Simply underline the key points:
Point one, in Isabella and Matthew's "I love you", "I love you too", "Why, I want you to love me first", and Isabella and Theo's "I love you" "I love you too" "You will always love me".
Isabella and Matthew's love for others is divided between you and me; and brother-sister incest I think can be explained as narcissism, just like twin brothers and sisters, born and forever.
The second point is that I don’t think the director is necessarily praising the rebellious revolutionary spirit. Revolution is always a chaotic, passionate and disorderly existence in the film’s images. The director filmed the cause of the revolution, and it is true that there is a reason for it, but with the development of the student movement, passion gradually swallows everything, and there is no room for effective communication, only slogans and confrontation.
Point three, what is the relationship between point one and point two? Rebellion is the externalization of a narcissistic emotion. Self-centered, feeling that one's own feelings, opinions, and interests are the most correct and most important in the world, regardless of others. So at dinner with his father, Theo defies his father's authority. My father believed that the student movement should be sensible and sober, and everything should be carried out under the premise of examining his own behavior; Theo believed that in order to "correct" mistakes, we must do whatever it takes to do anything, and any compromise is a sign of weakness. And Matthew, who is good at observing the harmony of the outside world, conquered Theo's father with his flexible adaptability and won his love.
In the many debates between Matthew and Theo, it was also pointed out that Theo's problem is that because of placing himself in a special position, Theo's worldview is actually a contradictory, double-standard worldview. War is against violence, and on the other hand, the weapon used is violence itself; on the one hand, it opposes the control of others and the order of authority, but on the other hand, it hopes that the whole world will agree with itself. The treasure book is the best, but in fact it is the hope of controlling others.
Matthew's foreign identity as an American student is also the incarnation of a metaphor with such a director's thought: an outsider, an outsider who can accept and love others. And those who only love themselves are devils, monsters.
Theo and Isabella's small home is also a microcosm of the outside world. Theo (revolutionary) hates his father (authority), but when the authority really leaves, the house gradually loses order and becomes a mess, and nearly destroyed themselves, and the stone that awakened them from their deadly slumber led them with destructive power into the greater tide of the times.
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