The best analysis I have seen [Foreword]
I watched this movie yesterday. I downloaded it some time ago. I thought it was very good. In the conflicting place, I happened to accompany my friends to do some reasoning questions for the civil service exam at night. I had a whim, and I used reasoning to talk about my understanding of the film. According to my ideas, I hope it can be a reference for everyone. I turned back and pulled the video again and took a screenshot.
【What does the director want to do? 】
I don't know the difference between the public release version and the director's version (this kind of movie actually has a domestic release?), but my understanding is that the director's version is a relatively complete and unreserved expression of the story the director wants everyone to see (the so-called truth) , the public version is the content that can’t be cut out; from the perspective of suspense, it is also possible that the public version will lead you to see an ending, and then the director’s version will be reversed (there are more details for people to watch the public version before watching the trough. The feeling of being deceived); it is also possible that the director deliberately made two versions of the two truths for you to understand, leaving more room for imagination (Anyway, if I don’t tell you the truth, the director also smiles and does not answer when interviewing to let you think for yourself. ); The last possibility is that the director is too big and wants to set up suspense, but some places are not handled properly, resulting in ambiguity and bugs.
【Title】
When doing reasoning questions, there will be question stems, which are the conditions given. I will list the details that I noticed while watching the movie as question stems, and then the rest will use these contents as the basis to develop associations. These contents are very important. If the understanding is wrong, the following inferences may not meet the ending that the director wants to express. Since I watched the director's version, I would rather believe that what this version expresses is the so-called truth.
1. All the pictures of prosecutors are real, and the rest may be fictitious and untrue.
2. The picture of the male protagonist convulsing is not the onset of dementia, but schizophrenia (splitting into a second personality), restoring the state of the murderer.
3. The status of the male protagonist wearing shoes can reflect the personality status of the male protagonist.
4. Finally, the CT film of the male protagonist exists objectively, indicating that the violent behavior of the fresh meat is his own behavior under the control of the male protagonist's second personality.
5. The final flashback clip is real (although it can also be understood as a fragment of memory disorder, but if it is really set up like this, there is no need to discuss it).
6. The male protagonist's dementia is the last three months, and it is also the time when the new murder occurred. The consequence of the car accident many years ago was not dementia (as he states at the beginning of the film when he saw a doctor), but brain damage that stopped him from killing (the killer's personality was suppressed).
7. The male protagonist has several states or alternate personalities or coexistence: the murderer state (since he killed his father, until the car accident is suppressed), the normal state (live a relatively normal life after the car accident, no longer kill but remember himself) He is a murderer, mainly to show his father's love), a split state (because he can't accept the fact that he denied his sister's hanging, erased his mother's memory, forgotten his wife's derailment, and kept repressing and splitting his personality, so he has the monastery's sister and fresh meat to commit the murder. etc
【inference】
1. Although the whole film looks messy, it is not. The time line is not chaotic. The title is the memory method of the murderer. As for whether the content of these memories is true, it is for the audience to judge, so everyone must recognize this point, the content of the picture is not necessarily fact, it is just the male protagonist’s dictation, his memory method, It's his mnemonic. From this, it can be inferred that apart from the fact that the images of prosecutors are real, nothing else is certain. It can be further inferred that what the prosecutor said or the facts involved when questioning the male protagonist are true.
2. After the prosecutor finally finished his question, he ordered his subordinates to report to the media according to the investigation of the fresh meat (indicating that the news report the male protagonist saw was true, and the fresh meat person and car could not be found), and at the same time ordered the male protagonist to be released. (It means that even if the male protagonist admits the previous murders, the time limit for the lawsuit has expired, and the recent murders are none of his business. The suspicion points to the fresh meat, which is listed as a fugitive), so the male protagonist can leave the detention center hospital, Appeared in the original train tunnel of the film (not like some comments analyzed that it was the hallucination of the male protagonist walking on the track after suicide), it was because he lost his way due to Alzheimer's disease (although it can also be understood as passing through the dark tunnel metaphor out of the woods).
