When Don Juan flirts with older women in the restaurant at the beginning of the film, I don't really like this rambunctious character, I think he is somewhat pompous and complacent. I even feel that the ending is nothing more than that Don Juan moved the psychiatrist with his ideal love and lust.
When Don Juan shared his story with psychiatrist Jack in his office, my opinion of him changed. The counterintuitive perfection and fantasy of Don Juan's story led me to conclude it was false, and the clash between "Queens" and "Mexico Township" in the film made that impression even more. , but a tragic character who cannot stand in real life. Perfect fantasy or imperfect reality, which one is more likely to make people happy?
But the director deliberately blurred the truth of the story, and Don Juan's identity became a mystery. I started to waver. In the last conversation with the psychiatrist, the doctor asked that pointed question, and then Don Juan couldn't control his emotions and yelled. Was it anger for tarnishing his love, or anger after fantasy was exposed?
Glad to see the answer is the former. The climax of the film is the conversation between Don Juan and the judge who decides whether or not he can leave the mental hospital. Don Juan changed his image, dressed in ordinary jeans and a top, and dressed up as a down-to-earth youth in shriveled clothes. The director seems to be deliberately "humiliating" self-righteous ordinary people like me and other mediocre psychiatrists: this is what you think a normal person looks like? In your eyes, the world is tragic and disorienting? Maybe you can easily be a normal person, but it's much harder to have romantic and instinctive love.
The film gives Don Juan's love, Anna, a happy ending, and the psychiatrist Jack and his wife also have a honeymoon, and they are all happy. The theme seems to be no different from what I first guessed, but it has a deeper meaning and is much more convincing. I was inspired by that pure romance: what is sacred? What is the composition of the mind? What is worth living? What is worth dying for? Don Juan's experience is true or false, and there is no need to be sad, because no matter what, romance is the biggest winner.
Most of us live in a world that lacks romance, and we all accept it, either naturally or out of frustration. Confessing to a lover needs to be thoughtful. When dating, you will struggle with whether it is the best time to kiss. Luxury is more valuable than dew on roses. Often it is not impulse that governs our every move, but the rationality of doing so. Romance is seen by some as a hopeless malady. But what if it was a little more romantic? You don't need the entire Eros Island, and you don't necessarily need to draw a sword to fight people. It's just a little fun in life, which may avoid the history of romantic demise. Don Juan taught me to trust instinct more.
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