Absurdist drama and psychoanalysis are the two entry points of this film.
The film is very absurdist drama style - a lot of inexplicable or meaningless dialogue, eccentric expressions, strange shapes, unconventional behavior, bizarre events; road cut by water, transvestite wandering waiter, squirting Hotel lady with milky milk, tongue licked by bull's head mucus, squashed gangster tattooed human skin, American woman answers questions on Roman tone board, sex turns to boss, sandalwood torture-style dick and electrocution kills, after being inserted by the boss's hand If you can't get out of the jaguar, the female boss gives birth to a male boss... This aspect is temporarily left to the experts to dig deeper (.
Focus on psychoanalysis. This film is compared to Miike Takahi's great work "Skin-cut Love" ", more like Lynch's "Frightening Night" or "Mulholland Drive". All the bizarre characters and events in the dream point to the male protagonist's subconscious love, which is the commonality of psychoanalytic films. But In "Love In The Skin," the protagonist's madness is an extremely sadistic preview of a possible future marital crisis. The man who chooses his wife by audition is worried that the woman he admires is not what she seems. Gentle and virtuous - in case she only shows her true form after marriage, destroys her family, treats her son badly... Waiting for a possible catastrophic change is more anxious than the actual disaster, and the way to vent this anxiety is Feel free to fantasize about things turning into the worst in your dreams, and the male protagonist who is accustomed to a peaceful life also satisfies his masochistic psychology of seeking stimulation through extreme brutal fantasy. Yes: Fear that something will happen, so fantasize about it happening; let it happen in a dream, not in reality.
As for "Monster Night Panic", "Mulholland Drive" and this film, the tragedy has already happened and is irreversible, and this tragedy was caused by the protagonist alone or indirectly, so the protagonist had to escape the guilt in the dream. The incompetent self in reality deceives oneself and tries to portray oneself as the opposite of the self in reality that makes oneself dissatisfied, so as to satisfy unfulfilled wishes in reality, such as Naomi in "Mulholland Drive" in reality He is the emotionally passive party, so he has to imagine in his dreams that he is the master of emotions, while the lover is the passive and dependent party; in this film, the male protagonist does not dare to resist the boss in reality, and fails to prevent the boss he values the most from being robbed. To kill, it may be that he killed the boss himself, so in the dream he arranged for the boss to die bizarrely, but he did not intend to kill him (as a gangster, he just fell in the collision and was in the car. The seat belt hits the head, the person is dead, and then the body disappears, what is this dream?) And the search for the person was unrelenting and conscientious, and also killed the boss who ordered the boss to be killed.
But what appears in the dream is not just the fulfillment of the wish. The prosecutor in his consciousness is constantly fighting with the dream-making instinct that covers the ugly truth and pursues the beautiful illusion. Whenever this struggle reaches a fever, the horror and the horror that the moviegoers are fond of talking about. Disgusting scenes and incidents appear, such as the strange and terrifying monster in Mulholland Drive, which is the embodiment of the nightmarish fact that the hostess hires a murderer to kill; When the whole body trembled violently, it was the prosecutor in his consciousness who mercilessly recalled it to the cruel reality of the "wake-up time"; another example is this film, when the male protagonist and the sex-turned boss have sex, the male protagonist's Jaguar is unexpectedly captured by a man. The hand stretched out from the mouth is only holding on to it, and the two cannot be separated even if they want to separate their lower bodies. This undoubtedly shows the panic in the male protagonist's subconscious - the taboo lust will eventually be punished; choose to conform to your own sexual orientation With the female boss ooxx, "abandoning" the male boss who is the real and the ontology, this is a kind of "betrayal/disloyalty", the male boss is bound to "collect debt" and strengthen his existence, so the female boss gave birth to a The plot of the boss.
The waiter of transvestite wandering soul is probably a reflection of the self-doubt and confusion of the male protagonist in his dream about his strange sexual orientation of being a straight man but having different feelings for the boss. There is also a man in the shop who has been chattering that today is hotter than yesterday, insisting that others agree with him.
Another mapping of sexual misalignment: American women sell Japanese sake—straight men fall in love with the same sex. The owner of the rice shop is disgusted by the American woman who sells Japanese wine, and thinks it is crazy. How can Americans be more Japanese than Japan? He also asked the male protagonist: "Do you like Americans?" Well
, it was actually the male protagonist who questioned his sexual orientation in a dream, and worried that others would view his sexual orientation in a different light. The American woman answered the question of the male lead to the prepared Roman pronunciation board. This scene really has a feel of absurdist drama - how did you know in advance what the male lead asked? ——You are the character arranged by him in the male protagonist's dream, how can you not know what he is going to ask? Everything is determined by the male protagonist's consciousness. In reality, the male protagonist's mind is weak and powerless, and the death of the boss is irreversible, so the male protagonist has no choice but to fall asleep in the dream and deceive himself. And this American woman, although she loves to sell Japanese goods and speaks Japanese, but she doesn't speak well enough, and she also needs to read Roman accent prompts, that is: what she does is very Japanese, but she is not fully integrated into Japanese culture. It may be a bit over-interpreted, and you can experience it yourself. In short, it is a very tangled dislocation.
A half-painted (skin disease) face is undoubtedly a sign of "split". This person said: I don't like when people see only half of my face (of course, the white half, the "defective" part). The half-white-faced man is a helper created by the male protagonist, and he is also another self-although he is a gangster, he is timid and cowardly, and obeys his orders; he has homosexual tendencies (the old man pulls the male protagonist's hand, and wants to spend the night with him, Just like the male protagonist is too loyal to the boss, he will be embarrassed when the boss sees peeing, etc.). He said he was born with the skin disease, does that mean he was born with homosexual tendencies? Not long after he met the male protagonist for the first time, he asked him a very personal question: Can you sing blues, have you killed people, you may be used to eating curry rice and beef risotto hayashi rice together ,Yes? Is your grandfather's name kiriko? (Answer: no; no; no; no, it's called keiko) I think the audience will be curious about how the question "Is your grandfather called kiriko" came up, obviously a stranger, how can you guess it out of thin air? It's just that I knew it before but didn't remember it clearly. So, of course the male protagonist knows himself - no, does the male protagonist really "know" himself? When asked what do you really want to do, the half-white-faced man said: I just want to know what I have in common with you. As the hidden personality of the male protagonist, the half-white-faced man, on the one hand, shows that he is very familiar with the male protagonist, but on the other hand, he is out of tune with the male protagonist. Of course, the superficial personality will not admit those personal attributes and facts that he does not want to admit in the dream, for example, he has Homosexual orientation, such as killing someone yourself or acting as an accomplice.
The answer to that timed quiz is "time". It's hard to get over the water, and time can't go back. This is the biggest heart disease of the male protagonist. On the timeline in the male protagonist's dream, the three-person line, the happy ending, and the moment of the final freeze, in the male protagonist's heart, is eternity...
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