The prologue of the whole story is opened with the camera of the mother mowing the grass. Her eyes always stay on the Idiot son who is playing with the dog across the street. It is reasonable to be cut. After seeing his son being hit by BENZ, The mother rushed over immediately desperately, always putting her son first in her heart.
"You are bleeding." When she said this, she didn't realize that her hands were also bleeding. Even if the neighbor's eldest sister pointed out her, she didn't care. Her heart followed the son who was chasing murder. Leaving, if it weren’t for the eldest sister of the neighbor, she would probably rush over. She doesn’t care about herself or anything else. All she cares about is her son. Here are two interesting points. One point is that the mother’s outlook on life and values are maintained in her son. In other words, her self-awareness is very weak. Another point is that the director wants to remind that as a disadvantaged group of Idiot, mothers have long been accustomed to their mother and child’s Being treated unfairly.
Now that the story has unfolded, let's take a look at our mother from the series of events.
[Event 1] The mother bandaged her injured hand at the pharmacy, but she cared about her son. In behavior, she kept looking out while calling to find people. The eagerness to find a child was ready to come out. She basically ignored her hand injury; in terms of words, she was impatiently right. The bandaging doctor said, "It's not an operation." She wanted to end it as soon as possible so that she could find a child.
At this time, his son and the dragon armor buddies who chased the murderer chased to the GOLF parking lot. He wanted to imitate the dragon armor buddies and also kicked the rearview mirror of BENZ, but failed, fell, and was taken for granted. The Dragon Armor buddies are an extremely influential existence for him. Every boy has an object of worship during his growth. Idiot grew up in a single parent environment. As a substitute for emotions, the image of the Dragon Armor buddies He is very tall. He is a role similar to that of his father. His behavior also affects Idiot's values. Strength is the ability to solve problems. If you don't want to be ignored, if you want to be recognized, then you can only prove it.
Idiot couldn't bear the contempt of others, so when he picked up the GOLF ball, the dragon armor buddies laughed at him in that contemptuous tone, "Have you slept with a woman?" He began to plant the seeds of expectation in his heart.
He replied, "I have slept with a woman." "Who?" "Mom"
But such an answer is obviously not recognized. He is eager to be recognized and yearns for the power to prove himself. In the police confession, it can also be seen that whether it is because he kicked the top tank of the rearview mirror, or because of the other party’s "mentally retarded" sentence, he hated being underestimated and hated the kind of disapproval. A sense of belonging, but this is the universal treatment given to him by the society since childhood.
[Event 2] The son urinates anywhere on the street, and the mother comes over with medicine, while watching him "homework" while holding the medicine for him to drink. The focus of the lens is the leakage of urine on the ground, which is a metaphor for Freud's extended meaning of urine. The mother's excessive attention, this detail reflects her excessive desire for protection. In a way, this is a kind of Indulge in love.
At the end of the scene, the mother holds her son's unfinished medicine to treat the aftermath of his urination. It also metaphors that as a mother, she often has to treat the aftermath for her son. This can also be seen from the end of the incident. The mother went to the police station to lead someone. At the time, she greeted every police officer with a dozen of Baojas D, and she seemed to have done it all the time.
In the eyes of Idiot’s son, entering the police station is something worth showing off. From what he later said to the lady in the PUB, "I just came out of the police station. Treat me with respect." He never got it. No one’s respect, even the mother, because I can’t get it, I yearn for it. If there is no money to make people respect, then it can be respected and recognized through the performance of strength and fear. He thinks so, and the values of the people around and the entire society are also presented to him in this way. He who is weak yearns for the kind of power that is worthy of respect. It is better to be afraid than despise, and the strong will be feared. It is precisely because of this that later he would make such a confession about the murder, "I can also be bad." What he actually meant was that he could become fearful and respectable for you.
PUB's name is very interesting, called "Manhattan", I don't know if it is a metaphor for the social values of SIN CITY New York.
After Idiot’s son got drunk in PUB, he showed good feelings for the daughter of the PUB proprietress. It was the same as his pleasing performance to Miss PUB. They were all to win the girl’s approval. The seed that the dragon armor buddies planted in his heart began to sprout. Now, he wants to prove his sense of existence, but the words of the PUB proprietress, "Call your mother to check out" denied him again.
