How did "Swiss Army Knife Man" unfold the fantasy drifting of a middle-aged Pi?

Marquis 2022-03-31 09:01:03

It was the same accident at sea, but what the young Pi experienced seemed to be a grand fantasy epic.

Cruel fantasy is intertwined with the suffering reality, and it revolves around the torture of human nature that reaches the deepest part of the soul.

In contrast, "Swiss Army Knife Man" is like a fresh... oh no heavy taste... oh no, it's really hard to define.

Because the film is about a man on a deserted island, Hank, who wants to commit suicide but accidentally finds a corpse. It can fart and transform into a jet-powered yacht. Its mouth can spit out clean water. It perfectly solves the problem of drinking water on an isolated island. Tintin... can also act as a compass to guide the direction - ah, this man's corpse that looks like a Swiss army knife is really a good corpse - and then the story of the man returning to his hometown with the help of the corpse.

Starting from the freshness of the brain-opening holes formed by the strong impact of the opening chapter, a man and a corpse deduce an unprecedented wonderful story.

It's just so weird, so self-willed, and so good-looking, are you convinced?

It is worth pondering that, just like the young Pi finally watched the tiger return to the forest, Hank also watched the corpse return to the sea at the end.

So, under the absurd surface of the film, what if the corpse is just another self projected by Hank's psychological projection, like the boy Pi who "has a tiger in his heart"?

So the whole film has a whole new look.

The middle-aged man Hank is a LOSER through and through. He has nothing in his career and nothing in love. He is a single dog.

Looking around, the poor bastard who couldn't stand loneliness (isolated island) was ready to commit suicide for the remainder of his life.

At this time, he imagined another self, a "superego" who appeared "omnipotent" compared to his "incompetence".

This new self is able to take all the problems of survival on the island with ease.

Everything seems to be self-sufficient.

But there is only one problem that cannot be avoided as a human being, the more lonely you are, the more you will long for love.

Lack of love is the only problem that two people need to face together.

Hank teaches corpses what love is by using pictures of childhood crushes.

The two even simulated the game of love again and again,

But little effect.

In the end, the desire for love led them to return to the world to find their first love.

(The direction of Tintin is the direction of love.)

But they overlooked one key: time.

Hank, who shaved off his beard, looked like a young man, and when he saw his first love, she was already the mother of the child.

It turned out that even if he had the courage to express himself that he did not have before, he could no longer return to the past.

Time is the only question.

late.

The middle-aged uncle also woke up from his dream.

He could only watch the self who was omnipotent in fantasy, learned to love and mustered up the courage to start over, go away on the sea...

Recalling the moment when I rode my corpse and glide freely against the waves, thinking I could start the journey of life again,

How exciting and hopeful.

That was the funniest scene in the whole movie.

Also the saddest scene.

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Extended Reading

Swiss Army Man quotes

  • Hank: You just seemed really happy, and I wasn't.

  • Hank: You know... I... I had always hoped that right before I die, my life would flash before my eyes and I would see wonderful things. A life full of parties and friends, and, and how I'd learned to play the guitar, and, and maybe there'd even be a girl; but as I was hanging up there, I didn't really see much of anything, but I did see you. And I know... I know it sounds dumb, but I, I really thought for a moment that, that maybe, just maybe there was a reason that you...

    [Manny farts again]