After watching the nocturnal animals again, I realized that the first time I just watched it was lively. The film's strong contrast, the back and forth between reality and illusion, is so well-placed and coherent when I watch it for the second time. It looks like a thriller movie, but I think it is more of a life trajectory and emotional choice that makes the audience think after watching it. The barbaric, suffocating plot and cowardly revenge of Texas in the novel are all reflections of Susan and Edward in reality, and Edward's revenge against Susan in reality. The contrast and mapping of the virtual and the real run through the whole play.
Susan seems to have everything, but it seems that she has nothing, maybe only she who can't sleep at night with heavy make-up really understands. Originally, I disdain the drunken fans of Los Angeles, but it seems that I can't escape the words of my mother: "You think you are different from me, but you are more like me than you think, and we will eventually become like our own mother." Maybe only at night. Only when you lose makeup will you think about whether you should choose the empty loneliness under the intertwining of gongs and chips or the one who truly understands your own feelings. However, even if you choose, is it too late? I believe the ending has given the answer.
I think what the movie brings to us is nothing more than to make the right choice, to avoid tossing and turning in our choices, constantly torturing, leaving only empty and lonely eyes.
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