"Mr. Brooks": Double Perfect Personality Text / Vulcan Ji
God. Grant me the serenity to accept the facts that I cannot change; grant me the courage to change the facts; grant me the wisdom to see through the similarities and differences; According to your truth and not mine; believe in you, commit yourself to your will, and all things will be righted and the way made straight. In this way, I can spend this life with my family, be with God, and enjoy the bliss of eternal life. Amen. ——Reinhold Niebuhr Everyone is given a social role because of survival, and is given a personality role because of inner desire. Characters derive personalities, so psychologists can arbitrarily assert that everyone has dual or multiple personalities. Judging a person's personality is determined by its dominant personality, and when two or more personalities are not harmonious, contradict each other or even exclude each other, and alternately dominate the life of an individual, we have a very common psychosis. Name: Schizophrenia; in more severe cases it becomes a split personality. Movies with split personality are not uncommon. However, it is rare to find such complete cases that can be separated from each other. The morbid artistic pursuit of homicidal addiction and the code of conduct of the model man, I start to jump for joy when both have survived so successfully in Kevin Costner's Mr. Brooks . Because after Anthony Hopkins' version of Hannibal Lecter and Tobin Bell's version of Jigsaw, there's finally a guy on the Hollywood screen who's fascinated me. A heart-pounding murderer.
Refined yet graceful, precise and steady; shoot couples with guns, put them in various warm and romantic poses for photos, use a vacuum cleaner to clean every corner of the room, take away the dust bag of the vacuum cleaner, and finally put it away. The couple's thumbprints were left prominently in the room. Habit brought the "thumbprint killer" reputation; as Brooks himself put it, he killed countless people in countless ways before becoming a "thumbprint killer." Everything is in the precise plan and design. It is precisely because of the prudence that has not been missed and the sophisticated anti-reconnaissance awareness that he has killed countless people and reappeared after two years of silence, but he has always escaped from the sight of the police. No doubt, the film will inevitably be compared to the SAW franchise and the Silence of the Lambs franchise. Jigsaw is a game in the name of redemption. Although the massacre is evil, the act itself is full of sympathetic artistic performance; Hannibal's social role and self-personality role are quite good, but the two roles themselves are unified. And serving each other, there is no taste of split personality. Unlike Jigsaw who regards killing itself as a game art, and Dr. Lecter who raises killing to the height of the art of cannibalism, the biggest difference between Brooks and them is the split in personality and the consummation of the two personalities. There is absolutely no exaggeration in the double perfection of Brooks; whether it is Kevin Costner's social character with a conscience or William Hurt's evil-minded and criminally gifted self Characters, which heavy personalities are on his body to the fullest and tend to be perfect.
The two play the same role, and the constant dialogue represents personal thinking and planning. The success of the social role lies in the success of business, the thoughtfulness of the wife, the love for the daughter, the dedication to social obligations, etc.; the success of the self role lies in the infinite expansion of desire and the crazy but romantic slaughter. The desire of the self and successfully escaped from the criminal investigation and legal sanctions. These two characters have successfully survived on one character, and the design at this point is undoubtedly novel and has an eye-catching gimmick. In Brooks' world, he seems to be omnipotent; his only concern may be that his daughter has the same unquenchable thirst for blood as he is, because of his genetics. His fears were made real by the murder at his daughter's school, where he had a feeling of restlessness and a sense of urgency that the daughter who had killed her lover for the thrill of killing had escaped home alone. Heartbreaking self-blame. Brooks' evil doppelganger once asserted: she is as bloodthirsty as you, but you can handle it smartly and gracefully, while she looks stupid and vulgar; if she doesn't stop her, she will continue to kill; if she wants to take over you business, the next victim may be you. Brooks' cry shows a human contradiction. Rather than worrying about his daughter, it is better to say that he is afraid of all his actions. What he is afraid of is the backlash after all the killings he has ever had; and he projects this backlash on his daughter. Go on, his daughter is just a carrier of his fear. This is a human conflict between the desire to kill and the good reason; he submits to the desire, but the good heart intimidates him in a didactic way. On the other hand, this also shows a contradiction between rationality and emotion. Emotionally, as a father, he still thinks about how to protect his daughter and settle things for her. The calf-protecting complex asks him to kill an innocent person for his daughter. This is another way that goes against his desire to kill. Massacre; he felt sick, but he did it anyway. Rationally, he had thought about letting the police take his daughter away, in order to prevent her from continuing to kill or to protect himself from being killed by his daughter, or to relieve his fear of backlash against the massacre. Just as reason succumbed to desire, so after two years of forbearance he began to kill. Therefore, he has