At the beginning of the movie, a man cuts the heroine's eyeballs with a razor, using the analogy of floating clouds to cut through the full moon. The metaphorical point of view can be regarded as implying that the scenes seen by the women in the back of the movie are all illusions, which are illusions that are missing from what they see with their own eyes. From the perspective of Freud's psychoanalysis theory, the castration complex is placed in the basic position of psychoanalysis. Castration anxiety and phallic jealousy are the deepest subconscious libido dynamics of both sexes in the process of gender cognition. The eyeballs of the heroine are cut, which means that the penis jealousy is completely shattered, and the ego enters the self. With the help of external forces, the Oedipus conflict is successfully resolved (this article refers to the Oedipus complex and the Oedipus complex collectively as "Oedipus" Complex"). Men’s castration anxiety has not yet been resolved. The gender role conflict and identity are also reflected in the later films as the
transvestite male protagonist riding a bicycle. From the perspective of Freund’s psychoanalysis, it seems that the libido energy is being excessively suppressed. Later, leading to neurosis or sexual dysfunction. The box that a man hangs around his neck has a special meaning-female genitalia. Here, we can learn that men are obviously anxious about gender recognition. On the one hand, he wears a maid outfit with female genitals, hoping that he can be a female gender, on the other hand, he actually wears a male suit. The result of the conflict is that one party will inevitably "die." In the movie, the heroine puts the maid outfit and the box on the bed, indicating that the conflict between men's gender perception is resolved through women's sexual behaviors of the opposite sex. When a woman takes out the tie from the box, it implies the end of the sexual relationship between the woman and the man. The long tie is a deformation of the male sexual organs in the psychoanalytic theory. The reason for the end is the same as that shown in the movie. The man died.
The next appearance in the heroine's room is the illusion of the male protagonist who identifies with the male gender role. The rotting hole in the palm of the hand is full of ants, symbolizing the death of the hero. The images of the ant clusters are superimposed into a hand of people watching on the street, and the ants and holes are similar to the crowd and the circle formed by it. The director broke the logic of time and space here. The hand on the street is the hand of the hero upstairs. He died when he fell on the side of the road before. At this time, the scene downstairs is a representation of the scene at the time. The sad woman in a short-haired suit appears as a symbolic image of the hero’s mother, because she naturally uses a box to hold her hand off, as a metaphor for the relationship between the uterus and the baby. After men have established their gender cognition, they will face the trouble of "killing father and marrying mother" next to the Oedipus complex. In the movie, the male protagonist uses "mother's death" in his self-personality to solve this dilemma, directing sexual desire to the female protagonist outside the mother, and blocking the Oedipus complex in the subconsciousness of the self to complete the self-shaping of social people . The ego is like a steering wheel, controlling the achievement of the self's desire and goal. In the movie, we see that when the hero intends to rape the heroine, the priest, the piano and the dead donkey are dragged behind the rope pulled up. From the perspective of Freund's psychoanalysis theory, it can be inferred that this is the orientation of men's erotic desires to women, and they are restrained by religion, civilization, and tradition, and sex is suppressed. Libido's excessive repression is the source of "life"-sexual desire and "death"-violence, destruction, conflict and chaos.
The film uses flashbacks to show the scene three hours ago and sixteen years ago. The newly-appearing man in the hat is the symbolic image of the hero's father. Freud believes that the coordination between the subject and the society is accomplished through the Oedipus complex. Individuals identify with the "father" and lead the uncontrolled original desires to social norms. In Lacan's view, apart from compromising, the other way for individuals to obtain social subjects is to break the original authority, which is achieved through "paternal killing." The protagonist in the movie chose the latter, and killed his father with a gun turned into a book. The combination of the image of the naked girl when the father fell to the ground shows that the "father" here is the social norm of heterosexuality. It is not only transvestism that expresses the protagonist's confusion, but also comes from the psychological homosexual complex.
In fact, at this point of analysis, we can clearly see that the logical relationship of film thinking is to show the complete process of the establishment of a person’s life-long personality consciousness: from the castration anxiety in the early childhood; the first and second Oedipus into the Oedipus complex stage. Complex period; in the process of gender cognition, it is anxious and confused, through the illusion of "mother's death" and directing sexual desire to other women, and smoothly enters the mature stage of sexual development; and through "father killing", the establishment of the social subject role is completed .
The movie is full of metaphors and hints. Whether it is an ant hole, the blood at the corner of the mouth, or the growing skeleton moth, they all symbolize the fact that the hero has died. The characters in the image are just conjectures. At the end of the movie, the couple is dating at the beach and finds rotten maid outfits and boxes to express the end of the previous relationship. It symbolizes the vibrant spring, but lovers are buried on the beach, accompanied by skeletons and flowers. It is nothing more than saying that the union of men and women is nothing more than the reproduction of new life and eventually death, which is an eternal philosophical proposition of mankind. The arrangement of the film is also the process of the creator's seeking to solve the puzzle. The entire film is the creator's discussion on the issue of sexuality. The tragic ending of men and women can be regarded as a pessimistic view of heterosexuality or as "just so".
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