So when I watched "Genius Ripley" a long time ago, I was watching the flowers, but such an excellent movie was swallowed by me. It is really burning the piano and boiling the crane. Fortunately, I recently watched this movie again. The analysis of human nature gave me a more intuitive and deeper experience.
Regarding criminal mastermind movies, I have only watched two movies, "Get Out of the Law" and "Genius Ripley". From the perspective of criminal psychology, although the original intentions of the crimes are completely different, the basic methods are the same, that is, the use is innate. Coming high IQ.
Mencius believes that everyone has "compassion," "shame," and "right and wrong." Some people do bad things because they are affected by the environment. That's what Yan Zi called "Oranges born in Huainan are oranges, and those born in Huaibei are oranges". So looking at Ripley from this, he was entrusted by Dick’s father to travel from New York to Italy to summon Dick home. Is it because the environmental change from New York to Italy triggered his criminal motives? Anyone who has watched the movie knows that the answer is "No".
The film was named "Genius" Ripley. I guess the director has an infinite liking for the real murderer Ripley, and he interprets it with an open-minded and admirable attitude, and I always like to dig into the dark side of people. So I see more of the damp and moldy inner dungeon of Ripley.
In any case, it is possible for a person to fall in love with another independent individual who is completely different from himself. This is the natural existence of human beings that can give play to the nature of love. We often say that we fall in love with a person, love him for his knowledgeable and talented person, love his status, love him for his discernment of right and wrong, and love his reason and calmness. We make an excuse for every love, and some love is even because of loneliness.
In fact, love often doesn't need a reason. Some love comes quickly and falls in love at first sight; some knows after love, and it takes many years to experience this lingering affection. Ripley's love is mixed with a lot of vanity and envy, but also with a little jealousy and humbleness. It’s often said that the person who falls in love first tends to hurt more. When Ripley realized that he was completely attracted by the playboy Dick, he chose to express it bravely. This expression of love is clear and powerful, but it is rare. Pai love is often not accepted by the public, so there are moral and conceptual differences. It’s not that Dick can’t accept Ripley’s same-sex love at all. It’s just that not everyone can be calm in the face of sudden changes. Dick obviously refuses to give up his superior material life and does not intend to change his current life. The heart is not as absolute as exaggerated as it seems on the outside, and his psychological endurance is far from the average in the normal physiological category, which is also the common problem of dudes.
Because of this, Ripley, as a genius with superior IQ, quickly gave back to what he could accept. He thought that his humble life and humble feelings had been disappointed, so there was a dispute, not so much his fault. The hand hurt Dick, rather than his natural self-esteem obsessive-compulsive disorder that prompted him to destroy himself with his own hands.
We do not lack the ability to love someone. This ability also enables us to feel the warmth from others. While loving someone, we can also see the struggle from our hearts. To a certain extent, this struggle is ours. A portrayal of nature. Whether he loves others more or himself more, obviously Ripley chose to defend himself without suspense. He found a powerful excuse for himself to kill, that is, falling in love with Dick, but not getting it. he. It's not that he has motives for killing, and then makes excuses, but that he doesn't have a clear measurement of his heart.
As everyone knows, Ripley is a very talented poor boy. He hates everything in New York, because he lives a painstakingly managed but still stretched life. He needs an exit. After killing Dick, he has no repentance. Zhixin, he lived the chic life of his poor and noble son in the name of Dick.
German psychiatrist Schneider once specifically analyzed the connection between various abnormal personalities and criminal behavior in the book "Psychotic Personality". These include: weak-willed, emotionally lacking, explosive, excited, self-represented, paranoid, emotionally variable, weak, inferior, and melancholic. I think Ripley’s lack of emotion, that is, the closed circuit of the unequal love line between him and Dick, coupled with his absolute Machiavellianism, led to the last wave of unsettled killings. I have always believed that there are only two highest levels of life, and these two are indispensable and interdependent, namely: cartilage and hard-hearted. Nowadays, Ripley is not only hard-hearted, but also has a high IQ, which is almost inevitable.
His indulgence of himself and his inability to control himself made him go further and further down the dark road. As a person, there is a human nature. Even a person who kills repeatedly has a trace of self-diagnosis in his heart. Ripley also occasionally feels guilty about Dick's death, but most of the time it is panic. He loves himself far more than others.
"No matter what damaging things you do, you will give yourself reasonable excuses. Who would think you are a bad person? You can seal the past in the basement, lock your heart, and never think about it, I will do it. Until you meet My sweetheart, you just want to give him the key and let him open the heart lock and walk into your heart. But you can’t do it because your heart is too dark and you hide the demons and don’t want people to see your ugliness.” Many lovers have turned against each other for a similar reason. Japan is said to have 8 million gods as shelter. The two great gods of Genesis: Izanami and Izanaki were originally a pair of gods of love, but because of Izanami After she died, she went to hell, and her sulky and hideous appearance was accidentally seen by her husband Izanagi, so she scared her husband away and aroused her malicious intention to kill her husband. Each of us hopes that we can give a glorious and beautiful image to our beloved. The same is true of geniuses. After Ripley fell in love with Pete, he also thought of redeeming himself in this way. However, he has fallen into the quagmire of self-protection. , Can't extricate themselves.
When we walk in the dark and deep alleys, there will be fearful reveries in our minds. All kinds of gods, ghosts and monsters will appear in our minds, always feeling that there is something terrifying behind them. At this time, we have no turning back. We must go on firmly, and only if we go forward can there be hope.
For a pure egoist, Ripley is very clear in his mind to do the necessary actions to protect himself. Every step he takes is to bury his crimes and step forward firmly and unshakably. I don't want to defend him or dialect him. , He also does not need others to dialectical for him.
Because he can't go back anymore, no one understands, no one believes, just walk on.
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