异世浮生1990

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.

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异世，亦真亦假亦虚亦实；浮生，如痴如梦如醉如幻。

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剧 情 简 介

参加过越战的退伍军人雅各布（蒂姆·罗宾斯饰）现在是一名邮递员。

可是战争虽然结束，那些残酷的画面还是不停地在他脑海中浮现。

最近，他更是频繁地出现幻觉，幻象一些面容狰狞的怪物要将他抓走。

雅各布没办法，只好去找医生卡尔森，希望他可以帮助自己。

但是到了医院后，前台接待人员竟然说没有卡尔森这个人，并且还声称找不到雅各布的病例。

情急之下他只能硬闯，可是来到卡尔森的办公室后，里面却是一群陌生人。

其中一个男子告诉他，卡尔森已经在一场汽车爆炸事故中身亡。

雅各布越想越奇怪，而他的病也越来越严重，有一天甚至发烧到晕厥。

所幸最终没有什么事，可是出现幻觉的情况并没有缓解。

这天，战友保罗给他来了电话，想约他到酒吧坐坐。

两人见面之后聊过天才知道，原来保罗也有这种问题。

雅各布怀疑他们被人下过药，而这些幻觉应该就是后遗症。

两人分开时又发生了恐怖的事情，保罗的车子发生爆炸，他在雅各布的眼前身亡。

先是卡尔森，然后是保罗，雅各布终于意识到问题的严重性。

他决定联合幸存的战友一起，找到真相……

影 片 浅 析

一部很冷门的片子，能找到它是因为蒂姆·罗宾斯个人的魅力，在我心中他真是一个非常出色的演员。影片节奏缓慢，异常诡异，因为其中穿插着三条线叙事，让人虚实难分，真假难辨，直到结尾真相揭晓，剧情又戛然而止令人意犹未尽。

作为该类型影片的鼻祖，《异世浮生》用一句话就能剧透，不过与之前分享的《穆赫兰道》不一样的是，这部电影剧透完就索然无味了，所以下面的内容建议大家在看完电影之后再阅读。

照例先写下我理解中的真相：男主雅各布是一名军人，他有个叫莎拉的妻子和三个儿子，其中儿子加布因为一次意外被车撞后身亡，因为这次事故，妻子离她而去，而他跟在邮局上班的女孩杰泽在一起了，但是他并没有忘掉死去的加布和他之前的家庭。战争开始了，雅各布被派往前线，可是在一起执行任务时发生了意外，他被自己人刺中腹部，最终抢救无效身亡，而影片中的故事都是他临死前的臆想。

这种臆想相当于是一个梦，我们很难分清楚哪些是真的哪些是虚构的，也许每个人的理解也都不一样，但是影片中的一些细节还是可以判断出部分的真相。比如他儿子加布确实是死了，因为在影片结尾引领他走向通往天梯的阶梯的正是加布，而通过之前的剧情我们知道，雅各布对加布的死是非常内疚和自责的。

关于他们是否服用迷药，从影片的剧情是较难确定的，前面所出现的支离破碎的片段，都不一定是现实发生的，唯一真实的场景就是在影片临近结束时，战友刺中他那一幕，且从他战友的表情可以看出，确实有神志不清的状态，所以在雅各布的梦境里，出现了化学家自白的那一段情节，这些都是他想象的，至于是否是事实，片尾的字幕写得很明白了。

其实影片的过程对真相的暗示是很明显的，我们可以看到整个故事可以用四个字来形容：“死里逃生”。无论是差点被地铁撞，被汽车撞，还是发高烧，被人劫持，每一段情节都是在展现雅各布强烈的求生欲，而这些求生欲恰恰是将死之人才会有的，这不就是在暗示我们，雅各布是个将死之人吗？

相比于后面很多相类似的作品，《异世浮生》并没有更突出的地方，尤其是给人带来的感受不够深刻，但至少这个创意已经被后来者借鉴了很多次了，且大部分都取得了不错的口碑，所以还是那句老话，后人之所以能看得远，正是因为站在前人的肩膀上。

有时候事情是否糟糕在于我们的看待方式，兴许坦然接受才是我们应该做的。

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