Something Wild is a very interesting film and it’s also very analyzable in many aspects. However, in this paper, I’d like to go with a specific aspect, which is Audrey’s conscious and unconscious. In my opinion, Charlie and Ray are representing the consciousness and unconsciousness of Audrey. To explain my thought, I will go through and analyze the whole movie from three angles: Audrey, Charlie and Ray.
One thing confused me a lot in this film is: Why Audrey chooses to talk to Charlie in the first place? Is that a coincidence or not? I believe that analyzing Audrey’s character in this film is definitely helping solve my problem.
In the beginning of the film, when Audrey first meets Charlie at the restaurant, Ray is in the prison, or at least …show more content…
Some examples from the film can prove that. There are four times of Charlie eating at restaurants- in the beginning, with Lulu, with Audrey and Ray, and in the end- each time, no matter what happens, he insists on calling the name of the waitress to show his polite. Furthermore, when he is with Audrey on her homecoming and finds his wallet is lost, he goes crazy. I think that his wallet with his company credit card and the family photo is the representation of his conscious. The fact that he gets mad at losing it explains his conscious is still working. I also want to mention that Audrey is the one who pick up his wallet, which also prove the existence of her …show more content…
However, about Ray, I don’t have as much to say as Audrey and Charlie. One reason is he only appears half of the movie, and more importantly, he is not as complicated as the other two. Ray is purely controlling by his id. Here I’d like to make a comparison between Audrey and him because both of them get some money from a shop in the film, only in different ways. Audrey is more like stealing the money from the storekeeper while distracting his attention; on the other hand, Ray robs the shop with his gun. From this two scene, we can see that Audrey is still keeping part of her conscious because she doesn’t want to get into trouble. Yet Ray doesn’t care at all. He knows that he wants money, so he just goes for it.
The fight between Charlie and Ray, or we can say conscious and unconscious, end when Ray runs onto Charlie’s knife. There is one dramatic shot during that scene that the bodies of Charlie and Ray overlap into one. This shot is very meaningful and strong to me. In my opinion, the overlapping represents that the three of them all reaching oneness at that second. Ray reaches it because he is dying, while the other two reach the oneness shortly through Ray’s
One thing confused me a lot in this film is: Why Audrey chooses to talk to Charlie in the first place? Is that a coincidence or not? I believe that analyzing Audrey’s character in this film is definitely helping solve my problem.
In the beginning of the film, when Audrey first meets Charlie at the restaurant, Ray is in the prison, or at least …show more content…
Some examples from the film can prove that. There are four times of Charlie eating at restaurants- in the beginning, with Lulu, with Audrey and Ray, and in the end- each time, no matter what happens, he insists on calling the name of the waitress to show his polite. Furthermore, when he is with Audrey on her homecoming and finds his wallet is lost, he goes crazy. I think that his wallet with his company credit card and the family photo is the representation of his conscious. The fact that he gets mad at losing it explains his conscious is still working. I also want to mention that Audrey is the one who pick up his wallet, which also prove the existence of her …show more content…
However, about Ray, I don’t have as much to say as Audrey and Charlie. One reason is he only appears half of the movie, and more importantly, he is not as complicated as the other two. Ray is purely controlling by his id. Here I’d like to make a comparison between Audrey and him because both of them get some money from a shop in the film, only in different ways. Audrey is more like stealing the money from the storekeeper while distracting his attention; on the other hand, Ray robs the shop with his gun. From this two scene, we can see that Audrey is still keeping part of her conscious because she doesn’t want to get into trouble. Yet Ray doesn’t care at all. He knows that he wants money, so he just goes for it.
The fight between Charlie and Ray, or we can say conscious and unconscious, end when Ray runs onto Charlie’s knife. There is one dramatic shot during that scene that the bodies of Charlie and Ray overlap into one. This shot is very meaningful and strong to me. In my opinion, the overlapping represents that the three of them all reaching oneness at that second. Ray reaches it because he is dying, while the other two reach the oneness shortly through Ray’s