In the old 1980 film, when it comes to shaping marginalized people, David Lynch always seems to be so speechless: the ugly protagonist John Molek, who knows about twenty minutes, the camera follows the small The nurse stepped up the stairs timidly, and we only saw his face for the first time. I admit that at that moment, I was indeed stunned. It had nothing to do with terror - it was compassion. Tvera taught him to speak. Later, when John talked to you, you had to hold your temper and distinguish carefully, so that you could hear what he said, maybe, maybe you could hear his honest character and deep inferiority .
He was accustomed to men and women seeing genuine horror and rejection on his face, and even he himself was frightened by the reactions of others, so when he first met Mrs. Tvera, he was moved and almost said He couldn't speak, that's why he thought, to find the feeling of a normal person. He always carried a photo of his mother with him. What a beauty she was, who accompanied John day and night, and this yellowed photo was the only one. He didn't do anything wrong, he didn't steal or rob, just because of his natural appearance, he always felt ashamed of his mother, and felt that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't be a good son: what kind of inferiority and guilt is this? , and love, treasured in his arms for so many years? There was a convulsion in my heart.
With those drunken concierges and gentlemen, and prostitutes full of fleshy faces, he seems, no, must have never experienced the joy of being born, the preciousness of life, the tense muscles of his face, Even when he misses his mother, he can't show a trace of regret. He can't understand the complex emotions in people's eyes, and he can't understand the meaning of people's words. His heart is outside the world, but he lives in the world. So, it is bound to be a tragedy. When I saw half of it, I couldn't help crying, for him, and for ourselves, who wasted our time.
To lose is to know how to cherish. The "mirror neuron" principle says that when we see a person doing an action, although we do not make any action, our neurons are the same as the neurons that fire when the person is doing this action. At the same time, neurons are active in our minds-perhaps, it is because of Molek's loss of happiness that we think that we should cherish this normal skin, a moderately sized head and fluent language expression. John Molek's suffering, as a bystander, in addition to Gu Ying's self-pity, the humanitarianism that is about to be wiped out has begun to flood again. Perhaps it is a kind of sympathy of the strong for the weak. It's ironic. Thinking about it this way, vanity will always belong to most people. Common advantages, talk about masturbation, and only talk about masturbation.
"Good luck, what we need most is good luck." The dwarf said to Molek, but presumably both the dwarf and Molek knew that it was not the same, the pagans were outside the religion. Molek finally shivered in the crowd and shouted, "I'm not an elephant, I'm not an animal, I'm a man, I'm a man." Do people still need to be reminded, yes, they do. After returning, he said to Mr. Tevila, "I am happy every moment, because I know that there are still people who love me, and I have found myself." The sadness behind this sentence, how many people have known it, They are all poor people.
Fortunately, Lynch gave us a reassuring ending, and Molek could finally sleep on his back in peace. In the dream, his mother whispered to him, nothing will disappear, the stream is always flowing, the breeze is blowing, the white clouds are wandering, and the heart is beating. . . . .
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