The heroine became an accomplice of her father's corpse destruction when she was ignorant at a young age, which became a black hole in her seemingly orderly life, such as falling in love with a writer who loved her, estranged from her son, and she also felt lonely all the time. Beneath the armor is a heart without belonging and safety, trying to control everything that is at hand. Then, everything around him went out of control, the mother was going to marry Xiaobailian, the son who failed to fall in love with an unfaithful girlfriend, the ex-husband of the writer had a young girlfriend, the subordinates of the whole company mocked her for being sexually assaulted, and the father who was sentenced to life is going to be released from prison, She is still secretly having an affair with her best friend's Sao Bao husband. In a panic, she had a car accident, but found that the only person who could ask for help was the neighbor who had sexually assaulted her in a mask. This strange intimacy came from the tacit understanding of each other's sexual fetishes. No one had touched the devil in her heart before. Her resentment finally maddened her mother, and only then did she realize what she had lost. She began to confess her affair with her best friend, reconciled with her son, and wanted to meet her father, but learned that he had committed suicide due to guilt. Then the son killed the neighbor in her role-playing with the neighbor, which symbolizes the process of eliminating demons step by step. At the end of the film, she meets the neighbor's wife, a devout Christian who is also the heroine of "The Virgin". She actually knew about her husband's violent sexual fetish and thanked the heroine for fulfilling his wish. At this moment, the heroine seemed to also was forgiven. It was not her intention to be a father's accomplice, but the haze of defense and indifference caused by this guilt lasted for so many years, and finally disappeared, and she reconciled with her best friend and son.
In the first half of the movie, there are many details about the heroine's loneliness, and the sense of substitution is very strong. Combined with the main story, it can't help but make people think: How did we go from naive children to adults full of distractions and precautions? This road of betrayal of God is often involuntarily, just like the heroine becomes the accomplice of the father, the environment shapes people into what they are now, but fate and free will exist at the same time, people will always have the freedom to choose spiritually, and feel guilty. It's one of the ways back.
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