Sara is undoubtedly the protagonist of the whole play. After her son graduated from high school, her husband died and her son did not have a job. He often used the TV as collateral to buy drugs. In the scene shortly after the beginning of the movie, she was reluctant to open the door for her son, not so much because she was unwilling to face his son. It's better to say that you don't want to face it. So when the pawnbroker asked her to call the police, Sara said that Harry was her son after all and would not send him to jail. She believed in her heart that her son was excellent. The old lady's usual hobby is watching TV and creating reality shows of civilian stars. And she's used to and likes eating chocolate while watching. Chocolate and sweets contributed to her obesity. Suddenly, one day, she received absurdly absurd phone invitations and letters to appear on TV, making her a star among the neighbors, and she thought she was the object of everyone's attention. The location was given to her, and when filling out the personal information of the contestants, they rushed to report the content to be filled in. They seemed to have become stars, and they had their dreams. She also felt like a star, so she became even more impetuous about losing weight to put on that red dress, impatiently asking the postman. Days passed, no reply came, but she had all kinds of hallucinations because the diet pills she was taking were drugs. The hallucinations were sweets and TV shows. In the beginning, the refrigerator where the sweets were stored became a monster that eats people. In the end, TV Show also became a hungry beast that eats people. The society wants to eat her. And she can't help it. The life without TV is lonely and lonely every day, without the company of her husband or son, and the neighbors will not really care about her. When the hallucinations start to self-loathing and self-pity, the fear of the outside world is infinitely magnified. In the end, due to drug overdose, he became unconscious, and then he was probably treated with electric shocks and became a mental patient. It is a doomed tragedy. The more she wants to achieve her dream, the more drugs she needs to eat, the more pain she gets, and the closer she gets to collapse. "Red dress" is an important symbol of the play, and it is the ideal state and time in the mind of the old lady. Her husband loves her and her son very much. The son graduated from high school with excellent grades and can make a lot of achievements in the future, and she is virtuous Elegant, typical image of a good mother and a good wife.
Harry, the hero in the play, represents a beautiful young man. He loves his mother, and knows that his mother is very lonely, especially the early death of his father, and he feels ashamed that he cannot take good care of his mother. His way of relieving his pain was to keep taking drugs, and he kept increasing his intensity. He knew that his mother was taking drugs, but because he couldn't tell his mother that he knew it was because he was taking drugs, he gave up, just a warning, hoping that his mother could believe him. It can be seen that he does not want to break his beautiful image in his mother's mind. He wanted to make a fortune by selling drugs, and hoped that one day he would take his girlfriend Marion to visit his mother, and maybe get a grandchild to make her happy as his mother wished. But it was all ruined in the end, because the local gang struggled and they lost their supply, not only spent the first pot of gold they earned, but also kept looking for supplies to satisfy their drug addiction. When he had no money, he even let his girlfriend "sell out". In the face of this incident, the method he adopted was to escape and inject drugs to obtain temporary relief.
Mario, the female No. 2 seems to represent the same beautiful girl image as the male protagonist. At the seaside, it is also a red dress, the breeze blows, and a sweet smile. Although the heroine has good family conditions, but her parents can only give money, so she broke with her parents. On the one hand, in order to continue taking drugs, and on the other hand, so that her boyfriend can make a fortune again, she can only bite the bullet and satisfy her liking for her. The bald man introduced to her by her parents has sex and gets money. In the end, when there is no drug source, he can only find Angel, a black drug lord who only accepts female drug addicts to buy goods. This person is addicted to carnal desires and sells his body. Later, for more exciting drugs, they joined the so-called "party", which was actually an underground activity. A group of middle-class Americans in suits and ties paid to watch erotic shows, and wanted to satisfy their various absurd viewing desires. At this time, they Your voice and face are deformed, and this society is going to eat you. Marion has 10,000 thoughts of wanting to kill these filthy people, but because of taking drugs, he is suffering tremendously.
Tye is Harry's friend, kind and emotional by nature, and often misses his mother's arms as a child, as can be seen from taking his best friend Harry to the hospital at the risk of being caught. Growing up in a slum, he is determined to get ahead, and as he said, he is not satisfied with being a street gangster. However, just when he received attention and was ready to make a big splash, the gang struggled and everything was gone.
This film depicts a cannibalistic society, where the old ladies have nothing to do every day and all they can do is bask in the sun; young people lose their goals and ideals, and can only use another way to escape and vent their excess energy; Love is battered and destroyed by all kinds of real ugliness; the deep emotion of mother and child cannot be maintained because of the lack of possibility and effectiveness of communication. From another perspective, the director shows the truth, kindness, tragedy and helplessness of the non-mainstream population of drug addicts, mental patients, and "prostitutes" in society, and at the same time reveals the filth and evil that society considers "noble" and "normal": The prescribing doctor administering drugs to the patient; the insensitivity of the two male nurses who only force food as a matter of routine; the indifference and rudeness of the police and prison guards; and the unconscious behavior of TV viewers.
In the last episode where Marion fell asleep with drugs, the director seemed to tell us the devastation and harm of drugs to people, but it should be more of a ruthless whipping of this twisted society full of excitement, money, and sex.
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