Limits of Control --> Break Control --> Choice and Action

Keegan 2022-03-26 08:01:01

"The Limits of Control" is the proper translation of the original meaning.

Rather than saying that the whole film is intertwined between fantasy and reality, it is better to say that the entire film falls in an illusory time or an imaginary space.

It is a battle of ideas or a choice of life.
The two cups of coffee of the protagonist express the The protagonist's desire for a certain outcome of the argument is always stopped by the protagonist's attitude whenever someone wants another cup of coffee. It means that he can't accept this view

. The result is a reality, no matter how hard your choices are. In real life, you have to choose a direction or you're stuck. The

ending doesn't show which choice prevailed. It just shows that no matter how hard the choices are, you still have to keep choosing. The measurement and ideological struggle are not the most important in front of the action. Only after you choose can you move forward and know what is right or wrong. Compared with the action, the ideological debate and the result of the right and wrong are insignificant. The protagonist finally takes off his formal clothes and puts on Casual clothes are also a kind of emotional liberation

. The theme of the film is probably a normal phenomenon in life. The limit of control is to break through this kind of only staying in the stage of ideological argument control. Only action is the real driving force for life to move forward. The meaning of life lies in the process of practice.

The theme director did it, but the way of expression seemed a bit blunt and monotonous and absurd. The plot and dialogue just wanted to show the complexity of the ideological struggle. I feel full of regrets.


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  • Alfreda 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    Is this Jarmusch's answer to Coppola's "Youth Without Youth"? Zhuangzi theory? Except for the post-rock music and Du Kefeng's perfect landscape photography, the whole film is false, and I also control my limits like a killer~

  • Paolo 2022-03-26 09:01:15

    But in the final analysis, literature and art are only created by people for their own spiritual comfort. Physically, if we don't have these, we're like those beasts with only instinct. Some people will say that it is real if it exists, but I think that we humans have also existed, but it does not make sense. The latter sentence he said "REALYTY IS ARBITRARY" really came from the heart. I think it's right.

The Limits of Control quotes

  • American: Is this your twisted idea of revenge for something?

    Lone Man: No. Revenge is useless.

  • Mexican: The old men in my village used to say, "Everything changes by the colour of the glass you see it through." Nothing is true. Everything is imagined. Do you know these reflections? For me sometimes the reflection is far more present than the thing being reflected.