"Doing nothing" is over.
We stayed nervous for six weeks, guessing who was the murderer for six weeks.
Almost all the audience watching the barrage are detectives. The heroine's father, girlfriend, son, and victim's husband are all suspected, but few people think that husband Jonathan is the murderer.
No wonder after the finale, some netizens commented that the barrage is almost a large-scale scene where all the staff are controlled by Jonathan's mind.
In just six episodes, until the end of the fifth episode, when the murder hammer appeared in his son Henry’s piano box, the audience gasped. The rhythm, conflict, and tension of the show are all very good. It is said that it has been rated by Sky TV in the UK. Quite high, all members chasing drama, all members solving crimes.
Hugh Grant played a very complicated character in the play, not just a scum, nor a narcissistic or antisocial personality. He performed the psychological changes of this character under the iceberg.
In front of his wife and son, he has been performing their ideal husband and father, but sometimes there are tired and sluggish moments. Because I have been acting, my mood is quite unstable. To answer his son's evaluation of the violin teacher to him, Jonathan even said a very philosophical sentence: In the end, the connection between you and the song exists between you and the music. Don't care about the teacher's evaluation of you. But when his son asked him: Have you been under a lot of pressure recently? His expression was stagnant for a moment, and his expression was serious and heavy.
Also after he returned from bail, the family of three ate out for the first time. When his son said that he understood why he did not raise a dog, he suddenly became angry. One of the reasons why his emotions were so intense was that he thought he might Wear it for help. He realized that his son and his wife shared a lot of things about him, and he might not be able to act anymore.
The fierce conflict and murder between him and his lover Elena reminded me of the famous saying in House of Cards: Sex is about power . In a relationship, when Jonathan is no longer the beneficiary, but the one who is constantly losing, he naturally stops the loss and chooses to interrupt. But Elena's personality is also extreme. She thinks she is the one who has the initiative, and she is unwilling to let go, and angers Jonathan.
When a person has always had an advantage, he will think that he has power and authority. In a rage, Jonathan thought how dare Elena , how worthy of challenging her power, this killing made me extremely uncomfortable. It also shows that Jonathan is indifferent and does not have any empathy.
Although we have been saying that everyone has the ability to love , in fact, realizing love is one of the most difficult achievements. Care and responsibility mean that love is a kind of initiative, not a passion to conquer others, nor an influence to "move" others.
This childhood cancer doctor married Ph.D. Bai Fumi and he has been cheating. After he cheated and murdered, he could persuade Bai Fumi’s wife to let her go home and find her father to bail him out at a price of 12 million US dollars. He kept saying that he was innocent. Not murdered. But he can say to the public that the dead third party is his true love on TV, and he is also very sad because he has lost his lover. And to guide the public sentiment to focus the skeptical eyes on the husband of the deceased who might have witnessed their affair and would be angry.
But when he turned his head and said to the lawyer and his wife, that was not what he said in his heart. The only backer he can escape from crime is his wife. In order to coax his wife, he can hook his wife's soul with a phone call at night, so that his already angry wife will return from his father's house to the scum man to spend the night with him at midnight.
This brainwashing method is simply breathtaking. A pediatrician who had been unemployed a long time ago and was expelled from the hospital, had derailed and was suspected of severe homicide, but was able to rely on the skill of coaxing his wife for many years to almost get out of the case.
If it weren't for her son, Grace played by Nicole, a dignified Harvard PhD in psychology, would not know when she would wake up and recognize the truth.
Fortunately, as soon as Grace woke up, with a strong backing from the billionaire father behind her, she had the final anti-kill, protecting her son, and sending her scumbag husband to prison.
When I saw Hugh Grant's husband's eyes from the warmth of affection to surprise, then to cold and fierce, I couldn't help but want to say that this scumbag, with this hypnotic performance, I don't know how many people have been deceived.
Although the child has not learned to analyze rationally, but he has a pair of clear eyes
Jonathan is undoubtedly a charming bastard.
The line that fascinated me the most in the first episode was what the master said. He said to his wife with a PhD in psychology: You keep your son in a bubble and keep them as far away from reality as possible. When reality finally emerges, they Unable to cope and finally self-mutilated. This is the essence of modern parenting, isn't it?
This is actually the worry of our generation of parents. When we were young, we were born with natural support. Parents only need to eat and wear warmth, and the rest do whatever they want. But when we raise children, everyone is emphasizing the importance of the original family. It seems that if we are not paying attention, the child will have psychological trauma, and then at a certain stage of his growth, he will become a person that he cannot break through. The black hole causes psychological problems, anxiety and even depression. Those young children who jumped off buildings, committed suicide, dropped out of school, and are depressed in the news. Every time this kind of social news appears, we quickly recall whether we have done anything particularly excessive and whether our children have ever run away from home. Or the idea of committing suicide?
When I do my best to provide them with a good environment, I will inevitably wonder, whether they will be too naive, and will not be a flower in a greenhouse.
But when Jonathan and Grace’s son Henry experienced his father as a suspected murderer, he was left out at school, went to see his father in jail, and witnessed the series of catastrophic events in which his father was tried in court. Henry had a precocious and precocious relationship far beyond that of children of the same age. calm down.
When the bubble of lies was popped, Henry's performance and cognition were much more sober than his mother who was a doctor of psychology.
When he visited his father who was once an idol in prison, he looked straight into his eyes and asked him: Did you kill her?
