For the love relationships revealed in the film, I feel that the essence is attributed to the body and soul. That is, the relationship between matter and consciousness.
Vincent is heterosexual, he likes women like Christina, but Christina is les. He is petite, but completely heterosexual-accepting emotional and sexual relations between men and women. He is docile, polite, and delicate in heart (people who love to make floral clothes are naturally delicate in heart). Although he resisted after being arrested, he was generally obedient. Although he looked male after undergoing sex reassignment surgery, he had lost his life and became neither male nor female.
Robert shut him in the room and gradually let him accept this fact. He gave him women's clothes, and he tore it to show his indignation and protest. So show him TV. TV is an imperceptible value input. Vincent watches TV with only three channels. One is a gentle and beautiful boy wearing a crown or a princess crown to enlighten his feminization of consciousness; the other is the animal world, where leopards hunt down the weak. His prey is to impress him as a weak person who needs to seek shelter from the strong but will be bullied by the strong—just like a woman, who is afraid of men and needs the protection of men; the third is yoga, which is through practice. Yoga to find inner peace and balance, but also to slowly accept that oneself is a woman.
As time passed, a hair grew out, and the image of a perfect woman appeared. He fascinated Robert and carefully monitored the plaything lover. Vincent calmed his heart a little bit by writing on the wall with eyebrow pencils, and at the same time regained his hobby of being a tailor. He used clay to make figurines and cut cloth to make clothes. However, the face of the mud puppet is completely unrecognizable, and there has never been a shaped dress made. It is just a patchwork of rags, reflecting his inner disagreement with himself, and even the confusion of the role.
Vincent is heterosexual, which needs to be emphasized, that is, accepting sexual and loving relationships between men and women. So when his body and voice become a woman, he can only adjust his psychology to a woman under the instinct of opposite sex to attract each other. Maybe you will wonder why not become les. What is embodied here is Freud's interpretation of homosexuality, a kind of narcissism, love is the same sex, the same as oneself. Vincent is not narcissistic, so he will not become gay. There have been reports that a gay man became a lesbian after undergoing a sex reassignment surgery, which reflects this truth-whether I am a man or a woman, I only like to be the same as myself.
From this you can contact Vera's identity before and after the film, a woman, no one would have thought that she was once a man. At the beginning of the film, Robert said, "Our face is our ID card", which echoes this love relationship from a certain angle. Having a woman's face is a woman, physically and psychologically.
Vincent has already "fell in love" with Robert in the later part of the film, or in other words, has accepted the identity of a woman and will love men. As for the later killing of Robert, I just can't forget what I used to be and everything in the past, my mother is still struggling to pursue herself. And Robert, the man who ruined his life, even if he loves him, his love as a woman is negligible compared to the hatred of him as a man. Kill him!
What the film actually wants to express is the duality between appearance and inside. In addition to the obvious metaphor of Vera-Vinson, it is also reflected in other people. Rob's wife committed suicide because of her ugly appearance and inner conflict. Maria returned to her home and insisted on putting on a uniform and had a servant's sense of work. Norma was unwilling to be bound by clothes and took off her clothes to express her desire for freedom. Inwardly, Rob was convinced of Vera's appearance because of her bewilderment. These all describe the motif together from the side. And why it took a long time to talk about Sika's conversation with her servant's mother Maria and the spur line of raping Vera and being shot in the bed? This is probably to reveal Rob's heart. Rob is actually Maria’s son, but he is different from Sika’s biological father. One is the owner of the house and the other is a servant. But Rob and Sika didn't know that each other was brothers. Sika is a fugitive. He is wild and rude, which is the same as the cruelty of Rob's "civilization". Both are interested in the same woman. It can be said that Sika represents the representation of Rob's brutal side. He wears a tiger's coat and has the ferocity of a tiger, while Rob's suit and leather shoes have a person's elegance. One used clever means to commit crimes, the other used primitive and ordinary means, but the two were actually the same person. It can be said that Rob's knowledge and clothing restrained the natural animality in his heart.
The skin of my habitat, the skin I live in, has been explained here, and the director also wants to show us the strong plasticity of human hearts through the film.
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