Who is Edward?
——I look a little baffled, he seems to be a robot. This is not important, what is important is that he is an "outer", that is, the other, his appearance, thinking, and skills make him special-there is a line in the film saying that in fact he is special in any situation , This is the key.
Why does Edward live on the mountain? Why does this mountain look weird?
——Everyone noticed that the mountain where Edward lived appeared in the lens for the first time through Ms. Avon’s car mirror, which seemed to tell the audience that this mountain was originally an illusory place and only existed in people’s perceptions. Among. How could Edward be in such a place? The mountain does not seem to be far from the villages and towns below. Why didn't people find Edward before? In short, it's unbelievable, but it's also unimportant. The important thing is that this mountain not only looks illusory, but it is a bit weird from the outside-the building looks very much like a church, but you can't see the cross. Does this mean that it does not belong to the Christian world? Instead of belonging to the Christian world, it belongs outside the civilized world in the West. So Edward came from a pagan region, from outside civilization.
Why did Ms. Avon go up the mountain?
——Because of business needs. I hope I am not speculating. This is the same reason that Westerners opened up new routes back then. Ms. Avon is a direct sales of beauty products, and found nothing that day, so she wanted to try her luck on the mountain. This is very similar to the motives of modern Westerners looking for the East—the East is the other to the West.
Why did Ms. Avon take this weird man down the mountain?
-Out of love and sympathy. Originally, she was doing direct sales, but she was a very caring person. Seeing the lonely Edward, she decided to take him home. This kind of love and compassion is not something ordinary people can have, so this is a fairy tale.
What do people in the villages and towns think of Edward?
——First of all, curiosity, and then amazed by his special talents, he brings unexpected surprises to everyone. For a while, it seemed that he became the most popular person in the world he was originally unfamiliar with. But everyone didn’t know him, everyone just got what they needed—most of them were to satisfy curiosity; there were also people who asked him to help with work; and there was a special lady who wanted to get a special experience from him—this is also called "Hunt Yan", it is also common in novels, such as "Shanghai Baby".
How could he get Carrie's love?
——Because he does not have the hypocrisy and cowardice that people in this civilized world have, he is simple, sincere, and kind. This is very much like Christians falling in love with Gypsies in romantic literature, such as "Carmen", and "Notre Dame de Paris" seems to be too?
Why would people expel him again?
——Because people didn't know him, and didn't want to know him. People like him because they can get what they need from him. He is very weird in people's minds. Once people find that he may pose a threat, they will expel him without hesitation. Especially, he might win the love of the ladies here, which is even more remarkable.
Can Edward coexist peacefully with people in villages and towns?
——Yes, unless they keep a distance and don't threaten each other. Just like the East and West in the past, or the United States and China today.
Why would Carrie remember Edward when she was old?
——This... To use an inappropriate analogy, when China was liberated in 1949, Americans like to ask a question: Who lost China? I think that Americans, including Westerners, do indeed love China. Don’t we Chinese also have a lot of people who love the United States?
Why can't Carrie be with Edward?
——This is the metaphor of the relationship between civilization and others. Edward had no intention of hurting the people in the village, but he did break the tranquility here, and he threatened the safety of the people here. The prerequisite for peaceful coexistence between civilizations is that they cannot threaten each other’s security, otherwise they will fall into a state of hostility. Especially when it comes to women, it may cause bloody conflict. Therefore, even if Edward and Carrie love each other, they can't hug each other unscrupulously. In the end, they can only choose to return to their respective groups-civilization (of course Edward in this film lives in a lonely world), and put each other in memory, and even in fairy tales.
The civilized world brings people a sense of security, but it may also bring people a sense of depression, so people need an imaginary outlet. This is the other outside the civilized world, which is an important source of inspiration for romanticism. We often find that Wenyi’s works describe cross-civilizational love-such as Easterners and Westerners; Christians and Gypsies, even earthlings and aliens, etc., but these are nothing more than an imagination. Civilized love does exist, but it is rare. After all, the boundaries between civilizations cannot be completely eliminated.
For most people, the world outside of civilization exists more often in imagination, just as we feel that we are familiar with the United States and the West, but this is just an imagination. Once we Being put into the other party's group, strangeness will arise spontaneously, and many previous illusions will be broken. To each other, we are always others, we are now, and we will not change in the future.
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