The literal translation of the movie's name should be to treat health. Just like the name of the movie, I think many plots also seem unreasonable.
But the dark style of the primitive and huge mechanical installations in the room, the bright and simple retro decoration on the ground, the dark and grotesque twisted secrets underground, this kind of steampunk, expedition decryption, and cult and mysterious blending, are like stepping on my cat’s tail. Is my strongest experience. The curiosity exhibition, which lasted for nearly two and a half hours, is still unfinished. This tone reminds me of the movie-invading brain cells, the plot is set aside, the vision is satisfied first.
My understanding-mother's dreams and daydreams
The narrative of the whole film is neat, trying to use scientific settings to catch the suspense, rather than the usual methods such as supernatural, schizophrenia, and time reversal. But one of the things that puzzles me the most is the flashing of the picture after the protagonist's mother wakes up. I think this is an explicit statement from the director that none of the following plots actually happened. This is a very important point of understanding. The director obviously took the visual style instead of brain-burning, and there were not many clues left. In the 146-minute movie, the mother only appeared for less than three minutes, and there was not much room for interpretation. I think that only the few minutes when the mother appears is true. The scene without mother before the car rollover is the mother's dream. After the car rollover, it is the daydream of the mother who awakens and renews the story in the dream. Here is a list of the basis for my judgment.
Evidence 1) The screen flashes after the mother wakes up are all behind the scenes. They are eel-fraction- spinning ballet toy -Hannah spinning in the water-struggling male protagonist in a jug-burning portrait-burning castle-looking at the bandage mask man in the photo from the bottom of the cup- spinning ballet toy -in the mirror Mother (picture 1)-fall down. This is the strongest and most obvious hint. In the flash, reality alternated with the plot behind, and finally appeared a mother sitting flat on the bed in pajamas. This scene is the same as the state of just waking up, implying that everything behind is a daydream after the mother wakes up, followed by a nightmare brain supplement, the ending is satisfied, and he falls and passes away.
Evidence 2) The male owner’s luggage and clothing. Whether visiting his mother, traveling to a spa, or cremating his mother's body, the male protagonist wears the same costume, including a tie. The important thing is that the male protagonist bid farewell to his mother's body, with a suitcase beside him (picture 2 on the left), and the conversation with his mother came back: just a few days away on business. It implied that the male protagonist hurried back when he learned of his mother's death, and went straight to the scene with regret. At the end of the movie, the male protagonist is wearing a hospital gown and riding a bicycle to release himself, and there is no sign of going back to retrieve his suitcase. In addition, if the bottom of the trousers is not cut off during the cast, it will be bloated in addition to being difficult to put on, but it looks natural for the male owner to wear the trousers with the plaster (Figure 2). The male protagonist in the back had the plaster removed, and the hospital gown was cut short (picture 2 right), and it was also explained from the side that the shorts need to be cut in order to wear the trousers. The male protagonist bid farewell to his body, with his pants intact (picture 2 left). But this part can also be understood as the male protagonist bought a new suitcase and the same clothes to attend the funeral.
Evidence 3) New ballet toys that mothers can dream of. The mother has been in a lonely and even painful state because of the death of the male lead father and the son's busy work. So I have the habit of making ballet toys: Ballet dolls dance alone, but they cannot do without the restraint of the base. After the mother was awakened, the scene flashed and interspersed with toys. Hannah's skirt, loneliness, bondage, and a dance under the mountain matched the ballet toys very well. And Hannah in the flashing screen is also rotating, and the camera is closely connected with the toy directly opposite to the mother. This strongly implies that toys are the mother's spiritual companion or even the incarnation. The latest ballet toys will dream, which is to give the toys a role and expectations. This is also the director's explicit statement. The mother began to use dreams to satisfy the reality's shortcomings. In addition, the plot of my personal brain supplement is that my mother's physical condition has deteriorated, and she feels that she has not much time, and her desire for the company of her son has become stronger, so I can make up for regrets through daydreaming. During the mother-child conversation, the mother once said: You will never come back again . In addition to my son saying that he would change his mother to a sea-view nursing home after being promoted, he was a little disappointed with the idea of using money instead of companionship. I also felt worried about my physical condition. The implication is that I can't wait for you to come again next time. When the male protagonist bid farewell to his body, the only dialogue that emerged was that he was only on a business trip for a few days. This regret of not using company to perform filial piety has been repeatedly emphasized.
