I was misled by the movie introduction before, I thought he was really insomnia because of the work environment. I waited for a long time and hoped that the movie would talk about how he lost sleep, but I didn't understand the reason until the end, and it wasn't because of the work environment. The environment is just a gimmick. Also, I feel that the setting of this working environment is in tune with "Death is Coming", and the people working there are heartless.
Although travor is insomnia, he is about to fall asleep several times in the film, but he is awakened by different people or things. In my impression, once was using the cigarette lighter in the car to light a cigarette, and was woken up by the cigarette lighter and the person he imagined; once was when he was waiting for the police to check the license plate number, and was woken up by the police; I remember, but I noticed that the people and events that woke him up were related to what he was guilty of that was finally revealed.
Although the protagonist is insomniac, I think he is more in a state of a hundred-day dream. Living with such a trance person is a very scary thing. I don't know who his co-worker and that prostitute girlfriend are. How to get along with him. This is the way of the movie. Between fantasy and reality, the movie always expresses some impressions intentionally or unintentionally, like a car accident due to lighting a cigarette, like crossing an intersection, like 666 at the entrance of the passage in an amusement park, like his generous payment, like him Investigate Imy's car by escaping from a car accident.
In the whole movie, there are three places that don't match the gray tone very much, one is Imy's red car, Travor chasing that car feels like a cow, angry and blind; the other is the cafe in the airport, white and bright; The third is the home of the mother of the child, with a very strange atmosphere, completely described in a dream.
There are many clips, I can think of several explanations, the whole film is mixed with the hysteria of the protagonist's split personality, the guilt of the car accident, the desperate compensation for the injured, the memory of childhood, and the resentment of the other self. In fact, I want to say that this film is not of the "Memento" type, but of the "Mulholland Drive" type. The protagonist does not have amnesia, but has too many and mixed memories.
Well, once again sigh Christian's dedication, too thin! Finally seeing him finally sleeping, there is a feeling that the world is finally quiet. . .
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