The film Once Upon a Time in America is a dream of the hero Noodles smoking opium in an opium den after he killed his gangster brother Max. In the dream, the former brother not only was not killed by himself, but all of this was a trap set up by the brother, in order to take the money for himself, and then hide his name and become a new person. I have been guilty for 35 years in vain, and I have been down and down for 35 years, and the other party has already become a dignified minister, and has also possessed the woman he loves. This is more brilliant than the heroine of Mulholland Drive, who changed herself into the most innocent person in her dream, and passed on the guilt of constantly torturing herself to Max.
And this difference may be that the heroine of Mulholland Drive can't get her lover, she can't reach her. Noodles is the opposite for Max.
Noodles was originally just a little punk, ignorant in adolescence, doing some sneaky business with bad boys. He loves Deborah deeply, and could have been on the right track for love and lead a normal life.
And Max ruined all these possibilities out of his abnormal possessiveness or normal homosexuality. In order to keep him firmly in the palm of his hand, he would not hesitate to drag him into the darkness step by step, or even destroy them together. .
When she was a teenager, Max must have quietly threatened Deborah not to be with Noodles, so when Deborah finally opened up to Noodles and Max was planning to disrupt the situation, she would say sourly to Noodles, so his name is Max, go, go Find your mother.
Noodles went, and Deborah's door slammed shut behind him. This time, it has been more than ten years of prison. The youth who used to be hot-blooded has turned into a gloomy and desperate youth today.
Deborah must be waiting for Noodles, she doesn't have to wait for Noodles to get out of jail if she wants to go to Hollywood. The two met again and stared at each other affectionately, but it was a pity that Max was still staring at him. How could Deborah ever win Max. It was supposed to be a small robbery, but Max dragged Noodles into the water without Noodles' knowledge, and tied Noodles to himself with murder, rape, and robbery.
At this time, Deborah already knew that it was impossible for the two to live a normal life together. So she decided to go to Hollywood, and Noodles, who was struggling in desperation, raped her, finally bringing their relationship to a dead end.
Noodles loves Deborah so much, in his dreams, Deborah finally becomes a big star and Max's mistress after many years, in order to dispel his guilt. In the dream, Deborah was removing makeup with heavy powder on her face. The makeup couldn't be removed, and her face was full of flowers. Maybe Noodles just didn't want to see her old and faded, and wanted to keep her young forever. appearance at the time.
The Noodles hated Max as much as they loved Deborah. It's just that the hatred is not pure. It is mixed with the brotherhood that has shared through thick and thin for many years, mixed with the guilt that he has reported against him, and it has become an indescribable taste. In the dream, Max occupied his own money, his status, his own woman, became a famous minister, and gave birth to a boy who was completely a replica of Max when he was young. Now Noodles was finally relieved, finally freed from the guilt that kept tormenting him. It turned out that all of this was Max's conspiracy, it turned out that he couldn't help himself, it turned out that Max betrayed the friendship instead of himself, and he was just an innocent victim.
However, he hated Max, so he let Max continue to have scandals and discredit even after he was in a high position in old age. Max, who is dying and knows that he is about to die, finds Noodles, hoping to die at the hands of Noodles to atone for his sins. I don't think Noodles' sympathetic love affair with Max was completely unresponsive, and even in a dream, Max asked Max to take out the treasured pocket watch that facilitated their relationship. This time he finally didn't kill Max, just walked away silently. In real life, Noodles must have fantasized countless times that he could get out of Max's shadow so easily.
However, this response can only aggravate his hatred for Max. He hates Max for ruining his normal life and distorting his normal feelings. So, in the end, in the dream, he still wanted Max to die. Whether in reality or in dreams, he couldn't let Max go. In reality, he accuses Max of letting him be raped by the police, which makes him feel so guilty and remorseful, so in the dream Noodles asks Max to commit suicide. However, he faced Max's unrecognizable corpse in reality, but he couldn't do it in his dream. He only replaced Max's death with a vague tie, no blood dripping, no flesh flying.
He was very Max and wished he died; but he couldn't see him die with his own eyes.
After all, he just wanted Max to leave his life.
Sorry, I Love You.
Both Max and Noodles, their love seems to be cursed, only to bring about hurt, guilt and remorse, and ultimately destruction.
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