The question of the film's routine needs to be sorted out, namely: is this a film about a psychedelic cycle or a suspense film about schizophrenia. If it is the former, then many characters and contexts should not be the fantasy of the hero. If it is the latter, then the various personalities and characters imagined by the male protagonist cannot explain the strange cycle. This is supposed to be a movie that has both, a mildly schizophrenic person caught in a cyclical repetition of time and space. This is more in line with the theme of an American movie. As for the statement that the entire movie is a fantasy of schizophrenia, I disagree. It is a very challenging film form. It is estimated that only those who value the niche A masterpiece only for a fringe European film director.
The general plot analysis of this movie is as follows:
1. A conservative man with mild schizophrenia quit his job, took all the money in his account, and often went to bars in the casino city and other sensual places to pursue work there Blonde women, all "love at first sight", flash marriage (cheap ring and marriage process), then kill each other because they can't achieve the purity of his heart, and then bury their bodies in the desert
2. A man's schizophrenia makes him feel bad about his behavior Unknowingly, he didn't know how to kill himself until he was once again caught in a horrible loop on Route 95 with a Las Vegas girl wife, but he didn't know how to get out of this horrible space Loop
So, the theme of the movie is a schizophrenic man who serially kills because he's trapped in his own paranoid world, self-loops doing the same thing, ironically, until a psychedelic space loop does come. It was with him that he became aware of his serial killings, and when he wanted to end it all, he just let things fall into a spatial loop again. . .
The following is an analysis of several key points
1. The clue that runs through the whole play from the beginning to the middle to the end of the movie is the moth, which is a creature that represents the transformation in the cycle, which is the point of the movie.
2. The time of the heroine's death: I think the heroine's death time should be when the two were digging a hole and burying the body. The two had a series of conversations when they were just on the road. These conversations and the woman's behavior made the heroine. Got a better understanding of women, and mostly things that made him uncomfortable: women smoke, lascivious, and want a comfortable life from their husbands. After the bloody man got into the car, he discovered some problems with women. Women complained a lot, were selfish, and seemed to have a very unclean past. After he killed the bloody man, the woman's performance made him even more disappointed and scared. He felt that the woman wanted to draw a line with him after he encountered the trouble of killing, and it was very likely that she would run to the police. After his "knowing the benefits", the woman agreed to bury the body with him as a sincerity of the same class. During the process of burying the body, he discovered the cruel side of the woman (the woman suggested him to dismember the body because the pit was small). All kinds of women in the car, he had complete distrust of women, he instructed the woman to bury the body alone, then returned to the car to search the woman's bag, after finding the gun, he killed the woman, and then buried the woman, the process Lost his watch. Next, because of his subconscious self-comfort of killing women, he had the fantasy of quarreling with women. Those completely fabricated "contents of the quarrel" confirmed that his judgment on women was not wrong: women have indeed been prostitutes, women He did intend to leave him alone to face the trouble of murder.
3. The authenticity of other parts, the person met in the restaurant at the beginning should be a detective who doubts him, it is real, and the detective's various greetings to him should have been paying attention to him in the motel (in this case Next, the male protagonist carried a corpse in and out of the car, and it was impossible not to be discovered by the detective). The detective warned him that people often get lost on this road and go missing. The main point is not to leave Highway 95. The police behind and the police digging up the corpse are also real, or things in the space cycle, not the fantasy of the hero.
4. The self-awareness of the male protagonist. The male protagonist always thought that the buried blood man escaped and killed the woman before he had a car accident with the police. He was framed by the blood man until he had a car accident and was killed by his next When the Circular Rescue got into the car, he realized that he was a blood man and killed the woman himself. That's why he told the woman to leave the man next to him after getting in the car, because he knew that the woman would die at the hands of the man, and then sarcastically asked the man if he had killed anyone, and satirized the woman who had been a prostitute in Las Vegas, When he knows that the car is free from getting lost and will reach Route 95, and realizes that the cycle may end, he wants to kill himself in that cycle and get rid of the nightmare. . .
5. Regarding trust, there are many questions about trust in the movie. The male protagonist tattooed the letter on his arm, indicating that he values trust very much, and then the male protagonist's spirit has always been troubled by the trust in the heroine, the trust in the heroine's character, and the honest trust in the heroine. Afterwards, the trust in the heroine's contemporaries. . . . When these trusts completely collapsed in his heart, he chose to kill the woman.
Another point to add: Although the male protagonist is a serial murderer, he is different from those killers who intentionally kidnap and kill. He is in a schizophrenic condition. Killing people, unaware of his actions, he pursued his boyhood complex again and again: he took all his savings to find a blond girl he liked, and then looked forward to spending the rest of his life with her, but because of the identity of the other party and his trust in him. Paranoid, and kill each other again and again under suspicion. Then there is the selective amnesia, and the search for a new target again.
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