summary of the story
Oldman is a connoisseur auctioneer at a top art auction house. He not only presided over the auction work but also let friends secretly take portraits of women he liked. During his lifetime, he collected a large number of portraits of women by famous artists. Live alone in a luxurious house. One day a mysterious woman claiming to be Claire bursts into his life with an estate up for auction. Claire, who claims to have agoraphobia, repeatedly refuses to meet Oldman. Oldman was a little bit intrigued by her, and fell in love with Claire, who went from boy to man at the age when his hair was gray. Oldman gave up his original plan to spend the rest of his life with Claire, and finally found out that it turned out to be a shocking scam. He traded a lifetime of expensive possessions for a one-night affair.
social engineering
The secret of a lie is not how realistic the lie is, but the willingness of the deceived to believe it.
The world's No. 1 hacker Kevin Mitnick once mentioned in " The Art of Deception " that the human factor is the soft underbelly of security. Social engineering, to be precise, is not a science, but an alchemy of art and tricks. Social engineering exploits people's weaknesses, in order to comply with your will and satisfy your desires, some methods, an art and learning to make you fool. Social engineering is more like a skill that has been re-understood by society and has existed in human society for a long time, integrating psychology, technical means, performance and other methods. The tricks of social engineering also involve a wide variety of flexible ideas and change factors. Social engineering is a method of using people's weaknesses such as human instinctive reaction, curiosity, trust, greed for cheap and other weaknesses to carry out harmful means such as deception, harm, etc., to obtain self-interest.
Oldman's good friend Billy, an unwilling painter, has cooperated with him all the year round and knows enough about Oldman's private life, life, hobbies and so on. Billy designed a love dream for Oldman, and finally stole all of Oldman's collection. Because Billy knew enough about Oldman, Billy would be sure that Oldman would never call the police and that the scam would be successful.
Oldman's Character Analysis
Oldman is an orphan who has lived in an orphanage since he was a child. Because he liked to restore paintings, he made a deliberate mistake and asked the nuns to punish him for restoring paintings. He has acquired enough artistic knowledge in the process of learning to restore paintings. He also embarked on the road of art appreciation. Art appreciation is the fast lane to the upper classes. He gained fame and status as a result.
There is a wall of gloves in his mansion, which are suitable for different materials in different seasons. He will wear gloves whenever he goes out. Oldman said to the public that he wore gloves all the time for cleanliness. In fact, this is the glove that he took the initiative to put on because he lacked a sense of security and refused to have contact with others. This glove is the first layer of protection that he is isolated from this world, the active rejection of his desire to be loved but afraid of being hurt. Because he was abandoned at the very beginning of his life, he did not know why he spent his childhood in an orphanage.
He is a connoisseur. Paintings in front of him can't escape his discernment. He can see whether it is genuine or not and whose hand it comes from. This stems from his basic skills in restoration painting. He must have insight into the painter's painting skills and brushwork, which are the characteristics of a painter. He said that although the author of the fake painting tried his best to imitate the original artist, he would reveal his original painting skills and lines inadvertently. At that moment, the author of the fake painting was the id who was painting, and at this moment he also revealed his tricks.
Oldman's collections are all portraits of women, and his treasure room is full of portraits of women, his life's collection. He has never had skin-to-skin relationship with women in real life, and the portraits of these women are his longing and spiritual sustenance for the other half. The beauty and charm of each woman's portrait from the eyes of different painters is his exclusive collection.
Billy's Trap
Billy has been helping Oldman surreptitiously take valuable portraits of women. This is a taboo gray area in the auction business. Billy was an unsatisfactory painter. After most of his life, he was still a penniless painter.
Billy knew Oldman's discerning ability, and he was eager to get Oldman's affirmation. He repeatedly mentioned his paintings to Oldman, hoping that Oldman would appreciate it.
Oldman has always told Billy coldly that the painting skills of outstanding painters are only the foundation of painting, and the most important thing is to create a dream and a sense of mystery. Oldman thinks Billy doesn't have that talent. Oldman was very arrogant, and he was rough with Billy. Billy is bound to have resentment in this relationship.
Billy knew enough about Oldman's personality that he had a peculiar obsession with art. Claire is the perfect dream for Oldman. Arguably Claire is another Oldman. Oldman fell in love with Claire, and the rescue of Claire was also a process of self-rescue.
Claire is the only daughter of a 25-year-old fallen noble. She had agoraphobia and shut herself in her room after she was a teenager, never seeing anyone again. After her parents passed away, she needed to auction some old items at home, so she called and invited Oldman to conduct an appraisal and auction.
Claire missed appointments again and again, making Oldman feel neglected for the first time. Claire's phone call with a weeping apology, the helplessness she'd just lost her parents, made Oldman agree to meet again. And Claire broke the appointment again. Over the course of several missed appointments and then apologizing over the phone, Oldman became more and more curious about the woman he had never met. Curiosity was just a hook Billy gave Oldman.
During the process of inspecting the house, Oldman found mechanical parts scattered on the ground one after another, and his intuition told himself that it was a robot. Oldman knew how fascinated the upper class was with Victorian robots and steam engines, and he was no exception. He collected the parts bit by bit and had a guy assemble them for him.
This is how Oldman entered the net Billy spun for him. He was already prey, and took the bait. Oldman saw the shadow of his past in Claire, weak and helpless, lost his parents, and was alone. Confront the world with a grumpy temper. He understood that he didn't want Claire's best years to be spent in one room.
Oldman begins to impress Claire with tenderness and love. He fell in love with Claire unknowingly and completely. In fact, he fell in love with that similar self. Since childhood, I was lonely and helpless. I used the self-isolation of studying painting, and I was afraid of contacting strangers. Because I didn't know how to establish a friendly relationship with people, I took the lead in rejecting everyone. The process of his pursuit of Claire is all the inner longing, and he hopes that there will be someone like him who can save his life.
If Oldman had thought carefully about why the mechanical parts he was interested in appeared one after another, and if he had carefully examined the portrait of Claire's mother below, he would have found clues about the author Billy. Love is blind, and love is ignored, and Oldman is no exception. He found vitality and self in this dream, and when he woke up, he didn't want to believe that Claire was a liar. If he admits it, he really has nothing left, and Claire's memory is the only thing he has left. That's why he found the cafe full of mechanical clocks and waited patiently for Claire. It was a dream and beauty that he didn't want to wake up from.
Epilogue
"Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will be safe in a hundred battles." Although Billy is a poor painter, he has created masterpieces on the canvas of the world. He used his knowledge of Oldman's life experience to paint a virtual portrait of Klar for him, which Oldman would savor and treasure for the rest of his life.
The lie is not how superb the technology is, but the deceived person is deceiving himself, and he is willing to believe it. Oldman is such an idiot, who uses a lifetime of collections in exchange for a "love" aftertaste. His best offer was his virginity and unreserved affection.
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