Gina's father John will retire in two weeks, and his mood has been very low. Today is his birthday. Gina and her brother Daniel, together with their lovers, hosted a birthday surprise party for the old man. Although the unprepared John was startled at first, the dinner was happily shared until the mirror in the dining room, which had been reflecting their cheerful party, suddenly burst without warning.
Gina and her lover Stefan are exploring the road to marriage. Gina sometimes lives in Stefan's apartment and rarely goes back to her own home. The night the mirror cracked, Gina was resting at her home. The next morning, after washing up, Gina still put on her dark trench coat and drove to work in the dark red jeep her father bought her. The moment she left the apartment, the mirror in Gina's bathroom suddenly cracked, and a foot in black high-heeled shoes slowly stepped on the debris.
In the radiology department, Gina was sitting at the table studying the case. A figure suddenly passed by the window. When she looked up, she found no one.
Gina, who walked back to the radiology department from the corridor, found a freshly drained coffee cup lying on the foot of her table, but the coffee drinker was nowhere to be seen. At this time, a colleague came in from outside and asked her with a smile if she forgot to bring something? Under the inexplicable look on Gina's face, her colleague explained that she had just seen Gina drive out in her dark red jeep, and things seemed very strange.
Gina ran out of the hospital to call her family, but suddenly saw a dark red jeep driving across the road, and sitting in the car was herself wearing a dark trench coat. She followed the car all the way to an apartment building, Pembridge House. In the apartment upstairs, she saw a picture frame on the closet of Gina and her father John.
The crimson jeep sped out of the Pembridge House apartment car park, and Gina, who was driving, held a group photo of the wrinkled father and daughter, in shock. The figure in the rearview mirror flickered, and Gina was distracted so that the oncoming car slammed into it.
After the car accident, Gina lost some of her memory. Fortunately, apart from some shocks and abrasions, there was no major damage. After a few days in the hospital, Stefan brought her back to his home from the hospital. However, life did not return to normal. Gina, who was gradually recovering, began to have nightmares. Stefan became indifferent and unfriendly, making her feel that her fiancé was actually a stranger with the appearance of Stefan. In addition, her memory before the car accident has been fragmented, and forced piecing can only bring Gina a very frightening fragment. The doctors said it was a delusion that the trauma of the car accident had brought to Gina, and they arranged for her to have counseling, but unfortunately it had little effect.
At the same time, Gina's father John was preparing for his retirement soon, but the secretary came to ask him if he had been feeling unwell recently, and told him that he had seen him on the side of the road at noon, but greeted him but got no response. John explained strangely that he had been in the office all day and couldn't be on the side of the road, and the secretary left suspiciously.
Before John got off work, he found the mirror in the toilet shattered and asked the cleaner who did it, but no one knew.
Gina's younger brother Daniel and his girlfriend Kate were also about to talk about marriage. The two moved in together, and Kate would always arrive home earlier on weekdays. Kate was taking a shower in the bathroom at home while John was puzzled by the shattering mirror. She vaguely heard some movement in the living room, called Daniel's name but got no response. She turned off the faucet and wanted to go out to find out. A woman's hand, when Kate put her head out of the bath tent, reached into Kate's wide-open mouth, and the owner of the hand was actually another Kate.
Gina was also taking a shower in Stefan's bathroom. The leak on the ceiling made Gina annoyed. Stefan promised that the repair work would be delayed again and again, and finally she couldn't help but go to the attic to check. However, in the dark attic, Gina did not find the cause of the leak, but saw a body of Stefan. She fled down the stairs in a panic and called her father. John urged his daughter to leave the apartment quickly. He would go to her, but he didn't know that another John, whom John's secretary had met on the side of the road at noon, had quietly stood there. behind himself.
Gina hung up the phone, the indifferent Stefan had already spotted her and pursued her all the way. Gina fled from the bathroom window to the phone booth on the street, calling to warn Daniel that her fiancé was no longer the same person, and she was also convinced that there was another woman exactly like her in the world who was chasing her. When she mentioned the Pembridge House apartment building that the woman had been to, Daniel hesitated: "But, Gina, isn't that your own home?"
Daniel was very puzzled after answering his sister's call. Kate didn't greet him as warmly as he used to. Stepping over the fragments of the mirror in the living room, Daniel found that Kate was wiping the blood on the floor in the bathroom.
Gina came to Pembridge House again, pretended to be calm, got a key from the doorman, and went back to the apartment she had been to before the accident. Revisiting the old place, the lost memory begins to slowly recover. The broken vases, the bloody handprints on the walls, and the stripped door frames all indicate the battles that took place here.
Gina follows a series of clues and finds another body of herself in the bathroom. She finally remembered everything, she was just another Gina, and on the second day of that party, she was born out of a mirror in Gina's bathroom, followed her to the hospital, but Gina left the hospital halfway to go home and led her again Arrived at Pembridge House. The new Gina finally murdered the old Gina there, only to have a car accident and lose her memory on the way back to the hospital in her place. The reason for the car accident was because the new Gina saw another new Gina in the rearview mirror of the jeep.
So all the truth came out, the new John appeared downstairs in her house in place of the one who took the new Gina's call, and the two monsters who had killed themselves looked at each other indifferently, showing mutual understanding.
A few days later, the X-ray film of Gina's car accident was silently thrown into the trash can by her. On that film, it was a mirror image of the internal organs of a human being. Daniel, who came to the hospital full of thoughts, seemed to have understood something. In the calm and distant gaze of his new sister, he turned his head away in fear and anger.
In the final scene, Gina sits in her crimson jeep, galloping down a road of light and darkness, with a calm smile on her face.
This is really not a horror movie, at least not by my definition, there are no ghosts floating around, giant pythons, and blood splattering everywhere, so I call it a thriller, but if you think about it, in addition to Pictures and music, as well as its metaphorical techniques, "Destruction" can only be said to be a life movie. In this way, it seems to be quite to my appetite.
Four "murders", four "victims", four "murderers". It is not difficult to find the common points among them: every "victim" is at a fork in life, every "murder" happens after they examine themselves in the mirror, and every "murderer" retains the "victim". part of the person".
John used to be a high-ranking official at the U.S. Embassy in London, but he will soon retire when he is old; Stefan and Gina are about to officially end their unmarried lives and prepare for the unfathomable siege; Kate is young and lively, but he is very fond of Daniel There are potential worries about future life. Only Daniel is innocent and childlike.
We are changing all the time because of subjective and objective factors. Of course, on the surface, the process of transformation will not be as bloody as "murder", but the degree of psychological entanglement and contradiction is probably only the client himself knowledge. When you are persuaded by yourself, the old you has been "murdered".
Gina drove all the way in the alternation of darkness and light, and was replaced again and again. Isn't this road that every one of us is walking. Work, relationships, setbacks, success, everything we are experiencing changes in ourselves.
At the class reunion, everyone is talking about what everyone loves to hear, "You're still the same, you haven't changed at all."
Really?
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