I will tell you my feelings, which are all based on my life experience plus observation and association.
First of all, it has an obvious theme , is to accuse the industrial society (also the power society) of oppressing the lower class. This can be seen from the heroine's family. This is a typical lower class worker family. The father who has been a worker for a lifetime is abnormal. The mother loves to smoke Crazy, my grandmother may have been working all her life, and in the end she lost the strength to go crazy, leaving a vegetative expression.
Regarding the characters, I think the male lead is the incarnation of director Lynch. As a young man from the lower classes of society, in reality To all kinds of pain and helplessness, his wife runs away, and his lover throws his arms around others, only the dream is his paradise.
Except for the male protagonist, other characters are also very typical, his wife is an irresponsible low-level female worker, and the neighbor is sexy A realistic beauty, a rich man hugging her seductively. A vicious boss in a factory. A child who only recognizes money and has no sympathy, and an old man dying on the road is a true portrayal of this society
. People at Lenovo can find that the social environment shown in the film is very similar to that of China. Young people from bad backgrounds are unhappy and run into obstacles, even if sexy girls like you, they will end up in the arms of rich people, and rich people rely on exploiting workers. The exploited working class is selfish and irresponsible.
It is worth mentioning that the episode in heaven is not only good, but look at the lyrics: in heaven, everything is fine, you have Your good thing, I have mine... Because the radiator girl sings in the hero's dream, it expresses exactly the desire of the hero's heart. In reality, the hero's life is completely opposite to the lyrics, life is like hell. everything sucks, nothing good...
At the beginning of the film, the man covered in sores and the freak have symbolic meaning. As for what they symbolize, I can’t say, I guess: the freak symbolizes the evil he sowed, and the man symbolizes the source of evil that produces the evil. And the radiator girl symbolizes what he pursues Happiness, maybe it's heaven, maybe it's the woman he really likes in his heart... Before the protagonist dreamed of touching her, but he couldn't. It means that the beautiful things he wanted are currently unavailable. Later, he plucked up the courage to cut the freak to death, The man covered in sores can no longer hold on. It means that the source of evil has been defeated. Afterwards, a radiator girl appears and hugs him. He finally gets happiness. I think the inspiration from this film is that if we want to run towards happiness , must have the courage to take down the monsters that symbolize evil in your life. Then happiness will come.
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