Without further ado, let's go straight to the food.
Too much foreshadowing, easy to forget the main topic.
"Nocturnal Animals", as a two-line film, is not uncommon in technique. One line is the current female protagonist's frustration in love, and the other line is that the male protagonist who only appeared in memories wrote the novel "Nocturnal Animals" for the female protagonist. As the heroine reads the novel, the second line, the visualization of the novel, is interspersed into the first line.
First of all, please don't look at the characters with a critical eye. Many people watch the movie and require the "three views" to be positive, which reflects the requirements for the improvement of world conditions and customs. But watching a movie should be done with the imagination of the world. Watching a movie is a kind of communication. Don't be paranoid and hope that the movie will educate me, and I will repay the movie. When it comes to this movie, do we have to criticize the heroine and sympathize with the hero. I don't think so.
"Nocturnal Animals" is almost looking at the heroine from the perspective of the male protagonist. Except for his appearance in memories and novels, the male protagonist is hidden at the moment. The story begins with the novel he wrote, to be dedicated to the heroine. Why is this? As the movie unfolds, we will gradually realize: 1. The saying of revenge. He hated the betrayal of the heroine, so he wrote this novel and wrote the heroine to death. But if you look more closely, you will also find that there is karma between the two lines. (Sorry, Shi Qian!) Because the male protagonist belongs to the experiential school, his creations have more elements of experience and less elements of imagination - this is reflected in the disputes between the male and female lead after marriage in the movie. Therefore, he was able to write "Nocturnal Animals" thanks to the betrayal of the heroine.
The family life of writers with relatively poor and weak creativity is bound to be painful, which is the main reason for the derailment of female protagonists with weak willpower. The appearance of the tall, rich and handsome male second is the incentive. But on the other hand, the movie constantly emphasizes that the heroine is like her mother; the heroine's mother emphasizes that the heroine and the hero are not the same when the heroine wants to be with the hero. Rather than seeing it as a divine prediction, see it as a spell. Why do you say that? If the reason for the failure of the relationship is simply attributed to the outside world, and a relationship with a complex development process is compressed into a simple end point, a thing that is doomed to fail and should end earlier, then it will inevitably bring lasting pain. Why at the end of the movie, the heroine is still waiting for the hero, that is, she thinks that although she has done something wrong in this relationship, although the consequences are serious, her motives are ambiguous.
What do the male protagonists who have suffered from it look at the female protagonist? From the second line, a family of three traveling at night, the male protagonist in the novel is the hero's self, cowardly and helpless; the wife in the novel is the heroine's hopeful heroine, who loves her family; the victim's daughter is A metaphor for a child who was knocked out by his mother before he was born. The key is the trio of foreign murderers, is it the projection of the second male? not that simple. The main culprit explained that his motive for killing was "because you think I am a murderer, so I will act as a murderer." This is undoubtedly the heroine's self. "Everyone thinks I can't go on, then, I can't go on." In the novel, the main culprit killed the wife and daughter of the male protagonist, that is, the female protagonist's id, killed the female protagonist expected by the male protagonist, and killed their children. Even if she helps the offender, she is the culprit in the male protagonist's mind. The sheriff in the novel is the superego of the male protagonist. He shoots and kills the helper. This helper is the metaphor of the second male in the story. In reality, the male is defeated in the confrontation with the second male. Therefore, the one who killed the second male in the story can only hope for the brave self.
The beauty of this movie is not only in this correspondence. We have seen many two-line movies, a typical one is "She is Lonely than Fireworks", the audience is led by the nose by the different expressions of the two heroines, and finally can feel the love between sisters and the inherent loneliness of people. But in this movie, the director made the male protagonist's "voice" louder and the female protagonist's "voice" smaller. This is not only because the male protagonist is miserable and suffers a lot of damage, but also because the director has an established value judgment. But the life that the female protagonist abandoned the male protagonist's pursuit is also a mess, her career will go bankrupt, her relationship will go bankrupt, she has an opportunity to look back. If she is in a happy relationship, she may not be willing to listen to the narrative of the victim.
If this film tells us anything? It is that as the fault party, we must bear what we have done, and dare to do it. Criminal law talks about the subjective elements of a crime. There are direct intentions and indirect intentions. Direct intention is to want things to happen, and indirect intention is to let things happen. Laissez-faire in love is not a crime, but when the time comes, you still have to drink this bitter cup of wine.
The director's last shot was left on the heroine waiting for the hero, which was quite punitive. The sea of suffering has no end, and there is no shore to turn back. But for those who have been hurt or hurt others in real emotional life, they have reminisced and repented, and it is time to move forward, so don't waste time blindly, so what, there must be herbs within ten steps.
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