three questions

Frances 2022-03-23 09:02:35

1. Who cleans the rubbish on the stairs?
2. Do the mother and daughter who were driven away really exist?
3. Do the teeth in the wall actually exist?

These three things are very strange to me. My thoughts are: 1. There is no garbage falling on the stairs, which is a precursor to the protagonist's illness. After all, there are no good people in that building. Or who did the cleaning by ghosts and gods, which echoes the later evicted mother and daughter creating garbage for the neighbors, which is thought-provoking.
2. In the play, it can be seen that the mother and daughter met the protagonist without anyone else. They were both at his doorstep. The situation was similar to him. They were all expelled and spoke carefully. Later, when the female guard asked the protagonist to write a joint letter, she told him that the child was a boy. The whole idea was obvious. This was the obscenity of the mentally ill protagonist. As for why this pair of mother and daughter is being lustful, I can't say for sure, just think about it for yourself.
3. Are the teeth in the wall obscenity by the protagonist? Could a previous homeowner make the wall twist like that? Whose teeth are that way? I think most of it has something to do with the protagonist’s lewd ex-homeowner, or maybe the ex-pre-ex-poster. Later, the film mentioned that part of the body is the continuation of the soul, which reminds people of the teeth in the wall, which makes people shudder. .

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  • Rachael 2022-03-26 09:01:09

    The Stranger Tragedy: "noble" old landlord, nasty concierge (Shelly Winters!!! Even dogs are fierce XD), weird neighbors, domineering coworkers (playing loud French music, ignoring neighbors and even protagonists Situation), the protagonist's sexual repression, and eventually even Adjani is not trusted, others watch the protagonist jump off the building from hell. (Meaning that Polanski played himself?)

  • Jess 2022-03-28 09:01:07

    It is really good-looking, the power of the image, the classic of psychological thriller. Cry in Cold Blood is concerned with the spirit of the individual, Rosemary is concerned with religion, and The Tenants is concerned with social meaning. Human relationships lead to alienation. Several of the hallucinations are classics for their creativity (the ball becomes the head, the tenants become the audience).

The Tenant quotes

  • Trelkovsky: These days, relationships with neighbors can be... quite complicated. You know, little things that get blown up out of all proportion? You know what I mean?

    Stella's Friend: No, no I don't. I mind my own business.

  • Trelkovsky: I am not Simone Choule!