The film "Gone Girl" (Gone Girl) tells the story of a couple who suddenly disappeared on the fifth year of their wedding anniversary. The plot is reversed many times in more than 2 hours. The audience will follow the observers from different perspectives to gradually understand the facts, and as the personality masks between the protagonists are removed layer by layer, you finally find that this is happening. Each participant has also become a sin apostle who dare not speak. In the end, apart from the death of a spare child who broke away from the social relationship, a suspenseful incident was left behind, leaving only a "warm" family praised by all walks of life...
Compared to simple storytelling, David Finn Qizhen is better at describing states. This kind of plot seems thrilling at first, stimulating people's brain thinking and adrenaline secretion, but when you calm down, you also find that it is extremely bloody. Friends who have accumulated a certain amount of reading will immediately realize that the truth and history of the story itself is no longer important, because what David Fincher wants to grasp is only the exploration of the meaning of love and marriage in the current era, but it is People are in the state of reality in this society. Moreover, there are already a lot of film reviews on the structure of the story (Little Ben and Parker’s performances are also considered wait), and I only express my views from other perspectives that I can see.
From the perspective of a psychologist, Amy starts with
the simplest rationale ABC theory of emotions. Event A (activating events) is definite or has occurred and is irreversible, and belief B (beliefs) is the person’s own values or epistemology. , The final C (consequences) is the emotional contradiction and the resulting behavioral consequences depend on how "your B" responds to "the A that has happened."
For a psychologist like Amy, simple cognitive behavioral therapy is almost ineffective for her, because her B is-betrayal should be punished. For a psychologist, when she begins to actively study or control others, psychology becomes a weapon of destruction, rather than a friend who accompanies her to grow up.
Let’s take a look at Amy’s childhood. In the flashback part, it has been explained that Amy’s childhood was not happy, and there is a gap between her parents, and almost all her ideals have not been realized. Meters" to achieve. This kind of childhood trauma made her very eager to get a soul mate who is so innocent that there is no "realistic background noise", which is Amy's ideal of love.
Can life be regarded as background noise and ideal as reality? Does the best love or marriage necessarily look the same in everyone's eyes? In fact, it was explained in the story that Amy had also had a relationship with two other men. The first is a high school classmate, Nick, who has both wealth and knowledge, and the other is an ex-boyfriend who she calls sexual violence against her. It is also obvious that both of them were finally "rectified" by Amy.
When it came to the third love affair with Nick, she really liked the Missouri country boy when she first met, but at this time Nick was covered in disguise, except for the talent to lie, which is the only truth.
The irony is coming, who is the most telling lie? Nick’s tricks also deceived Aunt Liang or magazine readers, but Amy has been deceiving her own life, from deceiving her childhood fantasies at the beginning to allowing her parents to "deceive" their wealth status by her fake stories ( Even if she regards these as background noise, because she still doesn't know that being a middle class cannot understand what it is like to be poor), these are social labels outside the skin. On the contrary, although Nick knew some of Amy's real past, he did not fall in love with the injured real Amy, but the charming "magic Amy". From the beginning, the love of two people is actually an illusory background hidden by the charm of each other.
Returning to Nick’s hometown, an elite has led the most ordinary life of the masses. At this time, Amy can still accept it. At least if Nick still loves him, everything may be able to survive, because they can also act as ordinary couples who share joys and sorrows. . It's a pity that in a patriarchal society, it is a shame for a man to rely on a woman to support him. At this time, the audience will naturally target Nick, a scumbag, because he eventually cheated on the so-called shame.
What to do next? When a wonderful creator tries to control her ability to analyze feelings, she turns into a perverted killer, which is the line between a typical genius and a mental patient. If Amy can accept Nick’s imperfections in reality and admit the existence of betrayal, maybe divorce will be a relief. Obviously Amy has chosen a more extreme way, she wants to kill Nick and herself before killing them. The "beautiful love" is to commemorate its "real existence".
In any relationship, it is extremely dangerous to control others. The role of psychology is to understand oneself and the development trend of individuals or social phenomena, not to change the original free development trend by manipulation. Unfortunately, Amy has become a very manipulative ruler. She clarifies the weaknesses and needs of every "upper person" because they will do boring personality tests and attend luxurious and noisy banquets. The only thing she can do is not control. It turned out to be the street gangsters at the bottom of the society. She had never seen the real outside world on the streets of New York.
So after experiencing the humiliation of reality and witnessing her husband’s return to the performance, she realized that she should return to the fantasy and beloved life state, so she was very happy to start her own director’s "happiness". "Live, control everything around you and become a queen in your own fantasy world.
