A Lie Begins with a Rabbit--Watching "The Tuner"

Ellen 2022-03-23 09:02:08

We all know that the biggest pain in lying is that you have to make up for one lie with a thousand lies.

"The Tuner" begins as a rabbit running under a hunter's gun. It escaped to a stele boundary point on the road. The hunter raised his gun." . . . . . The beginning of the film comes to an abrupt and confusing end, and the story that follows has nothing to do with the hunter catching the rabbit at all.

However, at the end of the progress of the film, when the rabbit appeared at the boundary point of a stone monument on the highway, and the hunter raised his gun and fired a bullet, you realized that the rabbit had such a huge secret.

Akash, a pianist with completely normal eyes, hopes to experience a different life through "blindness" in order to inspire his own musical inspiration. By chance, Akash accepted the invitation of the popular movie star Plummer to play for his wife Simi's birthday. Unexpectedly, he witnessed a murder case with his own eyes. The following stories are often unexpected, and Akash's fate has been reversed several times, which deeply makes people sweat for him. However, when you really thought that all the dust had settled, a beverage can that was hit with a single blow shattered your so-called cognition again. It turned out that the close-up of giving the male protagonist the rabbit-headed blind man was not unintentional. This rabbit, the rabbit who saved the male protagonist's life, is the biggest support point in the lie, and it is also the focus of this movie.

Watching Li Ge's "The Fruit of Time" some time ago, she specifically mentioned that the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda's silence in the film is also specific: "After an event, there are often two or three-story houses in seaside towns, bright and beautiful houses in the distance. Seascapes. Dilute the emotional peak of an event into the everyday, fade and digest it. As Markham says: 'Silence can emanate from inanimate objects, such as a handful of freshly used A chair with dusty keys, or a piano with dusty keys, or even any object that once served people's needs. Such silence speaks. The chair may have been left by a laughing child whose last notes were loud and cheerful. The essence of things will stretch out in silence, it's a silent echo.'" I was so impressed with this passage that I saw Akash and the doctor in the car at the end of "The Tuner" about life and organs After the heated discussion, the director gave the camera to the back of the car driving far away. The car galloped farther and farther, like a silent echo. I am silently feeling this long-term extension of the situation, feeling that "the emotional peak brought by the event has been diluted into the daily life of the ancient times, and it has been faded and digested."

The car goes further and further

But it is contradicted by what Akash then tells Sophie about what happened to him. After returning to Akash and the doctor's heated discussion about life and organs in the car, the camera changes to the back of the car driving far away. Soon, the car stopped, and Shengsheng got out of the car to inject sago, and then everything changed, so the rabbit mysteriously appeared and became the corner of Akash's life.

The car stopped in Akash's narrative

I switched back and forth three times at the end of the scene where the drink can be tapped, and finally, I finally determined that it was a fictional rabbit. For this rabbit, Akash's life has turned many circles before finally providing it with a reasonable reason to take the stage.

According to ancient European legends, the hare is an animal that never closes its eyes all day long. They can watch other animals around them in the dark. Therefore, Akash, who wears sunglasses and pretends to be a blind man, is a "hare" who peeks into other people's lives in the dark night of disguise. From another perspective, Easter, the oldest and most meaningful Christian festival in the West, is a festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus, and the rabbit is one of the most representative symbols of Easter. Akash's so-called "near death" is nothing but a "Easter" for himself through a hare.

Rabbit head crutches with resurrection meaning

"The Tuner" is a suspenseful movie where the complex is always reversed, and you can never guess what will happen in the next second. Everyone can take the material and express many opinions. I'm just expressing my superficial thoughts on one of the small perspectives. If I really want to summarize a big theme for this movie, then I think it should be that people will encounter too many accidents in their life, and every choice is a foreshadowing of the next life. Accidentally, I felt that it became a line in "Forrest Gump" again - life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what the next one will taste like.

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Extended Reading

Andhadhun quotes

  • Akash: It's a long story.

    Akash: [after a pause] Coffee?

  • Inspector Manohar Jawanda: You blinded him? What do you mean? How?

    Simi: On the internet you can find a hundred ways to do that. Good. Now he's really blind.

    Inspector Manohar Jawanda: But the blind can talk. He can talk to the press. If there's an inquiry, I'll get the boot. We'll get caught. You should've killed him.

    Simi: I'm not a serial killer to kill them off, one by one. Keep playing the perfect husband. Hide behind your wife. Why didn't you take my call?

    Inspector Manohar Jawanda: My wife's aunt was in the ICU. You know how it is. You were married too.

    Simi: I was. And with a far better man than you. Why did you bring your gun that day? If you hadn't, none of this would've happened. He might have forgiven me. You think you're Dirty Harry, while I do the dirty work!