Directed by Imatoshi, "Unma's House" was originally created with the goal of making an OVA (original disc animation), but it was labeled R-15 (forbidden to be watched by 15 years old) during the final review, and finally debuted as a movie.
The story told in the film takes place in the last century, and When Wei Ma, who debuted as a group idol singer, faced with the difficulty of increasing album sales, in order not to cause trouble for the firm, she had to obey the firm's arrangement to transform into a TV drama actress.
However, after the transformation, Wei Ma thought that she could accept the identity of this actor, and after repeatedly suppressing her inner desire to be an idol singer, her life became more and more chaotic, and even insane. But later, she discovered that she may not be the only one who is insane....
Another room without hemp
The room where unma lives is small and is full of all kinds of small things: puppets, dried flowers, gifts from fans, and so on. And this also reflects Wei Ma's heart: she is not organized about life, does not want to be close to people, and cannot adapt to the changes in her surrounding environment quickly, which also hints at the difficulty of her own transformation from an idol singer to a TV actress.
In the room, she received two phone calls. One is the mother calling, asking her about her career transformation, and she can only answer that this line is not what you think, which just shows her helplessness and compromise on her own development.
On the other phone, no one spoke, only gasps. Thinking that this was someone else's prank, after hanging up the phone, he opened the fan's letter and found that it said, "I will always look at the unma's house (the Japanese middle house means room). And left a string of network addresses.
At this time, Wei Ma's heart began to fear, and while Wei Ma looked at the window, the camera also cut to the window, and the window at this time was more like a screen.
"Who's watching?" Could it be that there is someone outside the window? Or is it the fan of the letter? What can he see? Did you really see my room? ”
The next day, based on the address in the letter, she logged in on her computer and saw an introduction to the "unhemped bud house" on the Internet, and someone updated the post on it. At first, Wei Ma thought that this was a fantasy of fans about the course of his day, but the more he looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong, because this was Wei Ma's own life for a day!
What kind of milk you bought, what kind of fish you raised, which foot took the subway to take the first step...Even the little things that you didn't find yourself are all posted on this website. Wei Ma felt more and more frightened, and she even began to wonder who wrote this content, and whether it was her fans? Or herself? While she was looking at the computer screen, was anyone looking at her through the screen?
And the reflection of the unhemp in the mirror behind her also hints that the unmax spiritual world gradually began to collapse, and outside her room, another room appeared; in addition to the unma, there was also another unhemp.
This is the foreshadowing of the original film, in order not to trouble others, suppressing her inner desire to continue to be an idol singer, but had to transform into an actor, but the inner resistance slowly made her unable to distinguish whether she was in reality or hallucination.
And the series of changes around her and the "unhemped ministry house" made her even more afraid, all this, what is going on? Who is the person who created this website?
Passionate interpretation of the self-division after the interpretation
The first TV series filmed by the actors of weima transformation tv is called "Double Bondage", which just expresses the meaning of this movie, the "double bondage" between Unma and virtual Unma.
In the filming of the TV series, Wei Ma has an unprecedented passion scene, and she plays a stripper who dances in front of a group of people. When Unma saw the script, agent Tian Suo told her that this was an opportunity. However, her assistant Rumi argues for this, and she feels that this is completely inconsistent with the image of the idol before The Horse.
For Wei Ma, who did not want to cause trouble to the firm, she accepted the shooting, but in fact, it was not acceptance, but a compromise, and she even forced a smile to say that this would not frighten her family.
However, when Wei Ma sat on the bus home, she looked at the change of scenery outside, and the glass reflected her reflection, and also reflected her truest thoughts: I don't want to!
She has loved singing since she was a child, and she does not want to compromise on this, nor does she want to change from an idol singer to an actor; she does not want to act in such a passionate drama. Her suppression of her ego had also reached its limit, and the unhealedness of her fantasies began to appear before her eyes.
