"I Want to End This"
"I Want to End It All" is a film work by Charlie Kaufman. Charlie Kaufman's works are not many, but he is a filmmaker with a very personal style. His expression of video art is absolutely Perfect is also unique. I didn't notice who the director was from the beginning of this movie "I Want to End It All", but I was attracted by the aesthetic style and weird atmosphere of the trailer. After watching the movie, I was not disappointed. The whole movie A very sad, boring and depressing story is told in the way of stream of consciousness. Let’s briefly talk about this movie.
(No matter what life is like, we still have to move on)
"I Want to End It All" is a stream-of-consciousness movie. If we compare "Creed" to a science movie, then this "I Want to End It All" is a liberal arts movie. The whole movie is really like Nolan "Don't try to understand it, feel it".
"I Want to End All This" Actually, you can fully understand the original meaning of the story by knowing the basic point of the story. One sentence can sum up the general content of the whole story: a lonely and widowed old man whose life is unsatisfactory, it has no family, no lover, no hope, no economy, Before his death, he constructed a kind of life through the intersection of memory and fantasy.
That's right, only the cleaner is a real person in the whole movie. The other characters in the movie are some people in his fantasy or memories. After watching carefully, you will find that the director of many pictures in the movie has already told you.
At the beginning of the movie, when the old man is driving, the swing outside the car is the same place that Louisa and Jack saw, and when the old man is driving to a certain place in the snow, the camera cuts to the perspective of Louisa and Jack driving, which is more sufficient. It shows that they have a certain connection. Later, the heroine answered the phone and put on glasses. Thinking that the old man is also short-sighted, it seems to be a hint. In the early part of the movie, Luisa came to the basement of the house, and the clothes that were rotated by the washing machine in the basement were also the same. Old man's real work clothes.
Louisa and Jack seem to be able to hear what each other is thinking sometimes. When Louisa saw the picture of Jack's childhood on the wall at Jack's house, she felt that it was herself and Jack again. The director has clearly told you here, The whole room and other characters are a combination of the old man's memories and fantasy. The large number of short-lived characters in the film are also the people the old man met in his life. For example, the ice cream shop and the staff's mockery of Jack corresponds to the old man being laughed at by the students on campus. When Old Jack received the Nobel Prize, the audience under the podium may be all the people the old man met in his life. It may be just a one-sided relationship or it may be that his colleagues go to relatives. The old man uses this method to tell everyone that he "successful" .
Half of Jack's parents may look like real parents. For example, the parents don't understand Jack. Although Jack is very cruel to his parents, he still loves them very much. Before his parents left, Jack stayed by their side, and there may be old people. I once took girls to my home, and through my parents and family circumstances, the meeting made this meeting very unpleasant, and it also constituted the painful memories of the old man's life. The old man also mapped this painful memory into his fantasy.
Personally, I also feel that the arrangement of the parents is more like a warning light in Jack's fantasy, reminding him of his abject life and his true self. The same bruised female service in the ice cream shop feels like a subconscious umbrella in his fantasy, and she tries to stop him. Louisa and Jack returned to the car together, because she knew that once Louisa was back in the car, she would go to school and slowly wake up from her fantasy. We can also find out through the school trash can that the old man should not be This is the first time to fantasize about your life. It should be a lot of fantasies and cycles.
We also learned from the conversation between the old man and Louisa at the end, that Louisa used to be the object of his secret love, but he did not have the courage to express it. The meeting between the old man and Louisa may have been in a coffee shop or brushing each other on the road. The old man fell in love with her but couldn't draw any distance. He could only fantasize about the fusion between himself and his imagination. No matter how many times the old man constructed this fantasy, this time Fantasy must be the last, because he wants to end it all.
The theme of the movie "I Want to End It All" can be said to be very mourning and very real. From the fantasy of the stream of consciousness above and the life of the elderly in reality, we can understand that this is a very lonely, very cold, and very depressing life story "Life is It’s like drawing lots, no matter what kind of life you have, once you start, you have to bear and face it yourself.” To understand it with philosophical thinking is that when everyone reaches the end, there is no difference between us. Old Jack should be a real person who has an interesting soul but is overwhelmed by reality. This kind of person may be by your side, or it may be a reflection of yourself, a large section, or a small section.
(Unique movies come from unique directors)
Charlie Kaufman brings us a unique video experience through his unique shooting techniques. The eerie atmosphere and magical and surreal images in the film also remind me of "A Midsummer Night's Fright", "Doom Hereditary", The movies "Warm and Light".
"I Want to End It All" is very rare in terms of picture aesthetics, color use and unique shooting methods. The unique shooting method of suddenly jumping into the movie scene in the movie really surprised me, Director Through the fragmented stream of consciousness shooting, we can piece together a sad story, and the viewing mood of the whole film is deeply suppressed by Kaufman's cold color picture. Furman's mastery of the camera makes it extremely depressing. "I Want to End It All" is an absolute good film that feels consciously. The core of the film cannot be expressed in words. Everything can only be left to the audience. To experience this beautiful and sad film, there are several peeping shots in the whole film, which can imply that "men peep into their own past and dreams, and we also peep into our own past and life through movies. "It may also imply "We audiences spy on their own lives through movies", or "Spy on this group of people through movies", no matter how you understand it, it should be the last time, because "I want to end this."
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