He took out the GOLF ball, and under the influence of the dragon armor buddies, he also thought that the things rich people played must also be valuable, so he wanted to use it instead of wine money, but he was denied again.
The repeated denial made his desire for identification intensified, so when he saw the girl on the way home, he was prompted by this strong desire to follow.
The director did not give the girl a frontal camera. The camera showed the dark alley she hid in. The dark alley also represents the unknown. Just like the girl is unknown to Idiot, its meaning flew out from inside to hit him. It can be seen from the big rocks of, that everything that is unknown is often lurking in danger. If you want to touch it, you may be hurt.
As soon as the camera turned, Idiot, who was eager to identify but was hurt, could only sleep with his mother. There was no girl, only the mother. Only the mother could give him a sense of security, identity and belonging.
[Event 3] The mother went to visit her detained son. The first thing she said was not to ask what happened to the son, but to ask if they hit him and whether he was injured. She was convinced of her son. She doesn’t know how to kill, and she cares more about her son than anything else. Here is an interesting detail. The mother taught her son to use deep breaths and gestures to calm his mind. It’s her who really can’t calm down, but she Self-awareness is relatively weak. Her sense of existence has always been based on her feelings for her son. She has become accustomed to this kind of empathy. She does not need feelings. All her feelings are due to feelings for her son. Come from feeling.
As a disadvantaged group, once again suffered such unfair treatment, the mother is anxious, but absurdity is the tone of reality that is difficult to change. When the CSI scene reappeared, she was the only one who seemed so out of place. Her son triumphantly waved to the daughter of the PUB boss. He found a sense of presence and identification in this sense of attention; her acquaintance, the PUB boss, was busy distributing small flyers; all the neighbors in the neighborhood were optimistic. The psychology of the play is onlookers. Everything is like a farce. Even the background music uses a Broadway trumpet, which is very realistic and irrational, and it is very interesting. Violence is really everywhere. In addition to the tangible violence, there are more invisible violence hidden in every corner of the social and historical structure, such as this kind of collective cold violence.
Faced with this absurd living situation and the hell-like unbearable situation of others, it takes a certain degree of endurance. The mother is really strong, and she has strengthened her son. It is this kind of strength that has given her. Her distinctive nobility and beauty, the aura of motherhood is magnified on her body, as an audience, I was moved, and I was deeply moved.
[Event 4] In order to clarify that the mother went to the victim’s mourning hall, the scenes first showed her shadow. I’m sorry, the shadow means too much, I can’t catch it, and I think it’s a substitute for the son. She exists as the shadow of her son.
The interesting thing here is the comparison between the two characters in the scene. The mother and the victim girl’s grandmother, the grandmother has a negative contrast effect. In the first act, she used the photo frame of her granddaughter’s remains as a mirror. She is fixing her hair style. She doesn't care when people are alive. What's more, now that she is dead, the important thing is that she, a living person, has a good life, that's all right. Grandma's curtain call was also very impressive. She stood on the high hill and threw the rice wine bottle far away towards the valley.
The mother was different. She couldn’t throw away many things. The last shot of that scene was to clean up her face. After being hit by the family of the deceased, she took out her small mirror to face her face and put on some lipstick. , At least it looks a little bloody and not too embarrassed, she can't give up like this when she shows her defeat.
So the mother found Lawyer A and took him to see his son in prison.
The director gave the foreshadowing when Lawyer A appeared on the stage. In the restaurant, he rebuked the children for "not allowed to run". This sentence shows that he is very tired and dissatisfied with the childlike behavior of the patriarchal supremacy. , So he later left after picking up the mobile phone under the pretext that he had something important to deal with. His perfunctory actions to the mother who came to the door were also reasonable.
Although the original purpose of the visit between the mother and the lawyer A was not achieved, her Idiot son actually remembered something under the temple massage technique. What he remembered was not whether he killed anyone at all, but kicked BENZ to pieces. The person in the rearview mirror is not him, it is the dragon armor buddy, why does this thing come to mind? Because for him, this matter is more important, where is it important? Because the dragon armor buddies didn't come to see him, he made it clear and was very dissatisfied. This dissatisfaction was not only based on being ignored, but also a fear of loss of dependence. He was afraid of being abandoned by the patrilineal role he admired and relied on.
