"I want to end all this. Once the idea arises, it's hard to forget, it's lingering, it's lingering, and it's overwhelming. There's nothing I can do about it."
Charlie Kaufman's "I Want to End It All" is what I would call "Brain Burn of the Year". The accumulation and folding of time, the disorderly arrangement of space, and the free transformation of characters. Different from the scientific brain-burning in Nolan's "Creed", Kaufman's paradoxical characteristics are similar to those of David Lynch. This brain-burning has no answer.
Most of the movie is developed from the first perspective of the heroine Lucy, but in the end, it is the product of Jake, the cleaner, who completely fell into self-drowsiness. The change of the narrative subject is a joke between the director and the audience. You thought it was "Escape from the Dead" at the beginning. , but in fact it is "Life and Death".
The director uses quick editing, reverse montage and psychological montage techniques to interweave fantasy and reality, and adopts a non-linear narrative to make the film structure present a sense of chaos. And all of this culminates in the hero's home: the dislocation of space and time, the dislocation of hearing and vision, the dislocation of emotions between characters, and the dislocation of age and cognition. A person can become old in an instant, and can immediately return to youth. The identities of the male and female protagonists gradually overlap. It turns out that everything has already been traced.
Like David Lynch and Jin Min, Mycroft is obsessed with the exploration of consciousness and dreams. Freud said in The Interpretation of Dreams:
The content of the dream is due to the formation of the will, and its purpose is to satisfy the will. "
Jake, a cleaner, had a big dream in the spring and autumn before his death, penetrating the past in the wind and snow of time: it was not thick enough to witness such turbulence, those who once longed for one by one are realized here, and the fragments of the once real life have turned into this big dream. The elements in the dream are similar to Mulholland Drive.
If you analyze all the pictures from the perspective of dreams, in fact, the movie is not so difficult to understand. The thinking in the dream is always out of order and has an idealized color. The director’s abstraction of simulating human thinking, Another possibility for dreams is shown. .
The director of this dream element does not take the form of suspense to break into the old-fashioned mode of genre films, but uses a lot of stream-of-consciousness monologues. There are many directors who have done the stream of consciousness on the big screen, but Kaufman has made innovations in this aspect. Unlike David Lowe's long shots and atmosphere creation, this film chooses to let the characters express their inner world. Speak out, this deceptive inner monologue buys the foreshadowing for the truth to be revealed later.
The 20-minute enclosed space in the carriage, from literature, to art, to philosophy, showcases Jake's seemingly mediocre but extremely rich inner world, completing an intracranial storm unique to Mycroft.
The obscurity is its coat, and what it reveals is the background of endless sadness. The cleaner is the id, the heroine is the ego, and it is the superego who finally stands on the Nobel podium.
"I want to end it all" is the woman who will leave, the man who will stay; the sheep and the maggot-covered pig in the barn; the sad and lonely life of the cleaner. Even though she finally imagined the perfect image of the heroine, her deep self-esteem made her constantly receive calls. This torture was repeated until she died, with extreme sadness and loneliness.
It's snowing outside the car, and my thoughts pass through the past and the future, but I don't want to stay in the aging and mediocre present. I kill my perfect self and say goodbye forever. I just want to end it all.
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