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Sonny boy’s music was mentioned and played in the movie - and that’s why I was invited to watch the movie for the symbolism analysis.
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Just finished watching Jacob’s ladder. Not so much ‘horror’ after they introduced the hallucinogens at the other half of the movie (as if try to make it seems more ‘logical’ to most audiences who cannot fathom the true meanings of the sceenplay writer) - I will make no comment on the ‘hallucinogens’ part - pointless in fact.
Symbolisms:
1. Orange sky with clouds, we saw helicopters crossing over river/underworld: Hermes: Jacob’s ladder, messengers between sky and earth
2. Scene of soldier dozed off: starting the ‘dreaming’
3. Woke up in a metro running train holding book Camus ‘stranger’ a separative third person perspective of self-viewing
4. Metro station’s name Bergen and its etymology: Bhergh: high; mountain; pyramid
(woman staring: eye; octopus tail: earth real; rat=Egyptian mongoose: Atum’s guardian/ Shu god; water or raindrops: Tefnet; Saw a light coming from train: Ra’s circle. That’s a pyramid from top to bottom and now it’s all the way going down)
5. Station poster: Ecstasy: Plato’s Karthasis insinuating the very start of journey of purgatory in bardo
6. The confusing switching of two lives, one with kids and another with Succubi Jezebel, as it always happens in stories of Bardo, THE Self trying to collecting self.
7. He saw demons tracing him, nurse’s horned head, etc that’s what the Tibetan bardo described as hell. The climax of it resulted a baptism by the ‘witches’. Making him realize gotta climb the ladder up-(looking for lawyers, talking with that chemist etc)
8. His name is Jacob Singer, singer (he is going to praise the god, so eventually he will “make it” ). His job is postman, same as Jez work in the post office both are hermes actually, messengers of the god.
9. Chiropractor Louis Denardo. De Nardo=De BernARDO. (Bardo), Louis here is /lu/ and /yi/ which I shared in several tweets basically it’s same race, descendant of enneads, the Cherubim. (Demons as well, even if appearing as angels)
10. His youngest son had an accident of Bike vs Car, wheels vs wheels. Cherubim ophanim seraphim are all ‘wheelers’ the race of wheel making. Had wars among themselves. Jacob in the passage had to remind self of loss of his son to be the strongest attachment of someone in his life who passed away, oftenly used as the ‘guide’ to lead them out of bardo (end of movie denoting that, with light, staircase- but those are disguises)
11. The pains he had inbetween two parts of life “down the hell” were as if real, once he made peace with the self, (had agreement with the Cherubim) The Self collects self, devil become the Angel in Bardo.
12. The scene of taking last taxi “home”, Sam open the door. Taxi driver name: Garzero, Gar is a town name at western Tibet. As well as see //garpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Gar_(God). Drivers in the movies are all captains of the cars/ships/wheels (same race). So like the “journey to the west” he reached the door of “home” and spoke with Sam the doorkeeper, a Janus type, janitor of the sundoor.- As I’m not very versed in the Bible and qu’ran, but generally speaking it could well be seen as such: after talking with Sam basically he’s now officially “dead” in the sense of experiencing that “ordeals/cleansing” from purgatory.
13. Did he really leave the hell? Bardo is a passage “down there” yet the scenery as if he finished the purgatory passage and made his way out. That’s very religious dogma there(all the -isms), spiritual pilgrimage of Brahma, accept we are sinners and we gotta go through judgement and final day etc (worst brain virus). It gives people a false idea of “light” at the end trying to mean the liberation, which it is not. It is of course not heaven at the last scene either, as Hollywood trying so hard to do the hell vs heaven dualistic moral and desire based judgement same old same old doctrines.
I take the screenplay writer must be very knowledgeable of the Tibetan Buddhism and Christianity. Didn’t focus much on the numeral links though (depends on the director’s knowledge of Gematria), all in all its a work that worthy copied and remake in Hollywood just so that ‘they’ could keep preaching their pyramidal scheme of enneads worshippings, as well as focusing on dualism’s extremities - the very reason of pains generator.
just found our Sam’s name as in Samkrama. Sam here has the value ‘completely’ or ‘absolutely’, full, all.
这应该是我最喜欢的片子了,像极了小时候的梦魇,原始而粗野的力量,孤独绝境时的干渴,诞生新生命的阵痛。
在这苦难境地,本应给人带来希望的天使下一秒可能变成腐烂肉体的恶毒妇人,刚刚建立的理性可能随时被神秘力量颠破,除了绝望,还是绝望.....
在这个似乎永远醒不来的梦中,确实地经历着生老病死......
