time the mask was In order to rescue the goddess in the heart, in order to catch the criminal gang and help justice.
Therefore, it is not the tools that are at fault, but the people who use them. Masks bring superpowers, and what you can do with superpowers requires choices. Different choices will have different results and will achieve different selves. Just like Batman can fly around. Later, the Joker and a group of enemies will also fly around. They have all kinds of unusual abilities, but no one doubts Batman because he can fly. On the contrary, he is respected by everyone. And love.
If you had the omnipotent mask in the movie, would you discard it? Throw it into the sea casually? Put it in an iron box, lock it, and throw it into the sea? Or hide in the cloakroom and occasionally transform into play? There is no political correctness here, only different choices and different consequences. If I have a chance to get it, I will not discard it or use it.
3. You and me behind the social mask, can you still remember who you are?
Why did Tina encourage Stanley to discard the mask? Because she loved the real Stanley behind the mask, the man who had no superpowers but escaped the rain of bullets to rescue her. At the same time, because Stanley wearing the mask is uncontrollable, he himself has to play with himself.
When a person's abilities greatly surpass common sense, and the police are helpless, it is so easy for him to break all common sense and rules, so who can control and supervise him? One day he changed his mind, he misunderstood someone, someone hurt his interests, did he choose to resolve it through the law or put on a mask to act as God? This is difficult to say, because everyone's life is a race of ego, id, and superego.
Ordinary people without magic masks, you and me, actually have their own social masks. We acted as loving mothers and fathers in front of our children, as shrewd and capable employees in front of our leaders, as responsible and filial children in front of our parents, and as shining and polite guests at unfamiliar dinner parties. We behind the mask may also be lazy, selfish, jealous, discouraged, and cruel. We have so many masks that we sometimes forget who we are, right?
How do we remember who we are? When you wear your mask for too long, the mask becomes your real face. If you can wear it for the rest of your life, so good. If you want to take it off occasionally, just look back on the joy of childhood, you who love to play and love little animals, you who love to laugh with good intentions, you who are curious and brave, and you who run fearlessly into the wilderness are the real you.
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