What is retrospective therapy? It is to hypnotize you, and then induce you step by step to go back to the past, see what you have experienced, and find the focus of your current disease. This past can be a few days ago, a few years ago, or a few lifetimes, a few centuries ago. For example, if you often have a burning pain in your back, you may have been burned to death by fire hundreds of years ago. This sounds unscientific, but since 1958, it has officially become a branch of psychotherapy, and there have been more than 100 successful cases.
However, this film does not discuss this therapy very seriously, but just borrows the concept. The psychotherapist becomes a escort character in this film.
The [past] in this film is more than a year ago. The retrospector is Emma Watson's father. The content of the retrospect is that he sexually assaulted Emma Watson. The outraged Ethan Hawke pursued the daunted father, and he could not help but define him in his heart, but as the case progressed, he gradually discovered that the content of the father’s retrospective was full of his own emotional projections. , Is very deceptive, the real murderer may be a colleague in the police station, Emma Watson’s grandmother, and the most powerful hypnotist is the filter word, because the filter word hypnotizes the entire town. The reason why people are actively hypnotized unconsciously is because this filter word makes good use of everyone’s subtle feelings in life. For example, some people reject and dislike the distorted faces in large outdoor advertisements. Deep down, it was the face that inspired a certain sense of fear in their memory. For example, when there was no electricity when they were young, a stranger held a candle in front of your chest and approached you. Although he was unintentional, There is an element of fear in your heart.
The theme of the film is very good, but the rhythm is not well grasped, the information intensity is limited, and Emma Watson's acting skills are really mediocre. Although the director used some gloomy pictures and music to create a horrible atmosphere, he couldn't hide the straightforwardness of the plot. I already knew what was going on halfway through, so this film didn't scare me at all. On the contrary, it was Emma Watson's father's last true feelings that would have had a strong enough emotional impact, but it was a pity that the director hurriedly touched it, and ultimately failed to touch me.
The biggest significance of this film to me is the mention of [Retrospective Therapy]. I have always questioned this kind of therapy. I don’t think there is a past life, let alone that it will affect this life, both mentally and physically, but I respect those who are deeply troubled by physical and mental illnesses who choose to use this method for treatment. Because I believe it psychologically, there will be corresponding changes in my physiology. This has nothing to do with true and false, but the focus is on the effect, but the effect is uncontrollable, and it may become better or worse.
In contrast, I am more willing to accept meditation, because it can make people calm and soothe, immerse themselves in the world that they have woven, and let the body enter a state of complete relaxation, blood circulation is smooth, and breath is naturally absorbed, which is beneficial to some Self-healing from minor illnesses. But I don't meditate myself, because my psychological defense awareness is extremely strong. Once I realize that something is trying to enter my brain, I will rise up to resist. This may be harmful, but at least it has one advantage, that is, it keeps me in a cautious state when watching films like "Evil Spirit Criminal Record".
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