Let's start with the most eye-catching character in the show, George. For a typical trisomy 21 patient, starting from Freud's personality structure model, George's personality may still remain in the initial childhood stage, that is, the most primitive id stage. Personality at this stage is related to human desires, and everything is so arbitrary. For example, when George sees a beautiful waitress, he will express his love directly, without concealment, and if he is rejected, he will lie on the ground and cry like a child without concealment. This id personality pursues the happiness of real-time satisfaction. If he can't buy the shoes he wants, he will lose his temper and try his best to meet his current needs. When he sees delicious chocolate, even if he knows that he will be allergic to it. It will be difficult to restrain yourself to satisfy yourself. Another very significant feature of this personality is that he can satisfy his own desires through imagination. There are many dreams of George in the film, the gentle caress and encouragement of his deceased mother, and the male singer singing Mexican music. And so on, it's just another form of self-satisfaction for what he loves but doesn't want. From the point of view of defense mechanism, facing the death of his beloved mother, George displayed a defense mechanism of denial, as if he still lived on Cherry Street, as if his mother was still by his side. From his dependence on his mother and childlike behavior, he also showed a certain degree of fixation and regression. But such a pure child-like George moved you and I moved Harry too.
Harry is a social person like you and me, with a sound personality structure, and the ego controls the id's desires well. His pace of life is very regular, waking up at 7:30 every day, then two slices of toast, grinning in the mirror, going to work, stuck in traffic, giving lectures. All life was the same, but when he faced the tension of his wife and children, his usual life of repressing his id seemed to be challenged, and he also tried to protect himself by denying it was his fault, he even Imagine your wife sitting in the corner of the sofa arguing with him. Then everything changed, and he was furious at the coffee machine, almost at his wife. Because he met George, he seemed to have an indescribable tendency to identify with George. He put aside all worldliness and pretense to redeem his faults and pursue what he thought in his heart.
Speaking of which, I have to mention that wonderful minute, which seems to be more beautiful than imagined. Harry seems to have become George after that. When George flew down like a butterfly from upstairs, we thought that George was dead, but maybe not. It can be noticed that the words that George said at the beginning and the end were narrated by Harry, because Harry had become George, He could also feel the ladybug vibrate its wings and feel the integration with the tree. I read the movie reviews and said that maybe they are the same person, with different personalities of the same person. Maybe, then Harry is the id burdened with worldly pressures, and George is the repressed id.
The deepest feeling after watching it is, who stipulated that the id must be a terrible and taboo existence? The world in their eyes must be much more colorful than ours, and maybe one day, I can also see ladybugs vibrating their wings on the tip of my nose.
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