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"Who Am I
" At the beginning of "Transcendence", Henry was interviewed in the room, "close the door and don't let anyone in", he holds a pen in his hand, implying that Henry is writing a diary, at this time Henry is in his own Inner world. The diary keeps appearing throughout the film, and the gifts to Erica and Meredith at the grandfather's bedside are all diaries. Henry said to Meredith: "I don't know the solution to the problem, but I know write this down and everything will be fine. Henry had no one to explain the complexities of the world to him when he was a child. He was locked in that spiritual cabin and could only call for help through his diary for relief. In the film, Henry is walking down the street in a white shirt, eager to give his shell a symbol of purity. But when Henry and Erica leaned against the blood-red wall, bent their legs, and looked from the front as if they had lost their right leg, two broken souls were leaning against each other. The leaves of the leaves have fallen off and are arranged in sentences on the notebook, and the stories we see are the dead branches and leaves of these withered souls.
2 The most obscure segment of the film
"Henry and Mother"
is the conversation between Henry and his grandfather before his death. Before his death, the grandfather said to Henry: There are two ways to interpret this segment. When Henry said: "What do you want to forgive, Dad? "This title implies that Henry is the child born after his grandfather raped his mother. Henry is constantly escaping this fact. This person is both a grandfather and a father. The unspeakable fear is suppressed in Henry's heart. Henry is afraid of getting along with Erica. Afraid of hugging Meredith, afraid of contact with women younger than himself, because of the terrible blood of his grandfather, he has always proved to the female teacher that he is not that pervert, so he constantly abandons his identity and abandons all emotions.
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The second interpretation: Henry said, "What do I have to forgive you for? Dad". It was the person who was talking to his grandfather at this time. It was no longer Henry, but Henry as his mother, Patricia, who was talking to him. When the music started , Henry's expression, tone, and title changed, as if he became his own mother. In order to let the mentally ill father put down his guilt and leave with peace of mind, "detachment" became Patricia, erasing his father with a tone of forgiveness The evil things he had done made him leave in peace. And the grandfather finally said to Henry: "Dear Patricia, I have always loved you", as if passing through Henry's body to the daughter of another world, making a confession that transcends life and death, transcends ethics (no praise at all the meaning of). This clip is rather obscure and incomprehensible, making it unintelligible. After this conversation was over, my grandfather passed away.
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And the only warm moments in the whole film are the days when Henry and Erica lived. They ate together, went shopping together, exchanged gifts, and cuddled with each other. But in these pictures, the director interspersed the memories of Henry's childhood and his mother. Henry at the time found the shadow of his mother in Erica, and Henry, who had a little Oedipus complex, found an alternative satisfaction in her. Erica expresses her love with a ring, but Henry draws from her weak maternal love, like a human disqualification.
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"Death"
Sartre once said: Hell is hell for others, hell for Grandpa Henry, hell for Erica's world, hell for teachers, parents and students, hell for Meredith's parents, and hell for cats. I think the detachment in this film is not what we think it is. The resignation recordings that were constantly broadcast on the phone, the emotional dislocation between the principal and her husband, the male teacher behind the barbed wire lost his sense of existence, Meredith lost his life and dreams, Henry was separated from all emotions since he was a child, unable to locate his identity, The education of "detachment", the love of "detachment", and even Erica, who gradually turned from a street prostitute, was finally implied to have HIV. In the extreme living environment of terror and isolation, death has become the inevitable ultimate "liberation" ". Meredith and her mother chose death, and Erica was chosen by death. Just like the description in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of Usher", the ancient house collapsed suddenly in the wind and rain, and sank silently. into the dark mountain lake. In the movie, no one is "detached", but everyone has already been "detached". How to escape the hell of others, the world does not give the answer, only death, only death.
