Another interpretation of dual personality

Allison 2022-10-26 16:14:41

The following contains spoilers and personal guesses that

Adam and Anthony are the dual personality of the hero. I think Anthony should be the hero.

1. The male protagonist should have been a history teacher, but he has always had a dream of an actor, so he has run in several movies, and later gave up the dream of being an actor and became a history teacher again because of his wife's pregnancy and house supply. Because the male lead left the acting company and his wife was pregnant 6 months ago, the time is basically the same. The male lead’s mother said that the male lead now has a decent job and a good apartment, and he should not have unrealistic dreams of acting. NS.

2. The car accident at the end should be real, but the time should be before the movie. That is to say, the life of the male protagonist and his girlfriend in the small apartment in the movie is an illusion, which can explain the scars on the male protagonist and why the girlfriend before The ring mark on the male protagonist’s ring finger has never been found. It should be the death or breakup of his girlfriend after a car accident, and the stimulus to the male protagonist such as his wife's pregnancy, and the double personality appeared, so that the honest Adam gradually replaced the original dissolute Anthony. As for the final broadcast, it was probably another car accident, but it just caused the male protagonist's memory of the previous car accident, so he turned off the radio.

3. The male lead’s wife should have discovered the male lead’s dual personality after going to school, so she would react so much after returning home. After the male lead returned home as Adam, the wife asked him how he was at school, and When he was passionate, he said that he didn't want to let him go, he should have accepted Adam's personality.

4. In the porn club at the beginning of the movie, there is a performance about spiders, so spiders should be a symbol of pornography for the male protagonist. Therefore, during the dual personality struggle for body control, he dreamed of spiders many times. In the end, Adam obviously gained the upper hand. He lost control of the body, but the envelope that was opened inadvertently obtained the key to the club. Deep down, Anthony became active again, and the male protagonist saw the spider again.

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Enemy quotes

  • Anthony: How many months are you?

    Helen: Six months.

    Anthony: That's nice. I should be going. I have a class I have to teach.

    [He laughs while she looks freaked]

    Anthony: You never know how your day is gonna turn out. Have a nice day.

  • 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.