In fact, the thing I am most curious about after watching this film is how it is presented in the form of drama on stage?
The film started very flat, and until the second story, I was still wondering if there really are ghosts? In the third chapter of "Watson", there are some obvious details that are repeated before, and I have the idea of whether this is the British version of "Three Watches"? But at the end, I found out that this is the routine of "Zombie". After watching the film, I thought about it from time to time in the past few days, so I simply took the time to write down my thoughts.
The first half of the whole film has a lot of foreshadowing, but at the very beginning of the film, it is the scene outside the ward window that appears repeatedly in the film, so it can be said that the whole film is basically built on the spiritual world of the protagonist. The content of the whole film has actually hinted at the life of the protagonist Mr.Goodman.
The beginning of the title is Mr.Goodman's childhood memories. Jews, Faith, and even the name is Good Man. All are full of drama. Unfortunately, Mr.Goodman's childhood was not so happy. "My father's religious beliefs have destroyed our family." From the attitude of his father pushing away when he talked to his father during his birthday banquet, as well as his rampage in love with his sister, it can be seen that little Goodman's family relationship is not good. To the best of my ability. The father's belief in the child is also very strong.
The little boy Simon in the second role is actually when Mr. Goodman was a child.
Because of the failure of the test, little Simon, who was afraid of his father, chose to drive out to wander, but he didn't even pass the driver's license test. In the middle of the night, he received his father's deadly serial CALL. On the phone, his father exposed his mistakes one by one and scolded him repeatedly, which also caused little Simon to lose his mind and bump into a goat. But obviously, in Simon's mind, he felt like he bumped into a person, so the goat presented in the movie is a monster with a goat's head. Interestingly, the goat is also a symbol of the devil in the West, which can explain why Simon later posted pictures of devils in his home. But what did Simon do after the crash? He did nothing. This sentence actually runs through every tragedy in Mr.Goodman's life. He just drove the car some distance and reported it for repairs. He has since kept his mouth shut about hitting a goat or hitting a man.
In the middle-aged Mr. Goodman, because of his small achievements in investment and financial management, is the character played by "Watson" in the third story. He also had a wife, but his wife insisted on starting a career first and then starting a family, so he acquiesced. The middle-aged childbirth also caused his wife to die in childbirth. So what is the man doing when his wife is giving birth ? He still did nothing. Just stand there and wait for the phone to ring.
In his later years, 23 years after his wife left, the protagonist emigrated and found a job as a night watchman in a new city. This is Tony, the protagonist of the first story at the beginning. (Tony said at the time that his wife had been dead for 23 years, and when my daughter was in her thirties, I complained that this night watchman was so young, and I later learned that it was the face of the ward nurse.) This story tells us that Tony's daughter is suffering from Locked-in syndrome. So what did Tnoy do? Give up - still do nothing.
The last incident is a direct flashback of Mr. Goodman's childhood, because of the acquiescence to bullying, which led to the death of the mentally ill Callahan in the sewer due to asthma. The essence of the four events is actually because the protagonist "Did nothing" (does nothing).
The most ironic thing is that even the way he chose to commit suicide in the end was to do nothing, sit quietly in the car and wait for suffocation to die, so even the doctor couldn't help but complain that he might as well have a gun in his mouth and headshot.
In fact, the protagonist is guilty. In the first chapter, Tnoy once asked him, "You have been apologizing, right? Guilty?"
So I think in the film, Cameron, who was lying on the hospital bed at the beginning, is also Mr. Goodman, because of guilt, because those memories are really hard to accept, so he wants to believe in everything that can give him hope. This was pointed out at the beginning of the article.
He knew in his heart that there was no such thing as ghosts and gods, but he really hoped that there would be ghosts and gods so that he could find a reason for his crimes. So he asked Mr. Goodman to prove it, to tell him that all this was not man-made, just because there were ghosts and gods at work.
This is also the fundamental reason why Mr. Goodman did not change his behavior despite his guilt. He has been looking for excuses for himself, so even if he relived his childhood bullying incident, in the end he chose to do nothing to escape. come out.
In fact, this is also a bit like "Terrorist Cruise" , because I chose the wrong direction over and over again at the wrong intersection, so I was imprisoned in a mental predicament and could not get rid of it. In the film, Mr.Goodman was eventually dragged back to the hospital bed by Callahan.
Some messy parsing:
1. The string of numbers (6, 79, 19, 11, 92, 20, 48, 1, 32) that Callahan counted in the cave appeared in many scenes in the film, including the church calendar, garage number, house number The number and so on appear many times, and the name of the night watchman bar is also called "the tenth number"
2. The children Mr. Goodman saw on the beach when he came out of Cameron's house were the two bullied children, and the plastic bag that blew to his feet was the one that Callahan was carrying at the time.
3. The yellow doll prepared by "Watson" for the baby corresponds to the skirt of the little girl ghost that the night watchman saw in the prison in Chapter 1.
4. All the clocks in the film are 3:45 because this is the time for Mr. Goodman's suicide.
5. I think there are two kinds of thinking of Mr. Goodman in the film.
One is Mr. Goodman who doesn't believe in ghosts and gods and stands in the perspective of others.
One is the night watchman, the little boy, the "Watson" who believes in ghosts and gods and remembers what he did.
This also explains why, as a Jew, the protagonist whose father is so constrained by faith does not believe in ghosts and gods?
In fact, I think he used to be a believer, so the night watchman also looked for the godfather, but the night watchman said that the godfather didn't believe him either, saying he was crazy. Because he hopes the godfather can give him the answer: tell him all this is caused by ghosts and gods!
But the miracle the godfather said was that five years later, when the night watchman went to the hospital to see his daughter, her daughter had an abnormal heartbeat for a second. And tell Mr.Goodman that you should care more about your family. ——This answer was actually contrary to the answer he wanted, and even implied that his lack of concern for his family led to the tragedy, so in the end he chose to give up his beliefs.
As said in the film, Mr.Goodman's excuses for himself can't deceive him at all. What really scares him is not those ghosts and gods, but his own actions. I hope that everyone who watches the film can be worthy of themselves and do things with humility.
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