First of all, let’s roughly sort out the overall plot of “Beloved Van Gogh”:
Joseph Lulan, a small town postman who often delivered letters for Van Gogh before his death, found his son Al, who was drunk and had just fought over Van Gogh’s affairs in a coffee shop. Man Lulan, asked him to send a letter for the late Van Gogh. The letter was previously held in the hands of Van Gogh's former landlord. This letter was written by Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo before his death. Armand was reluctant to go, feeling that Van Gogh was already dead, so there was no need to send a letter to a dead man. Old Lulan persuaded him that Van Gogh often corresponded with his younger brother Theo before his death, and the two had a close relationship, so this letter was very important to Theo. Armand was still reluctant to go, and believed that Van Gogh was a weak man who would choose to commit suicide. Old Lulan persuaded him that no matter how strong people are, there are times when they are weak, and the people in the small town are not fair to Van Gogh, and he also asked him to think carefully, if he died, Armand must also want Received my last letter. In the end, Armand was persuaded by his father, took leave from work, and came to Paris alone by train to inquire about the whereabouts of Van Gogh's younger brother.
When he came to Paris, Armand found the old man Donguis who sold paint to Paris artists. Daddy Tangier is very popular among artists and is also a friend of Van Gogh. Tanguy recalled Van Gogh who came to Paris to study art, thinking that he was painting all the time, thinking that he was different from all the artists who came here, and did not regard Paris as the destination, but studied in Paris. After being nurtured for a period of time, he left here and continued to pursue his inner artistic ideal. Tangji said with emotion that when he saw Van Gogh for the last time, he looked like a rising star in the art world, and he suddenly heard the news of his death. And within half a year, his younger brother Theo also died in hospital. Father Tanguy remembered that at Van Gogh's funeral, his therapist Gachet took two of Van Gogh's paintings, and his younger brother Theo agreed at that time, which shows that Gachet and the Van Gogh family have an unusual relationship. Tanguy asked Armand to go to Gachet to ask about the whereabouts of Theo's wife, and see if he could give the letter to Theo's wife.
Armand was a little touched by Father Tanguy telling the story of Van Gogh, so he decided to continue sending the letter. Following his father's guidance, he came to the town where Dr. Gachet lived, where Van Gogh lived before his death. town. He came to Dr. Gachet's house and saw Dr. Gachet's daughter, Margaret, a girl in a white dress who was sitting in front of the piano and playing the piano, and the housekeeper of the Gachet family, a woman who looked stern. When the housekeeper heard that Armand was delivering the letter for Van Gogh, her face changed immediately. She said that when she first saw Van Gogh, she felt that there was madness in his eyes and that he was the incarnation of the devil. She hoped that Armand would not bring any more bad influence to the family that was disturbed by Van Gogh. Armand declined the kindness of the housekeeper to help him forward the letter to Dr. Gachet, and returned to the hotel where he lived in the town - the hotel where Van Gogh lived before his death. From the housekeeper's point of view, this hotel was no different from a mouse hole. It was a filthy abode, suitable for someone like Van Gogh.
While chatting with Raou, a girl who helped his parents look after the shop, Armand learned about the process of Van Gogh being shot in the abdomen and dying, and also learned about Van Gogh's love for painting - he often ignored the rain in front of the hotel on rainy days I paint on the ground, and I go to paint every day from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Raoul told Armand that after Van Gogh was shot, she stumbled back to the inn alone, and her father, the innkeeper, had to call Dr. Gachet. But Dr. Gachet just stood there with a scowl and closed the door. Afterwards Dr. Gachet did nothing but announced that "there was nothing more to do" and left. She was surprised because Gachet was a medic and was supposed to take out the bullet but didn't do anything. Afterwards, the police also came, and after routine questioning, they looked for the gun used by Van Gogh to commit suicide, but they could not find it, so they left. Finally, Van Gogh's younger brother Theo came. He stayed with Van Gogh until his death. Raoul said he had a dispute with Dr. Gachet and slammed the door out of Dr. Gachet's house before Vatican's impeachment. And Margaret still puts a bouquet of flowers on Van Gogh's grave every day. The villagers thought it was because Dr. Gachet accused Van Gogh of getting too close to his daughter. Armand went to the housekeeper and Marguerite to verify these things, but to no avail.
