The criminal’s motive is a mystery at the end, so let me make a bold guess:
Because of the indifference and violence of his native family in his childhood, the criminal was sexually assaulted by an elderly mountain climber, and he was influenced by his father's obsessed photographs of the bloody rituals of the Indians dealing with the enemy. These were the characteristics of his crime and one of the motives revealed in the play. I want to get rid of the self-cognition of the weak who are exploited in their identity roles, and thus appear inverted self-suggestion. There is a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder to realize the cognition that the self is the strong through torture.
But this is only a shallow level of motivation, and a deeper level I think:
First of all, he felt humiliated and betrayed during the assault during the mountaineering. The old man who accompanied him on the mountain at first may have given him a "partner" to overcome loneliness, and the latter may have taught some mountaineering skills. , This kind of goodwill accumulates, and he is likely to project the old man into the image of an ideal father. But when the old man saw the poor and exposed his nasty attempt to him, his sense of betrayal, shock, and regret and disappointment for the wrong payment of adult men brought his negative emotions to the culmination, but from the old man The inertia and sense of security of the subordinate position in the inherited relationship between the two people made him feel a certain shame-type pleasure in the process of being violated!
This kind of pleasure was secret at first, but he soon noticed that after being assaulted, he could make an appointment with his climbing partner who sexually assaulted him and kill him again. There was a sense of resistance to this kind of pleasure. But the gaffe when he served in the army and participated in the Plaza incident helped him relive the pleasure.
Secondly, he still eats the body tissues of boys after torture. This is a desire practice of purification and "unity". These boys have a similar life experience to him, and the sexual behaviors he engages in are what he wants to do. Those boys who tried their best to restrain themselves and even escaped, those boys were his self-projection-he deceived them out, and at the moment when he reversed the setting and exposed his violent purpose, he experienced the pleasure of dominance and manipulation from the weak to the strong. , Is a kind of power imitation of adult men such as fathers and old mountain climbers who have hurt him; in the process of torture, he experienced his shameful pleasure and a sense of disgust with his true desires. He had to go through rituals. Feeling killing to deny this personality; special torture methods, weird body eating, and ritual appeals with religious complexes indicate that he wants to prevent the sexual perversion appeals of these boys who are similar to his own life experience, and at the same time It also prevents them from becoming a "hateful adult man" in the future, which is a kind of purification for them; and eating their body tissues is trying to "unify" with them, which is a kind of self-purification, because he He is already a "hateful adult man", eating a part of them can not only relive the shame and pleasure, but also "rejuvenate".
Finally, while in the reservoir, he told the last boy that when she loved me the most, it was when she bathed me-which pointed to his mother-in the high-pressure family atmosphere of his father, he originally wanted to The appeal of love turned to his mother, but his mother’s indifference made him desperate, and this detailed memory of childhood is undoubtedly the best scene in his limited beauty, and the stage when a mother can bathe her son must be this. The boy has not yet entered puberty or the age at which significant sexual development begins. Therefore, his series of killings and obsession with baptism developed to the end, hoping that he could return to his childhood without significant sexual characteristics, a desire to return to his mother's womb, a reversal of an unbearable and hopeless life.
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