Character story analysis

Brooke 2022-04-20 09:02:25

I haven't figured out what's good about the film, so let's analyze the characters' stories from the very similar pictures at the beginning and end of the film.

beginning

1. From the appearance of the big nose baby to the part where the whale engulfs the car (yellow tone), it is the life of the fish-bellied old man. He was as interested in the lipstick of the woman standing on the street as he was interested in seeing his sister put on lipstick, and the paintings he saw in the church were also reproduced when he escaped.

2. The fish-bellied old man gave a watch to his wife (later he kept wearing it on the man with glasses); he bought a toy for his son, which is also the place where he later hid drugs.

3. The part that starts with a young man eating noodles and before many people dance in the park (blue tone) is the life of a man with glasses, the son of an old man with a fish belly. The man with glasses is the son of the fish-bellied old man. , because in the first scene, the watch worn by the man with glasses was bought by the old fish-bellied man for his wife.

4. The glasses man was in a relationship with a woman, but the woman later empathized with the disco man. From the back, this disco man is the father of the later heroine Myon, and Myon's mother once fell in love with the glasses man but later married her father.

5. The colored part is the story of the male protagonist Asi and the female protagonist Myon. They were childhood sweethearts and exchanged love letters when they were in school, but they didn't get together later. Myon said that he liked other people, and the male protagonist also saw Myon and others. Man goes to hotel. Among them, my sister's works have been affirmed, and she should want to go to an art school.

6. The gray part is that Myon's family is being called for debts, but there are only three mothers and daughters, the one with short hair is the mother, the one with the ponytail is the elder sister, and the one with loose hair and sideburns is Myon.

7. My sister should not go to college for her family's livelihood, but started to work and take on the burden of the family. Because she was watching her answering the phone in the company later; there was another scene where my sister came back late with a lot of dishes, but Myon ran out of the house happily because she was taken care of by her sister and her mother. (No wonder Myon thanked her sister before escaping, her sister would cry)

8. The glasses man saw the situation of his first love girlfriend (Myon's mother) and came to her, took her to the beach and should have paid back the money, and the glasses man gave her mother a ticket from Osaka to Tokyo, the last scene at the beginning It was a woman sitting at the station with luggage, probably her mother.

8. There is still a part in the middle of the beginning, that is, the confession of the male protagonist Asi and the girl was not accepted, and when he was asked for money by the gangster, he would only tremble. It should be said that he has been very useless.

end

9. The man with glasses looked at his watch. The scene cuts to a man waiting at the station. He drove over and left with the short-haired woman. It should be eloping with Myon's mother.

10. The big-nosed baby (that is, the fish-bellied man) was dressed as a girl by his father when he was a child (the part on the merry-go-round). This should be the reason why he is more interested in lipstick than street girls when he is an adult.

11. The fish-bellied old man has been in the army. After returning, he should be engaged in illegal transactions, so his family will be relatively well-off (buying TV sets, buying toys), and he also hid a gun on the cabinet.

12. Guess that the fish-bellied old man and his wife have two sons, otherwise the toy box should not have two (one red and one blue). At the end of the film, a woman died after giving birth to a pointy baby. Wearing the watch, it is the mother of the man with glasses. This baby loves to play football since he was a child. Guess it is the man who is holding the football, which means that he is the brother of the man with glasses.

13. Eyed man's girlfriend was taken away, and later gave birth to Yan, and then gave birth to Myon while their father was spending time outside.

14. My sister Yan's work was praised, and Myon won a medal in swimming.

Summarize

So I guess the background of the story is:

The fish-bellied old man engaged in illegal transactions when he was young. He took the wrong product in one transaction, and was chased during the transaction, causing the car to fall into the sea and be swallowed by a whale.

The fish-bellied old man has two sons, one is a man with glasses and the other is a big football man. The big football man died not long after he was born, and the man with eyes has been taking care of him and growing up.

The glasses man's first love was Myon's mother, but her mother later empathized and married Myon's father. But her father was an unreliable man who ended up bankrupting the family. My elder sister is good at sculpture, but in the end I have no money to study. My younger sister is good at swimming and gave up because of her big breasts. In the end, my mother probably couldn't stand such a day and ran away with the man with glasses. Of course, the man with glasses left his brother and ran away with his first girlfriend.

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Mind Game quotes

  • Nishi: We've gotta leave. It's that or drown.

    Yan: But how?

    Nishi: The boat, of course!

    Myon: The cops'll be looking for us.

    Nishi: So?

    Myon: The Yakuzas'll come after us!

    Nishi: So what! I wanna get out! 'Cos there's so much out there! So many different people, living different lives! Incredibly good guys, bad guys... Folks completely different from us! It's one huge melting pot! See, it's not about success, dying in the streets, who's better, who's not! I just want to be a part of it! I realized that even if I've no connections, no talent, even if I'm one big loser, I want to use my hands and feet to think and move, to shape my own life! We can just die here or we can try, see what we've got!

  • Nishi: This roller-coaster you're trying to stop is a genuine Angel Express. And I can see you moved to tears as you watch that mystic angel spread its wings and disappear into the sky. OK?

    Yakuza boss: The fuck?