In the whole movie, the plot is a little messy. It was originally a story in the story set. If you accidentally get confused by the story, you will not be able to tell which is the story imagined by the screenwriter in the story and which is actually told by the screenwriter. s story. But after reading it carefully, I can still understand the story told by the screenwriter.
First, the relevant figure
four hero, and there are three movie screenplay of the same name, Susan, Charlie Kaufman, Donald Kaufman. Susan really wrote the book "Orchid Pirates". Charlie Kaufman is the screenwriter of many great movies. And Donald Kaufman is just a fictional
clone of Charlie ... Nicholas Cage plays two roles, the twin brothers Charlie and Donald. In the film, Charlie Bored, Donald Sao, together are the typical Virgo splitting male Kaufman. Because of this, the tone of the whole film is also boring. Maybe that's the case for literary films.
Second, the life and passion of
the film Susan writes, "I also want passionate about one thing, I want to know what it feels like."
Charlie asked the teacher, not a climax no conflict and no end, just as How to write a bland story in reality? The teacher was angry on the spot. "Oh...sir, I don’t understand why you would ask such a question. There are things happening in this world every day, there are wars, hunger, poverty, some people love each other, some people are separated. The children are still there. Sucking the milk of a deceased mother, someone betrays a friend for love. Oh! Sir, this world has conflicts and climaxes every day. But you want to write a pale and weak, conflict-free story. I don’t know why you came here to waste my precious two. Hours?"
However, plainness is the main theme in people's lives. Passion, orgasm, conflict only takes up very little time. Of course, people are different. The protagonist John in Susan's novel "Orchid Pirates" keeps changing his hobbies, such as tropical fish, turtles, fossils, orchids, etc., to maintain his passion.
For Susan, these things that can provide passion more often only exist in an instant. "There are a lot of things like "Ghost Orchid" in life, full of temptation, making people fall in love with it easily... But it's a bit illusory, fleeting, and elusive."
No passion is eternal, passion only exists in an instant. This thing really looks like "ghost orchid", especially the "ghost orchid" made into drugs.
Third, the dream
back to that issue of Charlie, a story, nothing bland, but there is no end. There is only one possibility, the story is not over, it is still happening. Such a story looks more like a dream.
Dreams are not real, but only exist in imagination.
Ghost orchid is a dream of John. He also had many dreams, tropical fish, tortoises and so on.
John, it's Susan's dream. Susan yearns more for that kind of life, full of passion, love and pursuit of many things, and then turn to the next kind of love.
Susan, it's Charlie's dream. However, that was just Susan that Charlie saw in "Orchid Pirates."
Being a good screenwriter is Donald’s dream, and of course it is also Kaufman’s dream. He has succeeded.
As for us audiences, this film is a dream of Kaufman. The front is plain, the ending is absurd, and the lines are convincing. Just look at the front, that was indeed the script that Charlie was going to write, plain, nothing happened. The ending is the tactics taught to Donald by the teacher, such as sex, drugs, and violence. The conversation between the two brothers about love at the end, "You are what you love, not what loves you", is a standard Kaufman-style perception.
Dream, just take it for granted. John really loves so many hobbies? Or is it because of the benefits of these things? Susan is really interested in orchids? Does Charlie really want to adapt the script or is it because Susan gave him a fleeting temptation? We don't know. We cannot infer the truth behind it from a dream of others.
Charlie can't think that Susan is like that, so simple and so beautiful just because of "Orchid Pirates." Susan can't think that John's search for ghost orchids is to protect them because of John's generous speech in court. Many things in life are like this. We can't think that Zhang Ailing is like that from a book of "Little Reunion". Of course, there is no way to verify this matter. We cannot conclude from the fourteen novels that Jin Yong should be just like that. Of course, this matter no longer needs to be verified.
Many things are like this, your impression is just your imagination, just your dream. Thinking about it, life is decades, but a dream.
What is in your dream? Who are you in your dream? The road of life, dreams are like yellow beams
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