After watching this film, my mind was a little confused, so I thought about it and wrote something for myself to see.
Gray has set the tone at the beginning of the film. A prodigal son who is dressed unruly and puts all his belongings in the car, a person with a bit of artistic flavor, and John's shrewd image can be said to be two extremes. As an old friend of John's long-lost reunion, he broke into the turbulent life between husband and wife. The first question he asked Ann, who met for the first time, was "How is your husband and wife life?" But at this moment, we all vaguely understand that with the arrival of Gray, the elephant in the room will finally be seen by everyone.
Gray has a quirk of asking women about sex and videotaping them. He has a lot of videotapes about it. He himself once said that the words of people who have never made love are unbelievable, but he himself does not. This seems to be a contradiction. According to this logic, Gray cannot be believed by anyone. But I think this place is the key to dissecting Gray's character. He told John that he would never want to carry an extra set of keys because it would be an extra burden and would never sell his car because then he could go anywhere. Gray actually has a sense of distance from anyone. He is extremely detached from the world around him, but he is tightly bound by his life, which makes him painful and tortured, so in the end, An will Say "we all become part of your problem".
The source of this detached character, or in other words that no one can rely on trust, seems to be his previous relationship. Gray himself hates "the first is a lawyer and the second is a liar", but he said in his confession to Ann that he used to be a "pathological liar", which may also lead to the failure of his later love affair with Elizabeth. Undoubtedly, he resented himself, he did not trust himself, he was disappointed and confused in himself. So a large part of his exodus may be to save himself from confusion. But asking women about sexuality made him mistakenly think that it was a sincere communication and understanding for women, but in the end, he was forced to stand in the corner with a camera and tell the truth, "You've just been spinning around for so many years." turned into escape. He built a bridge for his dialogue with them but also erected a high wall of isolation for himself. His attitude towards his past gradually became ambiguous and distorted, and in the end he even became a morbid and indifferent bystander and took pleasure in it. . That's why he was so miserable when Ann took the camera and dragged him out of the shadows and even tried to avoid his own problems by hurting others for the first time. And John's words gave him a fatal blow and shattered his last barrier, so in the end he broke everything and threw it out.
Did Gray finally relax? unknown. At the end of the film, he was sitting and laughing with a woman, saying "it's raining" and looking happy and happy.
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