In fact, the last thing I want to say is that all the evil deductions in the world are related to love or marriage. They exist objectively (A), because you don't know how to explain your love and marriage (B), so The C that bothers you has appeared. The most frightening thing is that we think that our B is right, and we whitewash the real A to make A look so beautiful.
Started by Nick from the perspective of law enforcement workers.
If you see the three sentences of torture at the beginning and the end of the film about marriage, you really think that the film only talks about love and marriage, then you are really wrong, because David Fincher is talking about social relations. Love and marriage, all of these emotions and contracts are dependent on social relationships. From this perspective, society is a larger marriage and family, and all classes in society have contractual relationships similar to marriage. We It is necessary to follow this law of relationship to gain a foothold in society.
As mentioned above, Nick is a talented liar. From several statements and interviews in the movie, you can appreciate his talent. As a person in life, you certainly don’t like this kind of liar, but if you are in social competition or at the negotiating table, do you really hope that there is a story master in your team or that you are a good at making stories? People?
The truth is left to yourself in life, because real life belongs to the communication between you alone and yourself. But in social relations, especially as a guide of power or trends, how do you control everyone in the field? You can only rely on performance, because these followers under the stage can only see what you look like on the stage. If you want to control them and guide them, you can only grasp the momentary performance opportunities on the stage, and when the performance is in place, people will worship You, the poor performance, people immediately spit their noses.
The law is not only to punish crimes, but also to maintain social stability and harmony. After disappearing, the only real punishment Amy encountered came from the laws of the lower society. A girl who was worse than her and needed to survive took away all her cash. At this moment, she should be able to understand what it means to lose all her property in this society. The revenge plan arranged by one person cannot be completed. She can only re-make the plan later, and it is an "artist" with a more shallow social ability that she uses.
At this moment, Nick once again "re-employed" in front of the TV, even if he said a lot of truth this time, such as I really want her to come back, and Amy just likes what she should play in her eyes" "Nick who can speak", not the "Nick the Hillbilly". The purest love that Amy herself thought turned into a marriage under disguise, a marriage that did not belong to the world of two people but was praised by the public. And this kind of love is just "noble love" recognized by the law of the masses. This kind of unspoken rule that is more powerful than the plain law is called the collective subconscious.
Looking at the whole incident again, Nick was immoral, but he did not violate the law; Amy was both immoral and violated the law, but he was the most ethical in front of the media, and in the eyes of the police and lawyers, he strictly followed the law. The game can even leave them with a perfect confession for closing the case, like telling them: "If you want to end this farce, just close the case and go home and rest as I said."
But even with such contempt for the seriousness of the law and moral justice, why do lawyers give up continuing their defense and police detectives give up continuing investigations? Is it really because they don't want to punish that perverted criminal? In fact, as long as she is willing to be in the current environment, as long as she is sure that she will not stir up new waves, she can bring people the appearance of beauty and hope, and can also establish a tall and decent full-scale idol image. , Then let her hide in the society with a mask of hypocrisy, so everyone once again compromised with a harmonious society. At the end of the play, Nick not only saved himself, but also ended Amy’s madness. Everyone returned to their original rhythm of life, except for sacrificing a survivor who didn’t seem to exist in mainstream society. One was diagnosed as spiritual. No one cares about schizophrenia.
This is nothing more than the high-level black belly of the social class rulers, because compared to the social level of politics, media, shopping malls, and even more abstract cultural influences, dealing with one or two personalities at the personal level is just to make some political achievements. , News topics, stock turmoil, or cultural boom. Want to reform, even want revolutionary development, that kind of real and cold bloody wind, not everyone dares to accept, so they can only take it for themselves like Nick, enjoy the price of pretending to be B, and put these terrible crimes. Take it as a responsibility, because the only thing we can control is ourselves.
B. If you don’t fuck it deep, you can’t reach the final climax. The climax is also called "short-term death." I think many people are still afraid of death like me, so we can only sit and lament the disappearance of something, or Try to control yourself not to leave the social stage. This is David Fincher's cold gaze on us, as if we are not watching a movie, but the movie is spying on us-How are you feeling? What have we done to each other? What will we do? ——The feeling of being snooped is not good, so I can only accept the reality that I am a social person.
This era does not require the appearance of a strong enough hero, but also the awakening of the consciousness of every ordinary person. The generous show of B box, there is no need for us to spy on each other, and there is no need to be directed by an illusory God.
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