Evidence 4) Ballet toys of the male protagonist. The new ballet toy apparently remained in the mother's own hands until she died. However, on the way to the spa, the male protagonist later gave it to Hannah and returned it to the male protagonist. Obviously, he always had this new toy, and it was a non-pedestal version; in the end, he threw it into the place and was stepped on by the dean. Shattered, and then burned together with the spa. Explaining that the following story is fictitious, the mother brought toys into the story, accompany the male lead, and accomplish what she can't do. Without a base, she desires not to be bound. After the mother's death, the toy fell to the ground and the base detached, symbolizing freedom, but it was over.
Evidence 5) The recurrence of water and eels . From the beginning of Wall Street financial white-collar Morris's death from overwork, water and fish run through the entire movie. After Morris died, the water glass in his hand and the water and bucket around him were given extra close-ups. The swimming and dead state of Morris's goldfish still gives extra close-ups. Combining that the father committed suicide by diving, and the spa’s methods and concepts revolve around water, they all crazily implying (in the mother’s eyes) that water is a sin. Although it was not the original sin, it did take the life of her husband and caused a disagreement between her son and herself. The son blamed his father's suicide on weakness, while the mother thought it was work pressure. The son is busy with work and has a successful career. The mother is trapped alone in a nursing home, worrying that her son will repeat the same mistakes all day long. So in the mother's eyes, it was water that made her lonely, water was the source of pain, and the embodiment of evil. Therefore, when the mother began to daydream about toys, the constructed story runs through water and fish. Mother did not have this dream suddenly, nor was she able to come up with such a complicated story soon, but for the rest of her life, she regarded desire as the director of the spa, turning work into water, eel as a means, and distillate. wealth. Think of the process of people relying on hard work, companies making money and mergers and acquisitions, and maintaining and growing, as the evil story of the dean who keeps replenishing water and distilling to get the essence of longevity, and then waiting for the opportunity to inbreed.
Evidence 6) Timing of the mother's awakening . On the camera, the car overturned immediately after the mother's awakening. If the mother's dream is followed by a happy ending, she should not wake up, but smile at Jiuquan. So the mother's dream ended with a car rollover, disappointed but loved her son, so she was awakened when she saw his son roll over. Then facing the toy, while dying, the brain fills up the whole story. In this case, the last laugh of the male lead is followed by the fall of his mother and relief.
Workaholic-just a son in the eyes of a mother
The mother appears for a short time and the dialogue is shorter. Let me recap, the scene of the conversation with my mother is switched after the male protagonist says that he is not accompanied by his father, which is natural. The following is the content of the entire conversation.
Mother: How long will you go?
Son: Just a few days, tolerance. (This sentence is reflected in the cremation)
Mother: Your complexion is very bad. (Mother is worried that her son will be under pressure at work, and feel sorry for the parents in the world)
Son: It's okay, just lack of sleep. (The habitual overtime of Wall Street elites)
Mother: You need to rest. I often advise your dad to rest, but he just doesn't listen. (Worrying about repeating the same mistakes is reflected in the previous dialogue between the son and the driver)
Son: He is too cowardly. (At this point, there is a disagreement with the mother, which is one of the mothers’ dissatisfaction with the son)
Mother: You don't know him.
Son: Whose fault is that? . . . . Are you happy here? Does the hospital take care of it?
Mother: People here are waiting to die. How happy to talk? (The spa in the mother’s daydream also has a projection of her own nursing home, which also shows that in the eyes of her mother, there is no difference between being too deep in the workplace and the nursing home, just waiting for death)
Son: I'm going to be promoted. After I come back, I'll change you to a nursing home with a sea view.
