Several settings of the film:
1. There are two personalities of the male protagonist, Anthony and Adam, but only Anthony is the one in real life. (The whole film seems like a dream, there are real and imaginary, but we can find a top, that is Anthony's wife Helen, because the photos that appear twice can prove her authenticity, she is also the only one who found Anthony split )
2. Something happened six months ago, Helen got pregnant, Anthony stopped acting as an actor and reunited with Helen. (In the dialogue, Helen revealed that Anthony had
cheated before, and the photo that was torn in half is also evidence.) 3. Anthony represents desire, while Adem is repression and control. The two personalities are distinguished by rings. (Adam wakes up from a dream three times in the film, the first time he wakes up and starts to investigate and try to understand Anthony, the second time he wakes up and decides to meet Anthony, and the third time Anthony wakes up in a car accident. This is a control and The process of the war of desires)
Let's go through the timeline of the film:
Anthony goes to the underground club to watch a porn show with the tall manager, and uses the key to open the door. (Step on the spider to death, release the desire. When exactly this happens is not listed)
Adam goes to class day after day and has an affair with Mary. (I prefer the part before the first awakening that happened six months ago or even earlier, in the form of flashbacks here, when Anthony was separated from Helen when his affair was discovered, so what Marry sees Adam is not wearing a ring and has no ring marks)
Adam woke up for the first time from a dream and started searching for information about Anthony and calling him. (Actually, the battle between control and desire in the subconscious started, which means that Anthony wanted to cheat again, but reason and guilt told him that it was not good. The time is now, during which Helen discovered Anthony's split condition)
Adem woke up from a dream for the second time, and the two personalities met, twice. (In the first head-to-head confrontation, Adem fled, and desire took the upper hand. In the second time, Adam was forced to exchange identities and control completely fell)
Adem came to Anthony's house, like a loser, and the administrator who helped open the door talked about the underground club And the key, which also proves that there is only Anthony in reality. (At this time, the affair has already happened, and his wife Helen should have discovered it too, and knew the personality of Adam who came back, so he asked him how he was at school today, and at the end he said he hoped he would stay. At this time, Anthony had a car accident, because after the betrayal , the desire was immediately eliminated, male friends should be more understandable, when it is not due, everyone is Liuxia Hui) The
next morning, Adam accidentally found the key in his pocket, suddenly Adem seemed to be Anthony again, and The spider representing desire appeared again. (The key appears here again, do you remember the first paragraph to the underground club? Did you find that if you receive the first paragraph from here, the loop is closed! This corresponds to the paragraph that Adam has been babbling about in class, all the Things are a big cycle)
So, the film has been talking about it for so long, maybe just to say, the enemy of desire, you don’t know where it is higher than you, it is like a weed, and it grows again in the spring breeze.
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