Samuel Fowler's films have always maintained his usual rough, direct, critical, angry. In this film, Johnny, a reporter, infiltrates the insane asylum on the grounds of finding out the murderer who committed the murder in the insane asylum. His girlfriend Kathy spends a lot of time persuading Johnny at the beginning of the film, but Johnny's pursuit of the Pulitzer Prize, his desire for fame and fortune leave him unshakable in the possibility that his income and social status are not equal to Not too high, his girlfriend Casey even worked as a stripper to increase his income, which also made Johnny's self-esteem take a hit, and he was even more eager for fame and fortune. In the end, Casey pretended to be Johnny's sister and sent Johnny to a lunatic asylum on the grounds that he tried to sexually assault him. There are a lot of Johnny's inner monologues in the film. When he is faced with the inquiries and diagnosis of the psychiatrist, he will have an inner analysis of the current situation and even the psychological state of the doctor before catering to the doctor's diagnosis. He was extremely proud of his plans and cooperation with his girlfriend. He was judged as an irrational madman on the grounds of incest driven by sexual desire, but his heart always showed a strong rationality. Such self-confidence and complacency also contributed to his later madness. Increased criticism and sarcasm.
Although the film takes the investigation of the case as the starting point to promote the development of the plot, when Johnny successfully enters the madhouse, the so-called suspense element gradually weakens, replaced by the three murder witnesses found by Johnny, who are also the three mental patients. Telling about his past experiences, he revealed and criticized wars, ideologies, racial conflicts, technological paradoxes, etc. The first is a veteran who always plays guitar and fantasizes about himself as a Civil War-era general. He was captured during World War II and the Korean War, but he was treated with humanity and even respect, and was honored as Mr., which had never been done before. A series of encounters such as ideological changes and secondary changes, as well as the pressure after returning to China, made him finally collapse. The colorful pictures of Mount Fuji, geisha, etc. inserted in the process of his narration are the only warm colors, and they all come from foreign countries. The second black guy went to college after the United States announced the abolition of the educational segregation policy. In the days of studying and living with white people, he was deeply infected by discrimination and racist culture, and finally due to inferiority complex and identity anxiety led to his disorganized self Orientation, fantasizes about being a member of the racist organization KKK, and discriminates against and excludes another black man in the insane asylum (which reminds me of Simpson's house full of pictures with white people...). The last physicist, Nobel Prize winner, atomic bomb expert, likes to draw, the actual mental age is only 6 years old. Disappointed in a world ruled by technology and bringing killings, he doubted his work, so he locked himself in the mind of a 6-year-old to separate himself from this dirty world. These three highly representative madmen shoulder the mission of irony and criticism of the times, and they use their own madness to contrast the absurdity and irrationality of the world, which reminds people of Foucault's interpretation of rationality and madness. In such an environment, Johnny gradually became insane. He listened to these stories that made people doubt the world all day long. He also suffered inhumane electric shock treatment in a lunatic asylum, and an indifferent and utilitarian doctor who used his power to sexually assault female patients. employees. Even though he finally found out that the staff in the insane asylum was the murderer, he won the Pulitzer Prize, but the dark world left him in the insane asylum, the rainy hospital corridors, the crazy roaring Johnny, this crazy vision inside Breathtaking. If God wants to destroy a person, he will choose to make that person mad.
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