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There is such a category of films, after watching which you need to watch another film, with a detailed explanation of its true meaning.
On the one hand, such pictures make viewers seriously immerse themselves in reflections on what they saw.
However, many of us would be better off getting some clarifications from the author, so as not to be tormented by doubts about the correctness of the understood idea of the creators of the tape.
10 Mulholland Drive | 2001
A long, realistic dream sees Diane – the main character of the film, a failed actress, who was also abandoned by her lover – Camille, who is soon going to become the wife of a successful film director.
Diana sinks into depression – she feels abandoned, she is overcome by anger and despair. In real life, the girl decides to hire a hitman to kill Camilla. Diane’s nervous system cannot withstand constant stress, so the psyche, saving her, plunges her into a world of illusion, where she can feel herself the way she wants.
The world of sleep is the space where Diane can feel happy. Here she is called differently – Betty, and besides, in this illusion she has a completely different, prosperous fate. Dreams are the only opportunity for the main character to plunge into a comfortable reality and escape from the realization of the irreversibility of death.
9. Mum! | 2017
In addition to many other encrypted messages that can be seen in this metaphorical picture, the film can be called a kind of retelling of the Bible. There are all the characters in the main Christian book.
The first people also appear on the screen who disregarded the instruction of the Lord: do not eat the forbidden fruit, and their children Cain and Abel. Other recognizable biblical events also take place there. At the end of the tape, the director, as it were, asks the viewer a question: people, how long will God endure all this?
8. Arrival | 2016
Watching the events taking place on the screen, at first you might think that they unfold after the death of Anna, the daughter of the main character. However, this is only a kind of author’s technique.
Gradually understanding the language of the aliens, Louise suddenly ceases to feel time as a sequential flow of events, thanks to which she has the opportunity to see what will happen to her in the future.
Having accepted her future fate, the main character nevertheless decides to marry Ian and give birth to a child.
7. Mr Nobody | 2009
When viewing this picture, each viewer can endure some kind of philosophical grain. However, the main idea of the film is that each person makes the choice that suits his heart.
External circumstances or the opinions of others should not be decisive. The main thing is our inner aspirations, and everything else is secondary.
Nemo, rejects the two paths imposed by his parents, and decides to go the third, which he chose himself. It is this choice that leads him to cherished happiness.
6. Under the cover of night | 2016
The novel that Edward dedicates to his ex-wife is an attempt to take revenge on her and make it clear what trauma she caused him with her act. For him, the loss of his beloved wife and unborn child is as difficult as the loss that the central character of his novel had to experience. Perhaps he compares Susan with bandits, whom he himself invented and described in his book.
The main motive of the protagonist is an ardent desire to make his wife regret her decision and hurt her as much as she did.
As a result, she comes to realize what she actually did, so there is hope that the heroine will find the strength to analyze her life and return to her real self.
5. Remember | 2000
Here the hero hopes in vain that the implementation of the planned revenge will help him drown out the pain of loss brought by the death of his beloved wife, but this does not happen, but, on the contrary, the pain only intensifies.
When in the final episode of the film the viewer sees how the main character hugs his wife and the inscription becomes visible on his chest: “I did it”, then everything becomes clear.
4. Only lovers left alive | 2013
There are several main ideas encrypted in this film. First of all, this is the eternal problem of “woe from wit”: the central characters are not only mentally developed, but also immortal. Such a combination can dry up the soul and make human existence meaningless.
The second message is that only love gives meaning to life, so the characters of the film find the seeds to live on.
3. Donnie Darko | 2001
This is one of those paintings that allows for many interpretations. In the coordinate system invented by the director, a parallel world exists somewhere along with the material.
Donnie Darko in this case acts as a kind of guide who can lead the world back a certain number of days.
The main idea of the film is the struggle of a person with a mysterious energy that pushes him to inevitable death. Acceptance of the protagonist’s death is not a manifestation of weakness, but his humble sacrifice in order to save loved ones.
2. Destruction | 2015
Chance is probably the main driving energy of the life of everyone in particular and of our entire society. The death of the wife of the protagonist was accidental, by chance his life acquired a new meaning after meeting with Karen.
Analyzing his life in detail, he still manages to realize that we do not live according to a written script and fill our reality with what we want.
1. Pulp Fiction | 1994
Do you remember that famous episode in the cult film Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino, when the heroine of Uma Thurman tells her companion, with whom she will start an unrestrained dance a little later, that she recently starred in the pilot episode of a new serial?
According to the plot, there were five spy girls: a commander, a Japanese woman – a champion in kung fu, a black woman – an expert in explosives, a sexy Frenchwoman and the heroine Uma – a deadly beauty who wields a sword better than a fork.
Don’t you think that this company is very reminiscent of the characters of Tarantino’s equally famous film “Kill Bill”, which he shot ten years after “Pulp Fiction”?