In Strindberg's play, a couple disputed over the upbringing of their children, which turned into a power struggle between husband and wife. Said to seize power with each other, in fact, his wife Laura is the dominant party. She first hinted to her husband that her daughter Berta might not be his own, which caused her husband to try to smash her with a lamp during an argument. Then she advertised the matter everywhere, making everyone believe that her husband was mentally ill and that Lola was the persecuted party. In the end, the husbands rebelled and left, put on tights to control the mentally ill, and died in exhaustion.
"The Lost Lover" is based on this prototype, not to mention how original it is, but today when divorce is quite common, the marriage tragedy a hundred years ago is still going on because of human factors, and because of the modern media. The muddy water has a deeper social innuendo.
First of all, I think David Fincher is ironic about the role of Amy, who is regarded as a feminist icon by some film critics. Amy does not have a truly strong character. I only see instrumental rationality and cowardly self-deception in her. She killed someone and went back to Nick, telling him that she did it all because of loving him. Do you believe this kind of nonsense? If she really loves him, how can she bear it. After coming back, Nick's face is full of fear, and fools can see that he has no intention of loving her. People say that a loveless couple "same bed with different dreams." Nick didn't want to sleep in the same room with her. Not only that, the first thing he did when he returned to his bedroom was to lock the door. In the last ten minutes of Amy's home, Finch gave two details of Nick's door lock. He was just a hostage she kidnapped with fear. She coerced him into holding his hand in public, pretending to be a loving couple. She taught him to admit that he used the credit card to cover his murder. She could see his unwillingness completely, but she was satisfied with the ending. Because she got what she always wanted: everyone's attention.
Because of the books written by her parents, Amy has lived in the eyes of the public since she was a child, and this gaze is not centered on her, but constantly comparing her with Amazing Amy in the book based on her. Amazing Amy is better than her in everything. Amazing Amy brought her attention but always put her in the shadows. How to say it, asshole's parents always have a way to dig holes in their children's hearts, and the holes in Amy's heart have to be filled with more attention.
The most uncomfortable place for Amy after moving to Missouri is that she became an outsider. Not only did she leave New York, the center of the world, but she was also unfamiliar with her. No one paid attention to her anymore. Of course, the husband is as immature as a child and plays games at home all day without looking for a job. But what did Amy do? She also didn't go out to find a job, except for reading and complaining about her husband. This dilemma is caused by them together. When the relationship between the two gets more and more tense, she can completely divorce and return to New York. But she could not choose to divorce. The line specifically emphasized that she said that she couldn't go back to New York like this, and she couldn't tell her parents about it. Amazing Amy is great in everything, so Amy can't be abandoned in the middle of nowhere like Missouri and go back to New York as a nobody. Remember the conversation they had when they first met? They asked each other who it was. They asked not only a name, but also the social identity of the other party.
I said that Amy has a frightening instrumental rationality, because she can accurately calculate and gather all the resources that are beneficial to her. As long as it is beneficial to herself, she can make up a set of lies in an instant, and talk in front of others, and talk nonsense in front of ghosts. For her only means, no morals at all. After discovering that her husband had a lover, she began planning her disappearance. She even convinced herself that it was because of love and hatred that she wanted to teach her husband a lesson, but in her calculations, there was not much in her calculations about Nick's anxiety and regret after discovering her disappearance. All she calculated was the reaction of the media: the media will definitely do. I found her neighbor and exposed the lie she had been instilling that Nick was prone to domestic violence; Nick would have smirked at the camera; she knew how much the American public sympathized with the weak, so she did not hesitate to create her own medical certificate of false pregnancy-all of which are based on her Know how much media effect this event will have. For an instrumental rationalist, is there any better tool to use than the mass media? In the original plan, she even lusted for her own death effect-instead of returning to New York as a nobody, she should design a glorious victim image for herself: a beautiful and intelligent American sweetheart pregnant woman living in fear of domestic violence, and then in the public Died in pity and sorrow. And Nick, Nick is just the foil and funerary of her public image-later facts also proved that as long as Amy wins attention, Nick does not have to die.
However, because she cherishes herself, she pushed her own time to death again and again, and finally got rid of it because of the robbery of the lower class couple. Amy has never been a really powerful person. Her usual method is to play pitiful. To neighbors, to Collings, to the police officer who is investigating her, and to the media, what she loves to manipulate is the excessive sympathy of the upper middle class in the United States. . This set does not work at all on the lower level. Facing the robbery, she was not only credulous but also unable to resist, and was immediately beaten back to the helpless and ignorant girl. In her most difficult time, she ran into Collings who had been pursuing her for a long time. How did she repay the man who saved her from distress? She not only lied to him and killed him with a very cruel slash, but also made him bear all the stigma.
Some people commented that Amy is a psychopath, but psychopath knows that he is a psychopath, and does not need to find a justification for his behavior, let alone love as a reason. At the time, Amy claimed that she was planning revenge because of love and hatred. Later, she killed someone and told Nick that she was because she loved him. In order to save him, she did not hesitate to kill and return to him. I think she herself believed this. Self-deception is inherently part of instrumental rationality. Any reason can be used as long as it makes one feel comfortable. But how bad is Collings? When he chased her, he was indeed a little aggressive, and he was suspected of trying to control her when she was weak, but he did not really imprison her and force her. She was murderous only because she needed a scapegoat. Without the scapegoat of Collings, she would not be able to crawl back to her original world after playing off. If the story is told from the perspective of Collings, Amy is the re-interpretation of Daisy in "Gatsby", but time has passed, and now the heroine does not have to bear the burden of conscience.
Of course, Nick is not a good product. After his wife disappeared, he could continue to sleep with his little lover at his sister's house, but thought that he should die for this and died under the stigma. I have nothing to say. I think loyalty between husband and wife is part of morality, but not the most important. People’s feelings can change. Too much emphasis on loyalty is also a kind of moral kidnapping. Compared to Amy, Nick has something more clumsy but also more real.
I was spoiled by the error at first, thinking that the ending of the movie was that the husband and wife decided to forget what happened before and live peacefully. When they saw Amy staggering towards Nick in front of countless cameras, they put out " The classic styling of "Gone with the Wind" also thought that the ending would really develop in a more ironic direction. But now the ending is also very good, although some irony is missing, but Nick's fear is more realistic. After all, this movie was released as a thriller.
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