The Mysterio image in "Spider-Man: Far From Home" cured my Jake Gyllenhaal PTSD from "Brokeback Mountain" to a certain extent - when I saw Lao Ji, I felt abusive, so I opened it too lightly After watching this movie, I got depressed again.
This movie actually tells the whole story of a love story, and the perspective unfolds from the two parties - Edward and Susan, but Edward's emotional journey is completely integrated into the novel "Nocturnal Animals" he wrote, yes, The crime story told in the novel "Nocturnal Animals" is Edward's love journey. Susan had said that he would only write about himself, and Edward responded that because that was what really mattered to the writer, and Nocturnal Animals was still the case, it was his own story, his and Susan's story , which was the first reason he gave the book to Susan.
Susan and Edward's breakup is not without tragic: I saw his wife just beat up her child and hugged her lover, I think it was almost a devastating blow to Edward. In the book, the story turns into the rape and murder of his wife and daughter, which he is powerless to stop. The role of the wife in the book deliberately chose Isla Fisher, who looks similar to Amy Adams, and her daughter is also red-haired like Susan's real daughter, which is enough to show that the plot in the novel is a reflection of reality. It also includes that Tony's car is green like Edward's, and the shoes of the evil head Lei are also green. In the end, Susan also wore a green dress to the dinner that was destined to be single. It can be said that green is not only a contrast between fiction and reality. , but also a harbinger of sorrow, evil, and chaos. Edward and Susan's children were killed before they were born, which also corresponds to what the police said, "Your daughter suffered a lot and broke an arm." For a fetus that has already formed, tools must be used before abortion. Go deep into the uterus and cut off the limbs of the fetus, then take out the corpse and clean the uterus. For Edward, what Susan did was to kill her own daughter in a cruel way. So Edward had hatred for Susan, and he sent the numbers to Susan to let him see his heart and let her know how tragically she hurt him. Judging from Susan's repeated feelings of depression and even confusion between perception and reality, his goal has been achieved.
At the end of the film, Tony may be dead, or he may just be blind. He has been ridiculed as "weak" by punks many times, which is exactly the same as Edward is often referred to as weakness by Susan in real life, but in the end, "weak" people But completed his revenge. When the police shot Lou, Tony knelt on his knees and cried and cried. The grief and anger that had been suppressed for several months seemed to explode at this moment. He said that he was happy and wished he died sooner. Tony followed Ray all the way. Although he had a gun in his hand, he only fired when Ray attacked him. It can be seen that Tony and Edward were both forbearers. Tony held back for a few months, while Edward held back for nineteen years before he was able to. By sending a book and not going to the appointment in such a "gentle" way to report Susan, the hurt and self-blame this book brought to Susan was Edward's revenge, and the meaning of this book was revealed when Susan first received it. Yes - the cover of the book scratched her finger. But what happened to Edward in the end? Tony staggered out of the shabby house and fell into the weeds and never moved. Susan said that Edward had not remarried and had no children. Whether Tony or Edward, they have already lost their wife and daughter in that incident and lost their soul. They are driven by the belief of revenge, and once the revenge is completed, the breath will be drawn from the body. . Is Edward weak? No, this is the unique way that sensitive, romantic people deal with events, to make others feel, to make others understand, it hurts.
There are several clips in the movie that constantly intersperse Susan and Tony in similar scenes, the bathroom is in the bathroom, the tossing and turning in the bed, Tony falls to the ground/Susan is underwater in the bathtub, which is actually the only way in the film to tell a story. The way the two people's perspectives intersect in this way, leaving Edward Susan is of course painful, especially when her own marriage is in trouble, which proves that her choice of abandoning her true love is wrong, and it makes her keep recalling and Edward Susan. All kinds of being together, the depression and sadness that Susan feels today is exactly Tony in the book/
Edward in the past once realized that after nearly 20 years, Susan's feelings have inevitably been diluted, but for Edward/Tony, it can be said that the knife hit the heart. This is also the comparison between the two sets of pictures. The reason why they are the same, but the tones are so different (TF has always been keen to tell the story with color).
At the end of the film, Susan waited alone in the hotel for a long time, but Edward did not appear after all. She had washed off the heavy makeup and was intent on getting back to the way she was when she was with Edward, and it was easy to see that she wanted to do it again, but Edward would not give her another chance. The dead cannot be resurrected. If you miss the love of your life, you will be an eternal stranger. In fact, Susan didn't dislike Edward at that time, but things like money, fame, and her husband's title were more important to her than love. It wasn't that Susan didn't understand Edward, she just couldn't understand what they all understood. It was equally important to look like Edward, and she was indeed very similar to her mother in that regard.
In this movie, the more I understand Tony/Edward's state of mind, the more grief I feel, and the more I think about it, the more heartbreak. Lao Ji's acting is as deeply rooted as ever, it was a surprise to see Maxine, and Tyler Johnson's performance, the sheer chaos and evil, is really shocking, the book doesn't describe any motivation or background for this character, as if He was born to do evil, and this one-sided description made the character of Ray even more frightening and disturbing. Tyler Johnson's condescending and arrogant eyes caught the eye very well. Although he hated this character, he still had to admit that Tyler Johnson The performance is truly remarkable.
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