Mother: You won't be back.
Son: Of course I will. . . . A new ballet toy?
Mother: This is different.
Son: What do you say?
Mother: She lives in a dream.
Son: But she is dancing.
Mother: That's because she didn't know she was dreaming. (As long as the feeling is invested, the experience is hard to distinguish between true and false)
Then the camera cuts back to the male protagonist in the car, playing with this toy.
When I was talking to my mother, there was a gift on the seat opposite to my mother and a cake on the table, apparently celebrating her birthday. In the mother's eyes, the son's gift was also arranged by her assistant. Therefore, it is conceivable that the male protagonist who is busy with work rarely visits his mother, but only on important days such as his birthday. There is very little communication, and the gift will be regarded by the mother as perfunctory. Not only the gift, but also the reason for her son's business trip, the reason for the promotion, and the state of work are all her brain supplements, because the only thing she knows is that her son is busy at work and is about to go on a business trip and wants to be promoted. When she dreamed, she processed the information as follows. The reason his son was promoted was that his superior Morris died suddenly while working overtime. This superior was set by his mother to be diligent and loving (photos of children in the office), but had no vision (evaluated by colleagues), and there was water around him at the time of death. The personality is very similar to the father. My son is usually very busy. He doesn't leave his hands on the computer and phone. There are screens full of numbers and forms. He often eats smoking cessation candy. There is speculation in his son's work, and interests and crises coexist. Although the son was promoted, he was immediately threatened by high-level officials. He had no choice but to accept the high-level task in a different place. No matter how beautiful he was, he was only a beautiful pawn. This is the mother's stereotype of her son's work or elites after her husband committed suicide. Perhaps the real life of his son is actually very positive, just the struggle of young people, an extension of the dilemma of loyalty and filial piety. In ancient and modern times, few people have made the best solution.
Mother's loneliness-spiritual carnival before death
The following records the details that I think need to be paid attention to.
Plot 1 (to 3 and a half minutes): Morris’s death from overwork
Details: A letter sent from the nursing home shows an eel logo; a close-up of the cup and water after Morris fell.
Plot 2 (to 12 points): Busy and capable male protagonist
Details: Busy on the train, eating quit smoking candy, the little boy in the seat next door drew the devil pattern on the window with his breath; the male protagonist moved to Morris’ office, the office goldfish died, let the assistant buy a gift for his mother; the elevator rose to 70 Close-up, get the task of picking up Pan Bo; still busy on the road, eating quit smoking candy.
Plot 3 (to 13 and a half minutes): Talk to mother
Details: There are 5 points in the content of the dialogue: 1 the male mainly travels for a few days; 2 disagrees on the death of his father; 3 the male is mainly promoted; 4 mom says you will not come back; 5 mom says the new ballet toy will dream.
Plot 4 (to 23 points): Overturned
Details: Ballet toys do not have a base; there are no young people on the mountain (elite class, because wealth and resumes generally need to be accumulated;) people under the mountain have conflicts; watch time, Hannah appears, and the clothes she wears are a bit like ballet toys.
Plot 5 (to 24 minutes): Mother dies
Details: A few scenes behind quickly flash, interspersed with a current scene; in the mirror, you can see the mother sitting on the bed suddenly falling down; the base of the ballet toy is separated; in the funeral home, the male protagonist is carrying a suitcase, and the staff dialogue prompts There are no other visitors (implying that the mother is alone and has no relatives or friends except her son).
Plot 6 (to 52 points): get the Pan Bai file
Details: The time of the watch freezes; bugs appear in the water; deer appear in the steam room; Pan Bai knows the father of the male protagonist; the dean knows that the male protagonist is discussing business with Pan Bai (these are all the mother imagines that his son is slowly being dragged down by work). When the urine was placed, Mrs. Waggins’ sample was bloody and solid (as a foreshadowing for her dying); the dean said that Hannah was a special case and she was stunted.
