Usually things first appear from the illusion, but you fall into your own game, and that is where the true tragedy of "Victorian" lies. It's a story about two people, the appearance of the two of them, for both of them, whether it is Marlen or Scotty, appearance is better than reality. This unfortunate woman, who owns all of you, is just a phantom in the end. What the unfortunate woman persisted to the end was only a fantasy image. The phantom of that beauty was like a demon, like a fantasy creature. But if you get close to her, what you see is rubbish corruption and bugs crawling everywhere. The ultimate abyss is not tangible, but the deep abyss of others, which is the "night of the world" described by philosophers. Just like when you look at someone, you see an abyss in his/her eyes, this is the spiral that is dragging us in. Scottie felt lonely and couldn't forget her. He wandered around the city looking for a similar woman, a bit similar to the dead woman. An ordinary, more vulgar girl was found. The ending of the story of course follows the clues of the Marx brothers' jokes. This man looks like an idiot and acts like an idiot. This can't lie to you, this man is an idiot, and the newly discovered woman looks like Maron and behaves like Maron, very beautiful. We think she is Marlen, and we know that his friend who hired Scottie also hired the woman Judy, who used a kind of trick to impersonate Marlen who killed the real Marlen and robbed her of her property. We can see a lot of interrelationships.
The side shots in "Victorius" may be the key shots of the whole film. We have Marlen’s Judy’s identities in their respective tense states, which provide a dark background for fantasy other. Marlen was on the side of the lottery machine restaurant, and Scottie was too ashamed to look at her directly, as if he was looking at the things in his dreams. To him, it was more real than the woman behind him. When we see a face, it is often half, an object is a part of something, and after that, we see a void. Of course we have to fill that space spontaneously, and use our fantasy about human beings, personalities, wealth, etc. to see what is lacking in reality, and this will see your subjectivity. Facing subjectivity means that when facing women, women are subjective, masculinity is false, and masculinity is an escape from the most radical and unpleasant dimension of subjectivity.
When Judy dressed like Marlen, he walked out the door like a dream released. Of course we gave the dream release a name called Nightmare. What does it mean to be released from the dream? This is sustained by an extreme violence. Scottie's brutal violence against Judy turns a real ordinary girl into Marlen. This is a real process of humiliation, and it is also a humiliation of female desires. As if to get her expecting him to have sex with her, Scotty would humiliate her and turn her into a dead woman for the sexual desire of a man. To explain a famous old saying, the best woman is a dead woman. Scotty was not obsessed with her, but throughout the movie, he looked around to check if the matching clothes were here? Just that when reality was mixed with fantasy, Scotty was finally able to release long-lasting sexual fantasies. So the result of this violence is a direct short-circuit between fantasy and reality with an excellent coordination.
—— The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
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