movie "Goodnight Mommy" (Ich seh, Ich seh 2014) wants to express, different viewers will have different opinions, but one thing is certain. That is to say, the film is a tragedy, and the main reason for the tragedy is: the little boy Ilias has a serious psychological problem, but it has not attracted enough attention from his mother from beginning to end.
The "film introduction" on the Internet may be misleading because it says that the film is a story of a pair of twin brothers looking for their mother. In fact, the twin brother of Ulysses, Lucas, did not exist from beginning to end. He was confessed to drowning from the beginning. It was this unfortunate incident that caused Ulysses to have serious psychological problems: he always believed that Lucas still had a serious psychological problem. Alive, still playing with him, talking with him, living with him. In addition, the translation of subtitles is also misleading, because the movie always shows the brothers acting together, so in the process of translating the subtitles, (I guess) the translator mixed "you" and "you". For example, if Ilias went home from play, his mother should say "You can count back", but the translator, like Ulyss, listened to this sentence as "You can count back" (if we translate from English) It is very difficult to identify this problem, because "you" and "you" in English are the same word. Of course, our translators may also deliberately do it to increase the interest of the movie), which misleads the audience and thinks Lucas Still alive.
Precisely because the twin brothers are inseparable playmates, the mental shock to the other is conceivable when one leaves suddenly. Ilias’s psychological trauma did not get his mother’s attention because his mother was also suffering from the loss of her child. In addition, she was divorced again at this time, and her mood should be extremely depressed. Therefore, she still "played" carefreely. Ulysses would not have a good attitude; however, this was not enough to cause Ulys’s hatred, but at this time his mother had plastic surgery, which made Ulyss, who had psychological problems, mistakenly thought This man is not his real mother, and the tragedy just developed.
The hatred of Ulysses against his mother is gradually developing. Ilias has never forgotten his twin brothers, hoping that his mother will prepare two things for them as before, but his mother has not taken into consideration his psychological needs. For example, when he went home after playing, his mother only gave him a drink, and he said that Lucas also needed a drink; his mother only prepared dinner for him, and he protested; he played a guessing game with his mother and ignored Lucas's "existence". Very disappointed, and the mother couldn't guess what he wrote on the piece of paper, because she thought she had only one child, so the reminder of "you have two children" couldn't make her understand what Ilias wanted. Ilias always "talked" to his twin brother, which should have attracted the attention of his mother, but was rudely asked not to do so; when he asked his mother to prove his identity, his mother even forced him Saying "you are my mother" many times, as well as the conflict between the mother and the son because of the wild cats, the mother locked him in the house, he called the priest to the police, etc., all intensified Ulys's hatred. The root cause of the hatred is that he has always been thinking about problems from Lucas’ perspective, so there is always Lucas around him who is "directing" him how to do it. This seems to be the focus of schizophrenia, but his mother has not yet. Take any measures to deal with the child’s psychological problems. Although she will cry after being rough to the child, and depressed mood is also a reason to be excusable, but these children cannot understand, the child can only be immersed in the child’s world, so until the mother and child When the confrontation reached an uncontrollable level, even if the mother understood the reason, she tried to appease Ulias, saying that Lucas's death was not his fault, but it didn't help. When the candle ignited the tent in the house, hatred finally swallowed everything, and the three mothers and children could only smile and watch what happened here in heaven. (Text/Slate Planting Flowers July 23, 2015)
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