Plot 7 (to 59 points): Stuck in a water tank
Details: Regardless of water sports, flushing, snorkeling, diving, steaming, soaking, or infusion (introducing eel), they are all in order to produce a clean/effective distillate. In the water tank, the male protagonist flashed back to his childhood and his father's happy memories (again, the mother had a very good impression of her husband); the appearance of the eel spoiled the beautiful scene; the eel hooked the oxygen tube and caused the mask to detach; after being trapped, flashed back to the father Jumped into the river, and then the hero was rescued. This clip clearly implies that the mother is worried about the male protagonist repeating the same mistakes, imagine him being delayed by the eel (exploitation), and then being trapped by water (worn down by work) until he loses his life. But the mother’s daydream is over happily and she can arrange her fate as she wants: the male protagonist is first ignored by the senior management, and then suddenly changed the camera. He is rescued by the senior management, and the eel disappears, even though the oxygen mask caused by the eel falls off.
Story 8 (to 1 hour 1 minute): Looking through Pan Bai's archives
Details: A close-up of a page of tables in the archive (Figure 3). The names of the items on the left include Transfusion flugel (infusion area, where the male protagonist is filled with eels), Embryonic flugel (embryo area, where people are immersed in liquid to receive replenishment, very vivid), Detox flugel (detoxification area), Isolation flugel (isolation) Area). The numbers are relatively random and are understood as some indicators to be tested after completing the project. This can explain why Pan Bai and the male lead can still appear after being soaked. Because this is not made into a specimen, but a black technology that can be infinitely immersed without assistance, only exists in the mother's fantasy. Infusion (distilled at the same time) is the ultimate goal, so embryos and other stages are to replenish water in the body, filter toxic substances, and prepare for continued distillation. The X-rays in the archives showed tooth loss; the toilet control valve shook and made noises; the corpse was seen being transported underground.
Plot 9 (to 1 hour 22 minutes): Go down the mountain with Hannah
Details: Mrs. Watkins sends a message to the male protagonist through the superscript game (Mrs. Watkins is the only awakened guest, and is about to die), and tells the male protagonist that a severely dehydrated body was found in 1814 (so the villain relied on human fractions and was already alive. For more than 200 years, Hannah has also relied on this body essence. Her first menstruation occurred at about 200 years old. Proportionally, her retirement should be delayed until she is 800 years old); hand over the ballet toys to Hannah, and Hannah leads the male protagonist down the mountain; , Hannah drinks, distributes, dances, and takes lipstick, suggesting that her mother longs for a free life; the male protagonist sees the veterinarian, and the veterinarian’s grandson draws the castle on fire. The veterinarian gave the male protagonist two messages: the tooth loss was due to dehydration, the former baroness Infertility (in fact, it was only difficult, and Hannah was successfully delivered in the end); eels were present in the cattle slaughtered by the veterinarian and their fetuses; the people at the foot of the mountain were afraid of the dean; the dean’s forehead hemorrhages.
Plot 10 (to 1 hour and 38 minutes): The male protagonist’s teeth
Details: The male protagonist dreamed of Hannah and the eel; once again saw the person carrying the corpse pushing the empty cart out; again the toilet control valve swayed and made a sound; the tooth fell (go to the next step); in a schedule, Floating baths, dental treatments, steam therapy, mineral water exercises and other items appeared again; the male lead came to the infusion area and found that the workers were cutting carrots while smoking; a haggard old man suddenly yelled when the elevator arrived. The old man punched in the face (in the infusion area that should be clean, I saw the staff smoking and rudeness, which did not match the surface of the spa); the male protagonist retracted his hand after touching the infusion tank (it should be just after use, distillation requires high temperature) ; Met Mrs. Wakins again and told the hero that the baby was not dead that year. The hero saw a worm surging under Watkins's skin; the first letter of the door of the room where the hero hid when escaping can be seen clearly is E (It should be Embryonic Flugel); Seeing a human body like an embryo in the uterus, Pan Bai opened his eyes and his body twitched, but he was not awake. , Sent to the embryonic area next door to replenish water and blood); the male protagonist was caught and a front tooth was removed, and the dean held the Pan Bai file (pointing out that there is no privacy in the spa, any room can be entered, and anything can be turned over, Be fully controlled).