Grace is still swaying between trust and distrust, and even Grace still needs to ask the previous male lawyer's opinion. When she clearly heard the male lawyer said that her husband is a bastard, but it is impossible to kill, she grew up. In a tone, I went back and urged my father to put out a deposit of 12 million yuan to guarantee the scumbag.
Henry saw his mother’s hesitation and knew that his father was the murderer. Whenever his mother asked him if he believed that his father did it, Henry always asked his mother first. He wanted to know what his mother wanted. If his mother wanted to protect his father, Then he will be with his mother.
After the parents’ relationship is broken or even divorced, it is often difficult for children to accept the fact that their parents are separated. They hope that their parents can reconcile and invest a lot of emotions.
And Henry, the kid, could even think of using a dishwasher to remove traces of DNA and fingerprints on the murder weapon. He desperately wanted to protect his father. When the police took his father away from the ancestral house by the sea, Henry was able to calmly pull in front of the window. The violin, the psychological quality is really not so strong.
Sometimes a child’s guilt is caused by not loving his parents fully, especially when the parents desire to be the center of their affection.
Before children learn to use reason to distinguish things, they have the awareness of distinguishing good from bad. His judgment of value is developed as a result of friendly or unfriendly reactions of important people in his life. ----Fromm "The Pursuit of Myself"
Even when Jonathan finally tricked his son into racing on the highway, and even when he was desperate, he climbed up the bridge to jump into the river in front of his son, Henry kept pulling him and saying: Dad, don't run away.
Under a series of changes, Henry did not collapse and self-harm as Jonathan predicted. Instead, he was persuading his father: Don't run away.
The child sees through the nature of his father. He has been evading guilt, escaping the collapsed reality of man-made settings, and evading his true self.
Offset, denial, rationalization --- common self-defense mechanisms
The English title of this play is "The Undoing", which means offset in Chinese. It is a kind of psychological defense mechanism of psychology. It uses symbolic behaviors, activities, and events to offset unpleasant things that have happened, like those Things did not happen at all, in order to alleviate the psychological anxiety and compensate for the psychological discomfort.
The real defense mechanism is carried out unconsciously and seems to have the nature of self-deception to conceal or disguise our true motives.
The offset is a self-deceptive defense mechanism.
Many examples of this kind of offset can be seen in the play.
For example, Grace has always believed that his parents’ marriage is perfect, and his father loves his mother very much, and often sends precious jewelry to his mother. But the father said that he often had affair, every time he had an affair, he would buy expensive jewelry to give to his wife to eliminate his inner guilt, and show that he was a conscientious husband by giving jewelry. This behavior is a kind of offset.
But because they were both men, Grace's father said frankly that he didn't like Jonathan since the first time he saw Jonathan, because men's instinct felt that they were the same kind of people and they were definitely not good husbands, but the daughter was willing, so he had to agree.
Jonathan will be out of work tomorrow morning. He is fooling around outside. He is driven to a squeeze by his lover Irina, but he has no time to accompany his son Henry. When he goes out with his son in the morning, he proposes to make a road trip for the father and son. To please his son, to eliminate his guilt at that moment, and to prove that he is a good father with this action. This is offset.
In order to cleanse himself, the female lawyer arranged for him to be on TV. He said on TV that Jelena is his true love. The two had an intimate relationship in Jelena’s studio that day. Perhaps someone was even more crazy and jealous after witnessing it. , Directly throw the pot to Irina's husband. But in a discussion meeting with lawyers and wives, she said with a compassionate and uneasy expression that Jelena’s husband is a good person, an honest person, and the murderer must be someone else. , He was very disturbed. This is also an offset.
And Grace, after Jonathan’s accident, from a psychological point of view, her defense mechanism is not offset, but denial and rationalization.
Denial is a primitive and simple self-defense mechanism. It unconsciously denies those painful realities, denies those unpleasant events, and does not admit that it does not seem to be painful if you do not accept it, thus alleviating the blow and gaining a certain psychological support and Balance to achieve the purpose of self-protection. This process can enable individuals to gradually accept reality without being overwhelmed with pain at once, which can be regarded as a protective defense.
Almost overnight, Grace’s life was almost reversed. The original perfect family life of the rich in the Upper East Side began from the sudden loss of her husband, and life was ruined all the way. Her husband’s derailment and suspicion of murder brought her humiliation and betrayal. The police who followed her interrogated her and made her social and life circles as cold as ice. This huge contrast between before and after, denial is indeed an instinctive protection mechanism for her.
And rationalization is the unconscious use of seemingly reasonable explanations to justify unacceptable emotions, behaviors, and motivations. The purpose is to reduce anxiety caused by frustration and maintain personal self-esteem. Despite everyone’s opposition, Grace still believes that Jonathan is a good doctor and can’t kill. However, with the unanimous opinions of the police, colleagues, and father, she can’t refute it. The reason is that Irina may have been abnormal long ago. With psychological problems, she only took Jonathan as a god to make crazy moves. Only by understanding in this way can she relieve some of the pain of her sudden collapse of the world.
Even if her father reminded her repeatedly that having an affair is human nature, but killing a person is still doing it all the time, hammering a person's face, even a brute. At that time, she couldn't hear such words, because if she believed it, then she would have been wrong for more than a decade. "Rationalization" is to create a reasonable reason to explain and conceal self-injury.
Even if perfect like Grace, when the pain of life is too great to bear, our inner world will always set up many barriers to protect ourselves from collapse, but one day, we have to face the truth and welcome the cruelty and truth of life .
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