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"Double Thinking"
In the movie Henry mentioned George Orwell's "1984". Under the supervision of Big Brother, some party members have two opposite beliefs, and firmly believe that both are the truth. Henry said that even if we know it is false, it is still true. Also willing to believe lies. In reality, some people think that women are born to be bullied, which has caused a lot of injustice. On the one hand, we are shouting slogans and talking about morality and ethics. This kind of thinking will also drive us to work hard 24 hours a day, and let us work To die in silence (dumbing us). So Henry mentioned that in order to protect ourselves, in order to prevent boredom from seeping into our minds, we must learn to stimulate our imagination through reading, and we have our own consciousness. We need these to defend, guard our minds. In this passage, the director used Henry's mouth to express his understanding of the persecution of "double thinking" in the present world, and to give students a way out from the perspective of the answerer. In addition to preaching, "doublethink" is implied in every corner of the film. Winston in "1984" recorded another of his thoughts by writing a diary, and in "Transcendence", he also used the diary to escape from the suffering and evil in reality, becoming Henry's way of liberation. Henry gave Erica a diary. When Erica was in the correctional facility, what was written in this notebook. The next scene is Henry appearing to hug her. My interpretation is that Henry did not come to see Ai. Rika, but an illusion created by Erica for herself through her diary. The tone of the whole movie is suppressed, and this slight light was extinguished by me. Isn't it a bit too dark, hee hee. There is another place that also reflects "double thinking", which is still the most classic picture. Henry turned into his mother Patricia in front of his grandfather's bed to free his grandfather. When he said, "You didn't do anything bad, you just took care of me", it was the opening of another thought. In "1984", the inner party consolidates its position by tampering with history. When tampering with history, it is also tampering with Memory, at this moment Henry tampered with the memory of his mother's suicide, tampered with the scene he saw through the crack of the door, and even tampered with the evil of his grandfather, and turned into a Patricia who never existed-forgiving his father. .
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"Education"
"Education" can be said to be a branch line. The director used Henry's mouth to say a lot of what he wanted to say, and criticized a lot of what he wanted to criticize. In fact, the pain of all this comes from the lack of education. Henry himself needless to say, the deformed education and childhood experience made him say: "No one explained the complexity of the world to him when I was a child." Erica's parents never showed up, but she disapproved of her attitude towards sex and her protection. Don't care. Henry was the first person to tell her to protect herself and give her love. Erica was at Henry's house. When prostitution was discovered, the first words he said to Henry were: "Don't hit me". It can be seen that she has been subjected to a lot of violent treatment on weekdays, distorting her spiritual world. (For a moment, I felt that these two had the CP feeling of Leon and Natalie Portman). Henry tells us: "Children get tired easily and have trouble concentrating. How can you get them interested in literary classics if they don't have something meaningful to share with them? Make sure you know how to be a parent before you become a parent." In addition, the principal She said something that really touched me. She said, "You have turned education into commercialization." In a capitalist society, children are commodities, and they are discarded if they are not good enough. Industrialization is used to run education, and what is produced are some bloodless machines. The boy who abused the cat said: "I am trapped, like a cat. Same". How much pain he feels in the world, how much pain he has to give to cats, and is called a pervert, but I don't know that this society has long lost emotion.
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"The Fall of the House of Usher"
Finally, let's talk about "The Fall of the House of Usher". The story of "The Fall of the House of Usher" takes place in a desolate castle that is about to collapse. The protagonist is the last remnant of an ancient family, a pair of twins. Brother and sister, brother Roderick Usher is highly sensitive and has morbidly keen senses. Sister Madeleine has been seriously ill for a long time, suffering from some kind of rigidity. On her deathbed, her brother was buried alive, and on a stormy night, wrapped in a shroud She burst out of the coffin and fell on her brother's body. Both brothers and sisters died, and the ancient House of Usher also collapsed. The novel, as I write at the end of the video, foreshadows the collapse of the seemingly indestructible patriarchy, when the grandfather in the movie dies and a chalk-drawn barrier falls, representing the collapse of the patriarchy that suppressed Henry's family. But patriarchy is similar to patriarchy to a certain extent. When patriarchy in the family becomes a strong force, there will be a fragmented family like Usher’s house. When family is compared to society, patriarchy becomes patriarchal. Power, once it crosses the bottom line, will lead to the emergence of hard domination, turning women into lowly family members and brewing tragedy. The movie points out these tragedies several times. Henry's mother was raped by her biological father, Meredith was reprimanded by her own father, and her dreams were wiped out. Erica was insulted and deceived by men. There is nothing more grief than death of the heart, and death of man is second. In the end, the House of Usher collapsed, and "I", a friend, escaped from here, but if we move forward, will we still encounter the same House of Usher who imprisoned me in it? At the end of the movie, everything is absurd and nothing, Henry reads in the ruins With that line of words, Henry finished telling us all the stories, but like an outsider, he still held on to his empty shell, often returning to schools, often returning to the desolation of the world, silently making a promise in his mind. Wishes - don't grow hearts.
You can see me, but I'm hollow.
The Fall of the House of Usher
- Edgar Allan Poe
On a long, dull, grey and lonely day in the autumn with
heavy clouds hanging low above the sky
I I rode alone
through this gloomy, exotic country land, and
finally , as night fell slowly, the
cold view of Usher's House unfolded before my eyes.
I have never seen it as it used to be,
but just a glimpse of it, a certain unbearable gloom permeates my heart, and
I look at the sparse landscape around the mansion, the
walls barren, the decayed trees are white all over my soul, and
my soul is speechless.
My heart is cooling
and sinking,
showing a weak and morbid state
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