The thing that breaks my heart the most in the whole movie is the scene where Edward watches Susan and Holden in the car in the heavy rain. It was raining, but the whole world seemed to stand still, a blank. Susan betrays Edward and also aborts their child, which is a double whammy for a man. In the novel, when the sheriff kills his enemy for Tony, he finally breaks down, crying: I could have stopped this. Tony's torture of himself has a double meaning. The movie switches back and forth between reality and fiction. Edward understands that neither the emotional changes in reality nor the disasters in the novel can be controlled by him. Faced with a heart that has left, love has disappeared. The woman, just like the gangsters forcibly take away her wife and daughter in the novel, he can't do anything except helpless, he can't stop his lover's betrayal or the impermanence of life's rape of the Tony family. The evil in life can be seen everywhere, and it is difficult to avoid it. In Edward's novels, the Tony family travels late at night. They were originally full of joy. After a few hours, they will be able to reach their destination in the wake of the dawn. Several hooligans attacked them with their cars. After the car stopped, they provoked them with words, attacked the Tony family with their actions, and molested Tony's wife and his daughter. The movie gives a close-up here of a thin, skinny finger with dark nails tapping up and down the carport, an obvious metaphor, this is not a human hand, it is the claws of a nocturnal animal, this extreme. The frivolous movement heralds the start of the hunt. In the novel, Tony's wife and daughter were both raped and killed, and their corpses were abandoned; in reality, Edward's wife cheated and his daughter had a miscarriage. The film and reality paralleled, and the world in which Edward represented both characters collapsed at that moment. People usually have three reactions when they encounter danger and disaster: freeze, escape and resist. Edward in reality and Tony in fiction use the same defense: Edward, who was motionless in the heavy rain, and Tony who did not fight to the death with the villains, freeze is their instinctive choice. When frozen, they are instantly isolated. Dangerous, but those forcibly suppressed pains are like boulders, crushing their own inner moments. The trauma that has not been dealt with after stress is like countless pieces of glass, flowing through the whole body along the blood. People seem to be alive, but their hearts are empty. Faced with the unbearable weight of life, people will automatically split into another self, a The calm self on the surface, but in the subconscious of the self, in the crushed emotions, the real self is dead, the soul is torn to pieces, floating in the eternal darkness, and the desolate night sky can no longer be integrated. The inability to deal with death, loss, and love is a problem that the individual cannot overcome by himself. Edward's book to Susan was sent at the right time and at the right time At this time, Susan can deeply understand how he felt when she betrayed Edward. Edward kept Susan back then, just as Susan saved her marriage now. He and Houghton said that they would go to the beach together on weekends, but Houghton said On a business trip, Susan put the book written by her ex-husband in the kitchen, trying to attract Holden's attention, but Holden was indifferent, Susan called Holden, and Holden said that they had just arrived at the hotel and said that they couldn't book their previous stay. The room can only live on the 31st floor. The number 31, in turn, is 13. 13 in the western world represents betrayal. Once the betrayal begins, it will be a vicious circle. Susan's life is facing disintegration, but she chooses to remain silent. She continues to work and continues to lose sleep. The loss is so silent. Susan re-acquainted with Edward through the novel, and re-seeed herself. She lived like a mother she didn't like: realistic, snobbish, seemingly religious, but a delicate egoist. In Edward's novels, Susan constantly examines herself, she wants to go back to the past, to be herself, she wants to start anew with Edward, she wipes off her lipstick, takes off her ring, and washes it off. She wrote to Edward. But Edward didn't show up. Some people say that this is a story about revenge, but I still disagree. Edward has sharpened his sword for 20 years, not just to let Susan see the cold light. Edward wrote good novels and wrote different stories that Susan criticized him in the past. Books, he lived as Susan liked, he also wanted to fall in love with Susan again, but he couldn't, he was incapable of love. People can't come back to life after death, even if they are ashamed; it's the same when love dies, even if people are there. At the last moment, Susan finally understood the purpose of the novel. She was sitting alone in the restaurant that was closing, half of her face took up half of the screen. When the movie was about to end, her right eyelid trembled: the cruelty of life is not sadness, but see the truth. Later words: "Nocturnal Animals" is the second play directed by Tom Ford. The film has a strong, luxurious and gaudy beauty, which has nothing to do with him being an avant-garde designer. In the film, Edward said that the novelist is a At the beginning, the stories were all about themselves, and the director also implanted a lot of his own aesthetic elements at the beginning, Tom. Ford used to be the CEO of "Gucci" clothing. He was a cross-border director, but color is still the chief sensitivity to him. In the use of color and tone, he chose high-intensity and high-saturation contrasting colors. This kind of evil and charming visual conflict, which is also in line with the character's heart that the film wants to express, and the artworks in the art gallery also use deformed, distorted, and destroyed art forms. This movie tells the story of betrayal. Betrayal is the eternal theme of intimacy, and it is also the original sin that cannot be eliminated by being a human being. However, it also implies another extreme: people’s infinite loyalty to their original family leads to the inability to differentiate themselves. . Betrayal is not always a bad thing, and loyalty is not always a good thing. I'll talk when I have time. "Nocturnal Animals" after watching 2019.09.03
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