In this passion scene, Wei Ma wears a performance costume similar to that of an idol singer, from the initial brash performance to the final tears of true feelings, she can't tell whether this is in the play or in reality. And her tears are like a kind of wailing, which makes people think of the idol singer Wei Ma, because the scene was completely "killed". At the end of the work, Unma sat alone in the dressing room dressed in black, more like a mourning for the "idol singer" who was "killed".
In order to highlight the effect of Wei Ma's inner chaos, director Jin Min, after Wei Ma arrived home, when Wei Ma saw the death of the neon fish she raised, he was emotionally excited and completely broke out, messing up the whole room.
In the beginning, this room represented the inner world of Wei Ma, and now the room that she has messed up also conveys that Wei Ma has been mentally confused and began to give up on herself. The two small neon fish that appear under the lens represent the two unma that appear in the heart of The Unma, and they chase each other and fight each other.
This is the bondage that the past self brought to the growth of the self, we all know that growth is difficult, it is even more difficult to completely get rid of the original way of life, and Wei Ma is experiencing such a transformation.
Get rid of the shackles and try to grow
When Wei Ma's inner chaos cannot distinguish between reality and illusion, many viewers are also unclear, whether Wei Ma is in an illusion or a real environment?
In the final climactic part of the film, Rumi takes Unma back to the "Unma's House", a small house that is exactly the same as the room of The Unma, and is completely the room decoration of the singer's unma period. At this time, Rumi appears in front of Wei Ma wearing a red costume, and wants to kill Wei Ma and replace her and continue to be an idol singer.
Seeing this, I believe many people will feel that from the beginning to the end, it is a ghost who stays in the United States. Because Rumi is a person who lives around Wei Ma, she knows the "Unma's House" very well, and can even instruct ME-Mania, a fanatical fan of Wei Ma, to make some acts of fear.
And Wei Ma in the process of being chased by Liu Mei, through the mirror to see her own face, at that moment she froze, if the singer dressed in Liu Mei is to represent the past of the unma, then, when seeing her own appearance in the reflection, she found that this is me, the singer Wei Ma has become the past, and the current Unma is real.
However, at the end of the movie, Wei Ma looks at Rumi, who is locked up in a mental hospital, and says through the glass: "Thanks to her, I can become who I am today." Moreover, Wei Ma looked at himself in the mirror and said, "I am really." ”
For this ending, director Imatoshi's explanation is that this is the difference between people who have grown up and those who have been trapped in the past, Rumi is trapped by the obsession of the past, and cannot come out of the shackles of the singer idol, while Wei Ma has successfully separated from her former self and transformed into an actor Wei Ma.
But when the director uses a lot of mirror reflections to show a person's heart, we may as well make a bold guess, does this imply that Wei Ma is actually a murderer?
Yoko, played by actor Mima, is schizophrenic in the TV series because of that passion scene and kills people. And Wei Ma took nude photos after playing the passion scene after the mental confusion, causing the chaos to increase, will he kill the photographer?
Therefore, in the end, did Wei Ma say the words to Liu Mei who was locked up in the mental hospital, and was he also thanking her, because Liu Mei's mental disorder had the opportunity to exonerate herself?
Watching the entire movie, we see a history of The Transformation of Unma from an idol singer to an actor. At first, he could only sing on a small stage like an amusement park, and did not dare to stop the unma that he did not dare to make a sound when facing the audience's troubles, and in the end, even if he was wearing sunglasses in the hospital, he could be recognized by the nurse, and it was obvious that he could clearly feel that Hema had successfully set himself on fire.
The film shows the process of dialogue between a person growing up, and the inner self. The dialogue between the real unhemp and the past unma has created a chaotic scene for people.
If the past self is your dream since childhood, and the future self is the transformation you must have, will you trap yourself in the past, or will you try to grow and embrace the future?
"The House of Unhemp" shows the transformation of unma in front of the audience in a way that is chaotic and vague, I think it is probably because growth is originally chaotic and vague, vague about self-positioning, vague about the future direction, do you often ask yourself: What do I want to do? What am I doing?
If you can let go of too many complicated ideas in the past, you can stop and observe yourself in the chaotic world, just like the unma, look at the real self in the mirror, you can find that those who bind you are actually just the framework set by others.