why the mask appeared on the bed

Chelsey 2022-04-22 07:01:03

The movie mainly tells about a long nightmare of Dr. Haval (the original novel is called "Dream Story"). After he smoked marijuana with his wife, he had a fight. Mind wandering, transforming and mixing the seven emotions and six desires when you are awake into a world in a dream, shuttling in one place that is both real and fantasy, opening the door, entering the door, the movie uses a stable and floating camera to express every time you open the door and enter the door in detail, creating a dream and repeated similar scenes at the dance more than once (for example, two people communicated and were interrupted and taken away by a third party; the beauties with lust were all blond women who looked like Haval’s wife and daughter; in reality, beautiful women seduced Haval Said to have a tryst at the end of the rainbow, and the mask clothing store in the dream is called Rainbow, etc. Kubrick's movie details are worth pondering.)

Haval's soul also cheated with the patient's daughter in the dream, flirted with prostitutes, Yu said Still, he turned the gorgeous dance party of the upper class into an extremely luxurious, elegant, glamorous and promiscuous sex party. This was all from the seduction of two models he met at the real dance. The boss called Haval over to treat him. The woman who took too many drugs and asked him to keep a secret, and the scene where his wife was almost hanged to play with by a big boss, Hafer's heart was stimulated, sexual desire, resentment, fear, and changed to nakedness in the dream, but And very hidden. His old classmates were not as good as him. In the dream, the end was much worse than him. The prostitute who had drunk too much almost died and was saved by him. In the dream, he became his savior. In reality, Haval was asked to keep his dirty secrets, but in the dream, the boss witnessed Haval's extremely embarrassing and ugly experience. These are some modifications of dreams (thinking in the day, dreaming in the night, we have also experienced it, Flo Ide's theory explains it).

That mask is Haval's identity and personality in reality (mask and personality in Western languages ​​have the same etymology), and his decent identity as a middle-class doctor. No one around him can tell who he is at the dance, but in his dreams he is. He couldn't escape the eyes of the upper class, and he couldn't escape the real thoughts that he envied and feared the upper class people. It turned out that Haval himself was a low-class consumer who was going to be stripped naked. His wife almost became the prey of the upper class, and even also enjoy it. His mask is like a human skin worn by the soul during the day. Morality and etiquette are Haval himself. The movie uses a magical brush to symbolically show Haval's terrified soul going home exhausted, turning off the beautiful Christmas tree lights (colorful, symbolizing dreams) and returning to the realistic blue (calm color, symbolizing reality) bedroom, watching To the self lying beside his beautiful wife - a mask, at this time, it was like a truth was ruthlessly exposed, he woke up, this nightmare was too real, that mask hid the most unspeakable secrets in his heart, he was affected by it. No, he cried bitterly and told his wife all his real thoughts and desires in this dream and the dream, and the wife also experienced the crisis of marriage because she confessed that she had imagined cheating, she was haggard and silent. At this time, the mask was gone, and it was dawn.

This is my interpretation of the mask appearing on the bed in the film. Kubrick used a wonderful film language to show the story of this dream, and led the audience to have a big dream together. From the dream, he saw the incomparably real society, or Say, the real society in Kubrick's eyes: the class is distinct, the strong eat the weak, the upper class hunts and consumes the lower class, men hunt and consume women, the middle class is both consumed and consumed by others, behind the moral personality mask is contempt for the lower class and animalistic desires, The fear and surrender of the upper echelons, wanting to stay awake forever after waking up from a dream, can only say one thing to this: Fuck!

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Eyes Wide Shut quotes

  • Victor Ziegler: Bill, I... I know what happened to you last night. And I know what's been going on since. And I think you just might have got the wrong idea about one or two things.

    Dr. Bill Harford: [feigning ignorance] I'm sorry Victor, but... what the hell are you talking about?

    Victor Ziegler: Please, Bill... no games. I was there. At the house. "The house". I saw you, Bill. I saw everything.

  • Victor Ziegler: Bill, I don't think you realize how much trouble you got yourself into last night just by going over there. Who do you think those people were? Those were not just some ordinary people. If I told you their names... no, I'm not going to tell you their names... but if I did, I don't think you'd sleep so well at night.