Not terrible.
The story is about a father and daughter with split personalities. The following are only personal opinions.
Let’s first sort out the two main characters with dual personalities:
Charlie: David's other personality, in the beginning of the movie, always leaves around 2:06, more regularly. He is the product of his wife's derailment and betrayal, and is synonymous with strong possessiveness. Unable to bear the betrayal, Charlie killed his wife. He didn't want to lose his daughter Emily again, he was determined to cherish it, and played hide-and-seek instead of his wife and daughter. Charlie, who was oppressed and mad by possessiveness, did not want his beloved to be shared, so he moved his family to the suburbs and tried every means to "capture" Emily. He destroyed Emily's beloved doll, killed the family cat, killed Elizabeth who happened to hear that she wanted to be friends with Emily, in order to make Emily his only friend, he did, Ask her to do the same. He knows the existence of another personality - David, and wants to squeeze David out and occupy the nominative personality of the body, so he and Emily play the game of angering David. In the end, he achieved his goal and squeezed out the rational David. He lives in misery and doesn't want another personality to be happy, for one thing, because if David gets happiness from other women, it's the same as betraying his wife, when he sees David and Elizabeth's happy moments , will think of the happy scene of his wife and cheating object, which deeply hurt him; the second is because he was born out of hatred, once David is happy, his living space is bound to be weakened. He played hide-and-seek with his daughter every day, chatted with her, and watched TV with her, thinking that her daughter was really his only friend. It wasn't until he found out that his daughter was starting to get scared and "tired" of being with him, and sought help from a psychiatrist, that he broke out, thinking it was all in vain. So he cut the phone line, picked up the knife, and played hide-and-seek with his daughter for the last time, sending her to see her mother—dead things would allow him to possess it forever without being betrayed. In the end, he died in the cave, at the gunpoint of the doctor.
David: Father is normal, he is a psychiatrist. Sad for his wife's "suicide", out of love for his daughter, he moved his home to a suburb far away from the crowd, and wanted to rest for a while, hoping that his daughter could come out of the shadows. He also wanted his daughter to make friends and live a normal life, so he took the initiative to chat up with Amy and Elizabeth. He also loved his daughter very much. He didn't know who Charlie was. He always thought it was an image made up by his daughter. Later, he took the neighbor man as Charlie until he discovered what Charlie left behind and remembered some terrible things. Only to realize that Charlie is himself, so shocked, scared and angry, he is captured by Charlie.
Emily: The little girl, like her father, has a double personality (hereafter, Emily 1 is a normal personality, and Emily 2 is an abnormal personality). She has always known that she has a second personality. Emily 1 is an innocent and happy little girl who loves to laugh and has a cuteness far beyond her peers. Emily 2 is a lonely and melancholy autistic little girl, showing no interest in everything, silent, sluggish, and emptying herself.
After the characters are sorted out, the next step is to sort out the clues in the movie (the top and bottom can be mutually confirmed):
1. Emily has a dual personality and knows that she is a dual personality:
a. In the final painting, she painted herself with two heads;
b. She is sometimes lively and cheerful, sometimes melancholy and taciturn;
c. She is very happy when she gets along with her mother, and she should be a normal personality, but on the first night of the move, she knew that she should be in a lonely and melancholy personality state through the opened music box (in the state of being sluggish and empty, the doctor gave her a music box , and tell her to open up when she is unhappy and forget about her troubles), and remember the time she spent with her mother under normal personality (when her father said "you are my love", she said "you said the same thing as my mother") ;
2. Before her mother died, Emily knew about her father's dual personality:
I asked my mother to stay at the door before going to bed, but when I decided to escape from Charlie later, I told my father that "I don't need it anymore", indicating that she was not afraid of the dark, but that she was looking for her to hide and seek for Charlie. But this time should have just begun. Charlie hasn't killed his wife yet, and his wife may have been obsessed with other men and didn't find her husband's abnormality. Only her daughter knew about it.
3. The cave corresponds to Emily's room, and the path is like a corridor in front of the door. Dad finally found it with a flashlight, and the light from the flashlight was like the light of a hallway light peeking in through the door. There are many broken toys in the water in the cave. The butterflies caught outside the cave that David recalled proves that Charlie and Emily once stayed together in the cave. The secret here is like the secret sealed in the room. Doctor unlocked.
4. The music box suggests four personality states:
a. Emily was in the state of 2 when she received this gift, and it was opened on the first night of the move, indicating that Emily was in the state of 2 at this time.
b. Dad opened the closed music box in the cave, indicating that Emily, who is afraid of Dad, is in state 1, while Dad is in Charlie state. Conversely, knowing the state of the father and the two forms of the music box can also be deduced.
5. Elizabeth and Amy, the couple next door and David and Emily are three contrasts:
Elizabeth and Amy, such as mother and daughter without a husband (father); the couple next door happens to be a husband and wife without a daughter; David and Emily are father and daughter without a wife (mother), they are all incomplete. Why aren't Elizabeth and Amy set as mother and daughter, because it involves balance issues, adding a wife (mother) role, Emily's home is complete again, so Elizabeth is a puzzle piece, what is missing?
6. The scene where Emily finds Dongkou dropping the doll in surprise suggests the important role of Dongkou in advancing the plot later.
7. In the cave, Charlie said, "I thought I was your only friend." This confidence comes from the fact that he destroyed Emily's doll, the cat, and Elizabeth, and that they lived in a sparsely populated country. Charlie keeps strangers away from his daughter.
8. Emily has been protecting others and didn't want to lose her dad. When she said she didn't need friends, she actually told Charlie to convince him that she only played with him.
9. Charlie likes black, likes dark. Emily wears all black to dinner; Charlie's hiding in the dark is proof in the basement.
10. The words in the bathroom were indeed written by the little girl, but she said it was made by Charlie because she wanted to imply the existence of her father Charlie. Charlie doesn't want David to know that he is Charlie (otherwise he will find a way to deal with him) and force Emily not to tell the truth, but Emily wants her father to realize her problems, including her saying "I thought it was you" open" window.
11. Emily never called the police or told others because when she was with her abnormal father, most of them were in the state of Emily 2 and Charlie. At first, she didn't know her dual personality state, until It was only after Emily 1 met Charlie and witnessed the terrible things he did that she became frightened and sought help (Emily 1 knew about Charlie's existence before her mother died at first, but Charlie hadn't done it yet) terrible thing).
12. The paintings in the room also hint at the existence of two dark characters.
13. Emily drew the little book about her mother's suicide, which she created in the state of 2. She didn't want 1 to know the terrible truth and paralyze herself. When the terrified and normal-looking Emily asks her dad, "You killed her (mom)", she doubts the truth of the matter.
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