these two stories are both attempts by a mentally ill wife murderer to rationalize his behavior, and they both failed one after another.
I don't know if everyone finds it strange that when nothing happens at the beginning, the jazz player is in a very depressed and sad mood? Why is he so hysterical when he plays at the bar and there's a picture of his wife leaving with Andy? And his wife acted just as weird, especially when he got the tape, and had sex with him? Do you feel that his wife is very "virtual", her character is very vague, and it is more a symbol than a person? You know, that's what "she" looks like when you're imagining someone, because that's just a virtual character in your head. He lived in a false dream until he was beaten up by the police. The first story was just his first dream. In fact, there is another place that hints at this, that is, Fred knew from the beginning that "Dick Laurent is dead", so that there was a contradiction with the later part of the party. For a mental patient, what kind of contradiction is this, ha ha.
Then, you can think about why the scene where he killed his wife basically never appeared in front of him, but was released through video, and it was only a very short scene every time? The answer is: this is something he desperately wants to forget, and because of the subconscious protection mechanism, this process has actually been erased from consciousness, so there will be no wife killing process in his delusional story.
Why did he see himself bloody through the video? I think the answer is that this is a video taken by the police at the crime scene, because the police arrived after the crime, so there will only be bloody scenes after the murder.
Due to a person's subconscious protection mechanism, in fact, he has no memory of the process of killing his wife, but the police will show him this video in order to make him plead guilty. After seeing the video, he will be at a loss, and his consciousness is full of contradictions (when delusion and reality conflict, he will have a severe headache) - a twisted person has to be twisted in order to keep his inner world "running". The external world - so his rationalization of the problem is that a "devil" caused it all, and this "devil" was brought by his wife's friend.
Psychopaths are people who live in dreams with their eyes open, but they also have moments when they wake up—that's when Fred is on death row with a splitting headache and needs an aspirin.
The first attempt at rationalization failed, and Fred made a second attempt - fantasizing about Pete's crossing, and getting out of the cell because of it. This reminds me of dreaming of picking up water next to the water dispenser when I am thirsty, and dreaming of being in the bathroom at night when I hold my urine... As someone who is about to sit in an electric chair, this fantasy is very reasonable.
In the world of fantasy, it seems to be able to do things arbitrarily and arbitrarily, but unfortunately the world of the subconscious also has iron laws that cannot be circumvented. When a person designs his own dream, he also vaguely knows the ending of the dream. When a person's mental state does not change, the result of each of his dreams is the same.
A man who loves to dream.
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