Armand went out to chat with the boatman who was in charge of punting when Van Gogh often went to the river to paint. The boatman said that Van Gogh was very lonely. He just painted and chatted with the crow happily when he saw the crow approaching him and eating his food. The boatman said that he had seen Dr. Gachet's daughter Margaret and Van Gogh go boating and chatting together, and they were no different from ordinary couples. The boatman also told him that the gun that killed Van Gogh probably belonged to Le Jean, who painted with Van Gogh. Le Jean often played tricks on Van Gogh, but also invited Van Gogh to drink. Ray Jean bought a gun from Dr. Gachet and showed off pretending to be a cowboy.
Armand dreamed of a struggling Van Gogh at night, woke up and walked to the door. Just happened to meet a red-haired child throwing stones at him. He was shocked and tried to catch up but couldn't. Later, when he came to the last wheat field where Van Gogh went before committing suicide, when he was thinking about the reasons for Van Gogh's suicide, he met the red-haired child again. He found that the child had been following him, so he chased after him until he reached a house and met an old man. The old man told Armand that the child was his sick nephew, and that he should not mind. The old man told Armand that he heard the gunshots of Van Gogh's suicide in the barn next to him. It's just that he didn't enter to check at that time, and he didn't expect that Van Gogh was shooting. At this time, the housekeeper passed by. She told Armand that she had seen Van Gogh and several other men drunk and ungodly near the barn on Sundays. She was glad to have met Armand here, so that she wouldn't have to go to a place like Raoul's hotel to tell him it was time for Dr. Gachet to see him. She also told Armand that Dr. Gachet also had a gun, but it was locked in a drawer and rarely seen.
He went back to the inn and asked Raou if the innkeeper ever had a gun. Raoul felt that he was doubting the hotel's innocence, and he was kicked out of the hotel just after a letter was sent to the hotel saying that Armand's unit had dismissed him. That night, Armand had to drink bad wine with the boatman by the lake while listening to him talk about the story of Van Gogh being bullied by Lejean. He lost his job at this time, and he had fully devoted himself to the investigation of Van Gogh's death. Hearing this, he couldn't help but angrily asked the boatman why he didn't stand for Van Gogh at that time. The argument with the boatman made him unable to stay with the boatman for long, so he had to come near the barn, and happened to meet three drunkards bullying the red-haired sick child, so he couldn't help getting the three drunk. The hooligan beat up.
Later, Armand woke up at the police station and found that the policeman had also beaten his eyes and felt sorry. The police said it was okay and said he was the one who went to question Van Gogh in his room when he was dying. The police told Armand to ask another doctor who had doubts about Van Gogh's death. Armand went to find the old doctor (can't remember the exact name). The old man told him that he and Gachet had a different view. Gachet believes that Van Gogh's gunshot wound was his own, and he believes that from the depth of the bullet's entry, the shot could not have been fired by himself, but by another person from a distance. And he thinks people who commit suicide will shoot in the temples, the heart, etc., and are unlikely to shoot in the stomach. Even if it was shot in the stomach, why didn't Van Gogh make a second shot when he missed the key point? What's more, the gun and Van Gogh's canvases were not found at the scene of the wheat field, indicating that someone took these things away. The old doctor also said that when Van Gogh was dying, he kept saying "don't blame anyone", indicating that Van Gogh was covering up those who injured himself. Armand was convinced by the old man's analysis, and concluded by reasoning on his own that it was Rajang who accidentally injured Van Gogh in a joke, and took the gun and Van Gogh's paintings and ran away.
Armand brought his conclusions to Dr. Gachet's house for an interview with Gachet. Gachet listened to his conclusion and rejected it. Gachet said that he did have an argument with Van Gogh before. But the reason is not his daughter, but his brother Theo. When Van Gogh accused him of being just a pseudo-artist, a hypocrite and not having the courage to pursue the truth, he was stinged when he remembered that he gave up the ideal of painting when he was young and chose to be a doctor out of the wishes of his parents. . So he got out of control and told Van Gogh that his younger brother Theo had no money to treat his syphilis in order to cover the expenses of his pursuit of so-called artistic ideals. The financial pressure and psychological pressure were so great that he almost collapsed - and this is He never told Van Gogh the truth. Van Gogh was provoked and slammed away. Gachet said that when Van Gogh bounced off the bed, he once told him that this ending was a good ending for everyone. Gachet believes it was his words that stimulated Van Gogh's suicide. Armand accepted Dr. Gachet's statement and gave him the letter. Doctor Gachet gave Armand another letter as a reward for sending it.
