Photography and art have a fairy-tale feel, and the ferocious Headless Horseman is also funny and interesting because of those blue eyes. What touched me the most was the heroine's innocent, kind and weak image of a village girl, especially when the hero found out that the spell symbol she drew was not to attract a headless knight, but to protect her beloved. Such girls can only appear in movies. In addition, the splicing between the dream segment where the hero gets along with his mother and the segment where he wakes up and sees the heroine is quite a psychoanalytic reading, which is believed to be the spiritual core of the film. It is this kernel that drives the development of the whole story.
The male protagonist came to Sleepy Hollow, ostensibly to investigate the case, but in essence to seek the maternal love lost in childhood, which was actually driven by the Oedipus complex. In the dream, the boy's mother appears in the image of the Virgin, and the boy obtains spiritual satisfaction from getting along with his mother, and his father becomes a threat to this satisfaction. The Christian father kills the mother and the mother dies, implying that the male protagonist's religious beliefs are broken. The front of the film describes the male protagonist's belief in science, and the back of the film also mentions that the male protagonist himself said that he replaced religion with science and became his own belief, which is essentially a kind of self-deception, because the male protagonist believes in maternal love. Religion is just the external projection of Oedipus complex, and belief in science is just to fill in the lack of maternal love. In addition, the male protagonist changed to the scientific spirit as his belief, which was essentially to rebel against his father's theological authority, which is an image of killing his father and marrying his mother. As a symbol of maternal love (mother), breasts happen to be the link between the mother in the hero's dream and the heroine in reality (so, the mother's proud breasts and the heroine's deep cleavage are not only to make the audience's blood boil, it is Still a bond.)
There is also the big adulterous stepmother in the play. It is said that the stepmother was very poor when she was a child. She lived in a single-parent family and lacked fatherly love, so her external projection of her pursuit of fatherly love became the pursuit of wealth and the protection of men (the functions of fathers: nurture and protection, education ...). And this man is not who, it is the headless horseman who was killed by him. In addition, I would like to talk about why the headless horseman lost his head, not his hands, feet, or jj, because it is very simple, the head symbolizes spiritual belief, and this film is about finding belief. The film also reminds that the knight enjoys killing, killing is his belief and a symbol of strength, so non-killing cannot prove his existence as a father, so when his childhood stepmother met the forest knight, she would snap and snap. A branch (symbolizing the male root implies father), which is an unconscious expression of desire.
Imagine if the forest knight disarmed and returned to the field to raise his stepmother of the same year, and if the father of the male protagonist did not kill his mother, what kind of story would it be?
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