After the actor Reznik killed his child Nicolas a year ago, he scrapped his red flamingo in order to avoid responsibility. Reznik began to evade responsibility. I wanted to face reality by myself, but I wanted to escape reality. Unwilling to face the truth and the true self. Every day living in the contradiction between evading responsibility and facing reality, desperately trying to forget this matter, but my heart keeps appearing to remind myself, and began to make Reznik insomnia, making Reznik slowly produce his own inner illusion Iven (why is it called Iven? You can analyze it).
Then Reznik was unable to live due to the daily trance and the impact of the truth in his heart, so he had to find something to numb him.
On the day of the accident, Reznik went to the airport, sat down for a coffee, and began to fantasize about the link with the waitress. The activity with the waitress and the child, daffodilio, has been well explained in the previous film review "Guilty + desire = delusion & nightmare". Prostitutes are also a temporary medicine that Reznik used to numb himself, one for betraying the body and the other for the soul. In fact, when Iven first appeared, Reznik was already on the path of self-awareness. After receiving the trust of the prostitute, Reznik subconsciously created an accident in the workshop, because he didn’t want to work anymore. In other words, Reznik began to prepare for the first step of surrendering because he would rather people around him say that he was insane. He doesn't want others and the only friend around him to know that he is irresponsible, because irresponsibility is the most painful in his heart.
Self-awareness Iven keeps telling himself that he is a murderer, but Reznik himself refuses to admit it. At the beginning of the film, the corpse is thrown by the sea, which is the end of the film. , Can't escape. Then Reznik gave up fighting against the self, faced reality, and surrendered.
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