The film begins on the beach. The male protagonist observes the people playing on the beach as a lonely veteran. Later, he expresses his inner loneliness and emptiness and the confusion and helplessness at the end of the war after World War II by having sex with a nude woman in sand sculptures, which reflects the inner trauma of the male protagonist. traces of and the part of the drive that expresses the death instinct through sex.
Afterwards, the stretching of the camera introduces the thinking about the future that everyone will use when they were discharged from the army at the end of World War II. Here are the missions of the political and social environment to the veterans at that time, as well as many contents of the characteristics of the era at that time.
When the military doctor of the army conducted the psychological test of the Rorschach inkblot on the protagonist, and the male protagonist answered that it was a sexual symbol of the vagina and penis, including when the doctor asked the male protagonist for further in-depth treatment, the male protagonist answered questions when he answered questions about the traumatic event experience and The question about the relationship between the male protagonist and the family, but the male protagonist refused to answer the intimate emotional part and refused the help of the doctor.
This part reflects the male protagonist's trauma and his own inner state, and shows the male protagonist's daily life state of confusion, degeneration, alcoholism and drug abuse in alcoholic beverages. This part involves the death instinct drive As well as laying the groundwork for the traumatic events that later recounted his former father's death from alcohol and drugs.
Afterwards, the next chapter of fate still takes the ship as the carrier. The male protagonist met the "Master" in bed, and his problems also deepened. In the master, he used the methods of psychological impression and free association to take polygraph validity and questioning and confrontation. method, to guide the male protagonist to present his deep-seated disease.
In the face of the male protagonist's alcoholism and drug abuse, as well as his emotional loss of stealing... Many issues have been handled by tolerance, acceptance and guidance, and paved the way for the traumatic incident of the male protagonist's father's death from alcoholism and drug problems in the original family of the male protagonist. The cause of a series of traumatic events is attributed to one's own denial of oneself. Therefore, when dealing with his beloved girlfriend, he adopts the factor of escaping and giving up to deal with it. This makes the male protagonist's life always a way of wandering and exile to punish himself to express his anger towards the world.
When the male protagonist followed the master to gradually establish a trust relationship to the homes of believers who went to preach on land, a series of conflicts were triggered. The relatives of the master expressed dissatisfaction and wanted to give up the male protagonist. The leader preaches in the believer's home. All the women in the male lead's eyes are naked women. That is the reaction of the artistic conception. It is the view in the male lead's eyes. It is an artistic method to reflect the inner world of the male lead. A group of naked women communicated, which actually had the effect of a different dimension. The master always insists on holding on. In the dialogue between the master and the male protagonist in prison, "Only I love you the most, and I am the only person who likes you", so that the male protagonist becomes the master's "faithful guardian" and establishes a sufficient trust relationship.
In the process of "protecting the law", the male protagonist fought against those who challenged time therapy several times. It should be noted here that the master also received the influence of the male protagonist when he taught his theory. He revised his theory in the second missionary activity materials and was questioned and questioned by devout female believers. At that time, the master The answer also reflects the growing motivation of the constant revision and constant doubt and denial of human nature, which also reflects the mutual healing effect between the male protagonist as the treated person and the therapist master during the treatment process.
Later, the leader guides the male protagonist to touch the walls and glass in the house, which is actually a prototype of the treatment method, helping the male protagonist to understand his emotions and inner world. , and later took the male protagonist to the desert to ride a motorcycle once to stimulate the inner motivation of the male protagonist. This part is actually a kind of preliminary preparation for the end of treatment in psychotherapy.
After being repaired, the male protagonist has the courage to visit his girlfriend's house and face his past. After learning that his girlfriend was married, the male protagonist began to reflect on and face his own problems, and accepted that his fear of intimacy and escape because of his father's death had always affected his heart. After returning from his girlfriend's house, the male protagonist started a wandering journey again. At this time, the ship appeared again but it was different from before. Before, the male protagonist was confused and evaded punishment, but now the wandering is a journey of search.
After that, the male protagonist was summoned back to the Sect Master's College in England to make a real farewell. The male protagonist can get to know his girlfriend in the bar and in the process of making love, he will use the spirit of healing humanity of the deeply rooted leader in the conversation with his new girlfriend.
In the end, the film is sublimated to the beach where the male protagonist embraces the nude woman in sand sculptures, and the male protagonist who is clearly different from the opening echoes the nude woman. When hugging the naked woman, the male protagonist is no longer rude and fearful of inner emptiness, but replaced by inner warmth and peace and a sense of the future. expectations. At this time, life is like a dream in a dreamy mood... The sea represents life and human nature, and the boat represents the trials and tribulations of life, the sexual force and self-growth.
The main purpose of the film is to face the good and evil of human nature and that each person has the ability to redeem himself in the end. He is his own master, just like everyone in Buddhism is his own Buddha. The artistic conception from Xiaocheng Buddhism to Dacheng Buddhism is similar in effect Wonderful.
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