Ted used the example of an egg as an analogy and told Beachum that no matter how perfect everyone looks, as long as they are close enough, they can find a weakness. The crack of an egg is that the desire to win is too strong.
When I watched the film, I always had a sense of discord: Ted suffered a certain amount of damage when his wife cheated on him. However, this doesn't seem like a new story, especially for someone who has lived to that age. Now that there is evidence in hand, what a normal person would do should be a showdown for divorce, an agreement or a lawsuit, and the story can end. But Ted's choice was: kill the adulterer.
The love line of the husband and wife was 0, so I had to acquiesce to the setting of love murder and continued to look down. As a result, the sense of disobedience came again: Since Ted has the ability to make full use of the legal loopholes to control the direction of the trial, then adopt the "peace of mind" approach. "The policy of "making a fortune in silence", focusing on the technical and execution level, is the safest to be a good actor, so what's the benefit of you provoking and even implying Beachum over and over again?
Ted was enjoying the process until Beachum said that. It turns out that the crack in Ted's egg lies in his heavily narcissistic personality.
For Ted, his wife's betrayal was completely unbearable and unforgivable, because it meant losing control of his wife and denying his own dominance. In the matter of killing my wife, I didn't read the emotion, I only read the logic. Ted's unflappable look as he shot his wife and terminated her life support showed that the woman was no different to him than an object.
After the trial began, we saw that as the case became more and more in line with his own script, Ted seemed to slowly forget the "little plot" of his wife's betrayal of him, and turned into a director who controlled the rhythm of the entire trial. , and began to gain pleasure from the various "players" he played with, as if that was the most important thing.
Here are some examples of Ted's narcissism:
1. At the beginning of the chapter, when he "notified" the fault point to the repairman, his unquestionable tone and body language of turning away;
2. Calm actions when arranging the crime scene;
3. After shooting his wife, his composure in the face of the adulterer police;
4. I don't need a lawyer, I can defend myself;
5. Provoking Beachum with a 97% conviction rate, saying I like you, just you;
6. Secretly investigating Beachum reflects his emphasis on control, of course, this is indeed more important for Beachum to use false evidence without betraying his conscience (with false evidence, he can no longer be a winner in front of Ted);
7. Send eggshells, and call in to ask for coffee while Beachum is investigating his office;
8. During the court trial, except for the time when the adulterer and the police testified in court, he doodled on the notebook as if it had nothing to do with him;
9. When the female judge, Beachum, and Ted were talking at the same table, in addition to smugly asking themselves if they could go home in time for the festival, they also said "My dick is good" intentionally or unintentionally, as if to explain my wife's cheating and my sexuality. ability is irrelevant;
10. Provoking the adulterer police when walking out of court after acquittal;
11. Cut off the wife's life support device and regain the decision-making power to control her life and death;
12. Another challenge to Beachum outside the ward.
There are many more details, not listed one by one.
In fact, there are some more profound features that can be seen in Ted. For example, his lack of emotion, insensitivity to fear, weak moral values, unscrupulousness, fondness for teasing others, etc., these characteristics call for a darker conclusion: sociopathic personality. It's just that the script didn't really describe it to that extent, and the overall conclusion is still narcissism.
It can be said that it is precisely because of this level of personality that Ted has the psychological conditions to complete his perfect plan.
After manipulating his life and death and getting out of jail perfectly, Ted swelled to the point where he thought he was omnipotent. In the process, he pushed Beachum to the point of death and rebirth, and made a move away from the character, ignoring key details, and prematurely ending his wife's life.
So the phrase "the doctor said she can actually live longer than you and me" when Beachum closed the door and left lightly, became the perfect counterattack to the extreme. When the case was filed for the second time, the subtle interaction of the two adjusting their ties reflected the changes in Ted's inner world.
In fact, from Beachum, you can also read some shadows of narcissism, but not to the level of Ted, it is still at the threshold of normal people, which can be understood as the high self-esteem and high self-confidence of young promising people. Nonetheless, this was exploited by Ted to the detriment of Beachum. Except for taking over the case at an inopportune time for no apparent reason, every time Ted's provocation was basically a 10th ring, Beachum put his calm aside and got into the horns that Ted left him.
Finally, I want to say that Anthony Hopkins's acting skills are really explosive, especially the rhythm of his speech and his eyes. In many places in this film, if the acting skills are not enough, it is difficult to reflect the depth of the characters.
In contrast, although the criminal methods of this film are almost rogue, the trick to make the physical evidence disappear is actually quite good.
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