The rubber head is really amazing. The fewer character dialogues and the vague plot let us focus on the characters' hearts and the portrayal of the scenes. The continuous dull factory machinery noise implies the overall environment, laying the tone of suppression and absurdity.
Everyone doesn’t talk much and does things, but they are grotesque everywhere. The mother is like a steam train’s neighing, the father’s smile is like a mold, and the grandma’s smoking is like a mechanical running sound. It has both the imagination of science fiction and the human nature of industrial society. Vividly externalized.
The freaks born by the wife, the couple's quarrel and the wife's final departure can reflect the difficulties of family life in reality. In the middle of the night, the man’s wide-open eyes and probing hands are the hidden impulses that suppress the desires in life. The wife’s annoying refusal suppresses the man’s desire even more. The external manifestation of wife's pain and exhaustion and the manifestation of alienation in the industrial environment.
The man first undulates horizontally in the picture. His arrogant hairstyle and introverted personality are in sharp contrast, which can reflect the contradictory inner heart of the character. He often stared at the oven and the firewood underneath. He imagined that there was a happy angel singing the song of heaven in the oven. This was a reflection of his inner desires and the sustenance of his hopes. So what did he desire?
The whole movie has more physical appearances. One is the ugly appearance of the body. The baby looks ugly and terrifying after being sick. The men who appear at the beginning and the end also have the same acne marks as the sick baby. This can be said to be a sickness of the flesh and even a sickness of the mind. , Or a manifestation of primitiveness, revealing the essence of the flesh; the second is the distortion of the flesh, such as a naked baby, which has fish-like protruding eyes and mouth, and the entire head is very similar to a fish, such as two An angel with tumors on the cheeks. This tumor is like the cheeks of a fish. For example, the recurring bugs resemble giant tadpoles/sperms. The long tube looks like an umbilical cord. The bugs fall on the stage and fall into the water. , Being thrown on the wall (a bit like the process of fertilization) is the touch of life. The distortion of the body highlights the primitiveness of the body, and primitiveness is the embodiment of life and desire, which reflects the theme of the whole movie about life and primitive desire Thinking; The third is the physical changes. What impresses me is the flow of liquid. For example, angels step on bugs to squeeze out white liquid. For example, a man cuts a baby’s internal organs/heart to make it flow out of liquid and continue to spit out foam. For example, the roast chicken that the father took out leaked blood from the lower abdomen, for example, the blood from the trees on the stage flowed out to form a pool of blood where the man's head fell. Life is born from the ocean. I think the liquid itself is a manifestation of life, whether it is white or red, viscous and flowing, like blood, semen, and various body fluids in the human body. The flow of liquid in the movie symbolizes life. The generation and extinction, the release and relief of desire, and the abstraction of liquid flow extends the picture and imagination space. A man’s brain is divided into rubber heads, from solid to dust into the air, it is the embodiment of human being used as a tool in society to dissociate and alienate, and finally become dregs and disappear in the air. If the liquid, thick and deformed flesh symbolizes life And desire, then the rubber head here indicates the disillusionment of reality and desire.
The man’s self and desire are suppressed, hope and fantasies in the angel in the baking box, the final fantasy is shattered, the cruel reality rushes over, the man faces the depths of the desire, he kills the baby (the killing is the past The suppressed and alienated self), freed from the self, embracing the angels of heaven
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