The film uses an interlude method to narrate. "Nocturnal Animals" is a novel that has not yet been published and is still being verified. From the perspective of the storyline of the novel, it can only reach the passing line. However, combined with Susan's special feelings for her ex-husband Edward, Susan's memories can be used to produce enough thrilling and heart-wrenching pictures and plots. Seemingly Wen Qing's ex-husband Edward, wrote this novel for 20 years for revenge, or to get the recognition that his ex-wife has never given him. In my opinion, Edward himself can't tell, maybe there is, maybe not. Susan and Edward both have profound metaphors of sadness, which is what touched me.
1. Can't recognize your own Susan
In Susan's world, it seems that she is the only one who doesn't know herself. Her mother and Edward know her deeply. And while she vehemently denied it, she was indeed, as her mother said, heading down this road forever, which is the reason for the whole sad story. Susan, a petty bourgeois family, resented her mother's style, and liked the "sensitive", delicate and gentle Edward at that time. In the eyes of his mother, Edward was just "cowardly", a boy who could not support big things. The mother hopes that the two will not get married, because she knows that her daughter has not recognized herself yet, and Edward will not become what she wants. The beginning of the rebellious impulse is still unable to escape the ending of being hit. In his opinion, Edward, who is "sensitive", has become "cowardly"; he once liked "his self-confidence", but he has also become "not enterprising"; I liked his writing at first, but now impatiently said that he could no longer read it; Susan began to persuade him to change, reminding him not to always write his own life into his life, but to start new things and strive to achieve what he wanted. want life. In the end, it's not that Edward has changed, but Susan has changed. In fact, it is not to find what you want, but to understand what you don't want. Susan accepted the young and energetic Houghton, knocked out Edward and her own children, and left the life she once thought was the best without making a sound.
2. Sensitive Edward
Susan's mother said that preventing the two from marrying was not to be a match, but to protect Edward. She knew Edward, from the time she was a child, she knew that he was a cowardly child. He couldn't get rid of his grief. The wound of his father's death would never heal. The solution is not to let his daughter become husband and wife with him. Why Edward likes Susan, I think the bigger reason is that Susan's mother cared for him and helped him through that painful experience. Love House and Udi liked Susan like her. Equal people see sensitivity, while strong or self-proclaimed strong people always see cowardice. It is undeniable that excellent writers are sensitive and delicate people, but if they are too sensitive, and there is no way to get out of their hearts, just like Edward, the content of writing all revolves around his own life, his own vision, his own story, and every time he writes. A novel is like another self, so it's not hard to understand why Edward's first novel came out in 20 years, and the title of the book is also the nickname he gave to his ex-wife: Nocturnal Animals. It may be because of the story of 20 years of sharpening a sword that Susan can change her previous view of Edward. When she sees it, she will send him an email to show her appreciation for this work. Before, she even read it. There is no will. Edward appears in too few places in the movie, but in the novel, it should be all of Edward's individuals. He wrote himself in it, and Susan brought herself and her daughter into it as soon as she read it. The whole picture is the reunion with Edward, which is inseparable from Edward's writing habits. He hadn't remarried for 20 years, had no children, was indulging in grief and had no way to extricate himself. In the end, he broke the contract and took revenge on his ex-wife. You can see his revenge methods are so gentle.
3. Who is the nocturnal animal in the novel
In my opinion, the nocturnal animal is not the wife in the novel, nor the hero, but the perpetrator Ren. He is very much like his ex-wife Susan in real life. He is emotionally unstable. He ignores Edward's weakness and understands that he has no power to resist. Therefore, the life of the male protagonist was destroyed and destroyed.
Ren raped and murdered his wife and daughter, implying that Susan killed the two children and abandoned her behavior.
The reason for Ren's atrocities is also unbelievable, that is: if you think I am a rapist, then I will rape, if you think I will kill you, then I will kill you. This is completely a revenge mentality. If you want to invade other people's consciousness, no one can misunderstand me. If you misunderstand me, then I will do it for you. Such criminal motives allude to Susan's subconscious state of activity. If you think I've changed, then I'll show you that, if you think I'm materialized, then I'll marry the rich and promising Horton, and I'll be what you think I am. This deep revenge motive can be detected in some of the paintings Susan admires. Susan bought an exhibition painting with the word "revenge" very early to hang it in the company, and there is also a strange picture of "one person holding a grab and pointing at a smiling man" at home, which shows that Susan's heart is distorted and dark. Even if he doesn't want to admit it, just like Renn never admits his crime, it does exist. In this way, the low-level behavior that even Susan herself did not notice was clearly seen by Edward.
In the novel, the male protagonist trembled with excitement, his veins burst out, and roared loudly after seeing Ren for the second time. He wanted to know how his wife and daughter felt when they were subjected to atrocities. When the two children were aborted, did you consider the feelings of the child in your belly?
In the novel, the case is driven by a lung cancer police officer, which implies that the external force that is about to disappear will eventually turn into an internal force. Finally, the male protagonist breaks through his own shackles and shoots and kills Ren, which implies that Edward has been tracking the case for 20 years. The end has come to an end, he himself has come out of the haze, and although his eyes are temporarily blind, he has notified the lung cancer police officer, punished the murderer himself, and it is no longer far to see the sun again.
4. Susan's appointment
After Susan finished reading the novel, she received a response from Edward. Susan had meticulously prepared for the reunion, but Edward did not come. This is the ending of the movie. Seeing Susan sitting alone drinking, the people around her came and went, and she still didn't want to believe that this was her ex-husband's revenge against her. I don't know if I should sympathize with her, or if I should meditate in my heart. Seeing this, I can no longer scold Susan from Edward's point of view. Perhaps the current life could not satisfy her, perhaps she began to sympathize with the cowardly boy, or perhaps she really suddenly regained the feeling she had for Edward, and she sat there alone, unwilling to believe that it was Edward. A carefully planned revenge, she does not want to wake up as soon as she enters the dream, and does not want the memories and emotions she found 20 years ago to be forced back to reality. This woman who no longer cares which woman her husband is holding the next night, which boy her daughter spends the night at, or whether her company is on the verge of bankruptcy, is a bit pitiful, even if it is a nocturnal animal.
May Edward get out of the haze and start his career as a writer, and may Susan no longer feel guilty, get rid of the unsatisfactory life as soon as possible, and live her wishful petty bourgeoisie life again, and it doesn't matter even if she completely becomes a mother. Come out, see yourself clearly, and stop being a nocturnal animal.
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