The whole film gives people a feeling of depression and change. Perhaps this statement is relatively contradictory, relative rather than absolute. After all, life itself is full of ubiquitous contradictions. There are always things that cannot be changed, and there are always things that can be changed.
The only truth is to follow cause and effect and heart.
Adrian's eyes pierced the heart. Sammy's Erica is my favorite character in the film. Her needs are so immediate, money and sex are so immediate, so is beauty. She is the only one facing the truth of life. Everyone else is running away from life in disguise.
There are three kinds of people that come to mind and want to talk about:
1) The first is the people who save themselves and those who are saved.
Because of human nature's sense of self-protection, people will eventually live with shadows, without exception. The only thing redeemable and worthy of awe is impermanence. Impermanence seems hopeless but full of hope. Impermanence will destroy the existence of some plans, and at the same time, it will also give each tomorrow the strength that is full of infinite possibilities. Life has its trajectory, and there are traces of cause and effect. Believe in love and being loved with kindness in your heart, and don't be fooled by sex. Believe in respect, do not have class and gender. I believe in defects, so I love life more and love the people and things that have appeared in life. Believe in purity and don't label irrational giving with self-righteousness. Henry and Erica are such people, each other is saved and self-saved. The feelings between them are mutual, and each other reshapes the other's absence. Henry showed Erica respect, care, purity, and kindness. Erica taught Henry to perceive beauty, face the past, accept and forgive. [The first picture of them standing between the red walls. He wiped her injured lower body, bought gifts for each other, Erica's confession before being sent away and her heart-wrenching shouting, and the two people hugging each other happily at the end of the film are touching scenes]
2) Part 2 The second is the sober but incompetent person.
People live in their own loneliness and others are watching, these two are facts that can never be changed, and they are also obstacles that we need to learn and overcome in our life. If you can't get rid of your inner shackles and give up self-help, you will only become a deserter in life in the end. The female student who died at the end, in her eyes, everyone was full of vigor, happiness and beauty, but she was helpless and tragic [the cake she made before her death clearly reflected this kind of glass heart]. She searches for the truth with confusion, can't see love and her own expectations, lives in a world as fragile as glass that she longs for, with grief and the shame and ridicule of others' names, she dies inexorably in the world In disappointment, she died of discouragement.
3) The third type is the person who deceives himself.
This is the choice of most people. He dragged his body with a mask, and acted numbly as a puppet of pain. Live in the social role you choose at first, and eventually lose yourself. Such a person has no ability to change suffering, nor to create happiness. Unchangeable fear of change, persistent and earnest to play the role that has always been, for fear that once the change occurs, there will be no survival value. Such people will not die in their own inner struggles. In order to avoid pain, they have long been accustomed to turning a blind eye to the dissatisfaction around them and turning a blind eye to the cries in their hearts. This kind of death is no different from human death. In the face of the retired female principal who is exhausted and shy, and the expressionless teacher standing under the wire mesh... Too many identical expressions make these people have no difference in their facial features and gender. [The photos taken by the dead schoolgirl are very infectious. If Erica didn't appear, Henry would continue to be a member of the Mask Party, and continue to be a person who looks at others and himself with the shadow of his memory. 】
Several very favorite ways of expression.
In the end, Henry's grandfather's murmur before his death and Henry's answer to his grandfather on behalf of his mother.
The photo puzzle of dead schoolgirls has a lot of meaning.
The part where Henry and Erica buy and exchange gifts is the highlight. It can be seen that beauty is precious. Interlude is also great.
I want to say that love is great, whether it is family, friendship, love.
[Family affection] Henry's mother didn't tell the truth even when she died, and would rather endure the torment herself. It can be seen that she loves both father and son, even though her father is also the father of his son.
The father missed his daughter until his death, which shows the father's remorse for his wrongdoing and the pain of losing his daughter.
Henry later learned the truth or chose to forgive his grandfather (father). Do you still not believe that love is better than being together?
[Friendship] Liu Yuling and the old teacher were sitting on the bench to talk. This should be the only successful outpouring. By the way, the previous dialogue between Liu Yuling and the students reflected the blindness of rebelliousness and the powerlessness of love when people were young. The student's phrase "I DOT CARE" not only ended the conversation between them, but also reflected the reason why people are numb. It's because you don't care, so you don't pay attention to your own heart and ignore the feelings of others.
[Love] If there is no Henry, Erica is still a prostitute, and it is only natural to live as a person who makes a living with gun money. Without Erica, Henry would still be the one who restrained his emotions and kept a distance from life with reason. Don't accept or give anything other than yourself. Before and after getting along with Erica, his attitude towards life has changed significantly.
The film shows so much. too much emptiness. too much truth.
The deformity of this society, the injustice to women, the indifference to the spiritual world...
The deformity of people, the obsession with pain, the blindness to the truth, the blind worship of labels...
It is correct to see things in two. When you see darkness, believe and seek the light behind it.
Self-awareness, self-reflection, self-reliance, self-love.
Be kind to others and be kind to yourself.
Not under the gaze of others, not in self-illusion, not in the shackles of time.
Security and presence are self-sufficient, and no one can control your thoughts. Self-awareness is not self-righteousness or not going with the flow.
So people should live without being dependent on others. Don't live in the past, don't live in the future, just live in the present and cherish the present. Be a tough person, accept loneliness, face pain, and live truly and calmly.
Believe in the cycle of cause and effect. Pleasure is not eternal, neither is pain.
What we want to transcend is actually in the state of our own indulgence. All that is in the mind is attachment.
Transcending pain is an ability. There are too many losses to face in this life, so this is a life-long task. Ice melts water, water becomes mist, and atomized ice is like this. In the final analysis, the state is different, the cold and warm are different.
Love and kindness.
I like the monologue at the end very much, so I present it:
During the whole of a dull, dark soundless day
In
the autumn of that year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in Heaven
's heavy clouds hang low in the sky
I had been passing alone on the horse's back
Through the Singularly, dreamy
tract in the country and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on Finally, as the night fell slowly Within the view of melancholy House of Usher I knew not how it was past appearance
But with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit
I
looked upon the scene before me the simple landscape features of the domain
I looked at the sparse landscape around the mansion On
the bleak walls, on the white trunks of decayed trees With the utter depression souls There was an
iciness Cooling A sinking. Sinking A sickening of the heart showing a weak and morbid state - Edgar Allan Poe "The Fall of Usher"
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