1. Brief introduction
The film "Cat and Mouse Game" tells the cat scratches between FBI agent Carl (Tom Hanks) and the criminal Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) who is good at forging documents and checks. The story of the rat's contest.
Frank Abagonel, before the age of 16, had a happy family and a carefree life. His father was successful in his career and his mother was a French girl who was good at dancing. There was a romantic love story between his parents, but all this was ruined when he was 16 years old. Later, in order to restore the good things in the past, between 1964 and 1967, he used several psychological game skills he learned from his father and his superb forgery skills to successfully "play" the deputy captain of Pan American Airlines. , Doctors, professors, assistants to the chief prosecutor, and many other prominent figures, cheating money and trusting countless, on the surface live a chic and happy life, but in fact, he is extremely lonely and empty inside. He is far away from his parents, friends and lovers, and he is surrounded by strangers. People, he was so pitiful that he chose to call the FBI agent who wanted to capture him because no one was chatting with him on Christmas, because he knew that the only people in the world who value him the most and understand the real him may only be left. His enemy Carl Henretti is here. The annual Christmas call makes Frank and Henretti gradually develop a relationship between his father and friend and enemy, because Henretti’s life is also quite lonely due to his work. Because he knew that Flanders was not bad in nature, when Frank was arrested in France in the end, Henriti tried to extradite him back to the United States to serve his sentence. He often visited him, and later because of his outstanding ability to identify counterfeit money. He tried his best to persuade his chief to let Frank serve as a technical adviser to the FBI, thus reopening a glorious life for Frank. At the end of the film, Henretti did not continue to chase after Frank when he was running away, but let him go, which fully embodies the truth of the "Count of Monte Cristo" telling us: "If you desire something, you have to Let it be free, if it comes back to you, it belongs to you, if it doesn’t come back, you never own it.”
2. Analyze from the psychological level
From the perspective of personality psychology, Frank’s father was self-disciplined, self-motivated, responsible, thoughtful, and has his own way of life at the peak of his career. Therefore, according to Costa and McCrae’s five-factor personality model theory, Frank’s Dad has the most obvious conscientious personality traits. Frank’s mother, a French girl who loves to dance, this setting gives people a feeling that she is a romantic, sensual, and open woman. Before the Frank family was down, she showed more openness and outgoing. Sexual personality traits, but after she fell down, she smoked more and more uncontrollably, not leaving her hands, and becoming more and more unable to endure such a poor and oppressive life that she had an affair. In terms of education, she was the same as Frank’s father. She never beat or scolded children, even when the FBI police found her because of Frank Bank fraud, her first thought was not to call Frank back to re-educate, but to pay him back and whitewash her peace. From her attitude towards Frank It can be seen that she is a very self-indulgent person in her life. She likes freedom, dislikes the words responsibility, self-control, and order. She showed obvious neurotic traits after she fell down and did not divorce. It should be said that she is such a trait. There has always been, but the degree of manifestation is different in different environments. Frank, as their child, inherited many of their personality traits, showing a romantic, handsome, trustworthy, capable, and enthusiastic appearance, making people mistakenly think that he is an outgoing, open and conscientious person, but in fact He has the most neurotic traits in his heart. As a 16-year-old child, as a child who has been living smoothly and happily for the past 16 years, it is like a flower in a greenhouse. It cannot be fragile, otherwise it will not be divorced by his parents. On that day, he ran away impulsively. During the years he lived on forged checks and papers, he had no friends and was lonely and depressed. On the one hand, he had to prevent the FBI from chasing after him. On the other hand, he had to worry about his identity and age. Seeing through, he is always in a state of anxiety and hostility towards everyone. Although he has pretended to be so many people, he has never lost himself. It can be seen that he has a strong sense of self, anxiety, hostility, depression, and self-awareness. , Impulsivity, fragility, etc. are all typical characteristics of neurotic personality.
From the perspective of developmental psychology, from 1964 to 1967, Frank was 16-19 years old and was in a good adolescence. The general characteristics of psychological development at this stage are imbalance, turbulence, autonomy, sociality, lock-in, Enterprising, the youngsters at this stage have just begun to take shape in their world outlook, outlook on life, and values. The environment has a great influence on their three outlooks. Frank was in the turbulent adolescence but he was still experiencing it. The family turmoil, so he can boldly commit bank fraud regardless of the law, is closely related to the open and confused youth stage and environmental changes he is in. Who has not done one or two rebellious mistakes when he was young. Secondly, according to the development view of the psychoanalytic school, Frank embarked on this path and was inseparable from his parents’ early nurturing, "Two mice fell into a bucket of butter. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. And the first The two mice did not. He worked hard until he stirred the cream into butter, and then climbed out. Gentlemen, here I want to say, I am the second mouse." A father who can tell such a story must be Believing that a person can change the world through hard work, he despised the worldly rules and smiled at Frank without blaming him when pretending to be a teacher. He acted boldly and eventually went bankrupt due to tax evasion. Together with his mother's indulgence, Frank could do enough to shock the entire FBI. The scam is not surprising.
From the perspective of social psychology, why are so many people deceived? In that era of innocence, people did not yet have the concept of stereotypes, but Frank already knew how to use stereotypes to gain the trust of almost everyone. As soon as he entered high school, he used the majesty of the teacher to make his classmates think he was a teacher and angered the real teacher. He took a notebook and a camera, pretending to be a young man who published an article in the school magazine, and interviewed Pan Am executives in order to deceive information. He put on the clothes of a pilot and walked to the front desk of the airport. The waiter easily believed that he was the deputy captain and sent him a free flight. He forged his diploma and went to the hospital to apply for work. No one doubted that people always Judging a person's personality and identity in a person's appearance and conversation, and this is precisely the basic attribution error. Frank uses this to flexibly manage the impression, and the fish and the eye are mixed and mixed.
Finally, in fact, Frank’s criminal motive was very simple, to reorganize the broken family and return to his previous happy life. It can be seen how important intimacy is. Harvard University has carried out the longest research project on adult development in history, and it is still continuing: from 1938 to the present 75 years, they tracked 724 men, from teenagers to old age, year after year inquiries And record their work, life and health status, etc., the final conclusion is that what really makes people happy is not money, fame or sense of accomplishment, but good social relationships. Loneliness is harmful to health. Those who are closer to family members and who love to socialize with friends and neighbors will be happier, healthier, and live longer than those who are not sociable and isolated.
Life is like a play, and it all depends on acting. The above is my insight. Finally, please allow me to end with a famous saying: "A true master must be someone who knows how to use the laws of the bottom of the times to amplify the benefits of his own efforts." ("Leap Transition: Skills to Become a Master")
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