First of all, this magical little story is basically rounded out logically. As a screenwriter, Virgo still takes care of the public's emotions. For the sake of immortality, the elderly have been drilling into other people's bodies through the passage, so that everyone got a definite explanation, not completely bizarre.
But obviously not the point, the point is why everyone wants so much to be someone else, to experience someone else's life. This is ridiculous in the age of "being brave to be yourself", but it makes sense.
When the wife and the iceberg girl scuffled, the two kept falling into all corners of John Malkovich's subconscious, in which they were ridiculed for peeing their pants on the bus, and secretly sniffing other people's panties. This is the essence, we humans are a contradictory social group, eager to make everyone around us happy with ourselves. So we carefully hide our desires, always want to play another person well, and explore the world in the eyes of others, so that we will not be abandoned by this world.
If you really insist on being only yourself, what will happen? It will be like Markovic getting into your own brain and cutting off social contacts completely. Suppose you suddenly come to an unmanned place due to an air crash one day. Island, then all your language has no meaning, you can only mutter to yourself, and you can only be friends with people you imagine. What a horrible world like this, so everyone went into Markovic's brain and hailed it as the best experience of his life, but for Markovic himself, it was a huge nightmare.
So what does being so eager to know what others are thinking brings us? This is also obvious. We gradually become puppets of other people's thoughts. When you were a child at the beginning, you naively asked how tall the sky was. Why do people die? But as we grow up, we gradually become puppets of other people's minds, and our words and deeds gradually become completely controlled by the rules of society.
This is the core reason why humans and animals can be distinguished, that is, we are willing to believe the same lie together. Just like in fact, everyone knows clearly in their hearts that these colorful papers are all tickets printed by factories, and they are not fundamentally different from other papers. But as long as everyone believes in those bills, it can buy bread or a plane.
In these common lies, human beings have also found a way to transcend death and gain eternal life, which is to tell more wonderful lies one after another. Perhaps after the death of Charlie Kaufman, another young man saw this work and was amazed.
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