"Mr Brooks"

Rasheed 2022-04-19 09:01:46

"Mr Brooks" is another film with a split personality. The film's protagonist, Mr. Brooks, is a caring husband, loving father, successful entrepreneur, and Business Person of the Year. Under these positive images and halo, he has another identity "thumbprint killer", always named after leaving a thumbprint on his body after killing. Marshall is another personality of Mr. Brooks, the embodiment of his desires. In Brooks, the two personalities know each other's existence and understand each other, and the two sub-personalities can live in harmony with each other. From the movie, Mr. Brooks splits because of a strong desire to break through the integration of the self.

In addition to Mr. Brooks, two characters, Smith and Tracy, also contribute to our understanding of split personalities. Smith, a photographer, took a photo of Mr. Brooks shooting a couple one night by chance, so he threatened Mr. Brooks. The interesting thing is that the condition of the threat is not money, but "take me next time you kill", And when the two were looking for a target and initially identified a truck driver, the lovely photographer said excitedly, "I've always wanted to kill those guys in the front"; and Tracy is worth tens of millions The daughter of a rich man, because her father didn't like her daughter, she ran out to do it often to prove her tenacity to her father. After she experienced a failed marriage, when she went through a divorce lawsuit again, when her husband was arrogant and asked for a higher compensation fee, she said, "I hope you go out and get hit by a car." Obviously, both of them have relatively bad desires, but they are both suppressed.
In a way, these desires are just different degrees from Brooks' hobby, killing. Especially that Smith quickly upgraded from the pleasure of voyeuristic desire to experience it for himself. And Tracy's toughness in handling the case, her own stubbornness and maverick in her character are also releasing to some extent.

However, the movie didn't stop there. The daughter of Brooks, a freshman in school, had sex with a married man and became pregnant, and to make matters worse, she killed the man and left the murder weapon, the axe, there. As a father, Brooks, in order to hug his daughter, disguised himself as a murderer again at the school according to his daughter's method, so that the daughter can have evidence of alibi. Just as the movie was about to end, Brooks had a nightmare at night, in which his daughter put scissors in his neck when he was about to kiss her, took off his eyes and put them on his own, As if there was another "Brooks", the awakened Brooks read the prayers again: "My God, please give me the tranquility to accept what I cannot change; give me the courage to change what I can change, And give me the wisdom to tell the difference. According to your truth, not as I want, believe in God, as long as I obey your will, everything will be straight, so I can live this life happily, with God Here, enjoy the blessings of eternal life, Amen!" At this time, Marshall's words also sounded: "Why control your desires?"

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Mr. Brooks quotes

  • Mr. Earl Brooks: Finding someone you think would be fun to kill is a bit like, well it's a bit like falling in love. You meet a lot of candidates, and you like some of them, and they're nice. But they're not right. And that special one comes along, and your heart beats faster, and you know that's the one.

  • Marshall: She did it, didn't she?

    Mr. Earl Brooks: Yeah. It'll take the cops a week to ten days to put their case together, and then... and then they will come back and arrest her.

    Marshall: What are you going to do?

    [Earl breaks down and cries, while Marshall hugs him]

    Mr. Earl Brooks: Oh, God. Oh, God. I was afraid of this since before she was born. She has... she has what I have.

    Marshall: Yes, she does. But you were always smart about it. She was stupid. She did it because she got off - okay, I understand. She's in it for fun - okay, I understand. But why didn't she think it through? A hatchet? And she left it there.