The first movie I saw Terry Gilliam was "Twelve Monkeys". It was really a wizard director who wanted to say who he was. I always thought he was a bit like Kubrick. He can always use some crude and primitive methods to make movies grotesque and psychedelic. It can be said that his aesthetics have always been non-mainstream, but surrealism is revealed everywhere, and random screenshots of scenes in fantasy shows are excellent works. The core that the film wants to express also needs to be examined through the complex concept of space and time.
Fantasy show is a show that belongs to the old man. All the desires of people are satisfied in the world of show, and the soul is abandoned in the illusion and then returns to the original real world, and spends the rest of his life in reality. The old man made several deals with the devil and finally found that his greatest joy was that performing a fantasy show itself was a process that was repeated and full of variables at the same time. Everything else, even love and kinship, will disappear. It is an ethereal human emotion.
Heath Ledger committed suicide in the middle of the filming, so the male protagonist entered the magic show three times with Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, which also fits the character's "liar and hypocrite" image. Still very sad about it.
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