I just watched the last episode, and after a few minutes, I still feel frightened. The results predicted from the beginning are unacceptable when they actually come out. I think this is the "unconsciousness" of most people. We are all indoctrinated at the beginning. The idea that Bob is the murderer, but we yearn for a turn of events in our hearts, or we hope to find the contingency of the process from the inevitable results, we mortals see the world with the naked eye, and hope to find the logic of all things between science and emotion relationship, but this is originally a preconceived idea. There are everything in the world, and not everything has a cause and effect, and there is reason and evidence.
There are a few points in the film that left a deep impression on me. The first is the interview with Bob himself. He looks like a very ordinary old man in his sixties. He is quiet, introverted, and restrained. As the story continues to advance, when we look at those flabby eyes again, we will feel like a bottomless vortex, and we will be sucked into the bottomless hole unknowingly. First of all, he understands people, understands human nature, he knows that if he chats with Kathie's mother about magazine articles, he will please her, but he doesn't want to do that; he knows how the media will speculate on his every move and place him. The image of the crime; he knows how to hide the truth or be part of the truth (make up stories about Susan's disappearance, contact a close friend to cover up for him, court arguments)... He has a terrifying perception of people. To the point, what he does is only what he wants to do, he does what he doesn't want to do when he has to save himself from prison (to cater to the public, to make up the truth), and more often he wants to be free from prison. Act with any restrictions, such as taking a 6-cent sandwich at the supermarket without paying. His life seems to be boring because of too much insight. The rules of his world are different from the rules of the real world. Many people think that he is boring because he has not become the heir to the family business, but what really makes him boring is not It's not that he doesn't have money and power, it's the whole boring world, the boring family who can't see him, he is like someone who accidentally landed in this mediocre and boring world from another high-IQ planet, growing up. In the process of knowing who is a human being, the process of knowing itself disappointed him.
What's even more shocking is his self-awareness. Many people don't understand why the title is "New York Disaster", but I think the name is appropriate. Bob admits that he thinks he is a JINX, so he is not suitable for parenting. Children, at this point, most of us may agree that a person who kills his wife and close friends and dismembers his body, what will be the future fate of his children? What's more, how will his children be treated? These are terrifying. Bob's cold-bloodedness may appear weaker in terms of family affection, which may be influenced by the mother who brought him happy time. For the time being, we believe that he said at least one sincere word in the interview: "happy happy happy!" The
third point is that The relationship between Bob and Susan, the film is right, Susan smells Bob's taste similar to his father, which may be decisive, alert, smart, able to do everything she wants to do, etc., but she may not be aware of it However, ruthlessness was also part of it, and it was the danger of this breath that made her ultimately lose her life. For Bob, it is very rare to have such a person who is similar to himself (bereaved at a young age, has a certain material basis) and can see through his own difference, which can explain why he wrote that letter Dead body letter, why did he ask to leave that intimate group photo in the final interview? I would like to believe that these are all from his sincerity. First of all, in order to protect himself, he needs to kill and silence, and after this, Susan is still able to Understand that he understands his close friends, maybe in Bob's mind, the living are dead, but the dead live forever.
Writing this, in fact, the film is still about human nature. We are not watching the film out of curiosity. We need to pay attention to the perverted rich man murderer, and then scold capitalism according to our intention and yell at the landlord and the god of wealth. We want to understand the world, know somebody.
I heard that Bob is currently being held in a local mental hospital in New Orleans. I don’t know if this is another top lawyer’s preparation for defense, but I think that by the end of the filming, Bob can never be judged as a mental patient, and a real mental illness cannot be Understands everything, and he can, not only can, but has seen through, seen through, and used it. Even the final confidence cannot be completely considered as his fault. After all, a lawyer reminded him that the microphone was turned off during the break. Maybe he was really tired and wanted to give up resisting and surrender. We don't know.
If he had to explain what he did, it might be as the New York Times editors understood it: like a bored child who personally provokes the world, it remains to be seen whether the purpose is to attract attention, maybe It's like when you were young, you didn't know why you were kicking stones when you were walking on the road. Anyway, it was in the way, you just saw it, anyway, you wanted to kick, whatever, in short, you just kicked the stones. At the beginning of writing the article, I tried to excuse him from other planets, but at the end of the article I could calmly accept that he was also a part of the "people" he knew.
In the end, I uselessly borrowed a sentence from the previous film critic, "Reading, walking or paying attention to various irrelevant lives is not to point fingers at the world, but to deeply perceive that everything has no end, there are no natural enemies, and human nature is also no."
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