I've always tried to avoid TV shows of this type because I don't think I can handle the heaviness and sadness that the film is trying to convey. But this show has me hooked. It is not only a presentation of kidnapping and psychological themes, but also incorporates elements of horror and suspense. Every second you want to know what the heroine is thinking, what has she experienced in the past 13 years, the prisoner escaped What is he doing after that, and whether Ivy can get out of his psychological wall in the end.
In the last episode, the truth, just a part of the truth is revealed, it is enough to make people feel creepy and make people feel very distressed for the heroine.
1. The psychology of the heroine
However, no one still knows what kind of life she has lived in the past thirteen years, everything is the audience's speculation.
Of course, as a work related to kidnapping, psychological motivation is indispensable. The kidnapper is a meticulous, capricious, controlling, self-righteous man who lacks maternal love. For him, Alison is both his prey and his spiritual support. He wants to build his own family, his own spiritual refuge. Kidnapping Alison and taking control is his way of self-compensation, compensating him for A sense of security and approval from a mother.
Maybe Ivy was rebellious at first, but over time, she gradually developed a psychology of closeness, identification, and dependence to the prisoner, and a part of her heart identified with the role of Alison. She has always been afraid that she is only one person, and the prisoner is her only support, the only connection she has with the world in the basement. Even on the way from the supermarket to the bathroom, she didn't really run away, because everything was unfamiliar to her, the prisoner became the only person she knew, and it was natural to return to the prisoner.
The change in her feelings began when the prisoner killed her younger brother, and she hated herself, this cowardly and helpless self. But she must continue to be a good girl, not knowing whether it is true or false. We still don't know what the prisoners did to their dead child, but that gave Ivy plenty of psychological motivation to escape the room. Perhaps it was the prisoner's determination to love her family that made her feel hopeless, and her inner desire for her original family finally overcome her dependence on the prisoner and her fear of the outside world. The part of her that belonged to Ivy finally saw the sun, trying to say goodbye to Alison who would hold the prisoner's hand in the mall.
(unfinished)
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