#1. Two magic
Sidney, sitting cross-legged and rocking back and forth when alone with a girl, is what many people with anxiety disorders do during a flare-up. Kubrick interprets it as fear, fear of death, fear of human life being as cheap as a stray dog?
Mac goes back to where Sidney and the girl are, the girl is nowhere to be seen, Sidney says the magician killed her, that he was once a bird, and then...
And Mac tried to persuade the captain and his teammates to help him realize his ambition - when he killed the general, he said, he didn't want to live his life, ambition grabbed him, like magic.
So, Sidney as fear, Mac as desire, why do they all say when they mention the kernel: magic?
What is Magic?
Unspeakable, unknown, unexplainable.
#2. Fear is desire?
Sidney had a monologue on the raft to assassinate the general, where he said "I'm a little scared thought, just a little, like kissing my great grandmother when she was dying." This may be the screenwriter/ A true experience of the director.
The most primitive fear is death, but desire stems from not being able to live vigorously, or, more frightening than death, dying lighter than a feather.
#3
The photography and scripting are good, the cast may be mediocre, but this kind of production can’t be too demanding. As a debut novel, maybe I just want to express and discuss the topic of fear and desire.
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