3. The flashback clip Xianrou and his car were sunk to the bottom of the lake, and the prosecutor said that the tape recorder was also missing, indicating that these three things can point the suspect to the male protagonist and bring out the truth: Xianrou died and then How did the male protagonist make it up? Investigating the car can know who hit whom in the traffic accident, whether there was blood in the trunk of the car, and who came first to the wooden house in the end; Investigating the tape recorder can find out whether there is a dialogue between the male protagonist and the fresh meat. So the above three things disappear, the male protagonist's oral memory (the murderer's memory method) can be established.
4. The picture of convulsions represents the onset of the disease, but it is not dementia. You can watch the scene of the convulsions again. There are three obvious places. The first one wakes up in the bamboo forest and convulses, and then the picture turns to the lake, the wooden house, and the murderer. ; The second place is to monitor the fresh meat outside the fresh meat house. After the convulsion, the next scene is to forget what happened before. One shot is to twitch behind the train tunnel, then make a wicked look and change the shoes back on. These three places, especially the last one, illustrate what the convulsions represent. It is not the sudden amnesia of the elderly who suffer from amnesia, but the awakening of the murderer’s personality who had been suppressed because of the car accident, or the splitting of fresh flesh that took over the man. Lord's behavioral control. Therefore, it is inferred that the bamboo forest twitched and killed the woman in the bathtub of the wooden house (that is, the scene of taking pictures in the flashback), and killed the yellow-haired girl in the choir after the twitch during surveillance. After the third orbital twitch, a flashback screen appeared (tell the Everyone, hahaha the murderer is me!)
5. On the contrary, the onset of Alzheimer's amnesia is very peaceful and occurs suddenly, such as in the movie theater, when talking to the director, such as when getting lost. Under the influence of the split state, the male protagonist also firmly believes that the recent murder was done by Xianrou. In order to protect his daughter, he even kills Xianrou first (to monitor him and prepare to attack, and the visit of Xianrou intends to use needles) ) and in order not to hurt her daughter to commit suicide. In fact, the normal state and the split state will often alternate, but this mixed state cannot be coherent due to the effects of senile dementia and amnesia.
【Key details】
1. The status of the male protagonist wearing shoes
The male protagonist's shoe-wearing state can reflect the male protagonist's personality state: when he gets lost, he has dementia and he wears the shoes backwards; , so his recollections and descriptions are all suspected to point to fresh meat); wearing white shoes is a murderer’s state (“A murderer is always obsessed with the scene of the first murder”, and replacing the shoes with the reversed shoes shows the awakening of this personality) , the male protagonist checks the white shoes as soon as he hears the news of the murder, which also shows this.
2. The missing head & the whereabouts of the mother
CT films exist objectively, that is to say, it is the male protagonist who is missing his head, so Xianrou takes off his scalp to show the picture of missing head, including his murderous behavior, which should be inferred to be the hallucination of the male protagonist in a split state ( In the flashback screen, the male protagonist said that I became you and you became me), which means that if this inference is correct, then the content described by the fresh meat in the film is the experience of the male protagonist, because the male protagonist cannot accept these In fact, the personality is split. The male protagonist carried out the latest murder case under the control of split personality. The male protagonist himself could not perceive it, and it can also explain why the killing methods are not exactly the same (different personalities dominate).
Big question here, what does the missing header represent? The fresh meat personality said that he was attacked by his mother when he protected his mother, and then he was disappointed with his mother. This fact is applied to the male protagonist, which means that it may have been such a situation at that time. The male protagonist returned home and saw his favorite white man. There was pickles on the shoes, the father beat the male protagonist when he was drunk, and then dragged him into the room for class (shy), the male protagonist resisted and covered his father with a pillow. At this time, the mother protected his father and injured the male protagonist with scalding. In the end, the male protagonist was still covered to death. If he lost his father, he might have also killed his mother at the time. , and then burying the parents and returning home (the picture only buried one person, and the head was not injured, don't forget that this is the oral memory of the male protagonist, if this is the killing of the mother and suppressing this part of the memory, the memory does not appear these contents, It also makes sense), I was not arrested after returning home, thinking that the family got a short period of peace (three pairs of shoes, if I suppressed myself and believed that my mother was not killed by myself, it would also make sense to put them there), not long after The elder sister could not accept the reality of hanging herself (there is no picture of the mother here), and then the male protagonist suppressed this part of the memory and firmly believed that his elder sister was a nun in the nursing home (note one thing is that the image of the elder sister nun is more like the combination of mother and elder sister) Body, my sister said that she hoped that the male protagonist could return to before the age of 15, and when the male protagonist was confused, her sister appeared to hug the male protagonist. This is more like the male protagonist longing for the missing maternal love, and her sister is a nun chanting scriptures to help the male protagonist to atone for his sins. Yes, the elder sister doesn't seem to be at fault, but the male protagonist thinks that his mother has betrayed him at fault). After the sister hanged, it can be said that the personality of the male protagonist's murderer broke out in an all-round way (the brain damage caused can lead to violent behavior, which is also theoretically supported in psychology and medicine).
