If "The House of Unhemp" is director Imatoshi expressing a person's growth and transformation path, then "Red Hot Chili Peppers" is Director Imatoshi's communication of how a person can become a complete "me".
In "Red Hot Chili Peppers", director Imatoshi added a lot of strange ideas, as well as his habitual way of lens editing, as if seeing this movie, you know that this is Imatoshi's film.
This film about the future tells the story of more and more people suffering from psychiatric diseases, so the genius scientist Kazuto Tokida and Dr. Toshita Invent a machine THAT can reflect people's dreams, DCmin, in order to treat people's mental illnesses. The film also unfolds with the theft of the three dcmins that have just been invented.
Originally thought to be a simple theft tracking case, but in fact, Imatoshi used dreams to expose people's repression of nature.
Ben me
What is the original self is man's most primitive desire to satisfy instinctive impulses, such as hunger, anger, sexual desire, and so on.
In the movie, Red Hot Chili Peppers is another personality of Dunzi, she is enthusiastic and undisguised, and she will be happy to see what she likes, and she will hate to see what she doesn't like.
She is like the original self of the pier, doing what the pier would never do.
Not only that, but the genius scientist who invented Dcmin, Toshida, is also a typical representative of the original self, who has a high IQ and is extremely creative. But his personality is like a child, all inventions are just for fun, and the original intention of inventing Dcmin is only to share dreams with friends.
He eats as much as he wants, unwilling to take responsibility. When Dcmin was stolen, his first instinct was to recreate another one. When Dunzi said that the stolen Dcmin was likely to become a means for criminals to commit crimes, his first reaction was still not to solve it, but to say that this was the problem that Dunzi should solve.
Tokida has a strong concentration, but he only cares about the things he is interested in. Director Imatoshi once again uses the expression of the environment to show Tokida's heart with Toshida's chaotic room, and his world has no sense of order to speak of, only to accumulate continuously.
Another protagonist of the film, Officer Fanchuan, wants to be a director and ends up under pressure to become a policeman. Because of a shooting case, it became a shadow in his heart. Through red hot chili peppers, he longs to get relief from dreams, solve cases, and break through himself.
But in the dream, the repeated appearances of the movie scenes, and finally the distortion of the carpet in the face of the criminal, all hint at the escape of his inner self.
He wanted to be a director, and giving up his dream of directing was the biggest regret in his life, he thought he didn't care, but the truest desire in his heart would not deceive people.
By excavating the truest self of human nature, Imatoshi reflects the two extremes of modern people, either the suppression of desire or the strong release of desire.
But whatever the degree, it is an imperfection of human nature. The hedonism that the original self pursues is also a certain degree of self-relaxation.
superego
The superego, the regulator of the personality structure, governed by the principle of perfection, is the moral part of the personality structure, and it is also the highest part, which is also the result of socialization.
The superego is the suppressor of the self, monitoring the self and pursuing perfection. In the movie, it may be that only The Pier has achieved the superego.
As a doctor, in addition to the genius Toshida, Dunzi also has an IQ that surpasses ordinary people.
She remains calm at all times, is a practitioner of the superego, puts morality on the commanding heights, and in her heart, she does not identify with the presence of the original self as Red Hot Chili Peppers, because that is a completely different side of her.
Therefore, after facing Toshida's accident with his assistant Ice Room because of the theft of Dcmin, but being able to maintain an attitude of not caring about herself and continuing to improve Dcmin, her moral concept can no longer be restrained, and for the first time expressed her dissatisfaction with Tokida, and scolded Tokida, and even broke the Dcmin instrument that Tokida was improving.
This is the expression of the superego part of this movie. Imatoshi also portrays the pier of self-restraint, which is often used at the moral level, through her daily details, combing her hair meticulously, wearing a proper professional dress every day, and maintaining a proper distance from her colleagues. In the eyes of others, Dunzi is a calm and wise woman.
However, such a pier is not alive, and when Toshida, who becomes a robot in his dream, swallows the pier into his stomach, he says: "There is still a seasoning missing."
When Toshida saw the red pepper, he said: It is this red taste.
This shows that a person who has complete restraint over his own self is incomplete. It is in this way that Imatoshi tells people not to suppress their desires too much, because even if it is perfect, it will no longer be you.
self
The ego, which is an integral part of the psychology of personality, follows the principles of reality and satisfies the requirements of the ego in a reasonable way.
At the end of the film, when Red Hot Chili Peppers enters the dream of the Ice Chamber, we learn that the person who stole Dcmin is the chairman who has been righteously rejecting dcmin research, because he wants to swallow dcmin alone, so that he can become the king of the dream and make up for the pain of his paralyzed legs in reality.
At this time, the dream begins to overlap with reality. The images that originally appeared in the dream appeared in reality.
The grand parade, watching the lively people begin to join the parade, the procession is getting bigger and bigger, and the world is becoming more and more chaotic.
And the red hot peppers also appeared in the same scene as the pier, the original self jumped out of the independent existence of the superego, and people's original desires began to be gradually amplified.
This not only expresses the complete explosion of people's desires under the repression of reality, but also conveys the concern of director Imatoshi about those who are suppressed. Perhaps this is what we have always said: do not erupt in silence, perish in silence.
It was like a battle between inner desire and morality, but in this battle, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which represented the original self, began to transform, and she became responsible and responsible, facing the chairman who was occupied by the desire of the self. The pier representing the superego has also changed, she is no longer calm, for Tokita alone, even if she is swallowed by Tokida, she still chooses to tolerate.
When the robot Shida is stuck between the two buildings, the pier that turns into a phantom is like the beginning of the movie, struggling to help Toshida squeeze out of the two buildings.
It's just that at the beginning of the pier, she will be dissatisfied because of Toshida who is stuck in the elevator, because Tokida only knows how to eat, but does not know restraint, but now, she chooses to hug him, because she understands Toshida's inner kindness and chooses to be tolerant.
At this moment, red peppers entered the body of the robot Tokida, combined with the pier. At this moment, they finally formed themselves with each other, both following morality and satisfying their own selves in a reasonable way.
In the movie, the chairman of the board of directors who is controlled by ben-me, who hates himself who can only sit in a wheelchair, is eager to stand up, so he is swallowed up step by step by the desire in his heart, and eventually becomes the person who is illusioned in the dream, but in the end he is eliminated by the pier that combines the two parts of the original self and the superego.
To defeat men, it is necessary to use women; to defeat dreams, to use reality; and to defeat desire is not morality and restraint, but moderation and guidance.
This is the original intention of Imatoshi's creation of "Red Hot Chili Peppers".
People's own desires need to be satisfied, but they must also abide by the moral bottom line in order to truly become a powerful person.