Nocturnal Animals is a 2016 film based on a novel.
The director of this film was originally a costume designer. When he was in his 40s, he quit his job and went to work as a director... "Nocturnal Animals" seems to be the second work he directed, and it won the jury of the Venice Film Festival. The group award, and the art style of the whole film is extremely unique, it can indeed be seen that it is from the hand of a famous designer.
The story of "Nocturnal Animals" is simply that a man uses a novel to get revenge on his ex-wife... But in detail, it is divided into three timelines, one is the story in the novel, one is the current life of the ex-wife, and the other is the ex-wife and the male protagonist. past past.
Susan's ex-husband Edward sent her a novel. Susan used to be an idealist and fell in love with her ex-husband, a novelist, but then she was not satisfied with her ex-husband's condition and wanted a better life, so she left her ex-husband. Edward, Edward's novel is a dark and tragic story about Tony driving across Texas with his wife and daughter, only to be targeted by thugs, raped and murdered by thugs, and powerless to do anything, finally after a year. A post-revenge story. In reality, Susan's current situation is not good, and she disagrees with her husband. Then she read the novel and decided to meet her ex-husband Edward. Unfortunately, Edward just used such a novel to arouse Susan's emotions, and then broke the appointment to retaliate ex-wife...
The three timelines are magically intertwined, but they are not messy, and it is these three timelines that almost fully describe the ideal and reality and the changes in people's mentality.
Edward and his ex-wife Susan, the two were idealists in their early years, but their family environment was different, and it was difficult to get together in the end.
Susan's family is a traditional to a bit feudal family, and it pays attention to the right match. Susan also grew up with a golden spoon. She naturally longs for something she doesn't have, that is, a boy with romantic feelings like Edward. But as an artist, most of these things have accumulated a lot. Edward couldn't have soared when he was young. Susan chose to get married too early. Aborted Edward's child, married a rich man, and eventually became the reality woman he hated the most...
Of course, leaving Edward does not mean that life is happy. You will naturally have other troubles when you marry a rich person. Realistic rich people naturally have no romantic feelings. Life lacks sentiment, and realistic rich people are easy to have outsiders. Little San, Susan's husband naturally also has it, and Susan has to go to those inexplicable celebrity parties, and listen to those hypocritical rhetoric, life is really boring... As a result, I found passion in the novel sent by Edward... After walking around, I think Edward is better. This is the easiest problem in life. I lost sesame seeds to pick up watermelons, and lost watermelons to pick up sesame seeds. The last thing you had, you dumped your ex, and maybe what your ex has is what you want most in the next relationship.
Of course, I can't just talk about Susan. Edward's problem is not small. The way of expressing his psychological state in the movie is the finishing touch. That is, the novel he wrote, the name of the novel is "Nocturnal Animals".
I think anyone who engages in art is sensitive and emotional, otherwise it will be difficult to persevere in this industry, and Edward will not leave it, but in life, if you want to really achieve success, most sensitive and emotional people have to experience experience and cruelty The growth of Susan is the most cruel experience of Edward. Edward has repeatedly emphasized that the novels he wrote are all based on his own experience, so every character in the novel is actually a reflection of reality. Let's analyze it carefully.
The novel begins with Tony and his wife and daughter driving at night on a highway in Texas where there is no telephone signal.
In fact, this is all telling that Edward and Susan did not understand how dangerous it is to easily get married when they were young, just like driving a night car in Texas (it is said that the folk customs are very sturdy), full of unknowns, and Susan's mother also objected, and Edward's father was also dead, so it could correspond to the lack of signal on the phone, which meant that he couldn't ask for help (after all, someone who came over could give some advice).
When the car was entangled by the gangster, Tony had the opportunity to resist, but he chose to compromise every time. The gangster obviously did not have good intentions in his words and deeds, but Tony obeyed again and again, even when facing a gangster alone, Still choosing to obey is extremely cowardly. This is to say that in reality, when the relationship between Edward and Susan was in danger, he chose to escape again and again and did not face it head-on, which led to the final breakdown of the relationship between the two.
The day after his wife and daughter were taken away, police officer Bobby contacted him and asked him to come to the crime scene to find his wife and daughter together. This police officer was actually a reflection of the other side of Edward's heart.
Police Bobby is a typical western-style policeman, wearing a cowboy hat, and his attitude seems to be rambunctious. He asked several sharp questions during the questioning with Tony, and his attitude clearly disliked Tony. He felt that Tony was too cowardly and his wife The woman was kidnapped, maybe even assaulted and then killed. Tony couldn't remember all kinds of things, so he couldn't tell.
This is a character created by Edward's contempt for himself later. After all, when people regret a lot, they will have contempt for themselves at the beginning, and only in this way can they reap improvements and corrections.
(Insert a sentence here, when I found my wife and daughter, the designer side of the film director was reflected again... The placement of the corpses of the wife and daughter is too much... I won't say more, and the pictures can't be put, you can watch it yourself .)
As a result, the police officer Bobby couldn't find the murderer from Tony's ambiguous testimony. The time came directly to a year later. By chance, the police officer Bobby found the murderer's accomplice and asked Tony to identify him, but the two followed the clues to find the real murderer. At the time of the fierce thunder, there was not enough evidence to sentence the other party. At this time, the police officer Bobby revealed that he was about to die of lung cancer. At this time, Tony was actually very different from a year ago. He shaved off his beard and looked like Much calmer, Bobby later imprisoned Ray and his accomplices in private, and prepared to kill them regardless of his identity as a police officer.
There is actually a very magical analogy here. I just said that Tony and Bobby are both reflections of Edward's heart. Tony's change naturally reflects Edward's heart, and Bobby is about to die and finally break the police identity and principles. The act of killing the murderer also reflects that Edward's contempt for himself is about to die out because of the change in his overall mentality. Of course, before his demise, he must give himself one last motivation and completely break the principles he once adhered to.
In the end, Tony killed Ray himself, but Ray also used an iron rod to blind Tony's eyes. When Tony wanted to leave in the wilderness the next day, he accidentally shot himself when he fell...
This still mirrors the relationship between Edward and Susan. You blinded me. Although I took revenge, this gun killed you and killed myself...
Seeing this, Susan took the bait and thought: Edward's love was still so hot... so she went to see Edward.
I didn't expect Edward to just write it like this, but I don't think so anymore. After all, he has already died once, so how can he still be Edward?
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