In fact, it has lost its meaning to really think about who did it. No matter who did it, if his purpose was to destroy a family, he would undoubtedly have achieved that purpose in the end. The step-by-step progress of this game seems to be under the control of the prankster; on the other hand, George is constantly losing his sense of control over the development of the situation, watching himself slowly sink into a quagmire.
Wang Xiaobo said that what intellectuals are most afraid of is an unreasonable era. This sentence is generally the same for ordinary people. Many of our fears come from the unreasonable life of life. The situation that makes people overwhelmed is often not the worst-case scenario, but the outcome of the event is completely unexpected. This involves a term that I have often thought of lately: control. It's a feeling that's easy to overlook. The concrete point is whether you can take control of your life and let things develop on the track you envision. For example, if you set an alarm for 8 o'clock, but you don't get up until 9 o'clock, this is a sign that you have no sense of control over your life. Long-term loss of control over your life is a concern: it can lead to a rise in your insecurities about yourself, along with a cascade of anxiety and restlessness. From a psychological point of view, it is "Loss of control initiates anxiety".
Looking at the film from this angle, it's not surprising that George almost collapsed, because from the very beginning he was struck at the soft underbelly of his childhood memories. The anxiety of receiving the first videotape, followed by the intimidating portrait and the videotape of the old house, rose to fear and anxiety, awakened by dark memories of childhood. This change of mood can be said to be in the hands of the people behind the scenes, and until George follows the tape's hints to find Magee, the situation has risen to the point that he is completely out of his control. Even though George said several times that he could not let the man behind the scenes succeed, in fact, he had lost his reason to think calmly, distrust his relatives, refused to accept other possibilities, and was reluctant to seek advice from the police and friends. Help...these are signs of a loss of control. In the end, the loss of a child can make the family almost collapse.
Those seemingly unexpected illogicalities are the logic behind the scenes. If you don't understand the situation, you lose control, and you lose everything. But many times, even the sense of control itself is difficult for us to control, so what is presented is the impermanence of the world. The more you try to control it, sometimes it backfires. Similar to "fear of the unknown", because we have no control over how things are going, fear breeds.
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