A very interesting story, Cage successfully created a "stickman" who has extreme obsessive-compulsive disorder and cannot properly handle human feelings but can successfully deceive repeatedly through human greed. The tangent point of the story is unique. It is precisely because of the particularity of the character "" that he clearly reflects the contradictions of human beings. However, the shortcoming of the film is that the narrative rhythm is relatively bland, but the reversal of the plot at the end still brought unexpected surprises to the audience, making the originally dull narrative rhythm ushered in the biggest climax of the whole film at the end.
The film discusses human nature on the one hand, and human feelings on the other. The two seem similar but are actually different. Stickman's contradictory personalities reflect the duality of each person. And some absurd and very warm endings are a kind of joke about human feelings. Although both themes are novel, when the two are mixed together, the theme of the story seems to be at a loss.
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