Introduction: The basic principle of the law is: to be honest, not to harm others, and to give each person the part he deserves — Justinian
The crime mystery film "The End of the Tunnel" tells the story of Joaquin, a computer engineer who is paralyzed and loses his wife and children in a car accident, and loses his financial resources at home alone all day long. In order to get rid of the debt, he rents the house to a strange mother and daughter Porta and Betty, breaking his peaceful life and inadvertently discovering a long-planned bank theft in the basement of his own home.
1. The contest of human nature behind desire
Joaquin's "disability" setting is a highly intelligent programmer with amazing insight and amazing mobility and arm strength. The sad past of losing his wife and son made Joaquin live a dull and boring life before the appearance of Porta's mother and son. Joaquin's only wish, which has no desire and no desire, is to leave the house where the family once lived, and the house has become the sustenance of Joaquin's life.
After Porta appeared, Joaquin's fantasy can see the ups and downs of his uneventful life, and Porta's wonderful body became a symbol of desire in the film. Joaquin's Libido becomes the only motive in the film, explaining That Joaquin's choice to steal, the repressed desire to transform into a vague impulse to do something to prove his desire, so as to gain the submission and dependence of the young and beautiful Porta, and prove that he is more capable of providing life security for the mother and daughter than Galeretto.
In contrast, The Desire of Galeretto's Pedophile and the Greed for Money are more straightforward and clear. The motivation of the character of Porta is to find a man who can be trusted and ensure that he and his daughter Betty have a living environment, and Porta's starting point is to find a man to bind himself and actively live under the patriarchal discourse to be taken care of and obedient.
The film unfolds the story from the appearance of Porta and entering Joaquin's home, Joaquin's relationship with Porta is reversed many times, Joaquin and Porta from ordinary tenant relationship, to the two have a good feeling flow, eavesdropping to find that Porta is the girlfriend of the leader of the theft, the defense of Porta is distrustful to force the control of Porta, and finally empathize with Porta to stand on a line.
Before Galeretto's relationship with Porta is broken by Joaquin, Porta shows a positive, lively, cheerful, diligent and well-intentioned image, alone with an eight-year-old daughter Betty, relying on this job to support the two. The film sets up the work of a stripper for Porta, a vulgar professional identity at the bottom of society, and the controversy of the profession becomes a suspenseful existence in the film. After learning that a single disabled man has a property worth millions of dollars, Porta enthusiastically chats with Joaquin, prepares a birthday surprise for Joaquin, and dances to please Joaquin to close the distance between the two. Porta's behavior has a clear purpose, and whether the two will have a deterioration in their relationship is the association caused by the film through some clever details.
Putting aside the appearance of Porta's "initiative", the purpose behind the initiative is an important twist of the film, another hidden copy of the storyline. Behind Porta's independence and initiative is the object identity controlled by Galeretto. Under the violence and strong oppression of Galeretto, Porta's vulnerability and helplessness and sensitivity alone are highlighted, which is in stark contrast to the strength and resistance of the child.
Behind the seemingly motherly, The image of Porta as a woman constantly oscillates between foolishness and courage, and women's uncertainty and instability have become an important guideline for deciding to influence men in the film. Porta's "bad" behavior in the basement of the tunnel, Galeretto's party disguised as a policeman and went directly into Joaquin's home, Galeretto and Joaquin's tense conversation about life and death, Betty's sudden appearance became a loophole in Joaquin's lie. Only two women appear in the film, and in the film, they are "dementia" and are watched, becoming a presence with nowhere to hide under male authority.
2. The logical paradox under the suspense setting
The tunnels, basements, eavesdropping, voyeurism and tense character relationships in the film constitute the suspense of the film. After Galeretto's appearance, the story moves from the ambiguous relationship between a single man living alone and a sexy dancer with a daughter, directly into another theft storyline. The plot of the theft is amplified on the basis of the dark and corrupt social phenomenon of the police and bandit family, and finally the little people, with their high intelligence and courage and calmness, break the balance of the "gray area" of complex society and expose the ugly.
Behind Joaquin's conspiracy to sabotage the theft gang and fight crime justly, Joaquin's "black eating black" behavior cannot be evaluated from the height of law and justice. Joaquin chose to deliberately open the immovable safe that the sheriff had given him to be immobile before Galeretto and the others entered the bank, and only took the money inside. Behind this is a kind of black humor mockery, a mockery of the stupidity of the evil forces of the theft gang, a provocation against the police chief who thinks he is smart.
From this point of view, Joaquin's character has an anti-social distortion, and the essence behind the choice of "black eating black" is Joaquin's inability to let go of his own accidents, the family's travel and car accidents, and the unfairness and resentment of fate. In the end, cloaked in goodwill, in order to save the violated girl Betty, Porta, who is still in the drum, has a fair logic that does not stand on an ethical level.
The film has some unexplained contradictions in revealing the relationship between the characters and the motivations of the characters. Joaquin paid close attention to Betty's attention, and in order to observe Betty's autism and not speaking, he installed a monitoring device in the dog's collar. Betty also has a certain sexual innuendo when she comes to Joaquin's bed after falling asleep late at night. After eavesdropping on Betty being abused by the pedophile Galeretto, and informing Porta, the film plays down Joaquin's unusual concern for Betty and the motivation to listen to Betty's speech in Porta's tears and heartbreak.
3. Summary
The suspense setting of the film is more prominent but the logic is difficult to be consistent, and it is impossible to carefully examine the deeper meaning behind the film, so that the height of the film stops at the gimmicks and tension of the suspense film. The film begins with a metaphor for the emotional line between Joaquin and Porta, and in the process of the development of their relationship, Joaquin uses his irresistible concern and "for our good" to make a decision for Botha, so that Porta has to be tied to his future. At the end of the film, Joaquin and Porta are united to form a new family, leaving the house and starting a new life for a family of three. A seemingly bright and beautiful future direction is actually turbulent and contradictory.