Middle-aged men live more and more tired, and the subtext is to live more and more rationally. In the face of many "stimulating" things, the brain has collected enough experience, because rationality will not take that step. The philosopher in the film is the ultimate. Faced with "reason" and "desire", he is constantly fighting in his brain. He should be at the level of a tornado, a bottomless vortex that can devour the soul!
In life experience, memory will be selectively strengthened and weakened. Those who want to forget will be forgotten faster, and those who do not want to forget will even be strengthened and even deviate from the "truth". When this memory selectivity is enhanced, "imagination" is likely to be mixed into the memory. For individuals, the boundaries of the truth are blurred, and the so-called truth-telling will also become an "explanation". This is the dilemma of the hero of the film. Just like his wife always looks at him with suspicion, there may not be any truth, and the letter that was burned has no truth, but the trouble between the two people is real.
The so-called "rational dilemma" of middle-aged men is actually reflected in several characters in the film. The professor, who is also highly educated, in front of the male protagonist, while using words to lewd the female student, uses the same rationality to control himself. The difference between him and the male protagonist is that he "speaks" it out. The police detective also has a forbearance in his heart, from the photos he chose to "victim young female students", to some of the community's concern for "victims" from his eyes, as the plot develops, it can be seen that the police The dilemma of exploring his heart lies in the conflict between "facts" and "evidence" on "rationality", and he becomes "angry" because of this, and does not hesitate to use routines to let his "suspect" expose himself, but at the same time he shows The "rationality" unique to middle-aged men. From this point of view, the more the detective investigates, the more he can understand the "predicament" of the male protagonist. In the end, even if he is a little frustrated, even if he has the "confession recording" of the male protagonist, he can only turn the "plight" on the spot. "The little mouse let go. The difference between the detective and the male protagonist is that he has "anger" and restrains this anger rationally.
In fact, what the film director wants to say is not how terrible "rationality" is, but how to face the "rational dilemma". The problem with the male protagonist is that he is a philosophy professor who has been studying rationality for half his life, even to a level close to the "cosmic level", but he doesn't understand that the troubles caused by rationality need a channel to vent. It is not self-repression to the point that "even if you know how to do it to achieve your goal, you can't take a step forward."
The metaphor at the end of the film is that the male protagonist is like an alien "little mouse" in the room, captured by tools in the most humane way, kept in captivity by humans, and may be released into nature. This is an optimistic ending. But the paradox thrown by the film, how to prove the truth of the first step, is still an unresolved answer for everyone.
Finally, I will describe the performance of the film. Just as the development of the film makes the audience feel more and more that the male protagonist has committed a crime, through the whole film, there are many pictures that are actually misleading, which are just the life experience of the male protagonist. A kind of conjecture. The sad thing about him is that what he saw and heard was turned into a memory by a powerful "mental activity", and these memories were all conjectures before he took the first step.
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