The Hulk can be said to be a very tragic superhero, his anger is essentially fear, and his love for Betty is also "Oedipus complex". The Hulk in Ang Lee's movie didn't save the universe or the earth like other Marvel heroes. He only saved himself throughout the movie.
The following picture is really amazing, how warm this picture makes you feel at first, how much pain it makes you in the end!
The Hulk looked at his mother affectionately when he was a child. This face almost melted my eyes, and the eyes were full of love, happiness, and ease. It is the kind of warm and beautiful picture that no matter how vicious the devil can't bear to destroy it. But it was not malice that destroyed it, but the despair of his father, which was more pitiful than pitiful! It is the kind of despair that the only belief that supports his life has been deprived and the three views collapsed!
Dadaist Bruce's father is the main plot driver
Bruce's father represents the anti-government Dada faction, Betty's father represents the powerful government, and the Hulk Bruce is the victim of these two opposing forces. And in the eyes of his father, his real son is not Bruce, but the Hulk.
Absorbing people as a military scientist has been concentrating on researching chemical weapons, and has been looking forward to using it to enhance human beings or even replace human beings. In his worldview, he sees through powerful governments, hypocritical religions, and filthy civilizations. Human nature is suppressed by these lies.
Dadaism believes that the rational world is only made up by the rulers to achieve the purpose of ruling, and only by breaking the false rationality can the truth be seen. So Dadaism rebelled against everything rational and organized. Therefore, Bruce is just a pawn in his attempt to overthrow the existing social system.
His father carefully cultivated the Hulk inside Bruce
When Bruce was bullied by other children as a child, he was trembling alone without crying or making trouble. His mother said that he never showed his feelings since he was a child. These seemingly "cowardly" behaviors were actually caused by Bruce's inner fear to the outside world. of indifference.
His father cultivated his fears by deliberately ignoring Bruce's needs as an infant. Like pulling out his pacifier and watching him cry. Psychologically, if the basic needs of the baby cannot be met, he will have a "deficient" suspicion of the external world, and the personality will usually become indifferent. These primitive traumas not only buried deep fear for Bruce, but also buried the persistent love for Betty and the "Oedipus" plot.
What awakened the Hulk was not anger but fear
When Bruce was a child, because his father's human experiment was revealed, he wanted to kill Bruce to eliminate the evidence, but he accidentally killed Bruce's mother. This memory was forgotten by Bruce, which is called "repressive forgetting" in psychology, which is a protective mechanism adopted by the brain to suppress the memory when the subject is unwilling to accept this negative memory. But the memory itself is not forgotten, it is just hidden in the subconscious. In this sci-fi film, Ang Lee's approach is to use the Hulk DNA injected by his father to allude to this frightening memory. Repressed memory means that the Hulk's DNA is suppressed.
That's why Bruce didn't transform when he was irradiated with gamma rays, but only when he returned to the lab alone.
In order to wake up the Hulk, Bruce's father told him this memory in the hospital, and then Bruce's brain kept searching for fragments of childhood until he remembered this face of his mother, this moment! Bruce is on fire with rage! The Hulk was successfully awakened!
So why is it not anger but fear that inspired the Hulk at all?
Because the extreme of fear is anger.
Fear is a survival protection mechanism for people. When people encounter an irresistible threat, their first reaction is to avoid it. But when the fear reaches its peak, our brain will realize that life is threatened, there is no way to avoid it, and we can only let it go. At this time, brain waves will stimulate adrenaline and so on, which will make our muscles have strength, feel very irritable, and have a strong desire to fight, and in this state, people's ability to withstand external stimuli such as pain will be greatly enhanced. These are the characteristics of the Hulk, and it is the extreme of fear - the expression of "anger".
Therefore, the Hulk DNA injected by the father is actually the fear memory of childhood, and the gamma rays actually represent the awakening of the memory.
Why do you say that Bruce has an "Oedipus complex" with Betty?
After the manic Hulk was provoked again and again, even if he went to the universe and went to the bottom of the sea, his power was not weakened in the slightest. Instead, he was stimulated by anger to become stronger and stronger. But why every time she sees Betty, she turns into a human form, and every time she kneels weakly in front of Betty, burying her head in her chest, these actions are more like mother and son if they are lovers.
Especially when Bruce met Betty for the first time as the Hulk, he was naked when he turned into a human form (and would wear green card super elastic underwear afterwards) and staggered to Betty, which does not represent the baby. Did Bruce get into his mother's arms? Bruce once described her mother as having "brown eyes, brown hair" and these traits fit Betty perfectly.
There is a similar story in Greek mythology, where a prince named Oedipus accidentally killed his father and married his mother . This Oedipus complex was also suggested by Freud, who found in mentally ill patients that a strong jealousy of one parent could be sufficiently destructive. This destructive power can create fear and, as a result, permanent distress and impact on personality formation and interpersonal relationships.
After Bruce turned into a humanoid, he hugged Betty, Betty and his father looked at each other, and then hugged Bruce tightly and cried sadly. Betty is also a left-behind child who lacks fatherly love since childhood. So this couple is not like other movie couples, they don't have lingering kiss scenes and passionate sex scenes, only two poor people cry and hug each other for warmth.
All this is enough to show that compared with physical damage, the damage to a person's mind is more boundless.
At the end of the movie, Bruce retreats to the jungle. From the last line of dialogue he said - "You won't like to see me angry", we can see that: First, he has found a way to live in peace with the Hulk. Second, he was freed from his father's free existence from control.
In this last scene, I got a surreal smell in Bruce.
Surrealism is a derivative of Dadaism, and its advocate Andre Breton explained it this way: "Surrealism, a purely spiritual spontaneous phenomenon. People pass it, verbally or situationally, or otherwise. to express what the mind really does. It accepts only the inspiration of the mind, without any rational control, without any aesthetic or moral prejudice."
As Bruce described the feeling of transformation: "He wanted me to be a brainless monster, it felt like I was just born, and I felt anger, power, and freedom."
He inherited the irrationality given by his father and enjoyed it very much. But unlike Dadaism, surrealism will not destroy, but can live in peace with reality while pursuing illusion. This is the state of the Hulk at this time.
This movie hides the seeds of human nature buried by Ang Lee everywhere. This delicate root-seeking experience makes people feel the mystery of life. The sci-fi theme greatly magnifies the contradictions of human nature. In fact, it is the turbulence of people's hearts.
Parent-child is Li An's usual theme, including wedding banquets, eating men and women, etc., all of which tell the story of mutual dependence and mutual checks and balances between parents and children. As Ang Lee has been in contact with both China and the West, the cultural differences between the two are even more apparent. His film also confirms the results of recent research on the Chinese self. Not only is the Chinese self under the influence of collectivism and Confucianism, except for I also include characters with multiple social intimacy such as father and mother. Chinese people need to undertake various social responsibilities, and Chinese people's ego is contradictory.
Like the Hulk, it is actually closer to Asian thinking than the West. Ang Lee also once said, "Part of the plot does come from my real experience, but the real father-son relationship can only be understood and cannot be described in words." The fact that a Marvel hero can be photographed so delicately may be precisely because these inner portraits come from Ang Lee himself.
Film critics who use their souls to interpret, welcome to pay attention!
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