"What do you like about me?"
"I like how you like me!"
I forgot where I saw such a dialogue, it reflects the mood of many people in love, when we love someone, we love him more than ourselves, so we also long for someone to love you more than we love Love yourself, he's a thousand times, ten thousand times more lovely to be stupid, crazy, irrational, and fascinated for you than to be restrained, calm, and indifferent.
Recently, I was watching "La Traviata". Margaret, the out-of-the-way girl who is alluring, has a lot of admirers. Waves of dukes and earls are crazy about her and spend a lot of money, but she always ignores her. One of the counts G was especially fond of her. Every night, he would go to her house to fight and fight, bringing precious gifts such as watches, but Margaret did not hide her hatred for him in the slightest, even face to face. To put it bluntly, I hate Earl G, and tell him not to come to her again.
Margaret, who is so difficult to please, has a soft spot for Armand, a young man whose family background is not too rich and who has known each other for less than two days. Even Armand himself is very curious. There are so many people who pursue and like him. The least financially powerful, why does Margaret like herself?
Margaret's answer shocked me, she said: "Those dukes and earls pursue me, not for me, but for themselves, only you, love me more than you love yourself."
The dusty woman, who has read countless men, knows who is using the truth and who is fake. She understands that many men to please themselves just want to get what they want from themselves, and the ultimate goal is to please themselves. But Armand is different. He looks naive and crazy. He will be jealous and stupid for her, but his feelings are sincere. The more he behaves in a wrong way, the more he loves himself. Therefore, she reciprocates him with the same love.
After a long time, Margaret knows a truth. It is easy to seek priceless treasures, and it is rare to have a lover. Those who love each other more than themselves are worthy of being loved, and those who love themselves too much are only worthy of being played on the scene.
I went to the cinema to watch the movie "The Invisible Guest" on the weekend. Coincidentally, in the movie, I saw the same truth, a person who loves himself too much, or who only knows how to love himself, is the least worthy of being loved, and is not even worthy of being the object of an affair.
"The Invisible Guest" should be the best suspense film this year. The plot can be summed up as: two bloody murders caused by an affair with a man who only loves himself.
The story uses flashbacks. At the beginning of the film, a female lawyer named Goodman came to the male protagonist Adrian's house late at night to discuss with him to defend him and escape the murder charge.
It turned out that Adrian recently had a life lawsuit. His lover Laura was killed in a hotel. The police believed that the murderer was Adrian. Adrian pleaded not guilty. He said that he and Laura were involved in a blackmail and were tricked into the hotel. After arriving at the hotel, he was knocked unconscious by unidentified people. When he woke up, Laura had been knocked out. People hit the head to death, he thinks someone killed Laura, is trying to put the blame on him.
But the police did not agree with his opinion, because he and Laura were the only people in the room at the time. The door and windows of the hotel were locked from the inside, and there was no sign of a third person. Unless it's a ghost, it is impossible for anyone to lock the doors and windows from the house and disappear out of thin air after committing a crime. Because of this, Adrian was identified as the biggest suspect in the murder of his lover.
In order to get rid of the crime, Adrian hired Ms. Goodman to defend himself. The title of "The Invisible Guest" also comes from the murderer who disappeared out of thin air described by Adrian, but from the plot, it should be more appropriate to call the invisible murderer!
But it doesn't matter, what matters is, does the person who disappeared out of thin air really exist?
And Ms. Goodman didn't get to the heart of the matter—whether the unseen killer really existed. Instead, first sort out the premise of the entire case, that is, why Adrian went to a hotel 300 kilometers away from where he lived with his lover Laura. It will also say the questions he will be asked in court.
From this question, a car accident a few months ago was drawn, which is the beginning of the story.
It turned out that a few months ago, Adrian and his lover Laura went to a country house for an affair in the name of work. On the return trip, because of the rush, Adrian gave up the usual road and took a smaller shortcut. On the way, because of the sudden appearance of a deer, he collided with another car, and the owner of the car, Daniel, was hit by donating blood and passed out.
Originally, if there was a car accident, it was completely possible to call the police directly. Even if the other party was killed, it was just a traffic accident in the end, and the responsibilities of Adrian and Laura were relatively small. If they were ordinary people, they would call the police immediately. But they are cheating, and they both have their own happy families. Adrian is the boss of a technology company. He has a successful career, a beautiful and elegant wife, and a lovely daughter. He does not want to ruin everything he has worked hard for because of a car accident.
Lover Laura agrees with him that her husband loves her very much and will face divorce if the car accident comes to light.
Adrian told Goodman that Laura eventually came up with the idea of sinking Daniel and his car into a nearby lake, while Laura waited for the rescue vehicle.
While waiting for the rescue, Laura encountered an old man named Thomas passing by. The old man said that he had said that the engineer of the BMW car could help her repair the car. So she towed her car back to a nearby home, and coincidentally, Laura saw a photo of his son at the old man's house and found out that the person Adrian hit was the old man's son, and she immediately panicked. , hurriedly drove the repaired car and ran away, not even leaving a polite word. Thomas also noticed her abnormality, so he deliberately memorized her license plate number.
