The director of the film, Maya Dylan, stumbled and stumbled in her growing up. She once wanted to be a writer and dancer, but it didn't work. After directing and acting in this short story with the camera left by his father, he became famous, and used a subversive method to deduce a avant-garde film frame, becoming the well-deserved mother of avant-garde films in the film industry.
In this short film, I watched it repeatedly, and every time I thought about it, I felt more of the film's indicative intention. We saw that this dream is a kind of feminism that is repressed, avoided and struggled against, and a native reflection. .
The ignorance of that nameless flower always appears in my mind, and I think the repeated appearance of this flower reflects the director's emphasis on this awareness and its difficulty in grasping it. This flower can represent a woman's life, but also the essence of life - youth and pursuit. For her ups and downs of fate and pursuit, the flower of youth is more ephemeral, and she is more afraid of fear of loss. It had been in her own hands, she had picked it up from the cement table, and it had been in the hands of the man in black, perhaps the man in black represented the flow of life, destiny, or death. It had also been in the hands of this man, and perhaps she was also bewildered to suspect that she was only attached to her husband, a companion day and night. Women are afraid of losing it and hand it over to others, life, death, desire and addiction, either helplessly or stylized.
We see the man in black passing in the middle of the plant-covered road, and he appears in the room with a mirror on his face. The face of the man in black in everyone's heart is only a mirror. Maybe you can't see anything in it except for the glare of the light and the rush of time and space, or there is only one face that is terrified and expressionless, an unpredictable and silent scene. Fascinating reflection of life. She followed the footsteps of the man in black several times. She was running, but she couldn't catch up with the calm and constant speed of the man in black. This is a reflection of fate, and it is also a subconscious obedience to and fear of fate. Destiny and death will come as scheduled, and the arrangement of fortune is under her pursuit. She is one step ahead and then she can't find it. She lightly stepped up under the escalator, as if she had not touched the ground and was swaying up. This was a transformation of time and space. However, when the man in black placed a flower on her snow-white bed in her room, she did not dare to approach, It was a faint expression of horror. She saw the face of the man in black, a cold mirror. This may be her acquiescence to death and the fate of time and space.
A door that cannot be opened smoothly, a key that cannot be held firmly in hand, is a sexual suggestion. The door and the key represent the reproductive organs of women and men, respectively. Yet when the woman holds the key in her mouth, the key turns into a knife, suggesting an ambivalence of sexual desire and fear. Because sex can bring physical and mental pleasure to women, but it can also bring pain, such as pregnancy and childbirth. When the hand that pulled out the key was stained or bloodied, and when the key turned into a knife, several of the same people beside her covered their mouths. It's a panic and escape mentality.
When she was about to wake up, she saw a woman walking towards her with a blindfold and a knife, which meant that a woman had desires and sexual impulses between the same sex, but when she woke up, she found that it was her husband.
The final ending is so like a man's dream, to find that his wife may have committed suicide by his own knife. For sex, dreams, life, and youthful dreams, it is usually unfinished. Maybe this is the normal state of life. Maybe this is the ending that we cannot continue to have a sense of satisfaction in our lifetime. This is the unfinished effect of a dream in the afternoon. Confusion and anticipation, or resistance, or repressed helplessness, it is best to be endless.
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