The protagonist of the story is a man named Anthony. He may have been a professor or lecturer at a university, and then he went to become a third-rate actor. Adam's personality and identity is that he found a new history associate professor during his wife's pregnancy. Personality and new identity.
It opens with a message from Anthony's mother, which does not mention the protagonist's name, but mentions the new apartment, where Anthony's wife currently lives. His mother said that he was worried about him, but did not explain the specific situation, suggesting that the male protagonist is in a bad condition, suggesting that he should not become a third-rate actor, and later his mother said to him: "You have a decent job now, you should give up Your fantasy of being a third-rate actor" echoes each other. Therefore, the male protagonist in the car should not have become an associate professor, but should be an associate professor. So the wife at home didn't know that he had found a job as an associate professor. After the message was over, the first shot was to his pregnant wife, and then a long time later, his wife reappeared, and she was real. Adam's girlfriend has no name from beginning to end, and Adam's name has never been mentioned by a third party, but all the supporting characters address the male protagonist as Anthony, so this proves that Anthony is the true identity of the male protagonist.
The camera came to a dimly lit room, and it was necessary to pay attention to the security guard who came with him, and also gave a close-up, echoing the chat between the security guard and the male protagonist in the elevator later, and Anthony's identity was further confirmed. Large-scale performances suggest that Anthony is lonely and unbearable, seeking excitement. The spider on the plate is a symbol of "control" and "fear". And high heels are the representative of sexiness and desire. The high heels trample the spider to death, implying that desire has expanded.
The first line of the male protagonist points out the theme of the movie: control.
The movie "control, It is all about control" is also about control. Control your desires, control your spirit.
A dictator corresponds to an individual and needs to control a variety of thoughts and desires. The repetition of history reveals that in the process of control, the two spirits confront each other and repeat.
In the film, the wires of the tram are shot many times, and the description of the wire network formed by them renders the atmosphere of control, just as the male protagonist imagines a big spider controlling the entire big city in his dream.
Anthony is indeed cheating, and he is entangled with a woman, but the pictures of him and his girlfriend in the movie are all fantasy, which may be memories of the past. But I don't quite understand the plot design of why each time the sex is so fast and the girlfriend's dissatisfaction, which may reflect the guilt of the male protagonist.
While his wife was pregnant, Anthony did go to work as a teacher, but he shouldn't cheat and spend the night with other women. The content of his lectures repeated, like the fantasy of cheating in his mind, repeated.
During the chat with the staff in the office, the male protagonist is indeed in Adam's spiritual world, and he has forgotten that he is an actor, or in other words, this is also a picture Anthony imagined. In order to derail himself more, the male protagonist designed a complete identity and a complete spiritual world for himself, so that he could live two lives without conflict, but he fell into it.
Adam saw himself in the movie, and then went to search for Anthony's plot, and all the previous episodes of lingering with his girlfriend were at night, just when Anthony was dreaming, so these are his fantasies, dreams. Adam mentioned in his lecture: "The creation of a memory about someone or something is always affected by emotions." It implies that Anthony's creation of Adam's memory or spiritual world is affected by the current emotions. , a man who wanted to cheat and was lonely and unbearable, created another man who could have sex with his girlfriend freely. And in his fantasy world, most of the time he was having sex with his girlfriend, and probably because of guilt, it was usually fast.
Then the plot pushed to Adam found the man Anthony, and then Adam's personality secretly went to the film company, only to be recognized by the security and called him Anthony. From the beginning of the film to the present, it is the first time that a third party calls the protagonist by name. In the conversation, it was mentioned that Anthony had not come for more than half a year, which happened to correspond to his wife's six months of pregnancy. At this point, Adam's personality has taken over, making a normal response that Adam should do, calling the test: Anthony's wife receives a call.
After that, Anthony's personality imagined the plot of Adam's phone call, and then wrote Adam's name on the paper, which is also the name the male protagonist used in school, in order to deceive his wife. When his wife asked him if he had lied to her, the look on Anthony's face was one of lying rather than trying to argue. In order to lie, he changed the subject, then got angry again, emphasizing it twice: It was a man. It echoes the two consecutive angry "I am not a man" that the male protagonist injured in the last car accident. But jealous husbands don't know what it means.
Back in the college scene, the protagonist switches to the role of Adam, fantasizing that Anthony calls and asks him out. The male protagonist on the bench is indeed Adam's personality. Of course, it is possible that Anthony is cheating his wife with his superb acting skills. The inexplicable laugh at the end made me feel more like he was playing Adam rather than falling into Adam's personality. "You never know how your day's gonna turn out." It was very meaningful, as if he was telling his wife: You must have never guessed such a story. Look how good I am, playing another person.
And just after Adam disappeared, the phone was connected. I understand that Adam saw that the phone belonged to his wife and immediately switched to Anthony's identity, or the male protagonist had switched to Anthony's personality when he saw his wife, but played Adam for the sake of acting. . Therefore, the male protagonist should still play the role of Adam in most cases, and the confrontation between Adam and Anthony is Anthony's fantasy.