After Adrian and Laura returned to their city, in order to avoid future troubles, they quickly disposed of the BMW, claiming that the car had been stolen, and then he produced an alibi.
After Daniel's parents found out that their son was missing, they called the police and the situation became more and more serious. In order not to be affected, Laura took advantage of her husband's position to create the illusion that Daniel had stolen the 50,000 euros from the bank where he ran away. Daniel's disappearance turns into a crime-fighting absconding.
This allows both Adrian and Laura to temporarily escape police pursuit.
But the good times didn't last long. Soon after, Adrian received an inexplicable letter. The owner of the letter told him and Laura to carry 100,000 euros to the hotel where Laura was murdered, otherwise they would hand over the important evidence of the car accident. to the police, so Adrian and Laura had to do so.
But after arriving at the hotel, Adrian and Laura fell into a trap, Adrian was knocked unconscious, and Laura was killed, and Adrian became the biggest suspect.
The above is all Adrian's story. In his story, he describes his lover, Laura, as a calm, ruthless, and decisive woman, whether it's the car accident that dumped the car and the corpse, or the later blame Daniel, In his description, it is all operated by Laura. In other words, the whole thing, the main responsibility lies with Laura, not him.
In the matter of Laura's killing, he also put the blame on a driver who had passed by the scene at the beginning, and later, at the prompt of Goodman, blamed the murder of Laura on Laura's murder. Daniel's parents lied that his parents designed a trap to frame them out of revenge.
But when he made up this big lie under the inducement of Goodman, he exposed the fact that he murdered Laura, and his previous confessions were all lies.
Under the pressure of Goodman, he finally admitted that he killed Laura. The story reversed immediately.
It turned out that all the above descriptions were actually made up by him. Whether it was the decision to dump the body in the car accident, or the illusion that Daniel ran away with the money in order to get rid of the police investigation, it was all done by Adrian. As a famous entrepreneur, he has a lot of resources at hand, and the reason why he can get to where he is today also shows that he has considerable skills.
Adrian wanted to kill Laura because Laura wanted to tell Daniel's parents the truth about the car accident. Laura has always been very guilty after the car accident, especially after the car accident, she went to the deceased's house again, saw his anxious parents, and was helped by his parents. Her guilt made her even decide to say goodbye to her past self, so she cut off her long hair and kept it short.
In the end, Laura couldn't bear the guilt and psychological torture, and decided to confess the car accident to Daniel's parents, but she couldn't face the deceased's parents empty-handed, so she called Adrian and asked him to carry 100,000 euros, as compensation.
When Adrian arrived at the hotel, he killed Laura. Of course, not to save the 100,000 euros. For him, this little money is just a sprinkle of water!
Here, the plot reversed again. It turned out that when he sank Daniel and his car into the reservoir, Daniel did not die. He slapped the trunk for help. If Adrian stopped in time, then Daniel It may not die, and there will be no later stories. However, Adrian did not stop himself from the precipice. He thought that Daniel was beyond rescue, so he pushed him into the lake as originally planned. An accident turned into a murder.
All this Laura didn't know, but if Daniel's body was recovered, then, through an autopsy, it would all come to light. To protect himself, he decided to kill Laura.
The truth finally came out. It turned out that Adrian has always been a person who only loved himself. In order not to affect his marriage and career, he would rather kill people after a car accident than call the police to save people. And as the situation got out of control step by step, he even fabricated the deceased's money to escape. When things were about to come to light, he chose to kill his lover... He despised life, the truth, and love. In his heart, the only important thing in this world was himself, so when he made every decision, he considered It was his own interests and his own life, and it was this choice that brought him into the abyss.
Originally, if Adrian and Laura called the police to rescue people immediately after the car accident, then maybe no one would have died. Even if Daniel died in the car accident, their responsibilities would be very small. Even in the face of divorce, they would be is the smallest loss. But Adrian kept choosing to cover up the truth with lies, and kept doing everything for his own benefit. He also faced worse and worse results. In the end, he killed Laura, and his wife and daughter left him. With nothing left to do in his career, he faces two murder charges.
The last twist of the story is that it turns out that Ms. Goodman is not really Goodman, but Daniel's mother pretending to be, she was a drama actress when she was young, so everything is very familiar. By playing Goodman, She figured out the truth and got iron-clad evidence.
The beauty of this story is that Adrian keeps defending himself with lies, while Goodman keeps uncovering lies. The weaving of illusions and the restoration of the truth have reversed again and again, and again and again In the inversion, we see the selfishness of human nature. Just like a sentence in the opening poster describes "there are no victims, there are only criminals who want to live", but it is sad that this criminal, at first, was actually just a wrongdoer, but he made a step by step. Make yourself a criminal with blood on your hands. My understanding is that, as Goodman said, the reason he went unredeemed was that he only loved himself.
And those who only love themselves have no tomorrow. And the person who only loves himself is also the most unlovable person in the world.
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