What I want to say today is. Seeing that many people take spiders for granted as desires, I have to say something. This film has only been watched once, so many details are not clear. However, one thing is certain, that is, according to Freud's statement: the spider actually represents a certain aspect of the mother, that is, the angry mother that the child is afraid of.
In this, I believe everyone in the last shot, the hero tells his wife to go out, but there is no answer. He went into the inner room and found that there was a huge spider in the room. Here I want to ask, if the spider represents desire, then this plot will not make sense. And seeing the spider as the angry mother that the child is afraid of, everything is easy to explain. When the male lead’s wife forgave the male lead, the male lead wanted to go out again. Therefore, the expectant mother instantly turned into a spider, that is, an angry mother.
In fact, there are some clues. For example, the male protagonist does not want to eat blueberries, but his mother directly told him: You like to eat blueberries. This detail is not difficult to see. Most of the male protagonists’ behaviors when they were young and even after they grow up are controlled by their mothers, and they can’t even decide their own preferences, such as eating blueberries that they like or not, such as becoming an actor but becoming a teacher in the end. I'm afraid it is all decided by the mother.
Therefore, when his wife became pregnant, the main reason for his cheating was also the fear of his wife who was about to become a mother. In addition, when interviewing the director what spider represents, the director refused to answer. If it represents desire, I believe it’s not difficult to say it; we know that the spider in the last scene was added by the director, not in the original book. It is not difficult to explain that the director's fear of his mother is reflected in his own movie, and finds it difficult to express himself.
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