After watching the whole movie, I believe that everyone will have many questions. For example, I think the core question is, are David and Emily dual personalities? When did the dual personality arise? What are the characteristics of each personality? When is which personality? In the film we can get detailed answers to questions about David's dual personality, while the part about Emily is less and full of questions. I think it is mainly caused by the director's intention to mislead the audience in order to create an atmosphere. At the same time, the film has multiple endings, which also shows that the director is open to the plot design (but I personally think that if this film can add more clever and Imperceptible hints would be better, anyway, I personally didn't see much after reading it several times, maybe it's my personal observation.) Next, I will focus on this core issue and talk about my thoughts on this film.
After watching the movie several times, comprehensive analysis, I think David and Emily are dual personalities. First of all, there is no doubt about David. The film gives two most likely reasons for his dual personality. One is that David said that he wanted to give Emily a better childhood than himself, implying that David's own childhood was not good, not good The childhood obviously has a great influence on a person's psychology; the second is that David found out that his wife was having an affair, which is the most important factor. David (father personality or normal personality) did not want to remember this memory and kept dreaming about it. Fragments of this recollection suggest that this is an important reason for David to create or exacerbate a dual personality - splitting into two personalities to escape this reality. So we can draw a general conclusion about how David's dual personality came about: David's childhood was not very good, making him potentially dual personality (not to a very high degree), and witnessing his wife's affair led to his dual personality to the extent very high level. Then it is not difficult to find the characteristics of David's two personalities and the reasons for such characteristics: David is a relatively boring but responsible father, always trying to maintain a perfect family, which can be said to be a completely positive role; Charlie's other personality is Charlie, who is "interesting", but has a strong desire for control and violent tendencies, which can be said to be a negative character that is quite opposite to the former. I think that maybe its bad childhood is accompanied by parents who are more controlling and often use violence against it (I think the bad childhood is very likely to contain such factors, of course, it is just speculation), which leads to the latter Personality is formed; then David wants to have a family different from his childhood, so David is the complete opposite of Charlie, a gentle father who loves his family. Witnessing his wife's affair further strengthens this split. Charlie represents the dark side of his heart: he is very angry and wants to kill his wife who betrayed him; while his father's personality still wants to maintain the whole family and chooses to tolerate it. But eventually Charlie broke out, killing his wife and pretending to be suicide. The question of when Charlie and his father's personalities occupy David's body is well differentiated, so I won't go into details here.
We may have questions, later we know that David did not remember witnessing his wife's affair, so if David's personality split increased after witnessing his wife's affair, did David also forget the fact of witnessing his wife's affair at this time? I don't think there's any evidence to back this up, it's just speculation. At the beginning of the film, David asked his wife if she had anything to talk about. Normally, we can understand that David (which should be the father personality at this time) was implying that his wife confessed the fact that she was having an affair, so David knew this fact at this time, but he also had Maybe David is just concerned about his wife's depression (the wife taking medicine and other scenes clearly show that the wife has depression). And if David knew this fact at this time, it should be that after the personality Charlie broke out and killed his wife, David was shocked and forgot to witness the affair of his wife. But this is not a very critical question, just something that came to my mind when I rewatched it.
Next is Emily. The ending I saw personally is that the little girl drew a picture of herself with two heads at Catherine's house, which shows that Emily has a dual personality. Personally, when I watched this movie for the first time, I really didn't see any obvious dual personality in the little girl, I just thought it might just be that her temperament changed greatly after being stimulated. On the other hand, my father was clearly abnormal (several time lapses and always wearing headphones to write), so when I rewatched it, I deliberately searched for places where Emily might embody a dual personality in a preconceived way.
Throughout the whole film, we can find that Emily is sometimes indifferent, unwilling to get close to anyone, and even has a certain violent tendency; sometimes she is a more "normal" and lively little girl. I think this is roughly the characteristics of Emily's two personalities (let's call the latter a normal personality and the former a second personality). So when exactly is Emily a second personality? I think these two personalities are really not very easy to distinguish, because even if they are normal personalities, can't they be indifferent?
Let's start by discussing when Emily has a dual personality. It seems to me when Emily witnessed her mother "suicide". Because there wasn't any sign of it in the film before that, and there's no reason, but of course Emily may have always had an underlying tendency to split personality, because the father has a split personality, the mother has depression, and genetic susceptibility is a factor but not a major factor . Since Emily developed a split personality after her mother's death, there will be a question: Did Emily witness her father kill her mother? The reason why there is such a question is that it was a coincidence that Emily would wake up at such a late hour and see her father find her mother's body in the bathtub. Maybe it was her father's cry that woke Emily up? But in the film, almost as soon as the father starts crying, Emily is standing behind. But it's also possible that Emily's room was very close to the bathroom, or that Emily woke up when her father called "honey" in the hallway, but that's unlikely. Smaller may be getting up and going to the toilet just at this time. Therefore, we have good reason to suspect that Emily witnessed the process of Charlie killing his wife and pretending to be suicide before this (after all, it is very possible that the process of carrying the body was seen). But if it's hard to explain the fact that Emily's two personalities didn't hate Charlie or even liked Charlie at first, because if Emily escaped from this fact by witnessing her father kill her mother and split her personality, then she should probably be like Charlie and Charlie. The two personalities of David are the same. The split second personality knows this fact, while the original normal personality does not. Then the second personality has no reason to like Charlie when he knows that his father killed his mother. The details that best support both of Emily's personalities are the fact that the first 2:06 father finds the words "you let her die" in the bathroom. First of all, this should be done by Emily's second personality. Because as David said, this is Emily's crayons and handwriting, even if the split personality may change David's handwriting, there is no reason for his handwriting to change to the same as Emily's, so this must be written by Emily, but Emily denies that it should be Her second personality did it (here we know that Emily's normal personality doesn't know what the second personality did). If Emily knew that her father killed her mother, she should have written "you kill her" instead of "you let her"
From this "you let her die", we can also know that one of the reasons for Emily's second personality is that she believes that her father is responsible for her mother's death, so Emily's second personality is repulsive to David's father personality. psychological. This can explain Emily's indifferent attitude towards David at the beginning (so we can judge that such Emily belongs to the second personality), and Emily's second personality likes Charlie and cooperates to anger David.
(To be continued)
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