The incident he remembered pushed the storyline to a new direction. To a certain extent, it could also be said that it laid the foundation for his mother's later decision to investigate on her own, so the mother went to the house of the Dragon Armor.
In this scene, the director used her mother’s eye movements to mirror her mental activities many times. For example, after she opened the door before entering the house, the scene of an eyeball moving through the crack of the door was very representative and revealed. The mother struggled morally. Then her peeping in the closet also showed her mother's embarrassment and other emotions through eye movements. The aunt's acting skills are really amazing.
The result of the investigation into the private house was found. My mother rushed to the police station in the rain to hand in the evidence she found. The most interesting thing here is the plastic glove that the director gave the close-up. Because of the rain, my mother took a Only gloves were used to protect this important evidence. As for the others, she didn’t care. After waiting for despair, she realized that she had to take off the other plastic glove that she had been wearing on her hand. Because it's useless.
When I left the police station, it started to rain heavily. During the heavy rain, the bewildered mother drew a second-hand broken umbrella from the car pulled by the uncle recycling waste, and then she chased it and gave the uncle money. The uncle is more conscientious, two points Only one piece was taken away. This kind of conscience also laid the foundation for him to insist on calling the police later. Note that the uncle is not an ordinary uncle, and his role in the scene was increased through the victim's mobile phone.
As for the umbrella, although it is broken and second-hand, it is also meaningful to spend money to smoke it. In addition to pushing out the hidden character, the uncle, it also has a key function. It is to express the mother's sense of morality and Values exist, and another important point is that social profile, there is nothing to do without money, even if it is a broken and second-hand umbrella.
Regarding social profiling, the director immediately began to use the farce of the lawyer A in KTV to show its absurdity. The man wanted to persuade his mother to accept the result of his son’s 4 years in the hospital. Attitude, the meaning of what he said is clear, don't trouble him.
Before PARTY started, the few elite buddies of Lawyer A were all Hi, no one had time to pay attention to his mother, there was nowhere to tell, and there was no way out of the door, so the mother had no choice but to use alcohol to dispel her sorrow.
At this time, there was a flashback shot of Idiot when he was a child. As a first-visual audience, I saw him with his mother who appeared in front of the camera holding Projass D, a flashback of multiple streams of consciousness. Ah, deep in the mother's heart, her son is always like this, she thinks so.
However, when she noticed the movement at home and opened the door to inspect, she was in a daze. She seemed to have seen the figure of her grown-up son sitting in front of the PC. The illusion was also a metaphor. Her grown-up son had changed. Became another person, became the same person as the dragon armor buddy she had misunderstood.
What kind of person is the dragon armor buddy? The director quickly let us know, because my mother broke into his home and used GOLF to inform the police station. He decided to ask his mother to pay for compensation. It doesn’t matter if the mother can’t get it out for a while. You can check in to the account. Yes, he is not in a hurry. What's interesting is that, in this way, what the two people can still use from start to finish is commonplace. The social profile is written. Indeed, it is nothing that can be solved with money. Money is a prop used in the film. There are many. Mothers basically rely on it to open the way for chasing murderers and finding clues. There is no way, who call women a vulnerable group.
In this scene, the dragon armor buddy has a very strong sense of lens. He has a very important frontal shot. After negotiating the compensation matter, this buddy put forward some of his views on this case out of morals, and made him look at the camera. The audience followed the mother's perspective and had a play.
"Why hang the corpse on the roof like clothes? It is to attract people's attention, to show off, so that everyone can see."
This point of view, he is actually telling the audience that he is next to him. The line is also very brilliant, "Don't believe anyone, don't believe me, you have to find the truth by yourself." This is what he said to his mother and also to the audience.
Can I understand this as the metaphor of the dramatic effect used by M. Hanker in "FUNY GAMES". The subtext is "This is all for the audience!" This is the
same as the frequent flashback shots. It really has a peculiar aesthetic effect!
A speech made for the sake of the audience made a breakthrough in the plot. My mother started investigating. It was so contagious. It seems that this buddy is really not an ordinary dragon, even though he was codenamed "Dragon." Brother A", but I think he is actually an influential patrilineal character. In a sense, his existence is very representative of society.
