At first it was because I liked the name of the movie. Later, the visual effects of filming made me feel warm and calm. Even during the time when two people were closest and in love with each other, everything was not vigorous. But the picture is still so beautiful and quiet. Like a calm narrator, there is no emotional color telling a story that is irrelevant and cannot affect any emotion. So, I started to like the director's style, and thought it would be a good movie.
But at the end of the movie, I felt that the director seemed to be calling everyone about this unfair case with a very aggrieved feeling. I feel that it is not consistent with the atmosphere of the previous movie. In addition, I checked the information about this case and found that the person concerned has neither passed away nor served his sentence in prison. I was surprised how this person would feel if he saw this movie. Regardless of whether he did all of this or not, since he tried his best to defend himself, how could he tolerate a man who described him so firmly as a psychopathic murderer. Ever since, I am very confused and don't know what kind of movie this is.
Today, I read several film reviews. How can I say it, I feel that it is not thorough. It's not right with the movie. When I just watched the movie, I also harbored a kind of resentment towards the male protagonist. However, I think that the director kept showing between the stories that the male protagonist had a psychological deformity caused by seeing his mother's suicide in his childhood. In this case, the protagonist can be called a perverted killer for the time being. So, is the director trying to tell a psychological problem? It seems a little bit like this. Thinking about it now, the director does not seem to want to criticize someone, or the case is extremely unfair. Rather, he made his own inferences on the basis of expounding a fact to perfect the whole story. If it is only the fragmented details that the police have, the story will not be full enough. Then, let's assume which murderer the protagonist is.
The focus of the director is before the protagonist kills. It took a long time to tell the protagonist's childhood and love with K. I don't think that the shadow of childhood made D lose the ability to love. Although D never said that he loves K from the beginning to the end, I think he still loves K. He also loves his father. Love his mother too. However, his childhood experience made him cruel and did not cherish life. I think, in his eyes, life is not a precious thing. It is not a sin to end one's life on its own or being forced to it. He told his father that he still stroked his mother's head with his hands. And his friends also said that his mother's head was cracked like a walnut. In this way, he is not at all psychologically resistant to death and corpses. Therefore, when he feels angry, he has no scruples to end the life he loves deeply. Finally, he told his father, "I MIss Her" I thought it was K. Later, when I looked at the film reviews, some people said that HER was referring to his mother. I think maybe there are both. Because he missed it, maybe he started to cherish it. I understand the pain of loss.
In the story, D pretends to be a woman in order to avoid the police. I think it may be more proof of his nostalgia for his mother and K who ended his life in front of him. To remember with a woman's dress, a kind of pathological miss.
At this point, I have begun to understand the director's intentions a little bit.
Back to the name of the movie: ALL GOOD THINGS. Yeah, everything can be beautiful originally. Beautiful and gentle mother, warm and lovely girlfriend, ordinary and healthy life. Everything is so beautiful, just like the name of his health food store. If he hadn't returned to New York, hadn't been suppressed and forced by his father, hadn't had K's getting away from him, I think the cruelty and cold blood buried in his heart would be frozen, and would not be awakened. But how can the world be as people want. I think if they always live that kind of poverty, K will also complain. Like every ordinary and secular woman. So, what D needs is a vacuum environment to survive in order to eliminate his inner pathology. However, the whole society is a utilitarian and cruel pathology, how can he not awaken the devil in his heart.
Think about it this way, D is not a story, not a special person. Perhaps, he is each of us. I still remember the name of a psychology book: We all have psychological scars. Yes, we all have some kind of extreme and pathological problems more or less psychologically. And living in such a society where everything is for fame and fortune instead of fairness and kindness, are we all becoming more and more extreme and "perverted"? Think of their pure life in the country, and then think of their chaotic life in the big city, the contrast. Perhaps we are deviating more and more from the natural appearance of life, losing our original kindness and dreams more and more. I think we are all DURST.
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