变脸惊情

现实：party——车祸——毁容——女人跑了、朋友掰了——签约——自杀——做梦——科技发展到可以救活他、且可以整容——治疗——公司介入男主的梦，将其唤醒。

梦中：

本来死人被冰冻之后做的梦一直都是自由的、美好的，像晴天下的公园，有你，有我，有玩耍的人们，只需要等待被“起死回生”就好了。

可是咱们男主不一样，他除了死着，还有一件事：毁容。如果活过来还是那张鬼脸，还得再死一次。于是当他被治疗时，噩梦开始了——

噩梦伊始，他将自己关进了监狱，是自卑？逃避？还是对红衣女子自尽的愧疚？对自己之前放浪生活的悔悟？都有吧，总之，他是想呆在监狱里不出来了（不要救我了，让我继续睡）。

但是他又设定了个心理医生，希望自己还有得救，希望自己是无罪的，希望自己这张脸能够被关怀被理解被认同。

【监狱和心理医生的设定—负罪感与爱的需要的矛盾。

心理医生的形象—丧父

杀死红衣女—红衣女自杀的车祸由自己间接促成】

疑问：梦中的长发女为何是片头出现的街头卖艺小丑？

人活在这个世界，我觉得是一件很不可思议的事情，但是不知道为什么，似乎大家都习以为常，这就是为什么我遇到一点不能理解的事时，总是大惊小怪，咋咋呼呼，感觉你们都不是人，为什么你们能这么淡定？怎么做到的？我不能理解，所以，在“正常人”眼里，我反而是个“神经病”，是敏感型人格，我自己不这么认为，我觉得“大惊小怪”“正常”是你们的定义，这些现象本身在我眼里就特别奇怪，比如我从小就一直想不通的事情，那时候只有几岁，我看着灯泡，为什么它能发光呢？而且看久了它就模糊了，我在想我会不会是神啊？因为我确定我看到的灯泡和别人不一样，我看见过别人看灯泡，那是连人带灯泡一起的，不像我自己看灯泡，只有一个亮亮的地方，然后逐渐模糊，出现了好多个灯泡，后来我才知道不是我神，是因为看久了不眨眼，眼睛太干了流的泪。

我永远无法用我看任何一个人的视角去看自己，我只能靠想象我在看别人的时候那个人假如是自己的样子，即使是照镜子看到自己也只是一种反射，而不是我真真切切的看到的任何人，我对这个世界的认知，是我的眼鼻耳口手的反应，“我”是缩在身体里的某种生物，就像电影《一一》里面说的，人们永远看不到自己的后脑勺！“他们”到底是谁？

以上只是看电影时的一些疑惑，至于这部电影，恰巧提供了一个机会，单纯电影的角度来说，就是为了起承转合的戏剧性，搞出这么多反转，脑洞，直到最后男主纵身一跃，我才清醒过来，我觉得这电影不一般，在我看来，死亡不是从噩梦中惊醒，而是真正噩梦的开始，想到这里，突然感叹生命千辛万苦来到这个世界，是不是真的就是来渡劫的？没成想，好不容易人死了，结果还是得醒过来了做人，就不能痛痛快快的死吗？终极死亡那种，何必这样反反复复的从一个坟墓跳入另一个坟墓呢？肉体的存在对男主角来说是更好的结局吗？我表示怀疑，可能没有标准答案，每个人都有自己的理解，答案一定千差万别，当然，这正是花花世界的可爱之处，各种思想的碰撞，多有意思啊！想好好生活的人好好生活，觉得人生是一种诅咒的就重新选择，等等等等，谁也不用劝，他就这样，就是这样，就是这样而已！

“In the dream of the man that dreamed, the dreamed one awoke.”

—The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges

When I was watching Open Your Eyes, Borges’s short story The Circular Ruins also came up to my train of thoughts. Both stories narrate a similar theme, which is the protagonists’ waking from a dream that belongs to another dream. The absurdity of life is vividly revealed through these stories, pulling the audience into panic and skepticism, unable to discern what is real and its projection. Time seems to become an element of nihilism, as the path to wake up from the dream is like a matryoshka doll but infinite. It’s often difficult to have the self-consciousness of being in a dream when we are dreaming, the definition of reality is also obscured. The conflicts we face while choosing between dream or reality belongs to one of the most fundamental philosophical questions.

When the protagonist Cesar is disfigured in the accident, he loses the appearance that he’s proud of. For Cesar, the disfigurement for him is also the impairment of his love relationship, self-confidence, and his life. Facing the cruelty of truth, Cesar traps himself in the endless loop of dreams. The constant switching between hideousness and beauty also blinds the truth from us. To disguise his fragmented face, Cesar eventually accepts to hide behind the mask despite the initial rejection. At this moment, Cesar’s identity is also fragmented into disorder. There’s a backlighting scene in the movie when Cesar wears his mask on his back head, forming a silhouette of two side faces. This can also be interpreted as symbolism for Cesar’s divided identities and his disoriented perception of his existence in time. The protagonist has been asked several times in the movie about what is happiness, but he fails to answer. Whether it’s a nice dream or a nightmare, all depends on Cesar’s choices. When Cesar chooses his looks to be the protagonist of his dreams, he also chooses the most precarious shallowness which appears as frequent nightmares. In Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, he also expresses this entangled confusion between illusion and truth: “I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me.” Despite we believe that our sensory perceptions are real enough to be considered as realities, we shouldn’t forget that we were also deceived by the same thoughts in dreams.

However, when Cesar realizes that he lives in a constructed dream, he still faces the dilemma of choosing to live in the lucid dream or reality. The final moment when he chose to jump off the building also reminds me of the Matrix. While the Matrix delivers a sense of self-transcendence, Abre Los Ojos emphasizes the courage to face the truth. Can Cesar truly enter the reality after he opens his eyes or would he still be trapped in the endless loop of dreaming?

复活公司老板说男主在梦中世界已经渡过了150年，很明显男主的梦并没有那么久，而且前部分不断切换男主在床上被女声闹钟唤醒的场景，说明男主已经循环梦境很多次了，直到这个梦境里的男主崩溃跳楼死了，也只是进入下一个新梦境，如此反复循环。女声闹钟响一次，就是新梦境的开始，复活老板的项目就是一个骗局。细思极恐啊…