Being laughed at is one of the most common things in reality - derailment. A writer and speaker who is good at changing the lives of others through chicken soup for the soul. Tired of a constant life, he wants to seek stimulation through cheating. In order not to make his selfishness seem too dirty, he called it love.
What is love? It does come from hormonal stimulation, but it is more of a metaphysical pursuit. This is different from making love. Making love is an act when desires need to be satisfied, and it is also a fun time to pass the time when you are empty, lonely and cold. You may not accept that, but this is society, a kind of dirty society.
Director Charlie Kaufman is a keen and sharp person. In his previous films "Becoming John Malkovich", "Humanity", "Warm and Inner Light" and other films, he uses a speculative point of view and magic. The expression of color satirizes the dark side of human beings. At the same time, he injected warmth into these cold realities, preventing the chills from becoming so thorough.
"Disorder" is particularly evident in this regard. A writer who is forced into a corner by a dull and boring life, hates the unchanging days, and wants to break free from the shackles, but he is at a loss. At this time, he met a woman he had never met in his life. Of course, as expected, he enjoyed some wonderful sex with this woman.
If you follow the Hollywood routine, it may be like the plot of "Bridge Bridges". Two strange men and women fall in love at first sight, quickly roll the sheets, quickly separate, and then never forget each other for a lifetime. Even if the person is far away, there is still a sweetness in his heart.
Such a rose-like technique of destroying the Three Views can be said to be the ultimate bridge of romance in the 1990s. In most of the past years, forbidden love is more likely to show the greatness and romance of love, whether it is infidelity, incest, or beasts, people and robots, people and ghosts, in a word, how to play it differently.
With Kaufman, however, such love at first sight becomes extremely fragile.
The hero of this stop-motion animation, Michael Stone (whose name is too common), is a family and career, with a little more identity than the average person. However, he lived a life no different from ordinary people. It is the same as having to stop a taxi on the noisy street, the same as having to endure unsatisfactory room service, walking on the road without knowing where to go, unable to say anything to the former lover, and it turns out to be a big joke.
It was at this moment that the woman Lisa, who was full of awe and admiration for him, made him seem to see a leap of passion. (The director made a very subtle treatment in the dialogue. Except for the male protagonist, the voices of the other characters are all played by Tom Noonan, except that Lisa used Jennifer Jasonson when she had not yet had sex with Michael. Lee, when the two are having a good time, even Lisa can't escape the fate of being voiced by Tom Noonan. This is probably the image of a man's midlife crisis in the eyes of Charlie Kaufman.) So he used the most beautiful lines Praise her, treat her with the most gentle tolerance, and tease her in the most sexy way...
However, when everything returns to reality from a romantic phantom, Lisa, who is as innocent as an angel and as cute as a little white rabbit, begins to intervene. His life dictates his itinerary. He then thought of his wife, the woman who talked about her frustration all day long and used various methods to make him obey, one of the factors that made him so world-weary. He wants Lisa to live with him, to run away, to take risks, to break the trajectory of his own life. However, the status quo has not changed, but there has been a small wave, and after the passion, it still returns to calm.
Only then did he find out. It turned out that Lisa is not beautiful, her character is not as graceful as when she first met, and her singing voice is far from the sound of nature in her impression. When he gets bored again, Lisa is like any woman he doesn't want to see, dull and vulgar, trying to turn him into a controlled personal belonging. And the shackles that fettered him have never disappeared from him.
Out of the understanding of middle-aged men, perhaps there is also sympathy in it. Kaufman sowed the seeds of selfishness and sadness in Michael's soul, and the struggle of unwillingness contained both his pity and his loathing. Women will call him a scumbag, and men will ridicule him as a pitiful worm. However, even if he was once brilliant, how many people have not experienced such amnesia?
It is the deep understanding of the hearts of middle-aged men that allows Kaufman to express the ugly and vulnerable side of men with delicate line drawing in every shot, making an extraordinary film.
After the film was nominated for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film, it began to attract the attention of mainland audiences, but because of the subject matter, its reputation among domestic fans was uneven. Fortunately, most audiences still recognize that the unrestrained Charlie Kaufman can tell a story about the age crisis of middle-aged men in such a profound and straightforward way. This is probably the formula for a good director and a good screenwriter.
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