Shortly from the beginning of the film, Bourdain risks sacrificing Anjie's wife by tying a stronger knot, causing Anjie's wife to die. In fact, in Bourdain's heart, such a sacrifice is very normal. Bourdain sacrificed his family and deceived his wife's feelings (because her wife understood that Bourdain has a twin brother, and the biggest difference between the two is that their love for her is different), for such a lie, the wife simply cannot accept it. For Bourdain, sacrificing his fingers, sacrificing his wife, sacrificing his brother, these are nothing, because only sacrifice can achieve success.
For Anjie, when he has a machine that replicates himself, magic becomes a breeze. Whenever oneself die, destroy one self when the next one is born. In fact, from the first performance, An Jie has already died, and the only ones alive are replicas one after another. It's just that these replicants have the same thoughts and spirit of sacrifice as An Jie.
From a finger, to pushing a leg in a day, to a wife, to a brother, to my own life, to the end. The weight of sacrifice has been accumulating, and in the end, when the little girl hugs her father, that father is just a father's twin brother (the dead Bourdain's love for the little girl was sincere, and his love for his wife was also sincere), Anjie and Bourdain died at the same time (Anjie can only produce a new self when performing magic, and the old self is drowned), realizing an ultimate magic for the audience in front of the movie screen. For the last magic, or teleportation, the rest of the audience is just us sitting in front of the screen; if, we feel an adrenaline rush about it, it proves that audiences like to see such sacrifices, only real excitement, Only real death can give the audience the ultimate visual experience. Therefore, both of them have become heroes in our hearts. For such sacrifices, we should stand up and applaud.
When Bourdain looked at Anjie dying in the closet, would Bourdain use that box to embark on the same ultimate path of self-sacrifice as Anjie? Will it? Will it? It's you, would you like to? Do you want to......
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