no more choices, and reason is also subservient to sensibility. Brooks eventually imitated his daughter's method and killed another person and provided her daughter with an alibi, so her daughter's murder case was characterized as a serial murder case unsolved. The film begins with a murder and ends with a nightmare, and elevates the film to the level of humanity with the passage of the famous American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr's prayer that swept the Christian world in the 20th century. high. Everything Brooks does seems to be more of a fight against his own murderous addiction. Designing a murder case that evaporated from the world, longing to be captured by the police, longing to be killed by an amateur photographer facing the window... The will to survive and the lingering addiction made everything a chess game in the end write. The law and other killers seemed to have no way of punishing him, so he was tortured only by his increasingly clear nightmare of being killed by his daughter. Double perfect personality; not perfect double personality, but every personality that splits out of him is still close to perfect. As a good man, Brooks is calm, smart, enterprising, hard-working, successful in his career, and he loves his wife and daughter; and as a murderer, Brooks has fulfilled all his murderous desires. The two actors playing the same role give the film a very spacious narrative space, and all the psychological activities and thinking processes can be fully displayed in front of our eyes through the opposite sides of the two characters. Rather than saying that this is a movie about the art of killing, it may be better to say that this is a dissecting narrative that explores the dark psychology of human nature. Among the Hollywood movies that have been slightly down recently, this movie has made my eyes shine to some extent; such a vulgar routine of "high IQ + serial murder + split personality" can also make up a quite flavorful commercial movie. I don't admire Hollywood screenwriters. That prayer that swept through Christendom in the 20th century elevates the film to the heights of humanity. Everything Brooks does seems to be more of a fight against his own murderous addiction. Designing a murder case that evaporated from the world, longing to be captured by the police, longing to be killed by an amateur photographer facing the window... The will to survive and the lingering addiction made everything a chess game in the end write. The law and other killers seemed to have no way of punishing him, so he was tortured only by his increasingly clear nightmare of being killed by his daughter. Double perfect personality; not perfect double personality, but every personality that splits out of him is still close to perfect. As a good man, Brooks is calm, smart, enterprising, hard-working, successful in his career, and he loves his wife and daughter; and as a murderer, Brooks has fulfilled all his murderous desires. The two actors playing the same role give the film a very spacious narrative space, and all the psychological activities and thinking processes can be fully displayed in front of our eyes through the opposite sides of the two characters. Rather than saying that this is a movie about the art of killing, it may be better to say that this is a dissecting narrative that explores the dark psychology of human nature. Among the Hollywood movies that have been slightly down recently, this movie has made my eyes shine to some extent; such a vulgar routine of "high IQ + serial murder + split personality" can also make up a quite flavorful commercial movie. I don't admire Hollywood screenwriters. That prayer that swept through Christendom in the 20th century elevates the film to the heights of humanity. Everything Brooks does seems to be more of a fight against his own murderous addiction. Designing a murder case that evaporated from the world, longing to be captured by the police, longing to be killed by an amateur photographer facing the window... The will to survive and the lingering addiction made everything a chess game in the end write. The law and other killers seemed to have no way of punishing him, so he was tortured only by his increasingly clear nightmare of being killed by his daughter. Double perfect personality; not perfect double personality, but every personality that splits out of him is still close to perfect. As a good man, Brooks is calm, smart, enterprising, hard-working, successful in his career, and he loves his wife and daughter; and as a murderer, Brooks has fulfilled all his murderous desires. The two actors playing the same role give the film a very spacious narrative space, and all the psychological activities and thinking processes can be fully displayed in front of our eyes through the opposite sides of the two characters. Rather than saying that this is a movie about the art of killing, it may be better to say that this is a dissecting narrative that explores the dark psychology of human nature. Among the Hollywood movies that have been slightly down recently, this movie has made my eyes shine to some extent; such a vulgar routine of "high IQ + serial murder + split personality" can also make up a quite flavorful commercial movie. I don't admire Hollywood screenwriters.
2007-12-08; Bingzi day of Renzi month in Dinghai year. P.S.: Movie information extension link. ■Title: "Mr. Brooks" ■Translation: "Mr. Brooks" ■Director: Bruce A. Evans ■Screenwriter: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon ■Starring: Kevin Costner, William Hurt, Demi Moore ■Country: United States ■Language: English ■Genre: Thriller/Crime/Drama ■Film Length: 95 min Release: MGM Release: June 1, 2007 (US)
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