1. If this farm trip is likened to a spiritual journey of forgetting the dead, then the violence of brother Francis is actually a kind of self-destruction of Tom, and the grinning man is a counter-example of indulging in grief and unable to extricate himself, but In the end, Tom's choice was different from Grinning Man, and he got rid of this sad dream.
2. The expressiveness and intensity of emotional expression of the film are not as strong as that of "Mummy", but it is the dark flu of this emotion that uses imagination to describe real emotions, and it is always covered with a layer of mist.
3. Characterization:
Francis: Symbol of old love, an illusion of a sad journey
Mother: a bit of a symbol of motherhood (Dolan is good at describing various forms of mother-child relationship, which is also one of them, repression and repression)
Grinning Man: The Counter-Example of Indulging in Sadness and Self-Destruction
Farm: A place closest to nature, as Tom said, is the most real fantasy
Delivery: Tom may have committed suicide in the process, but unsuccessfully, the blood on his hands may be his own. Tom also had a brief reconciliation with "him" after going through it all with the phantom Francis
Fake girlfriend: This is Tom's way of saving himself, but he may not be aware of it, or deliberately ignore it (see the dialogue between the two on the farm)
Eulogy: The last sentence of the opening eulogy: Find someone else to replace the old love. It points to two endings: ① replace old love with Francis (i.e. illusion) ② find new lover. Tom finally chose the second ending. Although he experienced several inner struggles, he finally decided to end this sad journey
Sex symbol: the bed that is gradually put together in the room
Stockholm Syndrome: It's the film's surface, but the inner expression is a self-imprisonment, self-torture, and self-delusion
Loneliness: There is always a sense of loneliness in a movie shot, no matter how many people are in the shot. Sadness permeates every scene in the film, and above sadness is the loneliness of the illusion of being isolated from the world.
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