If you haven't seen the movie yet, I hope you will. Or maybe you've forgotten the plot, and I want you to skim through the movie before watching it.
Hello everyone. When I watched this movie a year ago, I thought I understood the movie, but I still couldn't understand the characters, so I had to give up. It's just that when I rewatched the film a year later, I began to seriously ponder the poetry lines. These clues allowed me to finally tell the whole story, each character.
Briefly sort out the poetry narration and key lines
1. In a dream, the body is like hydrogen gas, and the memory is like a stone
2. The movie is fake, it is made up of shots, and the memory can't tell the truth from the fake, it always emerges.
3. Mudslides are not scary, but living in memory is scary.
4. You just tell a lie, how can you not remember what the person you are looking for looks like.
5. Dreams are forgotten memories.
So I started reasoning. According to the clues, the movie is unbelievable, the memory is true and false, and the dream can spell out a more complete memory.
Breakthrough: The male protagonist is a liar. The memory belongs to him, and he lies to make it true and false.
In subjective memory, we always portray ourselves as good people, then we can put together the bad things others did in those memories and put them back on the male protagonist to make a more fluent story. But that doesn't mean that all bad things are done by the male lead.
I try to remove the details in the reality line as much as possible, because the details are used to bind the relationship between the characters, and the people in the memory are not real, and I can't tell who the details correspond to.
So I spelled out the story line in the black part of the picture, and logically deduced the cause of the characters in my memory. We need a proof of reasoning. So I looked for details at the beginning of the film that I felt was the most authentic in the whole story, a detail that was overlooked - the green book. Singer Wan Qiwen pointed out that the story told by the male protagonist is like the story in the green book. Tai Zhaomei only told half of the story (and only half of the memory). At the same time, the green book is the evidence of the female protagonist's longing for love, which is the same as the lie about love in memory. Wan Qiwen contradicts herself.
So far the whole story is that the male protagonist has done a lot of scum and still thinks about the female protagonist, but he did not find it. When he was desperate, a strong inner suggestion made the memory and the green book merge. When he was with the heroine, he could only throw away his memories and dream. In the dream, he reconciled, he found the heroine he was looking for, and obtained eternal love. The process of falling into a dream on a desperate and romantic night.
This male protagonist lied, and deceived the audience into thinking that the female protagonist was lying, there were many men outside, and she was a bad woman! The director used the gentle Huang Jue to deceive the public, Bi Gan is too bad! She also borrowed Tang Wei to play the role of a femme fatale, but she was not good at acting, which made the whole memory more true and false. When everyone brings into the plot from the perspective of the male protagonist, naturally they will not look back and think that the male protagonist himself is the liar. Come up with a logical story.
People who like movies see movies as a dream, and that's right. If Mulholland Drive is a process in which reality keeps waking up the heroine in beautiful dreams. The last night on earth is the process of the desperate male protagonist constantly throwing away his real memories and entering romantic dreams.
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