Ice Room: The Ugly World and the Beautiful Dream

Viva 2022-04-20 09:01:59

You may not remember the ice room, it is the red doll who led out all the clues, a former member of the laboratory, and a tortured homosexual, here I will only conduct a series of analysis on him. This is just an exercise, there is immaturity, and I hope to correct it.
Undoubtedly, Jin Min's "Inception Detective" is colorful and deeply metaphorical. The colorful paper of the grand ceremony floated down from the sky, the lively and noisy gongs and drums played music, the swirling blue butterflies, the Statue of Liberty, the refrigerator full of rich food, the frog holding the gongs and drums, the wooden door of the shrine, and the dull expression. The dolls are in the music... Behind the gorgeous and grand parade is a step-by-step journey of no return. Red and pink skeletons, white bones and flesh. The appearance of beauty and the metaphor of dreams make the whole play full of a creepy beauty, and it has a kind of good-looking that gives people goosebumps.
In addition to the perfect cooperation between the picture and the soundtrack, the shaping of each character is also full, and everyone has a deep inner desire. The self that is usually placed in the subconscious is thus infinitely magnified in Jin Min's works.
And the ice room, which has been appearing in the dream from beginning to end, also has a complete character and a complete tragic color in "Dream Detective".
"The sun of the sky in the daytime illuminates the darkness every night. Night is the day of dreaming, and the light is the darkness of dreaming. But the sun of the sky, who knows nothing, buries the darkness, burns the shadow, and burns himself up sooner or later. Night Under the shade of the flowering trees, it is a place for the people of the moonlit night to rest, and the people of the day will not pass through!"
As the red-clothed Japanese doll in the Dream Parade suddenly turns into the face of Hiroshima, clues to the DC-mini theft slowly unfold. This character who jumped from a height as soon as he appeared on the scene is the soul character throughout the film. In my opinion, Bingshi is a very tragic person in the film. He is a gay man, but he keeps his desires deep in his heart. The value of society excludes him, and the strong attack from inside himself and outside the society makes him pain. He is also a person who has a strong attachment to one thing. In reality, he cannot satisfy his desires, and he places his hopes on dreams. Rather than being used by the chairman, it is better to say that indulging in dreams is also what he desires to realize. way of self. The director who came back from the parade described the wonderful trip: "It's almost time to create a world you want." The ice room, immersed in dreams, has always been smiling, which may be counted for him. as a relief.
Ice room's same-sex desire is reflected everywhere in the film. The first is that the symbol of Hiroshima himself in the dream is a female Japanese doll in red; the second is that Koyama sees a magazine called "hard boys" hidden in his bookcase in Hiroshima's apartment, two from the cover Boy, presumably this is a same-sex magazine.
So is there anyone in the ice room that you like? I think there are, and there are very likely two, one is Tokita and the other is Koyamauchi.
First of all, let's analyze how the animation shows that Heimuro likes Tokita. The most obvious scene unfolded when Chiba, Tokita, and Oyamachi came to Icehouse's apartment to find traces of him. Some people say that a person's character can be seen from a person's room. Indeed, the two frames of 16 minutes, 26 seconds and 27 seconds, the photo wall and dolls seen from Toshida's perspective, are extremely informative. In the 26 seconds that flashed quickly, there are two photos about Tokita, a group photo of Tokita and Bingshi, and a group photo of Tokita and Chiba. In 27 seconds, there are two pictures of Tokita and Bingshi. Among them, Tokita The eyes are gouged out or blocked or smeared. In the room of the ice room, the only thing that appeared Tokita's face was at the top of the doll, an orange robot holding a sign of help me. In Tokita's mouth, Bingshi and him should be good friends. Both are obsessed with the same thing, and they share the same childhood park. Their close relationship should be very precious to Bingshi, a person on the fringe of society. On the way here, Oyamachi said, "Ishiro is very jealous of Dr. Tokita, and I sometimes think that Dr. Chiba is hateful." Oyamauchi's feelings for Chiba are not so much jealousy as a kind of asking for nothing. The love of her, and finally to the point of being destroyed if she can't get it. If you compare Bingshi's feelings to Tokita, it is very likely that Bingshi is also subconsciously holding such a mentality, destroying his face in the photo because he can't get it, but putting his image at the highest level , showing Shitian's position in Bingshi's heart.
