After watching this movie, the first feeling is that it is really psychoanalytic.
Psychoanalysis has a very core point of view, that consciousness is just the tip of the iceberg, there are many thoughts and feelings that we are not aware of, hidden under the sea, and affecting you. In the subconscious world, there is no space and no time, so in the movie, space and time loop like a ghost. The stories and events that happened seem to be repeated one after another. Someone killed another person by mistake, everyone was trapped in that space, young people were healthy and upward, middle-aged and elderly people lived their lives full of regrets . It's like a compulsive repetition, even with an intergenerational inheritance. If trauma cannot be understood and spoken, it will continue to play out in different forms in your life, and even be carried into the life of the next generation. Like that red script, passed down from generation to generation. And this part is something you don't know, and it affects your life in ways you don't know. In the movie, the quarrels of alcoholic uncles, alcoholism, suicide, and the police's impulsive robberies and murders are repeated. What we can see is the real-world story above the iceberg, what we can’t see is the subconscious predicament.
The charm of psychoanalysis is to give an individual a new opportunity to escape from the predicament of ghosts hitting the wall. As you learn more about yourself and what lies beneath the iceberg, the more likely you are to have new options for escaping the arranged red script.
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