Analysis from reality

Dayana 2022-11-23 03:22:02

Two ways of understanding. One is the illusory way of understanding the symbolic meaning. The relationship between the four people described in the film is an old enemy of each other for the male pig feet of the two characters; the two heroines are also mutual enemies. The origin of the derailment can be a history teacher or a third-rate actor.

But the above statement is a bit low, and it doesn't make much sense. So the high probability is another kind of understanding. From a realistic understanding, the male protagonist has only one person, and the other is his inner demon, his old enemy.

The plot of the story should be: a third-rate actor, with a decent wife, living a decent life. But the third-rate actors have uncontrollable impulses and desires in their hearts. After the wife is pregnant, they have a mistress. But during the affair, the mistress found out that she was really a mistress, not the original wife, so she made a scene and ended up in a car accident.

The male protagonist's desire was put on hold and he found a job as a history teacher. Since then, the male protagonist has been unhappy all day, because life is too bland, and the role of the second-level personality history teacher occupies all of his daily life. In the past six months, the boring life with his wife has become the boring life of a history teacher in the mind of the male protagonist, while his wife has been eliminated from the history teacher's mind, and his spouse has become a woman in a car accident. This can be inferred from the fact that the male protagonist sits up from the bed twice with different identities and has the same woman beside him. The boring life became the theme.

Finally, the third-rate actor's character wants to return to dominance. The history teacher began to retrieve the former desires of the third-rate actors. The history teacher wanted to get rid of the car accident. The mistress and the history teacher were unbearable to suppress their own desires, so they met the characters of the third-rate actors and exchanged with each other, so that the mistakes of the third-rate actors had been made. It was staged in my mind again, and with the car accident being played again in my mind, the fault of the third-rate actor was finally put down by himself, the heroic spirit of the mistress was finally over, and the depressed and restrained life finally ushered in a turning point. At the end, it was the key. It is a key to unlock the heart and unlock the devil.

Spider, symbolizing the demon, symbolizing the old enemy. The key is used to uncover the demon and unlock the lock. But here, the spider is not just a unique reference, but a symbol of a cycle of reincarnation:

Who is the enemy? Is the romantic desire of a third-rate actor an old enemy? You can say yes, because it caused a car accident, and it is very likely that the mistress died, causing human life; is the history teacher an old enemy? You can also say the same, and it seems to be more reasonable, because the old enemy is the inner demon, and your own desires are not terrible. What is terrible is that after the error occurs, your heart can't bear it, and you can't accept yourself, which leads to escaping, hiding, and then creating Another repression originates from another personality of mine. This is the bigger demon, and this is the bigger old enemy. The close-up of the glass of the window at the scene of the car accident just symbolizes the spider's web and the inner desire of the third-rate actor.

The administrator and the male protagonist walked through the corridor twice and opened the door. For the first time, the door of desire is opened, it is a spider, it is a world of flowers, and it is a sluggish and lascivious life. Maybe this is the source of the heart; the second time, it is the management when I go home as a history teacher. The member opened the door, and this time, it was repentance, cover-up, repression, repentance, but it was a bigger enemy, because this was not me, nor my true desire. The key can make people completely indulge and be themselves; it can also make people repent and suppress and suppress their origin. Everything is reincarnation, all depends on one key, two characters and three-player script interpretation.

At the end of the film, a cycle ends. From the primitive desire of a third-rate actor to the six months of repression by a history teacher, reincarnation has come to an end, the split character has returned to its origin, and the two roles have merged into one, and the male protagonist has never been so sober. The appearance of a key opened another cycle, opened up the instinctive lust, and closed the repression of human nature. Since then, life has become two people again, but maybe it will soon return to three people again.

The final appearance of the spider, but it can be said that the male protagonist is once again troubled by a car accident or history, and his inner demon has not been removed; it can also be said that the inner desire once again dominates, the instinct returns, and the filthy and obscene life once again prevails. As you write here, you will find that no matter which one is, it is not so beautiful. Human nature is full of carnal desires, but human nature is repressive and divided. Suppressing one's own origin and creating another self is not just the male protagonist, but every one of us. On the one hand, we refuse to admit the filth of our own instincts, and on the other hand, we do not want to be divided by the constraints and oppression of human nature. It seems that people can't find the ultimate and most correct way, and can never find it, only one of the two.

In the end you have to ask, what is the true meaning and what is right. The film is to tell us that there is no absolute truth and no absolute good. If you have to ask what is the true meaning, maybe it is the reincarnation over and over again.

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Enemy quotes

  • Anthony: How many months are you?

    Helen: Six months.

    Anthony: That's nice. I should be going. I have a class I have to teach.

    [He laughs while she looks freaked]

    Anthony: You never know how your day is gonna turn out. Have a nice day.

  • Anthony: Control, it's all about control. Every dictatorship has one obsession and that's it. In ancient Rome they gave the people bread and circuses. They kept population busy with entertainment but other dictatorships used other strategies to control ideas, the knowledge... how do they do that? Lower education, they limit culture, censor information, they censor any means of individual expression and is important to remember this, that this is a pattern, that repeats itself through out history.