virtual wound

Ladarius 2022-05-17 17:46:45

A teenager who lost his parents at a young age, relying on the words spoken by the living or deceased, guesses, fantasizes, and weaves the stories of his parents before his death. In the attack incident, the teenager tried to clarify the mystery that the deceased left in his heart, trying to find an answer that could convince him.


The staggered splicing at the beginning, the grandfather's words, the imaginary picture and the boy's monologue lead the audience to believe in a suspenseful terrorist attack, and it was only later that the puzzle was gradually dismantled. Unexpectedly puzzled, vague and questioning about my father, so we weave real doubts into fictional events. The audience is like other stunned classmates in the classroom, and the faces of excited and arguing in the images on the computer screen. We all have that moment. Easily accepted the so-called facts.


Regardless of whether the boy's monologue is true or false, there is one thing in common, that is, it is a wound of life. A terrorist attack is an irreversible physical and mental injury to the survivors and the bereaved family, and the death of a parent is also a bleeding wound for the teenager.


The director used a virtual event to trigger a tumultuous wave in the virtual online world, and the resulting impact spread from the Internet to people and things in the real world, which shows his intention to discuss the current Internet generation. Friends said that he felt the director's strong political inclination, and deliberately expressed another view of the terrorist attack through the role of the netizen group.


What I am more concerned about is how the young man who lost his parents, after experiencing the whole incident, fills the void left by his father in his childhood towards the demonized father that his grandfather called him. He dressed his father as a terrorist on the Internet, but in the end he defended the ideal of terrorist martyrdom, although his eyes were as terrifying as a demon. He went back to his grandfather's house by the lake alone, cut off the headstock of the antique violin left by his mother, burned the Christmas decorations his uncle made, and finally burned the mobile phone with the grandfather's image. I hope he is With the feeling of abandoning the haze left by my grandfather.


Only in this way, when the teenager looks at the wedding photos of his father and his teacher (ex-wife), holds the shaved antique headstock and puts on an inexplicable smile on his face, can I regard it as a smile that liberates me from the bondage.



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Adoration quotes

  • Simon: I think that this idea we get, that if you get to know someone, if you humanize them, it stops you from pulling the trigger or setting off the bomb or whatever, well that's just a myth we're taught, something we get from the movies. When the reality might be that's what actually inspires extreme action.

  • [last lines]

    Simon: You looked happy.

    Sabine: He was. We were happy.

    Simon: And then what happened?

    Sabine: Then he met your mom.

    Simon: You let him go.

    Sabine: No, I never let him go.