Can people communicate with each other? ——No, because there is always an unbreakable membrane between people.
In modern society, scientific and technological means extend people's senses and enrich the medium of communication, but can people achieve barrier-free communication only with "high technology"? In fact, we are living in an age of overcommunication on the surface, but increasingly disconnected deep inside.
There are four (?) "Paris, Texas" photos in the film, which symbolize Travis's ideal home and ideal life, and are the core image of the entire film. When he was brought back to the "world" from the desolate desert, what made him speak for the first time was not the unbearable hunger and thirst, the meeting of brothers, the news of his son and ex-wife, but the thought of "Paris" , Texas”. In Travis' memory, Paris, Texas was the place where his parents first had sex, and therefore the place where his life was born. Returning to Paris, Texas means returning to a safe and warm mother.
In modern society, a strong sense of unease fills everyone's heart, Travis is like this, so is Jane, so their marriage will be destroyed step by step. Travis yearns to return to the mother body, because the mother body is the place where a person is born, the ideal safe and secure place to live, and the place of rebirth to cleanse the filth, sin and pain. (It comes to mind that Nirvana's album In Utero expresses such a desire to return to the motherhood, and six months later Kurt Cobain fulfilled his long-cherished wish by shooting himself.)
The last time the photo appears is in the film At the 110th minute, Travis quietly followed Jane into an erotic bar and met her there as a "chat girl". Disappointed, Travis took his son to a tavern, drinking alone, pulling out the photo of Paris, Texas, which he kept in his tuxedo pocket,
"Dad, what's that?
" I bought it when people were together, when I was with your mother. I think we might live there in the future.”
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Immediately afterwards, a shocking scene appeared. With a seemingly inadvertent movement, Travis flicked the photo to the ground, then grabbed the bottle and raised his head to drink it. Here, the director did not deliberately emphasize the details of the hand movements in the "Fluffing Photo", neither used close-up lens language nor exaggerated actor body language, but only used an understated shot (backlight, medium distance, weakened) main character). But it is this calm, insipid shot that portrays Travis's utterly hopeless heart. This calmness makes people shudder. The disillusionment of hope is not an accident, but an expectation - after experiencing the emotions like ice and fire, this man has become ashes and no longer has any visions and fantasies.
At the end of the film, in the porn bar, through the glass window of the chat room, Travis silently watched his ex-wife Jane, the chat girl of the porn bar. At this moment, they are so close, yet so far, so familiar, yet so unfamiliar.
Finally, Travis chose to leave again...
Where will he go? Will you still walk alone in the lonely and desolate Texas desert? The answer doesn't matter.
Because in Travis' view, no matter where you are, everything around you is just desert. And the "home in Paris, Texas" he once dreamed of, was like a mirage in the desert, always just an illusion.
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