[Event 5] Because he was called "mentally handicapped", his son had a fight in prison. When his mother came to visit the prison, he suddenly said, "I remembered something very important. When you were 5 years old, you wanted to kill Die me." He remembered this important thing for him, and his mother screamed on the spot when she heard it. She insisted on going in and giving her son the acupuncture point on his thigh that could erase the memory, only she knew. She doesn’t want her son to remember this very important thing. As long as she remembers it, she doesn’t understand how a 5-year-old child can remember these. Here is a flashback to the memory of the previous mother, the one that flashed back. The childhood Idiot holding Pojas D is what he looked like when he was 5 years old. When such an important thing happened, it would naturally leave an indelible mark on his mother’s memory. This kind of desperate emotion seems to have emerged in the mother's heart again, so it is necessary to use flashback to reflect this emotional rumination. Alas, the mother vomited all the ruminations. Just kidding, it was wine. After reaction.
When his mother was screaming hysterically, the son looked around calmly and said, "How embarrassing, so many people are watching." His existence value is really based on the recognition of others, very Dostoy. What is the name of that famous book by Fvsky? It is subtitled.
Generally speaking, people's value recognition will restrict and guide the generation of people's inner emotions. On the other hand, people's emotions will also strengthen people's value intentions.
The dialogue at the end of the scene was wonderful. The son said, "You gave me a bottle of pesticides, and you want to kill me."
Mother: "Because I was desperate at the time and I wanted us to be together. Die."
Son: "But you let me drink first, don't
you ?" Mother: "You should drink first so that I can follow you. I was so desperate at the time. You and I are one, and we should have each other. "
Because of love, we can’t die before him. From the mother’s point of view, this is taken for granted. The son is everything to her, but from the son’s point of view, he is deeply disappointed. I also wanted to deny his existence. This is indeed a very important thing for him. He will remember that this childhood memory may also be an antonym. Deep down in his heart, does he think "If you killed me then, that would be great." !", I don’t know, I guessed it. The basis for this guess was the words the mother said to the neighbor’s aunt. She said that if the inferior pesticides were not reliable back then, then she and her son would already be in heaven. Happily playing inside. Uncle Faulkner said in "As I Lay Dying" that it is very canonical, that is: "They are suffering!" The absurdity of reality is not reliable even for pesticides. There is no way, since it is dead. If you can't escape, you have to suffer.
[Event 6] Mother went to Scrap Uncle to look for clues to investigate the truth. In the memory segment flashed back by Uncle, there is a very interesting scene. After Idiot stoned the girl to death, he repeatedly took out his mobile phone and hesitated to put it. Back in his pocket, his long-term dependence on his mother made his first reaction afterwards call his mother. (Called "Mom") But in the end he gave up. It was very simple. He wanted to prove himself. He was eager to prove that he didn't need to rely on his mother. He was able to take responsibility for himself. Just like the analysis of the dragon armor buddies, he dragged the corpse to the roof like clothes. It is true that he would do it to show off and attract attention, but this is entirely due to his subconscious sense of public identity. Because of the craving, he hopes that the results of his proof can be seen by everyone. This desire is so strong that he subconsciously did it. Then he left the GOLF with his signature on the scene. The meaning of the ball is also very clear. This ball actually has another meaning. He tried to use the ball to pay the bill in PUB because he thought it was very valuable. On the other hand, in terms of social values, he is also He believes that all bad things must be compensated, monetary compensation, whether it is from his admission of kicking the BENZ rearview mirror, or something mentioned elsewhere in the film.
The girl’s death looks like an accident, but accident is also another inevitable result. There are two reasons for this. One is the worship of power due to the desire for others’ approval. One aspect is his childlike nature to imitate. He imitated the dragon armor buddies and also imitated the girl who smashed it back with a stone. The long accumulated dissatisfaction of lack of identification and the lack of belongingness made him feel strong. Bido is out of tune, as the phrase used by Lao Fu is: "Because of too many unsatisfied desires, too much disappointment and pain, everyone’s heart is full of blind, dark, unconscious, and instinctive impulses. This instinct makes people live in impulse and depression forever". Idiot buddy is also a human. He also has instinctive desires that need to be vented and satisfied. In real life, he has to vent and satisfy his repressed desires. Violence is also a way, so it is inevitable that there will be such a result. He is just "to create a world of his own, or he uses a new method to rearrange the things in his world to satisfy himself."
