The whole movie can be divided into several chapters: childhood meeting witches, youth meeting giants, leaving to enter the ghost town (Fengdu), city meeting a circus, proposing to the heroine, joining the army to rescue sister flowers, returning to hometown to be a salesman, change Cheng big fish
1 I met a witch in childhood
A witch is a magical existence, which sets the magical tone of the whole story, telling you that this is not an ordinary story. Meeting a witch is the beginning of believing in this fairy tale, and it ends in the fateful imagination given to the witch's eyes at the end. So why is the witch Jenny? Strange, isn't Jenny the little girl I met in Ghost Town? Later when she returned to Ghost Town, Jenny said that there are only two kinds of women in the world, wives and other women. So even if Jenny has always loved him, in the hero’s fairy tale, she is just a passerby who can be anyone. She can be a witch, a little girl, or a divorced woman when she returned to Fengdu, just like Yu Qian. Uncle's father can be any character in the story. In fact, Jenny almost runs through the whole story, and basically it is relatively negative, so Jenny may also symbolize some conservative and obstructive power of the male protagonist, I will also talk about it later.
In fact, the male protagonist was unwilling to be confined to the small world from the very beginning. Do you remember the scene of the male protagonist’s birth? It’s a long, long distance flying out of the delivery room directly from the operating table. Three years of bursting growth is also curious. Growth, and the metaphors that cannot be more straightforward about goldfish and fish tanks, including later encountering a giant giant, and when leaving the town, everyone paraded in a super small car to see them off. They all show that the male protagonist is too ambitious. Big, the world is too small
2 Youth meets giants
In addition to being an opportunity for the male protagonist to go out and trespass, the male protagonist volunteered to capture the giant, and also showed that the male protagonist is fearless and full of passion. His warmth and friendliness to everyone can be even when he is willing to sacrifice himself to the giant. See it, and impressed the giant, the two started on the road
3 Leaving Ghost Town
The English name of Ghost Town is Spectre, and the literal translation means ghost, so the Fengdu translated into Ghost Town is also a good paraphrase, but it is still called Ghost Town, which is more intuitive. Some people say that this is paradise, and there may be similarities, but I think that although there is no dispute with the world, everyone seems to be very leisurely, but their state is lack of faith, confused, emptiness, and more like a small ghost composed of The town is a bit negative in the whole film. Everyone’s shoes were hung up. The shoes were supposed to be walking on their feet. They are down-to-earth. They are now in the sky. It shows that everyone is a kind of false beauty. It also shows that everyone has lost the courage to go out. Being young and energetic at the time was completely contrary to the male lead, so the male lead chose to leave and said that paragraph:
This town is more than any man could ask for, and if I were to end up here, I'd consider myself lucky. But the truth is, I'm not ready to end up here.
In fact, there are many hints about Ghost Town. For example, when the male lead first came, the village head said that you came early, indicating that the male lead didn’t want to stop there. For example, when the village head was talking to him, the others were frozen. It was like a ghost, and everyone was sitting in rocking chairs aimlessly, and the poet said that he had stayed here for 12 years and wrote his life as a poem, but when the male protagonist took it and looked at it, there were only three sentences: The grass is so green, the sky is so blue, and the ghost town is so nice. Not only is it so short, but the content is also so empty. It makes you feel that the beauty of Ghost Town is real or appearance. Hey, how can I feel that I have been satirized by a wave of good mountains, rivers and boring old-age sanctuary Tuao. .
So I still remember that in the rocking chair, Jenny took off the male lead’s shoes, and the male lead said angrily that I need them. In fact, this is a hint that Jenny wants the male lead to stay. In a small town, in a gentle country, she loses her fighting spirit. Jenny is a conservative force that drags her legs. So she was also put on the role of a witch in her childhood, and she still remembers and Did the witch say to the hero when the giant left his hometown?
biggest fish in the river gets that way by never being caught.
Once Big Fish is gone, she also expressed Jenny’s complaint to him. And when Jenny was only 8 years old, she told the protagonist that you must come back. When everyone danced and reveled, the women in circles also talked to him. The male protagonist said, Jenny thinks you are very good, the male protagonist is still stunned to ask, and then the woman said that I think you are very good, so it can be seen here that Jenny or else it is implying that the male protagonist has a childhood sweetheart in the town who likes herself. Girl, otherwise it's just to show that Jenny is not a specific person, but a negative force that makes you lazy.
Another point is that at the edge of the water in Ghost Town, the male protagonist jumped into the water desperately. In order to find his mermaid, water has always been a symbol of life and sex. There was also the snake in the water at that time. The temptation of Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit, some people here think it is the awakening of the male protagonist, I think it may be the yearning for the beautiful love in the male protagonist's memories.
