The scenes of the film are concentrated in the secret room, and the narrative is slow, but 119 minutes still attract people's attention. The male protagonist is an autistic butterfly collector. After winning a huge prize, he bought a remote country house and successfully hijacked a woman he liked and kept it in the basement. The secret room is like a cave, but it is comparable to the nostalgic version of a star-rated hotel, and the meals carefully prepared by the male protagonist are delivered regularly. He seriously told the woman that resistance was ineffective, and he only wished to speak to her to improve understanding. The expression is sincere like a child. In addition to depriving the other party of her freedom, he was very gentlemanly satisfying her any needs in life, without any thoughts of aggression. Four weeks after the agreement, the woman was still not released, on the grounds that she did not try to understand him. For him, understanding is voluntary obedience. As long as she still has a yearning for freedom, she is not sincere enough. Catching a butterfly and asking it to lie down in a scrapbook is very childish behavior. But this also has the premise of being a serial killer: he imposes his own wishes on the victim, and because this wish cannot be realized, he continues to search for the next target. He attributes the unattainability to others, and therefore cannot be satisfied. This seriality, coupled with his careful calmness and childlike willfulness, makes the woman's end predictable.
The hobby of collecting butterflies is the beginning of his character distortion. What he pursues is the static beauty of butterflies, and its freedom and life are not in his scope of consideration. When the collectible becomes human one day, he becomes the death collector.
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