In 2014, David Fincher made a movie that married people don't want to mention, "Gone Lover."
In the film, the wife sets up a bureau, the husband enters the urn, and the woman makes the man with bad behavior pay the price with the illusion of her own death.
For a time, the newlyweds were frightened by the line in the film that reflected the reality of marriage :
We used to love each other, but now we control each other, hate each other, hurt each other, but that's marriage.
The crime suspense drama "Do Nothing" to be talked about today has a similar but opposite plot to "Gone Lover".
The story is not about the disappearance of the wife, but the disappearance of the husband.
The accusation in the play is not the torture of both parties in the marriage, but involves more terrible emotional problems than mutual torture.
Early in the morning in Manhattan, fog filled the air.
A woman , Elena (Matilda de Angelis), dies in the basement of her art workshop.
The murderer's modus operandi was outrageous, and Elena's face was smashed into blood by a hammer.
Who made this moving life fragrant and jade perish?
The murder directly touches an upper-class couple living in Manhattan, husband Jonathan (Hugh Grant) and wife Grace (Nicole Kidman).
As a psychiatrist, Grace never thought that she, who is used to speculating about other people's lives, would one day be speculated by others.
Originally, she and her husband Jonathan, a cancer oncologist, and their handsome and talented son Henry (Noah Jupe) lived a life that normal people would envy.
But with the appearance of Elena, the original calm was broken.
For the upper class, you can be special, but you must not be different.
What is special? Donate money to aristocratic schools and show how outstanding your family is in the circle of celebrities.
Why the alternative? Elena is definitely a role model.
First of all, Elena's son entered the aristocratic school through a scholarship , which is contrary to their practice of donating money and going through the back door for their children.
The upper class wives used capital to open the door to knowledge, while Elena's children relied on artistic expertise, which obviously impacted the wealth accumulation of the upper class.
Secondly, Elena's behavior has shaken the values of upper-class conservative women .
She doesn't dress like a housewife, or a professional woman, but a dusty woman.
She doesn't have any concerns about her behavior, she always goes her own way.
The mothers were talking about the process of the school fundraiser dinner, but Elena was breastfeeding her baby directly in public , without any shyness.
Meet Grace at the gym, and Elena's heartfelt rendezvous .
Even though it was in the shower room, this bold and different behavior made Erni embarrassed.
What's even more bizarre is that Elena's unreasonable intimacy with Grace caught the other party off guard.
Even in the elevator, in the face of Grace's friendly care, Elena actually reciprocated with a kiss .
All kinds of mysterious behavior, in exchange for Elena's body lying flat in the studio.
What followed, in addition to school and social disturbances, Grace had to face a major event——
The sudden disappearance of husband Jonathan.
Jonathan , played by Uncle Hugh this time , still showed the image of a good gentleman in the first episode .
For the upper class, he used social fear as an excuse to shirk in every possible way, and was reluctant to participate in the fundraising activities of celebrities who did not live up to their name.
There are others who pursue the truth and reject the false taste.
The rich ladies did their best to talk about high-sounding words at the dinner, saying that they would raise the salaries of the teachers in the school and pay attention to the diversity of the teaching atmosphere.
In response, Jonathan directly attacked their two-faced approach .
For the patients he treats, Jonathan is like a father , patiently caring for each other.
It is such a peerless man who said goodbye to his wife and said that after he went to Cleveland to attend an academic seminar, he would never be seen again.
Grace called her husband's hotel, and the receptionist said Jonathan wasn't staying at all.
After finding her husband's colleague, the other party blindly denied that there was a Cleveland seminar, and emphasized that Jonathan had long since left the hospital because of his ambiguous relationship with the patient.
On the day her husband disappeared, it happened to be the same day that Elena was killed.
A bigger thunderbolt is yet to come.
All along, Jonathan and Elena have maintained a lover relationship, and even that child is Jonathan's.
The person who shared the bed became a peerless scumbag in seconds, and Grace's world collapsed in an instant.
It was at this moment that Jonathan returned to his normal life like a normal person and told Grace:
Elena didn't kill her.
On the police monitor , Grace also appeared on the street near Elena's studio on the night of the incident.
For a time, the truth seems to be not as simple as we thought.
After watching the spoilers of the first few episodes of the series, everyone can't help but think of "Gone Lover".
If "Gone Lover" is aimed at the open and secret struggle between husband and wife, then "Inaction" is more about expressing the detached and false appearance of "perfection" between husband and wife.
First of all, let's look at the general environment of the play, the high society where Jonathan and Grace live .
It is not difficult to find that these high-class people are full of benevolence and morality, but they are full of male thieves and female prostitutes.
The banquet held for the noble school was actually used for the school's financial gain.
They said they were making money to help children who didn't go to school, and they scoffed at Elena's children, who were admitted to school on scholarships.
