The meaning of the film "Nocturnal Animals" 2016

 Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals (2016) is a surprisingly dark moral tale of revenge and deceit, a complex film that can truly be understood and deciphered. This is a double-stranded film, and it has a significant trick that makes us worry about both of the stories in this film. Let's figure out in stages what the film Nocturnal Animals is about.

What is the film Nocturnal Animals

A scene in Los Angeles where Susan is a successful but disaffected and unhappily married gallery owner who has abandoned her own ambition to become an artist and now specializes in trendy, challenging contemporary art. Her husband is cheating on her. She unexpectedly receives an unpublished novel from her first husband, Edward, whom she hasn't heard of for nearly 20 years. A sweet, romantic, sensitive guy from her native Texas, whose heart Susan broke twice: she exchanged him for her current rich husband, while announcing that he had no ambitions to become a writer.
Let's go back in time to find out the details.

Susan - specializes in art and meets a guy named Edward when she was young. She refuses art because she feels that she is not artistic in her thoughts, too cynical. Edward hangs out with Susan's brother to be as close to her as possible, she is his first love. Susan is also in love with Edward. Years pass and they collide in New York. Edward tells Susan that she should pursue art, not give it up. They fall in love and start dating.

Eventually, they plan to get married. Susan talks to her mother about it. Susan's mother warns that Edward is not right for her. This Susan may initially like his romantic nature, but eventually he will hate him for not having the right desire for wealth. Susan's mother has shown herself to be materialistic and is confident that Susan will grow up the same. She doesn't listen to her mother and marries Edward.

All is well at first, but gradually Susan grows tired of Edward's inability to write. Edward aspires to be a writer, but writes about himself. Susan thinks that this is not enough, and his writing style or subject matter will never make them enough money. Susan finally realizes what her mother was trying to tell her and decides to leave Edward because she feels that he is too weak. Edward still believes in their relationship and feels like they can work it out. He struggles to get Susan back, but fails.

Susan cheats on Edward with a charismatic businessman - Hatton Morrow. She also learns that she is pregnant with Edward's girl. Hatton helps Susan get an abortion. While Susan and Hutton believe that Edward will never find out, he catches them red-handed in a car outside the hospital. Susan is having an abortion because she is tired of living with Edward and feels that having a baby with him will only make her situation worse.

Edward remains helpless as his gentle, romantic nature caused him to lose his wife and unborn daughter. Edward leaves and Susan marries Hutton. Years pass, or rather 19 years, where we return to the moment where Susan receives the book from Edward.

The meaning of the film "Nocturnal Animals" (2016)

The point of Nocturnal Animals is that it's never too late to start over. Susan starts reading. This is not some kind of literary concoction: this is a violent thriller in West Texas, similar to what Jim Thompson could write. Now let's move on to history. Edward is Tony. Laura, Edward's wife - Susan in real life. And India Hastings is the unborn child of Edward and Susan. And Hatton? Hatton is Lou, Ray and Turk rolled into one. Thus, Edward takes revenge on Susan and Hutton by doing several things at the same time. First creation of a critically acclaimed novel. Hutton's second murder in the book.

Edward becomes someone else in order to get complete revenge. He becomes someone he hates. Someone who pushes him away. But Edward / Tony will do anything to get revenge, even becoming the one he hates. Let's go back to history. Tony held Lou at gunpoint. And he makes Lou tell him what happened, admit what he did (Admit that he killed Edward's unborn child). Tony then shoots Lou a couple of times.

The book is about revenge, and it's revenge: a cherry bomb of rage and anger thrown on Susan's perfect little life. It's Edward's furious way of making her feel something, something about him.

After all the years of material hunting, Susan finally lives an empty, meaningless life. Edward knows this. He puts his life into his book and introduces it to Susan. She instantly admires Edward's book, letters and letters asking him to invite them to meet. Edward replies that he will be in town soon and asks Susan to just say when and where. Susan is now in Edward's shoes, where her husband is cheating on her with another woman in New York. At the moment, Susan is extremely guilty of what she has done and wants to meet with Edward and fix the situation.

Susan chooses a trendy restaurant and dresses in a seductive green dress. We can see that she is happy and excited at the prospect of meeting, and possibly returning with Edward. She is looking forward to him at the restaurant. Through the book, Edward subconsciously imagined how devastated he was when he lost his wife and daughter. All he wanted to do was let Susan know about the consequences.

The final blow is that Edward is not going to date Susan. Susan realizes what happened. Edward deliberately showed Susan a tiny but powerful ray of hope to add meaning to her life. He lets that hope build up and finally confuses Susan by not showing her. She feels the burn eventually. She drowns in the rest of her meaningless existence. Edward is no longer weak. He just made it clear to her that he did it without her, and she did not go anywhere. In the book, Tony dies too, right? Perhaps part of Edward (the part that still loves Susan) is dying too.

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