Plot 11 (to 1 hour and 48 minutes): the male protagonist awakens
Details: The male protagonist took advantage of the opportunity of the driver to send the newcomer to escape (the story jumps again, the male protagonist escapes directly, but the attack on the doctor is mentioned later); through a bottle of human essence, it is found that the police and the dean are a group, the decoration style of the police office and the appearance The accessories are in the style of a long time ago, implying that the police were actually from the last century. In the eyes of the mother, the police have always given priority to serving the capital; The story can explain all the unreasonable once and for all); once again the toilet control valve oscillates and makes a sound, an eel appears, it is simply removed, there is nothing, and it starts to doubt oneself, then accepts fate, is assimilated, and changes from a bystander Become one of them; flash back to his father to jump into the river and replace him with his own face. In the mother's subconscious, the son will repeat the same mistakes, but at this time, the mother manipulates the son to rein in the precipice, an unprecedented miracle occurs, and the son breaks the lie and begins to awaken.
Plot 12 (to 1 hour 58 minutes): The male lead visits the underground
Details: Hannah applied the lipstick on the same day that she had her first menstrual period; Mrs. Waggins' body was eaten by an eel (who must die as an awakened person); Hannah entered the underground pool (I think the location of this pool is in a water-bearing soil layer, that is, Han The place where Na stayed after she was born can be said to be the place where Hannah was raised initially. Hannah should come here frequently), and the pool is also the place where people die; because of menstruation, the eels start to attack Hanna but later become surrounding (the male protagonist behind) In the illustration, it is found that there are eels in the water that Hannah was born into. The eels are like hatred, surrounding, nurturing, and accompanying Hannah); the male protagonist persuades everyone, but people actually don't want to leave (a decent life of wealth).
Plot 13 (to 2 hours and 5 minutes): the male protagonist succumbs again
Details: The male protagonist is fed with eel, and then squeezed out the first drop of blue screen essential oil to complete the full experience of the spa; the male protagonist appeared on the stool outside, physically and mentally exhausted, Hannah came over and said: Toy dream awakened (Hannah is an adult) ), you make me believe that one day I will leave (the deepest word my mother wanted to say to her son but was hidden again); the male lead said why he left (yield again), his teeth were intact (picture 4); Hannah returned the toy Leave.
Plot 14 (to the end): Relying on understanding Hannah, the hero awakens again
Details: Through portraits, illustrations, memories of Mrs. Vargos' words (the child is not dead), folded photos, the protagonist speculates that Hannah was the baby of the year (the mother always hopes that the protagonist can understand herself and give up her current attitude towards life) ; The male protagonist rescues Hannah (Mother’s Final Fantasy), the toy falls to the ground and burns, the dean also tore his face (real goods) and fights the male protagonist. In the end, Hannah fights back and is eaten by an eel. Visiting time The sign that arrived fell down (it must be the slogan that mother hated the most when she was in the nursing home, expecting her son's arrival time and time again in exchange for the slogan to appear again and again); there was a big fire in the spa, but some people changed places to continue dancing, and some people rushed to fight the fire; When escaping, I met an executive; the male protagonist (actually his mother) smiled triumphantly.
If once a certain theory is identified, then everything will be considered as contributing to the theory.
The name of the movie is Healing Health. Intuitively, the people in the spa in the theme of the story are indeed not sick, but they are all receiving treatment. In the eyes of the mother, the male protagonist (and many of the same people) lives in abundance but still pursues wealth. Without family affection, life becomes an assembly of activities one after another, and the pursuit becomes free. So according to the mother's perspective, the name of the movie can be translated as getting rid of abundance.
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