Awake is painful

Leonardo DiCaprio has long lost the Lang Lang boyish flavor in "Titanic", and one of the characters he has played in recent years has one thing in common: anxiety. Extreme anxiety. And the tone of the film is more in line with his characteristics. I also followed the trend and watched it. The plot is quite compact, especially the seemingly open ending at the end, which made this film a hot topic.

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Whether the ending of the movie is the protagonist's madness or a conspiracy by the hospital, or an open ending to both, there is a lot of quarrel on the Internet. After I read the main points of both sides and the introduction of the original novel, I tended to what the film said on the surface, that is, the protagonist is crazy, and the hospital is going to treat him. I won't analyze the various details in the video, you can find them online. The most direct evidence is the reorganization of the name letters and the photos of the male protagonist's children. The main flaw of the conspiracy theory is that the hospital does not need to go around in such a big circle at all, and it can be solved directly by kidnapping. In addition, I judging from the director is Martin Scorsese, he is not the director of conspiracy theory movies. And he is more willing to reflect the psychological problems of American soldiers who have participated in the war, and this is the cause of the male protagonist. This makes the idea and theme of the film higher than conspiracy theories, accusing the psychological and social problems caused by the destruction of human nature by war.

At the end I think the movie has another meaning. The hospital only started from the purpose of restoring the patient's sobriety. In the end, although it was successful, it did not realize that sobriety was extremely painful for the patient. It was precisely to get rid of the pain that he had so many hallucinations. In the end, the sober male protagonist chose to pretend to be crazy and let the hospital cut off his brain lobes to lose all memory and emotions, so as not to suffer any more pain.

In addition to the director and the leading actor, Ben Kingsley plays the head of the hospital, Dr. Cawley, in the film. He has played the role of Gandhi in "Gandhi Biography", and also starred in the business card of "Schindler's List". Also a heavyweight.

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