At the beginning of the film, Rose's daughter is trapped in nightmares every day, always calling a place name "Silent Hill". Dreams are the best way to enter the subconscious, and here it is implied that the nightmare journey of Silent Hill is a journey of the subconscious. So Rose took Sharon to Silent Hill without telling her husband, and Rose had a clear intuition that only by arriving at Silent Hill could Sharon's nightmare be completely eliminated. Here nightmares can be seen as a person's psychological problems or symptoms, and we realize that only by contacting our subconscious can we truly get rid of the symptoms. After arriving at Silent Hill, Rose got into a car accident in order to avoid a little girl in the middle of the road. After waking up from a coma, she found that her daughter was missing, so Rose officially entered the town of Silent Hill, which was filled with fog all day long. When night falls and people fall asleep, the control of the ego and superego is reduced, and the subconscious will surface and dominate our dreams. Emotions repressed during the day, unfulfilled wishes, and unexpressed aggression will appear. When the air raid sirens sound, darkness will come, and evil will take over Silent Hill.
There are four main characters in the film, Rose, Sharon, the evil Alessa and Kress, who are the basic components of Alessa's personality. Rose can basically be regarded as the ego, while Bella is the superego, Sharon and Alessa represent the energy of the id, Sharon is the instinct of Alessa's love and sex transformed from the good part of Alessa, and the evil Alessa can be regarded as Her attacking instinct is gone. Let's go back and look at Alessa's upbringing, illegitimate daughter, bullied and excluded by her peers, sexually assaulted, and finally burned at the stake. Alessa is an illegitimate daughter, and no one knows who her father is. He is an obscenity in the eyes of religious traditions, and an instinctive original sin that a mother cannot face. Therefore, at the moment of the trial, the mother escaped and did not protect her child. Alessa's heart is full of aggression towards the outside world, and even her mother can't understand her. So I can only suppress in the Silent Hill created in my heart, to take revenge and take revenge. This also explains the various monsters that exist in her subconscious, the burning child (peer), the triangular iron-headed monster with a sharp blade (the cleaner who carried out the sexual assault), the faceless female nurse (the female nurse who peeped at her injuries) ...Bella, as Alessa's superego Kress, has been trying to suppress the power of the id. There is a classic dialogue in the play. When she rushed to the church, the female police officer Sybil, who split from her ego to protect herself, was burned to death. Rose said, "Burn me and that's your plan? Burn what you fear, burn what you don't control. This woman uses your fear to control you. She instructs you to burn Alessa, but you can't deny it. Your crimes cannot deny the suffering of your children." What a good interpretation of the superego, in the face of the needs and impulses of the id, what the superego does is to destroy and annihilate, eliminating all instinctive impulses that cannot be controlled. , although this is not possible. When the superego's oppressive force is greater, the id's counterattack force is greater, and the anger and pain felt by the ego are greater. So all this will be undeniable.
At the end of the film, Rose and the evil Alessa have merged, the ego surrenders to the id, and the superego is severely defeated by the id. Naturally, Rose cannot return to real life, but can only live in a boundless and boundless world. In the quiet place, and Alessa is completely in the fantasy world of his own subconscious, in a state of schizophrenia. But there was still a glimmer of hope. Alessa didn't kill his mother. Rose's explanation was that in the child's heart, the mother is God. God has always been the incarnation of the superego in the process of cultural history. Although Sibera is a weak and incompetent mother, she is still preserved, and she still has the power and possibility to bring Alessa back to reality.
At this point, I am reminded of Freud's words: the id is the horse, the ego is the rider, and the superego is the rule. The driving force of a person's progress lies at the root of the infinite power in the id. When he desperately suppresses the needs of the id, he will be unable to move an inch, but if he ignores the rules put forward by the superego, he will not be able to reach his destination. Therefore, the key to mental health is to be a good rider, to strengthen one's own strength, to be impartial, to be neither slow nor slow, so as to dispel the fog in the heart and reach the destination of the dream.
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