"I'm going to say goodbye to it, the four smelly walls, the six-story building." "Are you dreaming again?" "No, I'm awake for the first time in years. Uncle David said: If you close your eyes , day is a dream. Now my eyes are open."
Hotel: "Four smelly walls, six-story high-rise" is exactly the same as the hotel. Barton and Charlie live on the sixth floor, implying that the hotel is not only "me"'s closed spiritual world, but also "my" script, stage and life. symbol.
Patton: "I" as a writer (guest me). Advocating self-reliance, but caring about social evaluation (the critic's opinion); wanting to concentrate on creation, but being seduced by secular desires (Hollywood); claiming to care about the working public (in fact, it will only write "fishmongers' voices"), but live In an ivory tower (the hotel's shoe-in and free shoe-shine service suggests that "I" is mentally ungrounded). Posture is very hypocritical. "I" came to Hollywood as a writer Barton, but couldn't adapt to Hollywood-style commercial creation. The hotel's overheating temperatures, biting mosquitoes, melted glue, and peeling wallpaper symbolize "I"'s mental torment, restlessness, and growing breakdown.
Charlie: "I" soul (Lord I). He was complained for disturbing Barton's commercial creation. Charlie was vulgar and low-level but sensitive and kind. Barton didn't look down on him very much, but he trusted and relied on him. Charlie can go in and out of the rooms of other tenants ("I" in various identities), but no one can enter his room. Charlie can listen to the voices (appeals) of all the tenants (including Patton) through the "pipe", which causes pus in both ears, but Patton refuses to listen to Charlie's voice.
Audrey: A symbol of worldly desires. She is well-dressed, capable and pragmatic. She always wears heavy make-up, Chinese clothes, and jewels. Hollywood-style commercial creations come with her mouth, charming, seductive, shrewd and reliable. The first time Patton saw her, he was attracted to her because of her loneliness and anxiety. Barton desperately invited her to the hotel to ask her for help before the deadline, which meant Barton's compromise with desire and the invasion of "my" spiritual world by desire (note that the gemstone necklace Audrey was wearing at this time was unprecedentedly huge and gorgeous) . Audrey solved all of Barton's current troubles (the mosquito symbolizing unease also stopped firmly on Audrey, who symbolized desire, and was slapped to death by Barton's palm), but the sound of the two of them intercourse passed through the sewer (it also symbolized the female vagina. ) was overheard by Charlie. The next day, Barton found that Audrey was dead, the soul killed desire, and Charlie dealt with Audrey's body and went to New York. Patton, who has lost his worldly desires, can't get along in Hollywood at all.
Bill Mayer: The writer Patton admired, Audrey was his secretary, mistress and later ghostwriter. Bill symbolized the fate of the "me" who was stubborn with desire. Since Bill met Audrey and moved to Hollywood, he has lost his creative ability and lived by alcoholism. He despised Audrey and beat and scolded her when he was drunk (self-consciousness), but he couldn't leave when he was sober (self-succumbing to desire). she. Audrey complained to Patton that Bill still loved his wife Alice in Fayetteville (symbolizing Bill's exiled soul), and disgusted that Bill's wife was "unhealthy" (implying Bill's soul). unworldly). At the same time, Charlie offers to go to New York (Barton's hometown) on business, implying that "my" soul longs to return to his hometown, while Barton is worried that he will never return ("I" worry that he will end up like Bill) at the same time , enthusiastically provided him with a family address.
Detective: The mundane rules that keep "I" alive. In the eyes of detectives, Charlie is the murderer Mount, who killed two housewives and an ear, nose and throat doctor (all other identities of "I"). In the end, the detective was shouted by Charlie: "Let you see the power of the spirit!" The soul defeated the secular rules. Charlie explained that he "stifled other personalities because he sympathized with their pain. It was impossible for them to be bound by worldly persecution and wanted to liberate them. . . . I wish people could think of me too." "Because you never listen. You're just a passer-by with a typewriter, and I live here, and you come to my house, how dare you think I'm loud?" Charlie burned the hotel and freed Patton.
Script: B-level wrestling film countless times "I want to completely destroy him!" scene, a symbol of Hollywood full of visual and sound stimulation, raw and brutal commercial bad taste. Patton regards his work as a Bible (seeing his work appearing in the first chapter of the Bible), thinks that he is different and unique (fantasy about the producer kneeling down and licking his shoes), delusional that his work is worshipped by the world (Ask the elevator man if he has read the Bible). He wrote his inner predicament into a script, but he was spurned by the producer unexpectedly: "You arrogant guy. No one cares about your confession, anyone can write this shit, you are no longer a writer Barton Finn Get over it, and your work will never be published." Patton eventually lost his job, and his family stopped answering his calls (perhaps the family had been killed by Charlie, implying that "I" had given up on being a writer).
Package: Before Charlie went to New York, Tobarton kept the "most important package in his life", and when he came back, he regretted it: "I lied, that package is not mine." It's not yours?" Barton replied in confusion: "I don't know either." Perhaps the package contained "my" dream of being a great writer.
Beauty Beach: The open pattern of one person and the sea is completely different from the narrow pattern of four walls and six floors of a hotel full of people. It is the spiritual world that Barton yearned for from the beginning. There are no walls or buildings, it is not a stage, there is no audience, and there is no need to perform to anyone. Having lost his identity as a writer, Barton finally came to the vast world he longed for (without creating a three-act drama). Facing the unbelievable beauty in front of him, Barton asked the beauty worriedly: "You are beautiful, shouldn't this be filming? Movies?" The beauty replied, "Don't be stupid." The two looked at the sea.
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