At the same time, there are two pictures of the hills on the photo wall of the ice room. One of them is a group photo of Xiaoshannei and Bingshi, which seems to be taken from a large group photo. There is also a single photo of Xiaoshan. The two have no serious group photo, which shows that their relationship is not harmonious, but Bingshi still Secretly watching Koyama. In the second half of the mixed dream, Chili Pepper looked up from the ruins full of dolls and saw the naked statue in the hill, with his left hand facing upwards thirty degrees. This is a metaphor from the dream of the ice room, in which the dolls made in his reality and the dolls in the parade all gesture upward at thirty degrees. Therefore, it can be seen that in the subconscious hill in the ice room, the penis is bare, the body is fit, and it has a very powerful image of male worship. And this kind of upward perspective also appears on the robot symbolized by Tokita above.
Another metaphor that may be far-fetched is that in the subconscious childhood park of Ice Room, there are three dolls as mascots: a yellow robot, a blue robot and a girl in red. They are the park leaders of the ice room, and this paradise is also the soul of the real ice room. In these three portraits, the yellow robot is very obvious, symbolizing Tokita; the little girl in red may be a self-symbol of Bingshi, because he likes red clothes very much, including Japanese dolls in red clothes, Tokita has made his own The face doll is also dressed in red; because the symbol of Koyama in the dream is a blue butterfly, the blue and robust robot is likely to be the symbol of Koyama. In this sense, the ice room seems to have a desire for three people to live in the park together.
So I think Hiroshima has a love for both Koyamauchi and Tokita, but their feelings are different. For Tokita, he was moved by his peers and liked by Tokita's friendly attitude, while for Oyamachi, it was a feeling of admiration for the male god.
As a marginal person in society, Bingshi is actually very lonely. All the dolls mentioned above are gestures of reaching out 30 degrees. I didn't understand it before, but after going back to the 16th minute, Tokita turned on the lights in the doll making room, and a group of dolls shook their hands and began to say "Welcome back" , I suddenly understood. Bingshi lives here alone, and the greatest hope in his heart is that someone will say "Welcome back" to him, even if it is a doll. And this kind of gesture first appeared on the yellow robot in the amusement park. It can be seen that the image of the yellow robot is so important to the ice room, and he gave this image to Shitian, so Shitian has a very important and warm in his heart. status. Bingshi gained a little warmth from the doll, but in reality, he was still despised by some people. For example, Xiao Shannai, whom he admires, has a disdainful attitude towards homosexuality, and has never taken a good photo with Bingshi; when he saw the bl magazine in Bingshi's collection, he snorted and walked by with disgust. This should be the normal state encountered in Bingshi, and it has also created his autistic character.
Bingshi has a certain anti-social personality, and he has accumulated a lot of hatred in the heat and cold of the world. In the film, Ice room mainly projected this hatred on the director, Chiba, some colleagues and himself. The director was the first person to be pulled into the dream by him, followed by Chiba, and then two colleagues, their hands were raised at 30 degrees, their bodies were covered with various threads, and they entered the dream of death. Going back to the 16th minute and 27th second, on the wall full of dolls and photos, several dolls with clear faces were wrapped in green threads and tied at key positions. Two of them were the director and Chiba. There is a female doll who looks exactly like the ice room, wearing a pink skirt, is also entangled with green threads and cannot be free. At the end of the film, when the Japanese doll, the symbol of the ice room, was projected into reality, he was still chasing Chiba and the director. The source of hatred is not very clear because the brush and ink are not traced. But I roughly speculate that the hatred for Chiba is roughly due to the jealousy that she can get both Koyama's love and Tokita's closeness at the same time; the hatred of the director and colleagues may be because of the world's cynicism he suffered. Too many. During the parade, one of the colleagues was on the phone and the other shouted "outside the number". It is very likely that they are people in the company who love to gossip. Their words hurt the ice room.
Therefore, in the choice between the ugly world and the beautiful dream, Bingshi chose the beautiful dream, and went to the other side of his dream with the warm parade of gorgeous colors.

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