Daily + derailment + suspense + horror + fantasy... Many elements constitute the new drama "Behind Her Eyes" (also known as "Perfect Trap" / "Three people must keep secret, two people must die") .
The play is adapted from the thriller "Perfect Trap" of the same name, produced by British descent and Netflix. It lasts about 5 hours in 6 episodes. It is worth watching in terms of production, quality, and size.
In view of the special nature of the plot of "Behind Her Eyes", I still recommend that you read the article after watching the play, otherwise, if you are spoiled, watching the play will lose a lot of fun.
If you have finished this play, please follow my perspective and thoughts and walk through this story again.
[Remind again: There will be in-depth spoilers below, please read as appropriate. 】
A masterpiece of "light suspense" slowly released
At first glance, "Behind Her Eyes" has a kind of unspeakable awkwardness. Despite its smooth narrative and concise content, there is always a lingering frustration-this feeling stems from a hidden secret.
Until the final secret of the ending is revealed, the play has given a triple deception one after another .
The first deception is to make the audience feel that David and Adele are a "thief couple" who hides shameless ugliness. Neither of them is a good thing (it seems to be correct, but it is far from enough).
Then the story entered the second stage of deception. Adele was restricted from personal freedom. David always checked her tracks and urged her to take psychotropic drugs, which was called care, which was actually a control.
At this stage, the title of the wicked gradually moved to David, and Adele was like a little lamb that was difficult to fight.
Then the story comes to the third stage of deception. David is not as cruel and cruel as it seems. Adele is the master who plays with her husband.
I believe that by the time of the sixth episode, most viewers can understand and keep up with the tone and rhythm of "Behind Her Eyes", even if the setting of supernatural power such as "soul out of the body" is added in the later period, the truth is going forward. Still not out of the basic framework of "deceptive context".
In the end, when we think that everything is settled, the story has an unexpected big reversal : As early as 10 years ago, Rob completed the conquest of Adele by exchanging souls.
In the play, Adele, who is making waves in the normal timeline, has always been Rob, and he will always take possession of David by all means.
Such a plot setting also made some audiences sneer at the show: because this is not a suspenseful story that is rigorous and fair enough, the show is deliberately misled most of the time, and it did not give enough clues in the early and middle stages, especially It is the fantasy setting of "soul projection", and it makes all kinds of reversals feel cheap.
I understand but do not agree with this view, the key is I did not play as a traditional or serious reasoning drama / suspense drama to see if the pursuit of "story inverted logic closely and with great accuracy," that "behind her eyes "It's really not very good, but if it is regarded as a feature film with layers of suspense elements, then it is quite good to watch.
Moreover, the basic skills of this play are very solid. When we look back at the previous plot after watching it, we will find that many truths have already foreshadows/suggested it .
For example, in the first episode, Adele (Rob) accompanied David to the office of the psychiatric clinic. When she came to Louise’s house for the first time, she also behaved strangely and carefully checked all the rooms. This is exactly Corresponding to the necessary condition that she must meet the "visualization of environmental details" when she wants to use her soul to monitor others.
In the normal narration of the first four episodes, there will always be a few inconsistent shots overlooking David and Louise from time to time. At the beginning, it was just a pure perspective change, and then the sound of sighs slowly appeared, and then later It also added floating light and shadow, gradually evolving to a point where the audience could not ignore it .
We will see later that these weird shots are exactly the "spectacular " perspective that "Adele" secretly observes.
In addition, the fact that Rob is a gay has also been explicitly stated in the series. For example, he bluntly said that he prefers cock, that it is a win-win for BJ to exchange tobacco for the caregiver, and the caregiver in his dreams is also very sexy, etc., but Many viewers didn't take it seriously...
It wasn't until Rob finally said to Adele that "he (David) is perfect", and with all his words and deeds, did we understand that his real goal is to possess David.
With this truth in mind, let's revisit the story of "Behind Her Eyes".
After taking Adele, Rob killed Adele’s soul and his own body, and threw the body into a deep well. Then he used David’s love for Adele to conceal the accident, and at the same time, he also took advantage of this. Started a long mind control career against David.
However, the starting point of guilt and the change of his soul for no reason are destined to make David lose his love for "Adele", so in the next 10 years, Rob can only "restart" the relationship by moving houses. Hope for the future.
Rob's design of encounters, acquaintances, and friendships with Louise is just a repetition of the same old behavior as his past behavior , with the goal of completely controlling everything around David.
But there are two differences between Louise and the women David met in the past: one is that David seems to really fall in love with her at first sight, and the other is that Louise, like herself, also suffers from a rare night terror.
Rob began to start the "Secondary Seizure" project at this time . He arranged for Louise to read his past notebook. On the surface, he was teaching her the way to "overcome the nightmare", but in fact he was guiding her to master the soul. The ability of the orifice.
The long list behind is where Rob manipulates Louise like a marionette.
He succeeded in making Louise think that David was a bastard with perverted control desire, so that Louise was completely on his side.
When David realized that something was not right, the words that came to warn him turned from love to threat, which made Louise's trust in Rob even more serious.
No matter whether Louise can awaken and master the ability to get out of his body , Rob is the winner -but now that Louise has learned it, then he can move on to the next step.
To be honest, Rob's use of suicide to coax Louise to save himself is indeed a gamble (this is an imperfect slot), but he won the gamble.
After burning Louise's soul and Adele's body, Rob packed lightly and used Louise's body to get David again.