Armand came to the wheat field for the last time and met Marguerite. Margaret told him that she and Van Gogh were not lovers. The father kept himself away from Van Gogh, not because they loved each other, but because he hoped that he would not disturb the output of a genius. Margaret said that his father had long realized that Van Gogh was a genius, and even quietly copied Van Gogh's paintings in his study. She told Armand that you always wanted to investigate the cause of Van Gogh's death, but you didn't care how he lived. In her eyes, he was a true genius who had lived a fiery life.
On the way, Armand opened the letter to himself from Dr. Gachet. That letter was written by Van Gogh to his younger brother Theo when he decided to pursue a career in painting, and the content was very inspirational. Armand saw the letter and was encouraged at the juncture where his future was unclear and his life was at a loss. In addition, Gachet promised to deliver the letter to Theo's wife. The task had been completed, and he drove home.
After returning home, Armand received another letter from Theo's wife. She thanked Armand for delivering the letter and sent a copy of it. Armand and his father sat under the stars and were deeply moved by reading Van Gogh's reflections on the stars, death, and dreams. Then the whole show is over.
Combined with the above plot, analyze the possibility that Dr. Gachet is the real murderer:
1. According to the testimony of the housekeeper, Dr. Gachet has a gun, and it is locked in his drawer, which is rarely seen. It means that if he took out the gun and used it on the day of Van High's bullet, his family would not know.
2. According to Raou’s testimony, Gachet was a military doctor. He was the first person Van Gogh saw after bouncing back to the hotel. As a former military doctor, he should know that Van Gogh can still be rescued. After all, Van Gogh was in a good condition at that time, and he even had the strength to speak (Van Gogh died two days after being shot). Maybe the limited conditions at the time made it impossible for him to perform the operation, but he could at least send Van Gogh to a hospital with better conditions to continue the rescue. But Gachet did not do so, giving the reason that "Van Gogh himself had no desire to live". However, as Van Gogh's psychiatrist, when his patient could still be rescued but he wanted to die, not only did he fail to stimulate the patient's will to survive, but he also let it go according to his wishes. The reason for this is thought-provoking. It can be said that Gachet was a fan of conservative therapy and homeopathy so he did it, but as a close friend and psychiatrist of Van Gogh, this move was still outrageously indifferent. It was also this episode that made me suspect at the first time that Gachet was the one who really killed Van Gogh, so that his attitude of rushing to death and dying can be explained.
3. Dr. Gachet and several people who met Van Gogh before his death said that Van Gogh kept saying "no one to blame". This aspect shows that Van Gogh knew that the real murderer was covering up the real murderer. On the one hand, it can also explain a series of actions of Dr. Gachet. The situation in which Gachet fired on Van Gogh was likely impulsive, so it missed the point. Thinking that Van Gogh would die, Gachet took his painting equipment and, of course, his gun. But because he didn't have the courage to check if his old friend and patient Van Gogh was really dead, he just left. Gachet thought that Van Gogh would gradually weaken and destroy the corpse wilderness, and it would take some time before anyone found out. Unexpectedly, Van Gogh was still in good health, and he came back to the hotel with his injuries. When he heard the innkeeper tell him to go there, Dr. Gachet had to go (because it was too suspicious), so he had to go. And he also wants to see how awake Van Gogh is. If he is not sober, he will act on his own camera and then kill him. When he saw that Van Gogh was sober, he thought that the other party wanted to expose it when he was dying, and did so in revenge and humiliation, so he was full of anger the moment he entered the room. Later, I didn't expect that Van Gogh didn't want to expose himself and take revenge on himself, and even said something like "don't blame anyone" in front of him. Because it was not easy to do it when Van Gogh was sober, and the post-mortem people would also find abnormalities, plus Van Gogh, a genius with a different way of thinking than ordinary people, did not intend to hold himself accountable, so Gachet simply passed Give up the cure and let Van Gogh die slowly.
