The male protagonist of this film is a body dominated by psychology.
In the era of digital matrix, in terms of rights, the real-time interactive participation of recipients is more and more extensive, but in terms of content, it is far from the ideal readers expected by "reception aesthetics". Well, no bullshit, I'm talking about "barrage"! The title of this film has not yet come out, and there are already several cheap Internet spoilers "The murderer is that child!". This reduces the emotional shock and surprise to almost zero, and surprise is one of the essence of the movie game. Next, I had to look at each character who appeared on the stage with analytical thinking.
Why do crime movies like psychoanalysis so much? Because of the surprising effect. The abnormalization of the plot is required, and the reversal requires a reasonable motivation. The most reasonable motivation is nothing more than the psychology hidden under the behavior. For example, in this film, the 11 residents of the motorcycle hotel, who is the culprit in a series of murders? According to the principle of permutation and combination, 1 person commits the crime, 2 people commit the crime, 3 people commit the crime, or no one commits the crime? Sociological analysis can no longer transcend routines. Life is nothing but emotional and financial disputes, while psychological crimes have opened up a new world that human science has not yet recognized, where there is infinite room for imagination.
Crime itself is an abnormal behavior, but the film allows us to reflect on our own criminal factors and the boundaries between normal and abnormal, which is a deep reversal. For example, in the last psychotherapy, the charitable criminal psychologist questioned the good factor in the criminal's personality to exonerate him, but ignored the most neglected child personality in the criminal's personality is the culprit! There are 11 people in the motorcycle hotel, and there are three levels of reference: the first level is the reality level, that is, the parents, the images of their parents when they were young; the first level is the symbolic level, that is, the arrogant female star, the greedy shopkeeper, the brutal wanted criminal; the first level It's metaphorical, the kindness of John Cusack's chauffeur, the insidiousness of Ray Liotta's fake cop, and the motherhood of Amanda Peet's prostitute. These are actually the three projections of Freud's ego, id and superego, all of which were killed by the child's personality. The reason why Freud transcended the boundaries of medical psychology and became a methodology that influenced most areas of humanistic and social thinking in the 20th century is to reveal the influence of childhood experiences on human destiny!
The reversal of plot guidance and oriented thinking requires the help of "brain-burning" stories to advance rationally. Psychological hypnotherapy is for a specific group of people, that is to say, not everyone can be hypnotized. The person who is really hypnotized is the good personality, and the child personality has always refused to be hypnotized. Like Nolan's "Terrorist Cruise" and "Inception", this film can only flow into the current "brain burn", and this kind of skill film can be destroyed as long as a spoiler. Nor can it go deep into the criticism from psychology to the philosophy of existence like the works of those great directors that go deep into the soul.
There is a copy of Sartre's "Existence and Nothingness" in the car of the good character driver at the beginning of the movie. Perhaps art workers in the capitalist world are more or less influenced by some "existence" thoughts. Sartre's book does also discuss Self and others, mind and body. But I am more inclined to pretend, because existentialist philosophy, more representative of Heidegger's "Being and Time", Sartre is mostly known for his romantic literature and private life style. It's like a joke in the 1990s: every prostitute has three treasures: lipstick, condoms and "cultural hardship".
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