Child is fierce

Lois 2022-04-23 06:01:02

My first thought after watching the film was: If I were that little girl, how many people would I kill?

Compared to the movie itself, I want to talk more about love and hate.

There is a devil in everyone's heart. This devil is big or small, and whether it will be awakened depends on whether you have enough sense of security.
In the final analysis, love and hatred are just two forms of lack of security, and their corresponding counterparts are happiness and misfortune. Generally speaking, people with strong hearts are actually people who have enough sense of security.

Throughout the film, a variety of horrifying shots have been used to divert the audience's thinking, in order to avoid a long and controversial argument about love, hate, and security.

People are like a container. The more love accounts for, the less hatred; the more hate accounts for, the less love.
Take happiness as an example. Some people think that happiness is given by themselves. There are basically two types of people who hold this view, one is unloved, and the other is always loved by others. The former is forced by the environment to love himself, and most of his love is devoted to himself, which is self-compensation for lack of care; while the latter lives in an inherently peaceful and stable environment, and the sense of security is maintained at a certain level from beginning to end. Above-belongs to the full man who does not know that the hungry man is hungry, and does not understand the darkness of night during the day.

In fact, people's need for security is also a desire. The so-called desire is hard to fill, and you can never be satisfied by yourself. To give a popular example, which one can better soothe your libido? The awesome characters in martial arts have to absorb the essence of heaven and earth.
Therefore, happiness, that is, a sense of security, not only comes from ourselves, but also comes from the people and environment around us. One grass and one tree, one table and one chair are all factors that make up your sense of security.

Maslow said that if a person does not feel the care from those around him, he will think that his life is worthless.
People who lack love will recognize the imbalance between themselves and others through instinctual comparison, and then through instinct magnification, this imbalance will be transformed into grievance, low self-esteem, fear, and then hatred.
People who are loved rarely feel wronged, low self-esteem and fear, because they are more likely to have a sufficient sense of security.


When we were a child who lacked conventional logic and limited judgment, the differences in thinking habits and ways made it difficult for us and adults to understand each other. When the inner desire is not satisfied and the "love" we want is not available (even if it is greed and doting, but we don't feel that we are too much), hatred will naturally appear.
If love is instinct, so is hate. But hate always comes later.
The child's world is the simplest and most direct, except for right or wrong, except for "love" is hate.
Mike Shawn, who came out of the church, said that human nature is evil by nature. Since humans are inherently evil, children are of course included.
But the "love" of children is often conditional: that is, parents must love me before I love them; when I can't feel their love, I will feel wronged and lost; they can't give me what I want for a long time. "Love", I will hate them.

Now let us go back to the movie, back to our own childhood.
A piece of chocolate, a pair of football boots, red crossed math test papers, the Transformers that promised you, a lie that will never be fulfilled...
Have you hated your parents for the trivial things in our eyes?
When some of your requirements are not met, when you accidentally make a mistake but are punished, what way do you choose to express your dissatisfaction and grievances? Will you hide under the bed like that little girl?
If I told you at this time that I can give you a kind of power, a kind of power that can make your resistance more direct and effective, with pure hatred, would you use it?

Where there is oppression, there is resistance. And not resisting is just because they don’t have the ability to resist.
What kind of oppression in the eyes of a child, you are not a child, you will never understand.
So when the shocked Renee told Sean that I finally understood that the parents were innocent, I laughed. As an adult, she can believe that other people's parents are innocent, but she still can't let go of her own mother, so that she is so pessimistic that she dare not want a child of her own.
It is definitely a huge irony that a woman who dare not have children ends up becoming a social worker who must deal with the family problems of parents and children every day.
When adults think they are innocent, the court in the child's mind has already convicted him.
Isn’t it the same for adults? When children feel that they are innocent, adults will label them accumulative evil.
Innocent is the same as kindness. It's not that you say that you are a good person, you are really a good person.
Are the parents who claimed to have been suppressed for ten years really as innocent as they said?
I don't think so.
If a child has strong resentment and revenge, parents must have an unshirkable responsibility.
At first, the little girl must have pleased her parents like she later pleased Renee, just to ask her parents to love her, because she felt that her parents did not love her enough, so she would kill her close relationship with her parents out of revenge. Family members; but the parents think that the little girl keeps killing her own family members is the reason to kill her.
Bystanders naturally know the cause and effect.

Before the end, the scene of Renee's mother having a car accident was reproduced, and this time Renee became the mother who drove. After the change of position, Renee finally forgave her mother and dispelled the pure hatred when she was young.
It was precisely because there was no hate that she finally killed the little girl who represented evil.
But we cannot conclude that good has defeated evil.
Which is good and evil is so simple.

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Case 39 quotes

  • Therapist: [to Emily] Hey! Wait a minute. Who do you think you are, barging in there like that?

    Lillith Sullivan: It's okay, Diane, Emily's been under a lot of stress lately, but she's really nice to me and I hope I can stay with her a long time.

    Therapist: Don't ever do that again.

  • Edward Sullivan: Count yourself dead at the out set. Accept that going in. Use it to your advantage. If you're not afraid, she can't hurt you.