It's actually a psychological drama of "anti-bullying"

Annie 2022-09-02 13:02:56

I thought the movie "Ghost Story" was a horror drama, but after watching it, I realized that it was a psychological drama, and it was a psychological drama reflecting on the impact of bullying on individuals and even their life. One of the main victims in the article is the direct victim - the low-minded Callahan, who was played to death by the violent bad classmates, while the same victim - the male protagonist Professor Goodman witnessed all this, but succumbed to the bullying and was killed. The dead Callahan became the psychological shadow of following the male protagonist all his life...

The three stories in the film are about the male protagonist Professor Goodman's own life experience under the influence of bullying. They are the inner hallucinations after the male protagonist's attempted suicide and obtained a lock-in certificate.

The first story: the protagonist - the night watchman Tony (ward janitor): the dark abandoned mental hospital should reflect the inner fear of the male protagonist when he was forced into the tunnel by bullying.

The second story: the protagonist-juvenile Rifkind (the male protagonist's nurse): This story may want to express the psychological characteristics of the male protagonist's cowardice and escape caused by the experience of being bullied: even a lot of the male protagonist's life The incident has an impact: for example, he killed/injured a person/sheep, but he escaped; study, work, life...all choose to escape to varying degrees, and bring greater psychological problems.

The third story: the protagonist-middle-aged man Mike (the male protagonist's doctor): This story tells the middle-aged male protagonist. From the scene, it can be seen that the male protagonist's life is quite successful, living in a huge In the mansion, but this success does not cure the psychological trauma of the male protagonist, and even after his wife died due to childbirth, it destroyed the male protagonist's already very fragile psychological defense: choose suicide.

But even committing suicide, he didn't have the ability to choose a more straightforward way of shooting. Instead, he chose to suffocate to death in the car, but attempted suicide and became a patient with locked-in syndrome.

The unborn daughter and the murdered Callahan combine to become the protagonist in the hero's eternal nightmare...

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Ghost Stories quotes

  • Tony Matthews: You'll think I'm mad.

  • Mike Priddle: You ever killed anything?

    Professor Goodman: Certainly not.

    Mike Priddle: Nothing you'll admit to, eh?