4. What was the conflict between Gachet and Van Gogh? Gachet's feelings for Van Gogh are complicated. On the one hand, he admires Van Gogh's talent, but also because of the similarities with Van Gogh's character (it was mentioned in the movie that people in the village once thought the two were brothers), And sympathize with him. On the other hand, he realizes that his talent will never catch up with Van Gogh, and realizes that Van Gogh's works will become master works in the future, and he is full of jealousy of Van Gogh. When he was young, due to the wishes of his parents and perhaps financial pressure, he gave up his artistic dream, but Van Gogh had a silly younger brother who has been supporting his artistic ideals unconditionally. Moreover, in his opinion, Van Gogh did not understand the difficulty of measuring his younger brother, nor did he know how to appreciate his help to Van Gogh. Not only that, Van Gogh was proud of his talents, and he also hooked up with his daughter under his own eyes. Although Gachet realized that Van Gogh was a genius and talented, he also realized in reality that although Van Gogh is likely to be more prosperous in the future than he is now, he has only sold one painting so far, and he does not know when. Can really become famous as a master of art (maybe even after death). My own daughter is married to such a down-and-out tramp who regards her own feelings as the most precious and her artistic ideals as the most important, with such a self-centered artist character, she will only become Van Gogh's nanny, mother and spiritual friend in the future. , who suffered and suffered all his life, accompanied him in his life dedicated to art. The younger brother Theo and his devotion to Van Gogh's art are not enough, Van Gogh even has to catch up with his daughter. So Dr. Gachet shot and killed Van Gogh in a dispute, perhaps as he said, about art and reality. The conversation that Dr. Gachet told Armand actually happened, the only difference is that Van Gogh was shot by him in a moment of anger after the conversation.
5. Dr. Gachet was not telling the truth to his daughter. As a psychiatrist, Dr. Gachet obviously understands that the more he stops his daughter from loving Van Gogh, the more it will foster their relationship. So he adopted a special strategy: to admit Van Gogh's excellence in front of his daughter, Van Gogh was a genius, and also to show his appreciation for Van Gogh, to lift Van Gogh high. And use this as an excuse to stop her daughter from saying that you should not disturb Van Gogh's work and always go to him. From the actions of the housekeeper and the status of the Gachet family, it can be seen that Margaret was actually influenced by some dogmas, and she probably liked Van Gogh without knowing it. This excuse from her father not only perfected the image of Van Gogh in her heart, but did not stop her from admiring Van Gogh. Instead, it was able to convert her admiration for Van Gogh into allowing her to restrain herself from disturbing his work. It can be said that due to her father's influence, Margaret reduced the chance to meet Van Gogh, and achieved the goal that Dr. Gachet hoped that the two would not get along well.
6. After investigating so many people, why did Armand fail to expose Dr. Gachet when such obvious evidence was in sight: First of all, Dr. Gachet was a person of high social status, and it was necessary for Armand to expose him. face many obstacles. Moreover, it can be seen from the development of the plot that Armand is actually a person who is emotional and not so calm thinking. He continued to investigate the truth of Van Gogh's death out of his own confused situation similar to that of Van Gogh, out of sympathy for Van Gogh and his belief that Van Gogh was a good man and should not die. Moreover, deep in his heart, he hopes to find his future direction by pursuing the truth of Van Gogh's death. Dr. Gachet apparently saw through this when he interviewed him, after convincing Armand by making up the death-bed story of a fragile but great artist, after showing that he had hurt the artist's nerves by inadvertent words, causing the artist to After committing suicide and feeling extremely remorseful, Gachet sent Armand a letter from Van Gogh, making Armand worthwhile, gaining the strength to move on, and therefore no longer chasing the truth of the artist's death. Obviously, Gachet's understanding of Armand is correct. Armand was indeed deceived by his acting skills, moved by his story, and moved by the inspirational ending that his pursuit finally ushered in. He stopped thinking calmly, Stop searching for the truth.
The above is another interpretation of the truth of Van Gogh's death in view of the plot shown in the movie. The real culprit may be the melancholy one who also has artistic ambitions, but has to live a hypocritical life because of social status and money, Dr. Gachet. Van Gogh expressed his loss as an artist deep in his heart. He used his talent to crush him, and he had to take care of him as a patient. He had to go to his house to cheat food, drink, and kidnap his daughter. In the end, Gachet finally couldn't stand such exploitation and ridicule, and killed Van Gogh on a whim.
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