Plot introduction

The plot is that the hero has a successful career and a happy family. The day after his 40th birthday, he had an ordinary intestinal lens examination in the hospital. As a result, he suffered a medical accident, became a vegetable and eventually died. This is an objective plot.

It seems that this has nothing to do with the horror killing hospital. However, we clearly see that the hero has experienced all kinds of horrible experiences in the hospital, which is the director's original intention. Until the end of the film, the black nurse cut off the fingers and toes of the hero, and the hero's family entered his ward, including his brother, wife, son and daughter. We realize that the original movie has been describing the world in the hero's brain.

After the hero entered the operating room, there was a flash of light, which marked the beginning of the hero's foam embolism. From then on, all the horrible experiences we saw were actually nightmares written, directed and performed by the hero, not real ones, but only in his mind. From that moment on, the hero can never return to the real world, never see his relatives again, and embark on a road of no return. In the end, the hero committed suicide in the nightmare of screenwriter, director and acting, ending the nightmare and his life in the real world.

So to sum up, the plot is: the hero with a successful career and a happy family, on the second day after his 40 th birthday, suffered a medical accident of bubble embolism when he had an ordinary intestinal lens examination in the hospital, and became a vegetable. From then on, his brain began to experience uncontrollable and unbearable nightmares. Finally, the hero committed suicide in the nightmare of screenwriter, director and acting, and ended his life in the real world at the same time.

Not only did he not tell the audience the truth until the end of the film, but the director actually had many ideas and hints.

First of all, the beginning of the film is also the echo of the end, which is also the reason why the protagonist finally dies. At first, the hero fell from the height of the painting in his dream and was awakened before landing. His wife comforted him and told him that many people woke up at the end of the nightmare and were safe. I hope he doesn't think too much. It is based on this theory that the hero can't wake up from the nightmare after embolization, and the only way to try is to choose to jump from the height of the dream (the seventh floor of the hospital). Of course, he didn't wake up in this nightmare, and real life left him. ......

Feelings after reading it.

After watching this movie, I can't be calm for a long time. By the way, I read the comments of netizens. It is really understandable to see that many netizens don't understand this film very well. Because the screenwriter and screenwriter of this film have too many profound meanings to express, plus some medical and psychological knowledge and American native culture, it seems difficult for us in China to understand. I am fortunate to be engaged in the medical industry and know a little about psychology, so I want to discuss this film with you again.

First of all, it explains the protagonist's vegetative state, which is also an innovation of the screenwriter, expressing the inner status quo of the American middle class with the inner world of vegetative state. The hero mentioned in the film is cardiac arrest due to air embolism, which is extremely rare in rectal examination, leading to irreversible hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, similar to large-scale cerebral infarction (in fact, it is a completely different physiological and pathological process). One of the characteristics of this disease is large-scale cerebral cortex necrosis, because our visual, auditory, olfactory, sensory and language centers are all in the cerebral cortex, but people's memory and thinking centers are all in the limbic system of the brain, so the hero's logical thinking ability is still preserved, but he has lost all the ability to communicate with the outside world. In other words, from the beginning, it was doomed that the hero could not wake up again, and only death was waiting for him (vegetative people basically died of infection and malnutrition).

Explain the hero's medical care again. In fact, the hero doesn't have any disease, and what he goes to the hospital for is just a general examination, which can only be regarded as a medical diagnosis operation, not an operation. Because of his eating habits (food is mainly high-calorie meat, lack of plant fiber), the United States is the country with the highest incidence of rectal cancer in the world, so as a middle-class white man, he attaches great importance to medical care. After the age of 40, proctoscopy is a routine examination for early detection of rectal lesions.

The third is the social background of the hero. The hero mentioned in the film is a standard American middle class, a native American white, which can be said to be the most superior group in the United States. At the same time, I am engaged in a decent white-collar job, which seems to be engaged in network work. If I am not mistaken, he is engaged in online shopping and sales. His job is easy and his income is high, which can be found from his conversation with his brother. His brother once told him whether you are qualified to enjoy everything you have. The hero expressed anger at his brother's question and showed deep anxiety, because he was afraid of losing everything he had, and the richer he was, the more empty he was, and the more afraid he was of losing his wealth.

Fourth, talk about the world outlook of the hero. Because of its sense of superiority, it hates or discriminates against all people of color, especially blacks. As can be seen from the film, there is no black nurse named "Mandingo" in the exhibition, which is completely imagined by the protagonist. Meanwhile, please pay attention to the name "Mandingo". Anyone familiar with American culture knows that "Mandingo" is a black organization in West Africa and a group of people who are extremely hostile to white Americans, so it is also a group of people who are disgusted by white Americans. So "Mandingo" is an out-and-out villain in the dream. Then, when the hero goes to the abandoned area of Dream Chinese Medicine Hospital, we can find that the patients living there are all colored people, the doctors are all black, and the only nurse is an elderly woman, which also expresses the hero's discrimination against all foreign colored people.

Finally, the details of the hero's dream. Over 40 years old represents the peak of life glory, facing irresistible death step by step, so olive trees appear constantly in dreams, expressing the hero's desire for life. At the birthday party, my friend said that the medical accident in America filled the hero with fear of the hospital, which was vividly shown in his dream. At the same time, there are anxiety about children who have grown up, loyalty to their wives and so on. It is worth emphasizing that sexy female nurses, like the only warm candlelight, sexy high heels, stockings, tight uniforms, sexy lips and white teeth in the film, make all men shine at the moment. Of course, our hero has a good impression on the female nurse from the first time he met her, which actually represents the hero's desire for the young opposite sex. From the tireless help of the female nurse in the dream, he can have sex with the female nurse and so on.

As for the director who finally jumped off the building, I still have doubts, whether I realized that I was in a dream and wanted to end it in one second, or whether I committed suicide because my beloved female nurse was destroyed by "Mandingo" and the only warmth in my heart disappeared. However, from the whole film, the former is more likely.

In a word, this film is a rare good film, which deeply expresses a person's inner world through special means.