The mother fell apart when she heard the truth. She killed the uncle who wanted to report to the police. Her scream was accompanied by the fear and the overwhelming mentality of the son when he realized that he had killed someone. Back. Although Idiot’s he just follows instinct and does not have a strong sense of morality, he is also afraid of being afraid. This shot is always for him. The director gave it. The flashback was given with the screaming accompaniment of his mother’s fear. Praise, emotional resonance.
The mother’s scream was after seeing the blood pouring out of the ground. At this time, she realized that it was an extremely filthy thing. What is interesting is that it was the blood that summoned her back, not a person, and her reaction was almost subconscious. Yes, when the self-defense mechanism is turned on, she subconsciously wants to remove the filth, and wants to erase the sense of filth. The action of washing clothes is almost an instinctive reaction of a housewife mother.
It takes so much courage to face the meaning of love and misery, because there is too much filth. God, life is hell!
The mother burned everything with a fire. In the Indian fire command, fire is the fire of desire and the fire for human self-saving. Fire is baptism. It will take away everything, including the filthy ones. However, even so, it is still impossible to erase the filthy feeling that the mother's hands have been stained. When she left, the lens and the film began to overlap. The mother, who danced alone in the wasteland in front of the house, was also in her heart. Dancing alone in the wilderness.
The children asked her, what do you want, Silby?
She replied, I am going to die.
This is the funeral of the deceased. On the wasteland, picking up the brilliance of those bright stars, the name of the pearl strung is called tragedy. This is a self-enclosed wasteland, and only such a wasteland has such a funeral.
Finally, the scene shifted to the scene of the mother mowing the grass. The sheriff's uncle came again. This time he did not come to take her son away. He brought a message that they were about to let her son go. The murderer had already caught it. The JP boy they had always suspected was because the boy’s clothes had blood from the dead, but these were not the key points. They would arrest him for a simple reason. She understood after the mother insisted on seeing the JP boy. This child of inborn stupidity was given up and sacrificed as a disadvantaged group. Like his son, he has never been treated fairly. However, what is more sad is that he is still unaccompanied in this way. He has no mother, too. Desolate, he doesn't have a mother? Then he is over.
The three major propositions of philosophy say that "the world is absurd and life is painful", but no matter how absurd the reality is, there will always be Godot who can expect tormented people, but this child No, there is nothing, he is just a lonely and painful person in the absurd and cold world, and his misfortune is basically close to a terrible degree.
After hearing this, her mother could no longer restrain her inner grief, so she burst into tears. She saw the shadow of her son in him. She mourned for him, and mourned for the same unfair treatment she and her son had suffered all the time. Over the years, she had understood that everyone is an executioner and lives Ling Chi's mother and son are seen in this absurd drama. However, this time, she has become the same executioner as them. This is a fact that she cannot identify with but has to admit, and this may be what really makes her feel sad.
So when the son was released from prison, the mother did not pick him up. This is incredible to her, who cares about her son in every detail, but she died in that wasteland a long time ago, so she didn’t pick him up because She didn't know how to face it. Even after her son came back, she couldn't stare at him as usual, and she felt unable to face it.
Maybe, she can't face just herself. It is precisely because of this that when her son returned the acupuncture box she had left at the crime scene to her later, she fled in such panic. What she could not face was left naked by her son. In front of her, how embarrassing it made her, so in the end she decided to administer acupuncture to the acupuncture point on her thigh that had the effect of forgetting. Since there are many things, since there is nothing she can do, then choose to forget!
I don’t know if I always believe in or disbelieve, but Taoism has a very canonical saying, "Forget about the sky, forget about things, whose name is forgetting oneself, one who forgets oneself, is said to enter the sky." For mothers, too. Very canonical!
The last few shots of my mother in the film, her indifferent expression is really amazing, the aunt's acting skills are so good that I burst into tears.
Just that kind of indifference, BINGO! Impassionate is the highest expression of hopelessness of powerlessness.
The forgotten self does not need anyone's emotions.
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