Personal first impression:
I find the relationship between the characters a bit abrupt and hard to switch (Lottie and Maxine, Craig and Maxine).
The mood of the characters changes suddenly. For example, Lottie suddenly said that she was going to become a man. When I first started watching it, except for Maxine, I thought everyone else was weird: they had weird personalities and weird thoughts.
Sympathy Craig has a good talent but is not accepted by the world.
Later, he will start to sympathize with Markovic, be possessed by various people without knowing it, and be controlled by Craig and lose himself. Disgusted by what Maxine and Craig did, but at the same time there was a little joy, maybe the idea of something unearned in my own consciousness. After watching the movie, my mind is in a mess, there is too much information, I can only understand a little, and there are a lot of things I don't understand.
After reading other people's film reviews, I got some insight into the content of the film:
First of all, in terms of characters, Lottie is the most sober and understands what she wants in the film. When she first entered Markovic's body, she said that she wanted to be a man, and at the same time she knew what she liked. It is a woman (this is my speculation, everyone’s opinion is different), I believe this is from Lottie’s heart, Lottie likes women but can only have a female body, her mind is controlled by her body ( This probably has something to do with the social disapproval of homosexuality), Lottie finally reunited with Maxine, and was no longer attached to her body (because Lottie actually had a chance to enter Markovic's body), because she It's her who knows how to buy love, not Markovic's body.
I think Maxine is a relatively normal character in this film. She likes women and money. These are expressed very concretely. The audience can understand it more clearly, and then they wake up and leave Occupy Craig in Markovic's body, that is, left the flashy and fleeting fame and fortune, and returned to Lottie's side.
Craig I would like to call it a talent delayed by secular fame and wealth. He is very talented, which can be seen from the puppet show at the beginning of the film and the fire of the puppet show after he occupied Markovic's body. He just started Without money, his career is not going well. He longs for fame and fortune, and for the approval of others. He takes these things that did not belong to him in his arms, and regards them as his own, and then enters the little girl's body. Looking at the world from a perspective, you will never lose yourself.
The existence of the old man Martin should mean that after the age of 44, people will become more and more closed as they get older, outdated thoughts will occupy their consciousness, and they will no longer be young in thinking.
Because it was the first time I saw this kind of film with obvious personal style, I was shocked by the language of the film: in the setting of the seventh floor and a half, everyone had to work with their heads bowed and their waists bent, in this form to express capitalist oppression the behavior of workers. After entering the narrow vision of the body, the self is imprisoned by the body of others. A puppet show's reflection of reality. After entering his body, Markovic saw all kinds of himself.
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