This movie should be my first black humor American film. I didn't have any background understanding of it before watching it, but I just put the movie itself in the background of the current era, and I also judged it from the perspective of a post-90s generation.
What kind of person are you.
The first half of the film is a very bland narration. The male protagonist, Ed, is also the self-narrator, a very ordinary, ordinary barber that makes people feel mediocre. Until one day he stumbled across an opportunist who encouraged him to become his partner and contribute $10,000. The plot has been soaring from this fuse, and even the beginning of the depressive life trajectory of the male protagonist, murdering in self-defense, escaping charges, and finally being sentenced to death on trumped-up charges, also begins here.
So what is the ultimate motivation and reason for this fuse?
This is the question that I couldn't sleep for a long time after watching this movie, and I'm even thinking about it now. I try to find the answer by thinking and summarizing experience. The following are just a few brief personal views.
The male protagonist is too similar and too close to us ordinary people, which makes me feel that there is a possibility that I am someone like him.
He was quiet, unlike the other barber in his barber shop, who was articulate and chatty.
He met and married his wife Doris at a party through a friend's introduction. The wife proposed to marry him without even knowing much about Ed. Doris said she just liked his taciturnity .
However, this is the beginning, so that Ed is destined to be unknown and understood in front of the people closest to him.
The film begins by showing Ed's boredom with his life and his search for new feelings.
This lured him step by step towards the dangerous speculator.
Ed did not immediately admit that he killed him after killing Old Telford, who had been embezzled $10,000 of public funds. Maybe he had a deeper sense of loneliness about himself after learning that Old Telford was his wife's lover. Perhaps he was trying to give Doris a taste of something akin to betrayal.
When the film is about to end, it pulls back to an extremely ordinary life scene of Ed and Doris:
The salesman recommended the service at the door of Ed’s house. After Doris came, she refused the salesman without waiting for Ed to speak. She didn’t leave any room for Ed to speak. She went home and sat on the sofa. Ed said: Stop talking, I'm fine.
Ed is someone who always talks to himself, and in the movie he is the only one.
The truth was only reluctantly admitted after he told himself to the media publisher.
He was a man who was never heard and understood.
Before he was executed, he said that he did not regret anything except that he chose to be a hairdresser.
This may be that simple, Ed has never really grasped his own life, so he is so eager to change and take risks.
It's not the fault of the barber profession, it's just the tragedy of the hero doing such a barber.
On the other hand, who am I and why does this world exist?
I started asking myself these ridiculous questions that couldn't be more stupid. Because that's how we feel as adults.
Is it because we are really too used to it and take the world for granted, which makes us more and more mediocre and less and less willing to be who we originally wanted to be?
Everyone is inherently alone.
But everyone is still eager to communicate, to be understood, to be understood.
Being misunderstood is the fate of the expressor, so should the expressor always choose to remain silent because he may be misunderstood?
I think that the color and enthusiasm of a person's life is to be rescued with a diversified thinking and life attitude.
When a person loses the love of life, he is not far from black humor.
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