Rob, who planned to succeed, seemed to have won a huge victory, but he still faced some hidden dangers. For example, Louise's son Adam, who was about to turn 8 years old, had already clearly felt that his mother was replaced by another person.
Rob can find a time in the future to get rid of Adam and turn his life into a "two-person world" between himself and David... But even so, can he live happily with David? This is the more terrifying part of the story of "Behind Her Eyes".
The barrenness of "Loneliness and Desire" after the burning
"Behind Her Eyes" is a rather desperate story, the actual protagonist Rob caused all the tragedies.
Rob has a miserable life full of tragic colors : his father is unknown, his mother died early, and his sister only regards him as a blood bag for subsidies. Growing up in such a community without love, poverty and gloom, Rob is not surprised I chose to be with drugs.
Meeting Adele in the rehabilitation nursing home was the luckiest and happiest thing in Rob's life. They became best friends.
Just as Rob said, Adele, who has been in love with David since childhood, is a flower in a greenhouse, delicate, beautiful and fragile.
Being able to be friends with Adele is a rare accident. In fact, only in a rehabilitation nursing home can one become an equal friend with Adele—because Rob understands (or believes) that once he goes out , The two will lead completely different lives.
The more he craves for the friendship with Adele, the more he fears to return to a life where he can't see hope in the past , so he will definitely agree to visit Adele's request.
However, when Rob found out that David and Adele were really a "match made in heaven", he couldn't help but fell into depression: my only friend, and the most perfect man I have ever seen. They have money and a lover. , Has everything... and I am destined to be just an outsider.
If Adele is a delicate flower that does not know the world, then Rob is a poisonous weed that supreme survival -in order to be with David and Adele forever and live a "good life", Rob Choosing to seize Adele, start a new life.
If he just doesn’t want to be separated from his friends and wants to become rich, Rob has other options, but first he doesn’t believe that people can fill the gap between identity and class, and second, he has an even more remote desire to occupy David.
The tragic nature of "Behind Her Eyes" has just begun here: even if Adele’s identity is stolen, Rob still has a fantastic new start. He will only check David over and over again. The shackles on his body looked around and drove away any well-intentioned opposite sex around David (even the lack of threatening Marian at the coffee shop).
David loves not only Adele's beautiful body, but also her pure soul.
Therefore, the ending of the two people's gradual distance has been doomed from the beginning , and Rob can only continue to abuse David and change the environment.
This is a helpless fact. Rob, who has been lacking in love since he was a child, has no ability to truly love someone (not to mention that thunder was buried at the beginning).
During the 10 years of marriage with David, Rob was unable to give his true affection, and only had a variety of control methods, which in exchange for David's further alienation, and then entered the next vicious circle.
Although not good at management and maintenance, Rob is indeed a talent for sabotage. With the help of the full vision of the soul out of the body, she drove away all those who need to rely on David with a full-bodied demeanor, even like Anthony. Of patients are no exception.
This is a kind of abnormal possessiveness at work , and I don't know if Rob understands this truth, or does he think that as long as David is severed from anyone, he can always monopolize this man?
I don’t like Rob to be able to "rebirth from the shell " in Louise's body. From the perspective of family affection and fetters of normal people, Louise’s starting point is better than Adele . She has a cherished child. There is also a gradual ex-husband, he can try to experience the true feelings, but his actual method is to reject people thousands of miles away, using Adam as a burden to prove his identity... He only needs David alone.
So sooner or later, David will find that Louise has changed, becoming more and more like "Adele", and the familiar feeling will cover his body and mind again ... Then, everything is the same.
The root cause of all painful tragedies comes from one culprit: loneliness . It can be said that except for the relatively innocent David who is "passive" lonely, the three main characters of Rob, Adele, and Louise all took the initiative to move toward the abyss in the torment of loneliness.
Because of loneliness, Adele trusts Rob, the only friend besides David, unconditionally; because of loneliness, Rob will not hesitate to harm his friends and fall into deformed love; because of loneliness, Louise will unconsciously get involved in David. In the whirlpool of "Adele".
Of course, qualitatively speaking, Rob's behavior is the worst, which also illustrates the pathetic concomitant nature of "the poor must have something to hate" .
My biggest feeling is: Never, never trust an addict easily, no matter how bright he/she is.
In fact, my feelings when watching "Behind Her Eyes" are very lifelike, and another main realization is "to defeat loneliness." In this drama, I think the most regrettable thing is Louise. Her loneliness was originally not The fatal thing is not only that she has no psychological burden, but also that she has a sincere friend, Sophie.
From the very beginning, Louise shared her experience with Sophie. While having fun with her, Sophie did not forget to remind her to maintain a basic distance and precautions between people.
Even if Louise had already fallen asleep and married David, and even after becoming friends with the green woman "Adele", Sophie still did not mean to despise or boocious, but sincerely warned Louise You must get out as soon as possible.
In her opinion, Louise's confusion was largely caused by the sense of emptiness and loneliness that suddenly appeared after her son Adam went to France. People who are too lonely tend to do stupid things, and this often hurts herself.
It's a pity that Louise, who was not in a deep trap, did not choose to rely on Sophie, a well-known old friend, but continued to plunge into Rob's trap until she later personally ruined this precious friendship .
If Sophie was still with her in the last episode, maybe Louise wouldn't be caught in the trap, right?
So, please talk to your relatives and friends more, whether it’s life or the Internet, offline or online, although in this era, everyone is an island, but after all, people are social animals , so communicate and communicate more. It's always true... Please don't lose to loneliness .
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