First of all, I think this is a spiritual exploration film about the self-identity, self-resistance, and self-redemption of human beings, and it is the same type as "Silent Hill".
I think there are two keys to understanding this movie, one is the color Leibovitz has already distinguished, the meaning of red and blue; the other is the line of character relationship.
The red one is Aubrey's normal posture, an average American, a high school student, with a bit of beauty, played the piano since childhood, and won many awards. In the film, Aubrey tries to get the blue trophy in his bedroom (this It is a node, it is very important, I will talk about it later), many other trophies next to it illustrate this point, I like to write, and reading my own works in the classroom illustrates this point. Therefore, if there are red things, even subtle ones, like lipstick, etc., it means that the world at this time is the real world, and Aubrey is normal.
Blue Aubrey, his own fictional character, can also be understood as the other side of normal Aubrey. In fact, we are also a unity of good and evil. At this time, Aubrey is completely immersed in the world of his own fantasy. , and sometimes intersects with the real world. The director actually used the change of red and blue to set off this kind of world transition, but because this change node is a bit obscure, if you don't observe it carefully, you will think it is very confusing, and in order to increase the chaotic effect, the director also used the so-called so-called Twins (twins) perception and so on, so it is more confusing, it would be better to use the color scene of Silent Hill, adding an unreal component to reflect this transformation, rather than blindly doing it in the seemingly real world.
Character Relationships. In fact, if you understand the relationship between Aubrey and the four people in the whole film, you will understand a lot. One with Aubrey and Dakota, the second with his father, the third with the piano teacher, and the fourth with Jennifer, who was amputated and deceased like Aubrey. Let's analyze them one by one.
First of all, except Dakota, the other three people are real. There is no doubt that Aubrey and Dakota are the same person. The male detective of the FBI in the film has Aubrey's DNA paternity test report, which means that Dakota is Aubrey. wrong. Aubrey also has no so-called twin sisters, and her mother explicitly ruled out twins by showing her fetal footage. And when she used Aubrey's laptop as Dakota, the password was successfully entered the first time, which is telling. Dakota is the other side of Aubrey. Why did she imagine Dakota? I think it was because Aubrey was given a lot of expectations by his parents since he was a child, and his self-expectations were also high. When she is frustrated, she will show her decadent side. This change of hers is definitely not instantaneous, but accumulated over time. Because when I was playing at the beach for a few hours, there have been fears and screams. Over time, there has been a total outbreak. You may I don't deny that it is a split personality. It is actually a mechanism of self-defense. Splitting is to escape pain.
Aubrey's father is also a normal person, and there is no such thing as adoption or abuse of Aubrey, but Aubrey believes that his split was caused by his father's hope for his daughter or family pressure, so deep down he is For those who complained about their parents, it is not without reason for using Dakota's identity to speak ill of them, and his father must have known Aubrey's tendency to split personality before.
Aubrey's piano teacher and Jennifer roles are similar to those of his parents, acting as accomplices in his constant self-expectation and destruction. The teacher's teaching adds to the pain, and Jennifer as a competitor also adds to the pain, and when Aubrey goes to Jennifer's bedroom, we see that Jennifer also has a number of trophies, a blue one, and I think that's America's The trophy for the champion of the piano competition, Aubrey didn't have it. The one in her room was made up by her. She went to the cemetery late at night and thought she saw her tomb, but it was actually Jennifer's. The blue ribbon on the cemetery was also Jennifer's. Read the original text clearly, but the main idea is that the ribbon is only for the strongest. Apparently, Aubrey lost to Jennifer in the piano competition, but she didn't admit the result, so she killed Jennifer and amputated her, why is the middle finger, right arm, right leg, because the teacher's middle finger wears The blue diamond ring is so eye-catching that every time you practice the piano, you can see that the right arm is the most important limb of the teacher and the piano player, and the right leg is something similar to the sounder under the piano, which means that this All three limbs are related to the piano, which is the source of Aubrey's pain.
After he killed Jennifer, his inner condemnation came one after another. For the self-blame of killing Jennifer, the pain caused by playing the piano prompted him to self-mutilate, and he watched his self-mutilation in a sober state. The same three limbs. Is that teacher wearing sunglasses a murderer? Of course not, that's all Aubrey's fantasy, to find a scapegoat for his sins, and this scapegoat should also be guilty. Aubrey's father must know about Aubrey's change process, so accompanying her to find the so-called murderer is just a means to soothe her emotions or her father has witnessed some abnormal behaviors of Aubrey. Whose hand did Aubrey cut off at the end of the film, of course his father's. What happens at the piano teacher's home is fictitious. In the end, Aubrey redeemed himself through a series of actions, meeting his self buried in the coffin underground.
In the film, Dakota has no father, his mother died of a drug overdose, he dances a pole by himself, and has sex with a strange tattooed man on the bus. In fact, Aubrey's total resistance to his so-called normal, peaceful, wealthy and conservative family is good. There is another dirty self in the top student. The teasing of the young handyman at Aubrey's house is little more than a clue to Aubrey's fantasies and a model for his other, Dakota's sex mess.
A lot of people have mentioned the so-called psychic twins, and I think it's just another example of Aubrey's love of writing, or seeing it as Aubrey's deep feeling about himself becoming a Dakota or something. The split personality of the self struggles to find an explanation point, otherwise, she will have doubts about her familiar but unfamiliar self. If this is used as the theme of the film, it will tarnish the plot too much.
There is still room for growth in the shooting techniques of the film. Lindsay Lohan's acting skills are not impressive. He could have increased Aubrey's inner struggle through expressions and words, but it has become as dull as a chat. Many of the supporting characters in the film are also unremarkable, they all look like they just woke up, but it's a pity that such a subject matter.
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