On the sofa at home, the character of the male protagonist Anthony has been lying. The wife's two consecutive sentences: I think you know. Expressed his wife's disappointment and despair. One understanding is the wife's disappointment that Anthony lied, and the other understanding is the wife's despair at Anthony's split personality. No matter which one, Anthony is the subject, while Adam is just a role played by the male protagonist, a split personality.
The plot of going to the hotel to meet is actually the male protagonist who went there himself, and then imagined the scene of two people meeting. First of all, if there is no agreement, there is no way to have two door cards in a room, so in fact, the first person to enter the male protagonist is the real spiritual world, and the next one is fantasy.
Next, Anthony continued to fantasize about himself saying goodbye to his girlfriend, and then fantasizing about him stalking Adam's girlfriend. The close-up of the snakeskin high-heeled shoes on the bus shows the inner desire of the male protagonist, the desire to cheat to satisfy his sexual desire.
The next conversation with my mother was an extremely important clue. There is no undressing, indicating that the character at the moment is Adam. And the mother said, "Isn't it enough to be entangled with that woman?" It proves the fact that the male protagonist is cheating, which is what Anthony and his wife mentioned in the conversation.
"I don't like blueberries" once again shows that the male protagonist's personality is Adam at the moment, but the mother still replied: "Of course you like it, and it's good for the body" This is consistent with the description of the quarrel between Anthony and his wife. "You have a respectable job, you have a nice apartment,...I think you should quit that fantasy being the third-rate movie actor." The dialogue prompts the male protagonist to try to make a movie, to be a movie actor, and now there are A decent job is a history professor, so the real identity of the male protagonist is Anthony, Adam and Anthony are the same person, but different spiritual personalities.
In the bathroom, Anthony was rehearsing the lines of "Did you fuck my wife?". He performed well, and then he smiled with satisfaction. Seeing this, I feel that many times Anthony is deliberately playing Adam, but sometimes he becomes Adam when he is acting.
Then the suggestion of changing identity is also the exciting plot that Anthony wants to design for himself as an actor. The lost protagonist entered Adam's personality and returned to the residence, only to be recognized by the security guard and led him upstairs. In the elevator, the security guard's description rationalizes the plot at the beginning of the film. Therefore, the plot should be that the male protagonist is lonely and unbearable, seeks excitement, and goes to watch large-scale performances with the security guard, which triggers the urge to cheat, and then designs Adam's personality. In the end, he can't control himself and lose his mental control.
When I opened the closet, I saw high heels, which represented desire. The male protagonist in Adam's personality changes his clothes cautiously, packs up everything, and does what Adam should do. When the camera is aimed at the bookshelf, the bookshelves are filled with books related to history: "History of reverse", "Canada 1911" and other books, indicating that the male protagonist should have a relationship with a history teacher before or now.
When Anthony and Adam's girlfriend walk into the room and Anthony grabs Adam's girlfriend, the camera cuts back to Adam, and Adam breathes a deep sigh of relief, implying that it was a fantasy. (Whenever imagining something bad, I will stop subconsciously and breathe a sigh of relief).
When lying on the bed, the male protagonist in Adam's personality is very entangled in his heart. The wife was constantly looking at it and thinking. The wife has found out that this is not Anthony. Ask tentatively: "Do you have a good day at school?" As a result, the male protagonist's reaction at this time is confused. The wife's "forget it" shows that the wife accepts this fact and compromises to the cruel reality.
And the struggling male protagonist is fantasizing about Anthony and Adam's girlfriend as Adam. Feeling guilty, he designed the plot where the traces of the ring were discovered.
The male protagonist struggled to fall asleep, and his inner guilt made the male protagonist gradually choose to end his derailed spiritual personality. Just when his wife took the initiative to climb up and have sex with him, he consciously told himself that he was not a man, so he decided to end his cheating personality. So my fantasy self and my girlfriend died in a car accident. And on the window is the shape of a spider web, which implies control, control of your desires, control of your thoughts. (Unfortunately, such an important shot is actually out of focus!!!)
The broadcast in the recorder only mentioned: "we do know there was only one vehicle." It was turned over, but pay attention to the Only here There is no mention of someone dying. The male protagonist who had already entered Adam's personality was about to start a new life. As a result, the key to that large-scale club was pulled out of the jacket pocket, and all the desires came back, and more violently! When the male protagonist walked to the room, he could no longer see his wife, but saw a big spider trying to control him and giving him fear. But the male protagonist was not frightened, and everything returned to its original state, as if this century would repeat the trajectory of the previous century.
The shape of the wife in the movie, the pregnant belly and the spider's belly are so similar! The key evidence of Mom's echoing two paragraphs is the finishing touch of the whole film. The reactions of various supporting roles confirmed that Anthony is the main identity of the male protagonist in the real world. And the male protagonist is sometimes acting, sometimes falling into the role and losing himself, sometimes fantasy, sometimes real, which is really unpredictable. All in all, the theme is not clear enough, it takes a lot of brains, and the challenge is very big.
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