"Rivals"-Control

Darrion 2022-12-13 23:11:07

Control. The three appearances of spiders in the film alluded to the theme of "control". We tried to recall: the

first time it appeared in a high-level club, the spider under the girl’s feet was tied to high heels that symbolize desire. This is sexual" control".

The second time appeared after the conversation with my mother, the giant spider crawling over the city under the yellow mist, the woven giant web covered the entire city, and the people coming and going, all sneak under the giant web, unable to escape . This kind of control is rooted in instinct and also in the chief molder of our personality-mother. This is the "control" of the mother.

The third time is when the protagonist once again obtains the key to the high-end club. This naked metaphor is impressive, and the biggest shackle left in all this is to symbolize the spider's wife. This is the wife's "control".

As a result, the film tells the three enemies that men face in their lives: an affair, a wife, and a mother.

Let's talk about another point, high heels and rings followed by affair and wife, blueberries followed by mother and wife, these two natural enemies, for men-seem familiar.

At the beginning, Adam talked about it in class:
In ancient Rome, in order to control the king, they gave bread and the circus-

affair granting sex and distorted desire satisfaction.
The wife bestows love and sex.
The mother gave life and the continuation of life.

The man took great pains to get a bit of "goodness and goodness" from the "king", and this kind of "goodness and goodness" can also be called control.

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  • Anthony: Control, it's all about control. Every dictatorship has one obsession and that's it. In ancient Rome they gave the people bread and circuses. They kept population busy with entertainment but other dictatorships used other strategies to control ideas, the knowledge... how do they do that? Lower education, they limit culture, censor information, they censor any means of individual expression and is important to remember this, that this is a pattern, that repeats itself through out history.

  • Teacher at School: Where There's a Will There's a Way.

    Anthony: It's true.

    Teacher at School: No, it's a movie, I saw it a little while ago but um... I remember it was... I liked it.

    Anthony: Hmm. Where There's a Will There's a Way.

    Teacher at School: Yeah, that's it. Local film, if you...

    Anthony: I'll keep it in mind.