Psychology film called a textbook (serious spoilers)

Bo 2022-01-08 08:01:41

Many comments downstairs questioned the word "textbook" in my title, so let me explain. I said, this is a psychology film that can be called a textbook. Note that my term is psychology film, not that it is a horror film that can be called a textbook. Thank you


for the plot alone, this film can be called a textbook-style psychology movie! Highly recommended!
In fact, the film has two lines, one line and one line (or hidden line)
. The plot of the line is quite simple and pale. The heroine Christine was sent to a mental hospital because of mental abnormality and set fire to the farmhouse. encountered in a mental hospital a terrible killer Alice, patients around a female controls a missing killed, while doctors and nurses do not believe there is such a killer exists, care of the household in order to survive, trying to escape the asylum opened the story
if With this one line alone, the film can be included in the list of "bad films", but don’t forget, there is also an inside line in the film, and this inside line opened at the end is enough to reverse.
In fact, in the whole plot , all the patients in the mental hospital—Christine, Tammy, Alice, Sara, Emily, Zoe, etc., are all made by the heroine’s multiple personalities. That is to say, from beginning to end, the patient is only the heroine.
The heroine’s name should be Alice Lee Hudson. At the age of 11, she was locked up in the basement of a farmhouse for two months. She was tortured and fled and set fire to the farmhouse. But Alice’s spirit was greatly traumatized, so she kept separating her independent personality to share the harm she suffered, so Sara, Tammy, Emily, Zoe and others were turned out one by one
( A movie that has the same tunes and same skills as this film should be "Tokyo Boys" starring Horikita Maki. It also tells a plot that protects the original personality and separates the independent personality. However, the number of multiple personalities in this film is quite large. (Compared to "24 Personalities")
Each individual personality that Alice turns into contains a part of nightmarish memory, and these split-off personalities gradually overshadow Alice's own personality. (That is, all the patients in the film jointly killed Alice)
The idea of ​​Dr. Stringer, Alice’s attending physician, is to separate each Alice’s split personality, and through treatment, erase the nightmare memories contained in these independent personalities (so each patient said that she After almost healed, Dr. Stringer will ask her to do the final intelligence, and then the murderer Alice will kill her). When all the split personalities have been obliterated, the memory of Alice's body will appear.
But then Christine appears. Unlike other split personalities, Christine is not transformed by Alice's nightmare memory. , But Alice tried her best to get rid of the nightmare of the past and transformed into a brand new personality (Kristen’s personality does not have those nightmare memories). There are
too many split personalities in the film, and the film does not tell us that these people have reflected separately which part of the personality, so only a limited number of major personality stated
Kristin: Alice to get rid of the nightmare of the past new personality metamorphosis of the personality denied all the past, intent on leaving (fleeing psychosis Therefore, other personalities are unable to resist the murderer Alice, only Christine can fight the
murderer (the Alice who does not look like a human): this personality should be the personality of Alice when she set fire , It is Alice’s revenge for the nightmare memory. Therefore, this personality will continue to obliterate Alice’s other personalities to eliminate those nightmare memories
Zoe (it seems to be the name? Is the last surviving one): This should be Alice A copy of the ontological personality has the same personality as Alice’s ontological personality. Therefore, when other personalities joined forces to murder Alice’s ontological personality, she did not take action. This is also the only personality that Alice’s Murder personality did not kill. After the murderer jumped off the building with Christine and fell to his death, Zoe became the only surviving personality, and became the personality of Alice. In the last shot of the film, Alice opens the mirror, and a certain blond woman hidden in the mirror appears. The mirror symbolizes copying, and the appearance of the blonde girl should be another personality split by Alice, which symbolizes that the nightmare memory in Alice’s heart has not been completely eliminated (that is, the part of the nightmare in Zoe’s personality is still there)
. In a short comment, the actors have different opinions on poor acting skills. In fact, this may have been deliberately done by the director, which just confirms the imperfection of every personality.

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  • Sarah: [seductively] So... Roy.

    [said as if growling the name]

    Roy: Not interested.

    Sarah: You didn't hear me out.

    [smiles]

    Roy: Fine. Shoot.

    Sarah: Well, I know you said you wouldn't date any of us inside the ward, but...! I just know I'm getting out soon. And I thought maybe you could call me sometime.

    Roy: There is no way I will ever, ever date you. Got it?

    Sarah: But I know...

    Roy: No! Not ever! Now leave me alone. I'm swamped here, and I don't have time for this.

    [goes off]

  • Sarah: So, you and your coo-coo bird have fun sneaking out last night?

    Kristen: [sighs] Go away.

    Sarah: You could have gotten us all in trouble.

    Kristen: We were looking for Iris.

    Sarah: And?

    Kristen: Couldn't find her.

    Sarah: Well, you probably weren't looking in the right places.

    [indicating Emily, derisive:]

    Sarah: Not with Magellan over there.