treatment A and treatment B, as I said above.
But there are still some joints that cannot be matched: Why is it an eel? What does the inconvenience of the attending doctor symbolize? Why does a mother fantasize about herself as a girl and go so far with her son Lockhart? Here,
actually hides the most obscure thought core of the character: mother and child empathy.
Even if I read through the "real script" mentioned above, I still have no sympathy for the role of mother. Because her dream is to demonize the nursing home, and the purpose is not only "the elderly lacks company", the deeper reason is that she has "empathy" for her son. The few words in the
play mention that Lockhart’s father died prematurely because he worked too hard, indicating that his mother has been lacking company from young to old.
Now my son still wants to send her to a nursing home farther away—in fact, he just abandons her and doesn't need to meet.
For a long time, the core needs of mothers have been men's attention and contact.
So the male symbol of the eel appears in large numbers in the movie. And she also became a girl in her dream, ran around with the hero Lockhart, danced in the town, was taken advantage of, and Lockhart fought for her.
This is her real and reasonable demand. Not great, but very human.
In this process, she has transferred to her son the warmth that she had never received from her deceased husband.
This is of course unexplainable, but it does exist, so it can only be reproduced in a strange and magnificent dream.
This completes the most critical correspondence: the hundred-year ethical case of the attending doctor in the dream corresponds to the emotional needs that the mother cannot speak.
is the true face of this movie: the mother of empathizes with her son, but is ashamed of telling her. She can only reproduce the scenes of her life in her dreams, blending emotions and fantasy into it, and finally being taken away by death.
The protagonist Lockhart should also be aware of this, and his estranged mother should also have this consideration.
But he finally showed a look of guilt at the funeral, indicating that maternal love took the majority, and this ending pulled everything back on track. The title of
"Life-Saving Antidote" also has three meanings: one is that people in the dream are not dead, the second is that Lockhart's mother saves herself by dreams, and the third is that the deepest hidden emotions of each character have become lesions, and there is no medicine. It can be cured, but death can be redeemed.
