Hitchcock is a big fat man who believes in Freud. In his movies, you can often find various superficially extracted Freud's psychoanalytic theories, and Yan Thief is no exception. There should have been a lot of discussions about the relationship between Mani and Mark. What I want to talk about is the relationship between Mani and his mother.
Many people attribute Mani's theft to a habit formed due to psychological obstacles, except for this, Mani's starting point should still be related to money. Mani has never had a father, and his mother must have been forced to become a prostitute because of her livelihood, which led to the tragic events that affected Mani's life. Therefore, money must have a heavy weight in Mani's life. She needs money to make her mother live well. In addition to love for her mother, Mani should have an unexplainable dependence after the tragedy. She wants to gain her mother's approval or love, just like she did when she was a child.
But the mother's feelings for Mani are chaotic and complicated. She is rigid and cold towards her, far inferior to the little girl who takes care of her. The incident that happened in Mani's childhood not only caused irreversible damage to Mani, it should also have brought a huge psychological haze to his mother. On the one hand, she has deep love for Mani, on the other hand, she has feelings of hatred and resentment. Without Mani, there would be no murder that night. Even if it weren't for raising Mani, she wouldn't be reduced to a prostitute. Mani reminded her of her unbearable past. This is why many emperors always kill those heroes who have shared their own tribulations first after ascending to the throne. Because they always reminded themselves of their disgraceful past, the methods used in order to get to this position, the people who had been killed. Mani uses selective amnesia to avoid injury, while his mother uses indifferent Mani to transfer love to ease the pain in his heart.
Hitchcock's movies always give me a special feeling, with a strong metallic taste. The story is steep, the plot twists and turns are almost sharp, and the logic seems to be rigorous, but the story is too square and calm, and it always feels as if there is something separated and unpopular, you know it will not happen in real life. Only when I get to Mani, I feel a little close, and maybe this is one reason why I can't help but like it.
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