The first time I read "Boundaries Disappear" in My Brilliant Girlfriend, I didn't quite understand what a life experience this moment that meant so much to Lila really was. Until one day, on a dark, silent night, I was lying in bed reading a novel, and suddenly I was surrounded by a huge fear—I felt the “boundary disappearing.”
That novel was Blatty's The Exorcist.
Of course, it is not the so-called demon possession that is terrifying, but when the young godfather tries to restore the truth, the boundary between "science" and so-called "superstition" melts away page by page, and the world around the world built with common sense disappears, just like Step into space. Who said, "There is no relative position in space, you can only rely on yourself". Shocked, I was in a cold sweat and had to tap the mattress with my hands to determine my position.
The second "Boundaries Disappear" appeared a few days ago when watching "Mind Hunter". This is Netflix's hit American drama the year before, based on two former FBI bestsellers of the same name. This book has been used in many Hollywood film and television works for decades, and the characters and stories in it are familiar to everyone. The FBI's profiling routine has also been popularized by "Criminal Minds". Then how can I shoot? It can only be kept in the dark corners of human nature that have not been discovered, that have been deliberately hidden, or that have been misunderstood.
Edmund Kemper makes his first appearance as a trigger character who inspired the FBI to think about whether serial killers can be modeled. This model includes behavioral models, such as the modus operandi, the time of the crime, the choice of victim type, etc.; and the environmental model - whether or not you have experienced abuse in the process of growing up, including sexual and emotional abuse, which is the most important for serial killers who are almost exclusively male. It seems that it is to see if there is a mother who is not very competent.
Kemper's case basically laid the foundation for the FBI's draft profile of a serial killer, and all subsequent criminal psychological analyses were modified and supplemented under this sketch. But if you just look at it from the perspective of the profile, this is just a super slow-paced "Criminal Minds", and you may not understand why you want to put a poker-faced girlfriend with so many words for the hero. What's really interesting are the details that flashed by, for example, in the first episode, when I heard for the first time that the psychology of a perverted criminal like Kemper is still worth analyzing, the crowd was so excited that a policeman shouted: "(It's not worth analyzing. Because) they are born evil."
And in Kemper's rhetoric, where his mother is a cold-blooded, vicious, selfish monster, and just when you're almost sorry for what happened to the big, amiable, talkative guy, the protagonist suddenly intersperses with a quote from another witness. Testimony: Neighbors see Kemper's mother as warm and helpful.
These details are rather inconspicuous, but they make the person who catches it ponder - who to believe? A triumphant perverted murderer, or an ordinary person who doesn't even deserve a name? Does the environment really play such an important role in the development of a serial killer? After all, this is an irreversible deduction, how can we be sure that they are not born bad?
If psychological profiling is not an excuse for human nature, but only to predict crime and prevent it, then the second question arises: how to judge a crime that has not yet occurred? Who is qualified to convict him/it?
The man thinks he can. Ironically, however, he was easily defeated by a hug from Kemper shortly after his trial of the headmaster. And then there's his colleague Wendy, who's frightened by the ant-crawling can of food—you hear a cat meowing and you think there's a cat in the dark, but you don't know anything about the real darkness.
Forgetting God, arrogating God, and exercising the right of judgment in place of God are the inescapable survival dilemma of modern human beings. When the human behavior represented by the male protagonist is gradually out of control, God's spokesperson in the world is needed to draw a moral guideline like the gray line of grass and snake in the gray wilderness of humanity. This man was the devout Catholic policeman who finally sent the tape to the Ombudsman. You can only imagine what kind of comments this will get. Sometimes when you look at the discussion forum, at a certain moment, you will feel that you have almost touched the lonely and dark inner world of those cold-blooded killers. Really, you may not go to heaven when you die, but you can witness hell every day when you are alive.
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