The story is simple, but interesting enough and meaningful. There are three main characters in total: character, author, and reader. One center of gravity: power — or it can be interpreted as influence, control, or traction on the plot, and the audience can clearly see the transfer of power between these three characters in this film from the perspective of God.
In this film, the characters are the Raphael family; the writer is Claude; and the reader is Mr. Gilman. The Raphael family, as unwitting peeps, has the least power. Although Claude appears as their guest at first, their image is completely determined by Claude's pen, and the audience starts from the beginning. In the end, he did not know the true face of the Raphael family.
Claude's greatest rival is Mr. Gilman, who unearthed Claude's writing talent and helped, until Claude lured Gilman into stealing math papers to ensure he could keep peeping at the Raphael family. Gilman's power gradually shifted to Claude, and Gilman could no longer control Claude's writing.
The process of Gilman's disenfranchisement was not manifested by divulging the title alone: First, in Gilman's own story, he was a man who loved literature but had no talent for writing and had little interest in his wife's artistic career. I do not understand. Second, later in the Raphael family story, Gilman becomes a pervasive voyeur, a pure voyeur rather than a critic. So far, he has completely fallen and completely lost the power of the readers. The manifestation and consequence of Gilman's loss of control is that he equates the death of the young Raphael in the story with reality, he breaks with his wife, another voyeur, and his own story is controlled by Cloud.
So what exactly does the shift in power mean? A well-known literary theory is that as soon as a work is born, the author dies. And what this movie tells us is that the author does not necessarily die; it is the reader who may die. Also, do you think the readers are just Gilman? In this film, he is the reader, and outside the film, we are the audience.
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