"The Secret Story of Ma Rouben's House" is about multiple personalities.
This kind of movie is not easy to make, because there are too many jewels in front.
"Dr. Incarnate" is a two-dimensional battle between good and evil; "Psycho" is about a psychopath who kills flowers; "Beautiful Mind" is a mathematician's solitude and sanctification; "Deadly ID" is a personality slaughterhouse and a battle royale in the brain ; "Fight Club" is a rebellious gesture, declaring war on a static society that represses individuals; "Detective" is a madman who sees through the dirty things in human nature...
A multi-personality movie aims to be curious, but when there are too many, the fun is diluted. With the knowledge of today's audience, it would be difficult for a director to reproduce the old-fashioned wonder with this kind of film!
Therefore, "The Secret Story of Ma Rouben's House" took another path-injury.
Speaking of hurt, it's just in terms of curiosity. In fact, this movie is quite restrained, sad and bone-chilling, but there is no lack of warmth.
A mother, in order to avoid her brutal husband, took her four children across the ocean and hid in an idyllic fort. In the room, pull a line and let the children cross one by one, which means saying goodbye to the past and stepping into a new life.
Unexpectedly, the good times did not last long. The mother contracted a serious disease and died sadly. Before her death, she told the eldest son Jack to take care of his younger brothers and sisters.
At this moment, the mother's life was hanging in the air, but her last words were as heavy as a thousand pieces, and every word was pounding on Jack's heart. The young Jack grew up overnight and played the role of the eldest brother like a father.
A family that has lost the shade of its mother, spends its days cautiously. They must hide news of their mother's death until elder brother Jack turns 21 and has legal custody, or the family will be forcibly separated.
One afternoon, the old nightmare reappeared. A gunshot rang out, and the bullet passed through the glass, leaving eye-catching cracks. The second sister, Jane, screamed.
The chasing father is back.
At this moment of crisis, the eldest brother Jack stepped forward. He locked his younger siblings in the attic, carried a box of banknotes, walked out of the old house single-handedly, and confronted his diabolical father.
As the saying goes, tiger poison does not eat offspring yet, but the father in the movie, cold-blooded and shameless, is actually a gangster scum. After getting the money, he still kills his son. After a fight, Jack falls off a cliff.
A moment later, Jack woke up with a crack on his forehead, which was the beginning of his split personality.
Back at the old house, Jack's throat broke, but he could not see his younger siblings. It turned out that when Jack was in a coma, all three children died at the hands of their father. The mother's warning that day was still in her ears, but now all her family members have died, and only herself is left.
Jack was heartbroken and decided to kill himself.
Just as he was about to pull the trigger, he suddenly heard the sound of crying. Jack followed the sound and found that the three were not dead. The second sister, Jane, the second brother, Billy, and the younger brother, Sam, were all safe. Their voices and appearances were the same as before. The four of them hugged and wept bitterly.
The officer should know that the three children are actually dead. The reunion scene at this moment is the illusory realm in the camera, and it is also when Jack has multiple personality attacks.
As a pathological phenomenon, multiple personalities often originate from stressful events and are a defense against external pressure. Jack was entrusted by his mother, and regarded his younger brother and sister as his life. The responsibility was greater than the sky. How could he bear it if he died in one day? In addition, he fell off a cliff and suffered a head injury, which finally inspired a split personality.
Since then, Jack has three more personalities. Billy, Jane, Sam.
The life of the dead lives in the memory of the living, Jack's personality is split, and there is a hint of warmth in the sadness.
Looking back on that day, the four brothers and sisters guarded the body of their mother and made an oath that we are one and no one can separate us. The old oaths were trampled into powder by reality and turned into illusions, only this truth will last forever.
Having said that, the old oath, Jack has lived up to the end, the four brothers and sisters coexist in the form of multiple personalities, the law cannot separate them, the cruel father cannot separate them, and even death cannot separate them.
Infatuated at this point, those who have a heart should cry for Jack.
Although the four personalities are integrated into one, the main character is still Jack. This desolate old house has become a safe to hide secrets. Therefore, among the four personalities of brother and sister, only Jack can come and go freely.
In patients with multiple personalities, the sub-personality is generally independent and separate from each other. When one personality appears, the other personality automatically withdraws. However, in Jack, he can communicate with the other three personalities at the same time, which is probably because blood is thicker than water.
Therefore, when Jack returned from a date, the second brother Billy showed jealousy, saying that Jack had broken his promise. Jane said, he can't stay here forever. The younger brother was innocent, saying that Billy blamed Jack because he didn't have a girlfriend.
The family bickering with each other, which seemed to be a warm and touching scene, was just a "one-man show" by Jack alone. Chewing the sad taste in the movie is like drinking alcohol on a rainy night, pouring one's own block on one's own.
The younger brother respects and loves the older brother, called Ti. Even if the body dies and becomes a "personality", this feeling will not change. Billy, who is a sub-person, seems to blame his brother on the surface, but at the critical moment, he is deeply fraternal and never ambiguous.
After Jack's girlfriend learned the truth, she stumbled into the secret room, bumped into the goddamn father, and scolded, you thought you could put out their light like blowing out a candle, but you can't, they are still alive, you are the dead man.
The demon walked out silently without saying a word, and the girl's life was hanging by a thread.
The only one who can save her is Jack. But at this time, Jack, because he bumped into his girlfriend, fell into the confusion of identity, and the four personalities appeared alternately and became a mess.
Between life and death, the second brother Billy's personality dominated. He said, "Brother, let me kill him." He immediately picked up the shotgun, ran upstairs, and killed his father with one blow.
The phenomenon of multiple personalities is complex, and scientific research on it is still limited to the scope of psychology. But it is undeniable that human emotions are also a kind of energy. When the energy is strong enough, it is unknown whether it can cross the boundary of life and death.
When Jack committed suicide, he was saved by auditory hallucinations. In addition to the onset of multiple personality disorder, there may be another explanation. Whether in the East or the West, there is a saying of ghosts and spirits, especially when you just died, you have something in your heart, your soul is not far away, and it is easiest to communicate. The souls of the three brothers and sisters, seeing that the eldest brother was about to commit suicide, burst into tears, pierced through the underworld, and saved the life of the eldest brother.
The things of ghosts and gods are both true and illusory, and what is conclusive and true is only love words.
Most of the films with multiple personalities are of mixed good and bad. "The Secret Story of Ma Rou Ben's House" does the opposite, introducing such quirky stories into the common human emotions.
I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart.
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