Of course, this is just an inference. There is too little information about the mother (maybe I didn't pay attention to it), and it is also possible that the male protagonist ran away from home after killing his father, causing his sister to hang himself. It is possible, but I think there are still One detail can support my inference above: Fresh meat killed the woman who escaped from the casino in the toilet, here is a dialogue, fresh meat said that when he was a child, he would be punished by his father to take off his clothes if he did something wrong (the male protagonist saw the bottom of the white shoe when he returned home. In one picture, the shirt is missing, and he is slapped by his father when he is shirtless), and then he will be laughed at by the woman (often insulted by his father, so he is especially concerned about the eyes of women); then the female gambler begs that he will not gamble again in the future. (Shakes the cowardly side, implying that when the male protagonist resists his father, the mother in turn defends the father. At the same time, saying this is also a kind of deception. The gambler's words are not credible, which means distrust), I have two children (metaphor male protagonist and sister) ), my husband is also a police officer (the male protagonist's father wears camouflage when he is drunk and has a name stamp on his chest, probably a military police officer). If these details and dialogues are really deliberately arranged, then it can be explained that this scene actually corresponds to the scene of the male protagonist and his mother, and corresponds to the memory suppressed by the male protagonist, so in that scene, the male protagonist is splitting out. Under the leadership of the fresh flesh personality, he killed the female gambler.
3. The formation of the murderer
If the hypothesis of being injured by the mother's iron is true, then it is not difficult to explain the outbreak of the murderer's personality, so the brain loss of the CT film was caused at that time, the unacceptable facts, the distorted family, and the undiscovered after the murder. Relief from fear, violent tendencies caused by brain damage, and since then, when he can't control his emotions or is stimulated, the male protagonist will kill, and according to himself, it is cleaning garbage (this is a kind of His rationalization of killing his father's guilt, that is, rationalizing his own killing), although only a brief fragment, we can also draw some inferences about the identity of the murdered: the seafood shop owner who was violent to his family (killing him represents rebellion against his father, In addition, there is also a clue hidden here. The yellow-haired girl in the choir was also killed in the seafood shop, so it cannot be the real meat), the hostess who killed her dog and asked for a knife to get the ring (kill her Represents the act of rebelling against the mother, that is, giving up nurturing kinship for material things), the alcoholic who deceives the escaper and asks to be his slave (the escaper actually implies escape from the father's control, cheating to be a slave implies shame The alcoholic is to represent the father, killing the alcoholic is actually hating the rubbish that sucks), the loan shark that ruins the family (it may be that the father or mother is addicted to gambling and the family is broken, if the mother is addicted to gambling and then runs away from home, Then killing the gambling girl is more basis). . . . . . Then it was the wife's lover, his wife, and finally, when he was going home to kill his daughter, because the car accident hurt his brain again, and the fact that he was unwilling to accept the truth (killed his wife and the daughter was not his own), this memory once again Being suppressed and forced to forget (so the male protagonist remembers the last time he killed, but doesn't remember why), and after suppressing his murderous intention to his daughter, what replaces the murderer's personality is a normal personality, showing fatherly love, and can control his own Emotional and violent tendencies, no longer kill.
