born alone

Keven 2022-02-03 08:15:36

I watched it twice, the first time I fell asleep for more than 20 minutes. Tiredness is on the one hand, and on the other hand, the progress of the movie's plot is really a hypnotic rhythm. I didn't know why and wanted to watch it again. Probably because the lawyer's anomalous behavior during cross-examination made me think it wasn't that simple.
A successful lawyer who is usually eloquent, good at sophistry, has strict wording, and does not let the other party have any chance to catch loopholes to attack him, why would he contradict himself at this time. If he committed a crime with passion for the first time, and as a sensible lawyer who has been in the judicial system for decades, he knows the sanctions that serial killers will face, and also knows that committing one more crime will increase the probability of being discovered, then he will not. Again, it's not good for him. Assuming that he is a perverted killer, a smart serial killer, he will definitely make full deployments, careful planning, and a set of plans for dealing with police interrogations. Even if it is not impeccable, it will not be powerless to fight back.
The panic he showed, and he hesitated, yes, it means that he must be hiding some facts, some things that cannot be seen or spoken. Everyone has several sets of masks. Under the mask is the real face that can only be seen by oneself. Everyone has a public role in society and a complex emotional relationship in private. We all have secrets, and we all have the desire to get rid of all shackles. But we dare not tell others, even the closest people, that it is impossible to hold everything back.
Why did he finally plead guilty? It stands to reason that the police did not have sufficient evidence to convict him. His complex emotions and psychology here are very intriguing, we can't know the truth, we can only guess.
He loves his wife, and he says that a beautiful person is an existence beyond mortals who has the ability to make people willing to give and get everything she wants (to the effect). In the end, he thought it was his wife's framing. He couldn't believe that jealousy had distorted her to such a degree, but just like his usual attitude, even after two years of torment, he still insisted on not getting a divorce. He just obeyed her wishes and endured it. So he finally chose to do what she wanted.
He loves and is obsessed with simple and beautiful things, and he can't stand the contamination of the world. He is possessive and controlling, so he decides to create a perfect existence with his own hands, that is, his wife. So she is not her, but his ideal and pursuit of self. When in the end he finds what he wants, or even shattered, he suddenly realizes the emptiness and dullness of life, or it may be an easy relief to abandon all kinds of desires.
People are born alone. Whether they experience prosperity or vicissitudes in their lives, the outside world is often unimportant. In the end, they can only find an answer by themselves.

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Under Suspicion quotes

  • Captain Victor Benezet: Go home. Put on a funny hat. Do whatever it is morons do.