The opening scene, the eerie style of painting, the yellowish tones instantly pull people into the movie situation. The main character, Simon, is a very ordinary, unusually ordinary, in the buttocks can sit until retirement company work, surrounded by employees are also full of white temples, no friends, the only family members appear in the film mother, is also full of incomprehension of him. The only shade of gray in life is the one person he likes – the heroine Hannah.
Perhaps, as the film says: a person who has been alone for a long time, will get sick.
The original tasteless life is broken by a person who looks the same as him and whose name is the opposite of his. The main character is named Jameson Simon, and the emergence of this “personality” called Simon Jameson. Simon is weak, timid and unnoticed. Jameson, on the other hand, is confident, charming, and in the limelight. All the reviews say that Jameson is another personality of Simon, also, the name of the movie is called dual personality well. But ….. In my opinion: this is an ordinary person, in the internal pursuit of the real self in the road, the illusion of another debate with their own self.
Why do you say so? Because everyone talks to themselves. I don’t know about others, but I love talking to myself anyway. This is one of the very important reasons why I quit my phone. The self in myself also needs company, and company must take time. Instead of connecting with the other side of the phone, I’d rather spend time with myself first and internalize it.
So, Jameson is the self that Simon’s heart first aspired to: to please the girls, to be respected by his boss, and even to meet with the Colonel …… completely and totally met all his expectations. But slowly, he saw Jameson’s gray: whoring others work results, cheating girls feelings, and even his beloved woman Hannah is also deeply involved. Finally, everyone thinks that Jameson is the real existence, even Simon himself doubts his own reality. Originally will be “I am a lonely ghost” as a will to kill himself, but found opposite his beloved woman Hannah’s anomaly and ran over to save her. Perhaps it is the power of love, so that he had the courage to kill his other self Jameson in the end. And he then really became the end of Hannah and the police officer said: you are a unique person.
In fact, Simon’s victory over Jameson must be an inevitable ending, into the self’s perseverance. The movie shows the tangle and mess of a man’s search for himself, as Marxist philosophy says: development is the unity of forwardness and tortuousness. The process of Simon’s victory over James is too difficult, but how easy is it for us in reality? The world is full of choices and temptations, just like the weights on both sides of the scale, left and right, wavering.
The most impressive scene in the movie is the conversation between Jameson and Simon on the train home.
“I want so badly to never be inside myself.”
“It’s like you can reach through me if you want to”
“I don’t know what I want to be compared to the real me”
“I’m trying, but what I need to do I’m not able to do”
“I’m like Pinocchio”
“I’m just a wooden man”
“And not a real person”
“It makes me sad” (actually, the excerpts are all Simon’s words)