In the minds of many people, the family is the harbor of the soul and the source of love, of course, this is the concept that most people believe in, but there are also a small number of people who have a less friendly impression of the family, because for them, the family is just a bondage. In fact, this can also be understood, not everyone will have a harmonious and happy family, every family has its own pain, these pains can only be known by the person who has experienced them, and the bystander cannot predict the fit of each family, so when we see that different families have different problems, it is correct to give different solutions.
The film recommended to you today is about such a macro concept, but there is no way to tell it in a macro way, the director uses a nightmare to tell a person's helplessness in the face of his own family in great detail, after this helplessness is shown through specific details, this film has innovated in form.
The director of "Beau is Afraid" has previously directed "A Midsummer Night's Terror" and "Hereditary Doom", but if you take those two films to watch this film, you will basically be disappointed, because this film does not tell a cult story in three hours, but explains the inner world of a psychopath, which is itself exploratory, because for this special group of people, no one can portray it as if they were there, but the director gave his own answer.
"Bo is Afraid" is about the world of a mentally ill person, this kind of inner world is not unusual, what is strange is that the creator has found an origin for this inner world, that is, the original family of the mentally ill person as the background, what background, the background of the patient's illness. Is the original family really so powerful? At least the creator gave a strong answer.
For all mothers who have a strong desire to control everything, when facing their children, the strong dominance they show makes the children always in a rebellious mentality, even if any conversation of the opposite sex can easily take away the children in the mother's control. Usually when we see this scene, the first impression is that the child lacks a sense of autonomy or a lack of safety awareness, how can he easily go with others, how can he easily abandon his mother? But in this film, the creator gives the answer, because the child's mother brought him to make the child feel suffocated.
The desire to control is not something that should appear normally for any person, but we can't avoid it most of the time, because the controller of the desire to control itself has a powerful and inseparable thing for the controlled, such as family affection, the child can't let go of his mother, can't jump out of this relationship, therefore, no matter how much the child wants to want to contact with the outside world, he will feel a potential barrier at the moment of triggering, which cannot be crossed, therefore, the child is unhappy.
But when he reaches adulthood, will this happiness continue? The answer given in this film is still no, when the patient grows up, lives the life that his mother wants to live for himself, but completely loses his passion, because this kind of life is not what he wants, he wants to escape from his mother's control, but in fact there is no way to withdraw from it. The suppressed emotions are constantly impacting him, and the triggers of psychosis are also accumulating.
After that, that's what we see, when everything in life has to revolve around his mother, and even his mother's funeral is a disguised control for him, the man is basically ruined. Unable to predict his future, unable to jump out of his present, when this person realizes that all his actions are in vain, everything is doomed, so he becomes crazy in the eyes of all people.
Back at the beginning of the film, we see a decadent world, the people on the street are the walking dead, and all of them are threats to patients, but in fact the real threat to him is nothing more than a madman reported in the news, and all other threats come from his mother's control over patients, and a ubiquitous brand in his life is MW, which is the abbreviation of his mother's name.
This is the setting given at the beginning of the film, and the protagonist's actions throughout the film can be understood as a kind of struggle, including rushing out of the room, including cutting his chains on stage, including dating a strange little girl, etc. At different stages of life, the protagonist does the same thing, that is, escape and resistance. However, the story tells us the end at the beginning, and this escape and rebellion will eventually be futile, and for the original family, it will inevitably bury the participants themselves.
The three chains that disappear to tell the story of the original family seem incredible, but in terms of form, this film interprets the influence of the original family and the inner world of the mentally ill through the transformation of several scenes, which is the highlight of this film. The content is simple and the form is exquisite. Just because the creator has found the source of pain.
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