film review

Pink 2022-04-20 09:01:23

The whole film implements the basic purpose of the suspense film that "the audience is always the last to know the ending". At the end of the film, when people finally breathe a sigh of relief, the real culprit is revealed. The deeper the wound is, the more secret the wound is hidden, and the influence of childhood often determines a person's life. When linking back to the previous plot and details of the movie, it is not difficult to find that the so-called mutual protection of these personalities actually has a common center, and he is the pivot of this bureau, or in other words, the corner of this formation . He will always follow people to dodge, not so much to avoid pursuit, but to avoid being discovered by his self-consciousness. Every time he escapes a conscious introspection, one more personality disappears. Human nature is always selfish, even for a confused psychopath, all that he protects, or all that he protects, but only his id and those closest to him One him and me. But after all, the scars of childhood are too deep, the last he and I do not disappear, and the id is still difficult to find peace, just like his last death knell-like proverb - "a prostitute for one day, a prostitute for life". In the consciousness of the id, this is the source of all the cups and the starting point of the differentiation of the soul. Although it is the one I want to protect the most, it is also the one I want to eradicate the most. I love you as much as I hate you." He and I, who represent perverted souls, the cruel and cruel ones, and the unattainable warmth, when these he and I have been eradicated one by one in self-examination, can the disappearance of the last one be exchanged for the past? The quietness of the true soul of the id that has been assimilated by several others, that is the problem. And from another point of view, those he and I really disappeared? The existence of personality is not like the existence of life. It is created, and it will always exist. It only sleeps and does not disappear, just like an active volcano. The film mentions the integrated personality, which means the unity of the personalities. So at the end of the film, when the id first appears as the knife-wielder, do the flashbacks that flashed by? He and I, who were separated from me and disappeared one after another, have returned to the consciousness of the self one by one? This is still a problem. I can only understand this film based on psychoanalysis. Whether I understand it rightly or wrongly, at least the constant guessing and thinking experienced by watching this film makes me happy. This is enough.

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Identity quotes

  • Rhodes: All right. You want a plan? Everybody want a plan? Here's the plan, okay? No one's gonna move. We're gonna stay here, like this, in this room until dawn. No one leaves, no one moves.

    Rhodes: [points gun at Larry] And if he tries anything I'm gonna shoot him! And if there's something out there and it comes in here, I'm gonna shoot it! And if anyone of us tries anything, I'm gonna shoot 'em!

    Ed: We get it!

    Rhodes: Good!

  • Larry: [Suzanne steps into motel lobby] Hey... didn't you used to be that actress?

    Caroline Suzanne: [Glares, dumbfounded, exhausted] Yes.