We don't know whether that money actually becomes teachers' salaries, and whether the school helps children from disadvantaged families get into school.
The performance of this scene, the actors are presented in a talk show way.
Even the principal's behavior is a bit like a talk show actor, or a comical appearance in cross talk.
The so-called education, the so-called diversity, is just a catwalk.
The so-called role model, secretly, is just the surging of money.
When Jonathan was seen as a murder suspect, the school was afraid of losing face and advised Henry to study at home.
At this time, Grace's father (Donald Sutherland), as the person who invested the most money, went directly to the principal's office to threaten the other party.
After obtaining the support of capital, education is also restrained by capital.
They bid a glass of water up to a thousand dollars and decorated it with a bunch of fancy words.
The flashy depiction of high society is actually an allegorical treatment of the relationship between husband and wife——
In a relationship between husband and wife, it is always only the appearance that shines.
Note that the English name of the play "undoing" , which literally translates to "do nothing" in Chinese, is actually a psychological term .
Its accurate translation should be cancellation , and the corresponding category is the psychological defense mechanism in Freudian theory .
Freud used two sets of concepts to explain this mechanism - ritual and cancellation .
Once something unpleasant happens, people are accustomed to use symbolic behavior to cover up the bad part and treat it as nothing happened, so as to relieve psychological discomfort and remedy psychological discomfort.
The act of counteracting actual guilt with fantasies and inner fantasies is a psychological defense mechanism.
It's not hard to find that the entire episode revolves around "undoing," about the Jonathan family's actions to avenge or exonerate them .
To this end, Jonathan, Grace and others have done a series of behaviors about offsetting.
Husband , Jonathan , has been on the verge of offsetting.
After the failure of the operation, he returned home frustrated and achieved a counteracting negative emotion through intimacy with his wife.
Unemployed, he has been describing how he takes care of the sick in front of his wife.
The emptiness of joblessness and the toil in words achieve a kind of offset here.
As a child, he failed to take good care of his sister, which led to the latter's death.
Facing the blame of his family and unable to face this shadow, he had to lie to his wife and say that he had raised a puppy, and he was very sad when the puppy died in the end.
To relieve/offset your own inner pain by making something up.
Looking at his wife Grace , she is also doing a kind of spiritual beautification .
She found a lawyer to help Jonathan win the lawsuit, but she ignored the pain caused by her husband's derailment.
In the courtroom scene in the play, Grace, who defended the murder case, just did not defend her heart that has been riddled with holes as a woman.
Interestingly, Grace is no longer turning a deaf ear to an affair.
Her father told her that he was also an old sea king and was unfaithful to her mother, and Grace was a little hard to accept.
That is to say, Grace has been living in the emotional illusion constructed by herself. She knows about the outside world, but in order to keep the pure land in her heart from being tainted, she pretends to turn a blind eye.
The perfect marriage of her parents and the irretrievable life of herself and her husband are the safe haven under her bitter smile.
This offset can also be seen as a manifestation of self-deception.
In addition, son Henry is also a person with counteracting behavior.
Because of his worship of his father, he hides the hammer , which is actually a kind of protection for the image of the perfect father.
At the same time, it also provides strong evidence for Henry's hypothesis of murder.
The so-called love relationship between husband and wife conceals the original moral truth.
The horror of marriage in the play is that people lose themselves in marriage, but for each other, in order to cover up their inner fears and evil things, they actively ignore the truth.
What couples want is not to solve these things, but to use the form of deception to offset it all.
Many viewers will speculate on the truth of the show: who killed Elena?
In the final episodes, viewers may speculate that the killer may be Jonathan, or Grace, who suffers from schizophrenia.
In Elena's house, there are several portraits of Grace, and Grace is not impressed at all.
Is she lying, or is she forgetting her close relationship with Elena, and also forgetting the memory of killing Elena.
What I was terrified about was if they really killed Elena, either out of jealousy, or out of covering up their virginity.
In that way, the behavior of the Jonathan family in the play is more of a counteracting mechanism constructed in their minds.
They unconsciously glorify their own despicable behavior, and the truth has long been cancelled out of the truth.
Like Jonathan's mother said, Jonathan is a cold person.
It is because of his ruthlessness and indifference to the death of his sister that he fabricated the image of a good brother who seemed to live in the shadow of his family's death.
There are lovers, but they are ruthless.
You just hugged the body of the person beside you, as for his heart, maybe even he himself can't express it clearly.
What is a husband and wife?
They help each other and harm each other, and they are ruthless under cover.
I'm more afraid to talk about who the unconscious liar is than to talk about who the murderer is.
Protecting the same thing for a long time, we will really take the fake as the real.
Maybe marriage is beautiful, but if you deliberately fabricate beauty for a beautiful appearance, the beauty itself will inevitably be greatly reduced.
The revelation of the relationship between husband and wife may be the reason why "Inaction" is truly terrifying.
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