hide and seek

Annabelle 2022-12-01 18:14:32

I watched it twice in one night.

The story is about the psychiatrist David's wife who committed suicide in her bathtub, and her daughter was traumatized by witnessing it. David took his daughter to the countryside, trying to heal her daughter's psychology.
In the country, weird and horrific things keep appearing, broken dolls, cat corpses, blood-red words. . . . . Emily's character has also become more withdrawn and aloof. The fictional Charlie begins to influence to do all sorts of cruel things, allowing David to investigate Charlie.
Later, the death of the new girlfriend pushed the story to a climax, and various doubts were questioned, and the source of the matter began to be sorted out.
Charlie is David. David is a dual personality, resentful because of his wife's derailment. After covering his wife to death, he created the illusion of suicide. After that, Charlie felt guilty and felt that David did not satisfy his wife, which led to his derailment and death. Charlie didn't like David. At first, he only created troubles with Emily's second personality. When he got a new girlfriend, Charlie became jealous of David, thinking that David should not have happiness, so he killed his new girlfriend.
The accident alarmed the police, and David thought it was Emily who did it, and questioned him. A series of evidence made David remember everything. All this is done by his second personality. David's sight gave Charlie complete control over his body. Emily said that Charlie killed her mother. Charlie starts hunting for Emily. David's assistant arrives just in time to save Emily. Emily also had a split personality and was later admitted to a psychiatric hospital. The female assistant takes care of Emily.


1: The Charlie part is obvious. Split personality.

2; Regarding the neighbors, there is no problem. For a pair of parents who have lost their daughter, the father will secretly look at Emily for some comfort. Among them, they said, lost their daughter or something. All foreshadowing that Emily said she could only have one friend with Charlie. Charlie's possessive jealousy.

3: Emily also has a dual personality. She had the beginning of playing with the neighbors, seeing the smile of the little girl when she was playing, and sleeping at night from the very beginning, she just couldn't close the door, there should be light. Pure side. After contacting Charlie again, another personality began to play havoc, destroying dolls, not afraid of the dark and so on. That's why she needed to be in the hospital afterwards. Finally, it's her own performance.
Most of the article is about the relationship between David and Emily. In the final revealing moment, Charlie appeared, and when Charlie's cruel side fully erupted, Emily's dark side couldn't bear it, and began to ask for help from the female assistant, begging her father not to leave her, and not to let Charlie appear. This is the story of four people. Great performance by the two of them!

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Hide and Seek quotes

  • Emily: Come out come out, where ever you are...

  • Emily: [about Charlie] He doesn't want me to talk about him.