The story of Quentin Tarantino's early film "Leave Your Dead Head" (Curdled1996) is not complicated. The beginning of the film sketches the source of the heroine's childhood trauma:
Little Gabriel once witnessed the victim fall from the upstairs at the murder scene in her childhood. After the crowd dispersed, she took off the bloody gauze and glanced at it curiously. Since then, the scene of death and blood has been imprinted in her mind. middle.
This bizarre experience made her curious about corpses and death, which grew stronger as she got older. When she grew up, Gabriel began to collect murder news in newspapers to make newspaper clippings. A series of homicides in Miami quickly attracted Gabriel's attention. In order to get close to the scene of the crime, Gabriel found a cleaning job specializing in cleaning up the scene of the crime, and by chance, had a relationship with the serial killer. edge.
The murderer is also very interested in his perverted taste. After she recreates the murder scene, she performs a mimetic dance to restore the murder process, and the murderer observes secretly. Eventually the killer showed up and asked her to tell the story, which she did. When the killer decided to kill her, he accidentally fell, and when the killer fainted, Gabriel prepared a tape recorder, cut off the killer's head, and recorded the last sentence of the killer's solitary head: "Gabriel! "The heroine leaves with the recording and her bakery boyfriend, and the movie ends.
After watching the movie, I thought Quentin should have seen Freud too, right? In any case, his script for this film is written in the way of psychoanalysis. Freud has a famous point: childhood experiences between the ages of 0 and 6 determine the basic structure of personality, followed by the development and forced repetition of early personality structure. The heroine's inadvertent encounter at the scene of a murder in her childhood changed her subconscious, and she may not know what happened. However, her later hobby of watching murder scenes survived.
Not only did she retain this hobby, she also developed a new interest: the curiosity to clean up the crime scene, the fun of speculating on the murder process, the interest in thinking about the killer's psychology... Even, she almost fell in love with the killer. This kind of love is complex, including the fear of killing and the pleasure of being completely occupied by fear, a complex erotic pleasure mixed with fear, survival, eroticism, and curiosity.
Of course, the screenwriting idea of this film is a god. Quentin did not make the heroine fall in love with the killer, but moved towards the final completion of her own personality. It is hard to say whether the moment the heroine killed the killer was blackened, but She must have overcome the traumatic experience of witnessing a murder scene in her childhood.
Overcoming fear is actually the reason why she returns to murder scenes time and time again. Of course. Return has multiple meanings:
One is instinctive curiosity,
The second is the excitement after the resurrection of childhood experiences,
The third is the compulsive repetition that is like a game of needles trying to overcome this experience.
Fourth, there is actually a forced sexual pleasure in this horror experience of returning to childhood.
The fifth is that she wants to change her identity to become the perpetrator - the so-called female protagonist in the film wanting to know if she can speak after being cut off is just a screenwriter's gimmick to advance the plot. The real psychological meaning is that the female protagonist has thus become an identity: that The girl who was once frightened by the perpetrator of an inexplicable murder has become a perpetrator who can create a murder scene from the moment she kills the killer.
This change of identity is the essence of the psychology behind the film: a terrified girl finally overcomes the unconscious childhood horror, like a child in a game of needles, from being injected into a child Doctor giving injection.
Therefore, this movie is not so much about a perverted hobby and romance, as it is about the final completion of a killer personality.
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