男主角死在了战场上,在还没有停止呼吸前,大脑还有意识的活跃着,意识里他渴望幸福,却又感受到了死亡的痛苦,他努力想弄明白为什么,最后他又给自己一个答案,一步步零散的记忆碎片,敲打着他,最后他终于释然了!平静的死去没有牵挂!
影片给我的感觉是导演可能想
表达一种将死之人,闭上眼睛脑海里可能出现的一切画面所有的情节,出现的人物情节都是现实中存在但是意识里组成的舞台剧!
所以影片里面所有的画面都是臆想!
唯一真实的是外界的声音!导演很好的把外界真实声音加入影片!
能把这种亦真亦幻的感觉拍出来!真的太了不起了!
和做梦一样但是这一次你知道自己没有醒来的机会,还是努力做个美梦吧!
舒缓下心情!明天好好面对!
有一段真像寂静岭啊 难怪说寂静岭受此电影影响后来的很多片子估计也是受了此片叙事方式的影响混沌不清的双重世界,不知道真相
for i love you so sonny boy
寂静岭梗的来源,听说他们团队都是本片的粉丝来着,本片的剧情和5基本一致,也能在后来的电影比如说蝴蝶效应生死停留里看到它的影子,开头会让人感觉是战争片,多重幻觉叠加,幻觉背后还是幻觉,全片依旧是一个死前的幻觉。医院的推车上的那个幻觉弄得实在不错:恐怖感渲染的非常好,仿佛大卫林奇附体
看的过程有点穆赫兰道的感觉,当然没有穆赫兰道好啦,有些乱,导演对电影节奏控制有点差,还有些粗糙了。不过整体看起来很文艺腔,可不,原来是LOLITA的导演!
就是1990年的《生死停留》。前边冗长,但最后并没有太恍然大悟的感觉。
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剧本的结构很精妙,三重时空回环,对越战的反思从表层的战后PTSD出发,一点点往回构建直指骇人真相,过程中带着风格化的浓郁诗意和伤感氛围。从恐怖惊悚类型而言,完成地也很出色,阴湿鬼魅感丛生,尤其是深夜幽灵地铁一段。
过往可能更关注导演作品里的情色元素,其实他制造悬疑的能力还是有一套的,比如这部的迷幻风就营造得不错,地铁异象,冰水梦境,炼狱医院,舞厅交媾几个段落都很有代表性,就是收尾的阴谋论蛮生硬的。
3.5星. 從這部電影認識了一種類型電影的名字, Rubber Reality, 虛幻電影. 時空變換, 主角經歷著不同時空的不同人生, 不同境遇, 分不清自己的身份以及什麽是真實. 這部算是年代較早的先驅吧. 想法不錯, 結局也另類, 但中間的敘述過程有點無聊, 也是被後來的這類影片的精緻和嚴謹養刁了胃口.
电影又作《但丁的地狱》,挺切题的,虽然披着越战背景外衣,而且一开始还让人以为是在探讨PTSD,表现手法上由于偷师安布罗斯·比尔斯短篇小说《枭河桥记事》,事实上,这部电影让人的感觉就是无限接近文学质感。
还是翻译成雅各布天梯比较好。一部把宗教和梦境鞣制在一起的文艺反战电影,手法另类但处理并不高明,导演很快忍不住就剧透了,不过电影给人的感觉跟《美丽人生》是一样的
结尾半小时让人极度失望,剩下的都是经典啊经典!
没想到原来还是个阴谋论类型的电影,除了快速晃头的魔鬼,其他的都不怎么吓人。
作为鼻祖,现在看来还可以啦 喜欢在医院的推车上看到的那段幻象
被遗忘的先驱之作。
集结号,中国人死的时候怀疑自己;异世浮生,米国佬死的时候竟敢怀疑组织。。。
虽比不上[穆赫兰道][睁开你的双眼][生死停留]等经典,但毕竟是真假错乱型悬疑惊悚片先驱,值得一看。对战争的反思和宗教元素的强调也使本片区别于大部分Rubber Reality作品。地铁和恐怖医院场景启发了[寂静岭]系列。晃动的脑袋和夜店群魔乱舞是迷幻剂效果的绝佳图解。PS:[异世浮生]译名赞。(8.0/10)
又被导演忽悠了。据说这个结局是根据试映反响(观众认为overwhelming难以接受)大修改了的。我想看director's cut 会不会有趣一些。
每个阶段都觉得“嗯,应该看懂了”,而事实上不到最后还是看不懂。可是,看到了最后,又貌似可以还是没看懂。。。
原以为是部科幻片。故事线路设置不错,中文译名很狗血