So why did you kill again recently, it can be explained based on the above speculation: because the last three months have often been lost, the doctor has checked that it is Alzheimer's disease, and the memory has begun to become confused. At this time, under certain stimulation, some suppressed memories may be Will be awakened and release the repressed violence: (1) The daughter who comes home late at night mistakenly thinks it is her wife under the dim street light, and then appears to pinch with her hands; (2) In the choir, except for the yellow-haired girl, there is a pair of The teacher is particularly obsessed with the black-haired woman. There are several scenes where she looks at the teacher fascinatedly, and the male protagonist noticed that the behavior of these two women may be due to the indignation of the wife's cheating. Killing ( PS: If the brain hole is bigger, the woman killed in the wooden house after the convulsion in the bamboo forest is very likely to be this black-haired woman.
The victim who appeared in the back is different from the previous deceased. The male protagonist analyzes that because the latter are all women, and both the men and women in the front are killed, why? It's very simple, killing the mother and killing the wife is a repressed memory. Now that the memory is released, it is necessary to suppress and fight against his own killing intent, so he splits a fresh flesh personality and rationalizes it, because the fresh flesh is a policeman, representing justice and law enforcement. Betrayed the male protagonist but suppressed the killing intent because of love, the split personality of the police is the best executor. In this way, all the victims have something in common, which all stem from the male protagonist's childhood experience, which is why my sister said that if she went back to before the age of 15, she would not have the sins behind.
4. The habit of killing
The habit of killing, the male protagonist has thought about this problem many times, and it is also the reason why he firmly believes that the later victim is not what he did, because his previous killings were basically suffocated by hand, which stemmed from the first time he killed his father to suffocate him ("The murderer is always obsessed with the scene of the first murder"), in the later film of the victim, it is mentioned that the body was destroyed and blood appeared. It should be noted that there is no difference in the way of death. Yes, it’s all suffocation. Whether it’s wrapping a female gambler with a bag, throwing a corpse in a plastic bag with a rope in a wooden house, or killing a yellow-haired girl in a choir, she also throws her corpse in a plastic bag with her hands. The difference is that there are more violent acts. , which can be explained as the release of repressed memories and violence. Moreover, covering the head, strangling the back, and destroying the corpse is also an unconscious self-protection behavior (the murdered object corresponds to the mother and wife, unwilling to face their face), like lying down Soaked in blood in the bathtub has a symbolic meaning of childbirth. From this point of view, the habit of killing has changed (split personality) as well as (the method of suffocation), and this is just a means and evidence for the rationalization of the male protagonist.
【Doubtful point】
1. Director An
Let me first mention the character of Director An. Many comments say that he is a hallucination or exists but has no intersection with the male protagonist (referring to help with investigations, phone calls, etc.), in fact, from the TV news after the prosecutor's question The suspect is that he killed his boss and then absconded, so Director An did exist and was finally carried out of the wooden house after his death. In fact, if you understand the development of the plot according to the above ideas, all the actions of Director An are basically true (except for the description of being killed at the end). The male protagonist is often taken to the institute because he is lost, and Director An gradually became familiar with the male protagonist, chatting often, and knowing that the male protagonist has Alzheimer's disease, and he did doubt the male protagonist (when taking students to do a dissertation survey. , and the male protagonist called to help investigate the bloody handkerchief and report the male protagonist), after detecting that the camera shooting the yellow-haired woman in the choir only had the male protagonist's fingerprints, he invited the male protagonist and fresh meat, and asked the male protagonist to provide an alibi (for the male protagonist) The main sympathy), and then the male protagonist drove home, and Director An and Xianrou drove to the bamboo forest and talked. These plots are all real. One of the details is that after excavating the yellow-haired girl in the choir, the male protagonist escaped from his home and was arrested. He talked to Director An on the way, and the male protagonist gave the recording to Director An. Director An said there was "Are you sure it's the voice of fresh meat?" In fact, the recorded dialogues are all from the voice of the male protagonist, because it is a dialogue of the same person with different personalities (talking to himself with split personality, talking to himself), I rushed to the wooden house. Later, according to the flashback clip, Director An called Xianrou and persuaded the male protagonist to surrender. The wooden house is gone (half of the hand is indeed exposed on the stretcher, and the clothes are the same gray and white as the supporting police).
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