4 The city meets the circus
This may be the three years that the male protagonist has struggled in the city. He said that he worked hard from a circus just to meet the female protagonist. This may be implying that in addition to encountering the female protagonist, which is a delightful thing, he should work hard in the city. The past three years have been boring and difficult. The boss of the circus seems to be treacherous, squeezing the male lead’s voluntary labor, and defrauding the giant to sign unequal contracts, but like the wolf, on the surface it is fierce, but in fact it is just lonely and lacking. Friendship, this may be what society has turned him into this way. In the end, he changed from a wolf with a wooden stick to a human, and he asked if the male lead had killed someone. He regained his humanity at this time and also told the male lead and the whereabouts of the female lead. It is worth mentioning that at the door of the RV, facing the ferocious wolf, the subordinate shot the male protagonist. He may also be talking about the shock of power to ordinary people. Of course, the male protagonist in the magical fairy tale is of course unscathed. . I still remember the words of the circus boss, which may also sum up the life of the male protagonist in the big city
You are big fish in small pond, but this is ocean
5 Propose to the hostess
It can be seen that this paragraph is the most beautiful flash point in the memory, so it is also the most beautiful. The plane smokes confession and is covered with flowers, including their love at first sight in the circus, and the hard work to meet the heroine. It shows the weight of the heroine in the heart of the hero. The scene of the hero standing among the flowers and bgm is really cool, everyone must go back and have a look.
6 Join the army to rescue sister flowers
I’m not going to expand this paragraph. Haha, from the later death certificate, it can be seen that there should be a similar experience, and at the last time at the funeral, maybe the male protagonist really met the sister flower when he was performing the task, and he was enthusiastic. Help them come to the United States to work.
7 Go home to be a salesman
This passage is very vague. The movie only mentions the wave of people returning home after the war. He also went back to work as a salesman. In fact, the big storm encountered may also be the difficulty encountered in the big city, so I drove back to the ghost town when I drove, like a shoe hanging on a rope, the car hanging on a tree, it also shows that the male protagonist wants to be stable. Come down, come home, no longer go to big cities. In this passage, when the poet robbed the bank, and when he went to Wall Street to develop, he might also talk about the change of the secular to an adult, and eventually abandon his ideals and enter the secular. But Ghost Town has also changed. It is connected to the world. Bank loans, road repairs, and shops have all come in. As Jenny said, the first time you came early, the second time you came late and early It is because the male protagonist is ambitious and unwilling to be in the small town. The second time he came late is that although the male protagonist wants to settle down, but now that the family has realistic pressure, he can never go back to that young worry-free Carefree mentality. The male protagonist tries hard to buy the town and keep them in their original appearance. In fact, he wants to keep the innocence of his heart, always young, always on the urethral kang, oh no, always tears in her eyes, but Jenny who never wants to sell, maybe It also represents those who have been secularized and changed by the filthy world that will never go back. Just like Jenny’s failed life and marriage, knowing that the final reconciliation with Jenny may mean that the male protagonist has truly put down and returned. calm.
One of the interesting points in this paragraph is that when the male lead asked Jenny if she was married, Jenny said that she was married. That year she was 18 and the man was 28. Do you remember what Jenny said when I first arrived in Ghost Town, I was 8 years old, You are 18, wait for me to be 18, and you will be 28. So if Jenny is really married, I wonder, this may also be her confession and suggestion to the male protagonist.
8 Become a big fish
How did the hero die? It should be cancer. This can be seen from the female lead calling his son who has not seen him for three years to visit the dying male lead, as well as the male lead drinking strange medicine and finally being weak in the hospital. There is a scene in which the male protagonist wants to commit suicide in the bathtub. It may be too painful to be tortured by the illness, but was discovered by the female protagonist again. It is very embarrassing, so he said I'm drying out. Dry out means giving up. He meant to say that I wanted to give up. But the hostess immediately said that I want to buy a small watering can, so that you won’t do it anymore. It's a bit like a homophonic stalk. Then the host and the hostess hugged, and the hostess cried and said, I don't think I will ever Dry out. This is obvious. If the male protagonist thinks he is a fish, he will dry out, but the female protagonist's words obviously mean that I will not give up on you.
A big debate about the film is whether it's about fatherly love or about life. I think it’s mainly about the overall situation, optimism, and pursuit of life, but the relationship between father and son is also continuous. From the beginning of the father and son’s three-year absence to the final reconciliation, in fact, there is a deep love between father and son. This kind of love can be seen in some details. For example, even though I had a conflict with my father, I came to see my father without a second word, such as comforting my father and drinking half of the medicine. In order to prevent my mother from discovering, I drank the other half. For example, at the dining table, I told my father countless times. In front of my girlfriend, I still hold back my father and listen patiently to my father’s story. And my father’s love is to work hard to make this world a magical fairy tale.
In the end, my father arrived by the river, took off his shoes, said goodbye to his mother, and became a big fish, living in his own world forever, and reaching the end of life travel. And the legend of the big fish will continue forever. This may be the insignificant influence of a small human on the world. The geese pass by, leave their names, and wherever they pass, there must be traces.
I have brushed it 4-5 times before and after. This is a bit of my own opinion. I hope it can be helpful to everyone. If there are different opinions, I hope to tell me.
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