You can't deny yourself forever

Gracie 2022-01-03 08:01:59

Begin with a passage from Tom in the final theater of the film:

I still can’t, and in the end I still can’t (can't find a superpower like myself)
but you already knew it, didn't you? (I said I knew it a long time ago)
You can’t deny yourself, you can’t live in denial forever (can’t deny that you’re a superpower)
I’ve tried my best, and today it’s all over (I’ve tried my best to find someone with myself Same)
for you and me. (To Simon, you are fake, but I never found the truth like me)
I just hope you are ready,
we give up understanding ourselves,
but you can’t always deny yourself
that it’s wrong?
Time flies
when you I thought there was still a lot of time to squander and
thought that there was hope for everything,
but time flew
to the end, it took so much time
and you know what you should do (you should tell Margaret that there is a supernatural existence, because you are)
However, It's over when you wake up,
Margaret still doesn't know (Margaret didn't even know that there was a supernatural being around her at the last moment of death)
I never told her, she never knew
And now everything has become a lie (not telling Margaret, it is tantamount to cheating her, to death, and not telling her the truth)
Have you always known, Simon Shivy?
Do you know
that thing I always wanted to know, did you always know? (I have always wondered if there is anyone in the world like myself)
fakes.


Telling Margaret the truth of the facts is very important, because in the process of cracking the supernatural deception together, I have been like Margaret as a mother and child. That is an emotion that has always existed in the play but has never been fully revealed. And Margaret’s biological son fell and became a vegetative when she was four years old. Her love for him has always made her insist on taking care of the son who never woke up. In fact, she wanted to make her son no longer look like this. Kuchaki wandered on the bed waiting to die. She wanted to unplug the instruments that sustain her son's life and let her son leave naturally. However, to do this, she still needs a solace. The man needs someone to tell her with certainty that there will be a soul after death. This is also one of the most important reasons for her to crack those supernatural scams, and this is also the reason why Margaret insists not to investigate Symen Shivi. Because she has never encountered a real supernatural event all the time, and Simon Shivy’s existence is equal to her own last hope. If the result of the investigation is still the sound of the waves, then she has lost all faith. It's a reality that she can't accept.

Tom regrets that, in fact, he can easily let Margaret get the spiritual comfort she wants, because he himself is a supernatural being. But Tom didn't tell her until she died. Many people are asking why? It's actually very simple, because Tom has been denying himself, he can't face himself. This is why he gave up all his bright future and followed Margaret to search for supernatural events (not so much to solve supernatural scams, as it is to search for real supernatural). His purpose is to find a fellow of his own. Let yourself not be alone, let yourself no longer be at a loss, let yourself be able to accept and understand yourself. But in the end, I still couldn't find it. The final ending of the film: After knowing that Simon Shivy is another fake, Tom is completely awake. But as he said, when he came to sober, everything was over, Margaret still didn't know, all of this became a deception. The film tells us a truth, that is to recognize yourself, affirm yourself, don't wait for everything to be irreparable before you wake up, it's too late.

Finally, let me talk about the unexplainable supernatural events in Tom's investigation of Symmen Shivi. It's very simple, those are all caused by Tom himself, and he doesn't know because of Tom's own confusion (denial of himself). Because in Tom's heart, he hoped that all these things were done by Xi Wei. Under the hint of this powerful inner thought, all these weird events happened spontaneously. (When the film exploded in the theater at the end, everyone thought it was Simon Silvi’s work again, but there was a scene that was obvious. A few seconds after the explosion, Simon Silvi stopped in shock because of Simon. I don’t know what happened to the explosion, so when the explosion stopped, he kept asking Tom how to do it.)

The flaw in the film is the love between Tom and Owen, which is as pale as water, but in the end, two people embraced each other. It’s unnecessary to come to the end of the movie.

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Extended Reading
  • Trudie 2022-04-21 09:02:50

    Slightly disappointed.

  • Raleigh 2022-03-28 09:01:06

    Inversion became a habit with no good effect

Red Lights quotes

  • [first lines]

    Tom Buckley: Margaret. Margaret. Margaret.

    Margaret Matheson: [waking] Yes?

    Tom Buckley: You should get some sleep.

  • Margaret Matheson: [lecturing] If you press down hard on the top of the table and draw your hands toward your body, the outer two table legs are going to go up like a schoolgirl's dress.