Today I watched the most anticipated film "Split" in the Shanghai Film Festival. This film was filmed in 2015. After three years, I finally had the opportunity to watch it in the cinema. I have to sigh, if my cultural food comes from abroad, it must be lagging behind, just like the recent exhibition by the Fondation Cartier in the Museum of Contemporary Art, which was praised by the public. On the other hand, I feel that I have broadened my horizons because of the art exhibition that was chewed up before (and also added a topic of ranting for me, I personally don’t like group exhibitions very much).
Movies with multiple personality disorder as the theme are not new to me. I have seen the same theme thriller crime movie "Deadly ID" when I was a child, but the drama of the theme itself is still very interesting to me, In addition, the actor is the actor James McAvoy (James McAvoy) that I have been following. He will play different personalities in the movie, including female personalities, children's personalities, leaders' personalities, etc. The long-awaited sitting in the cinema. The viewing process was relatively pleasant, and two hours passed quickly. Compared with my experience with other films at the Shanghai Film Festival, this is a rare experience. After all, some literary films are really "difficult to swallow". "Split" is directed by experienced director M. Knight Shyamalan. It is a solid commercial film with a very clean rhythm. When I went to watch the film alone, I was already prepared to hug myself in the horror, but the film The atmosphere or the actors' performances did not frighten me, but brought me unexpected feelings.
The male protagonist was persecuted by domestic violence since he was a child, so he split many personalities in his head to protect himself. The twenty-three personalities seemed to be sitting on chairs in a dark room, waiting for the spotlight to shine on him, so he "played on stage" , When a person comes to power, other people can't have the memory of this person, and the twenty-fourth personality who only appeared at the end of the movie is a "superman" personality with invulnerability and the ability to jump over walls. The movie did not show each personality for us one by one. When the three girls were imprisoned, the male protagonist began to appear with different personalities. Among them, there were mainly six personalities. They were complete and independent, which meant that each personality was not ours. What is imagined has a crazy outward appearance. For example, Dennis, the character who carried out the kidnapping, is a clean-minded, rigorous and prudent person, wearing a dark gray shirt, buttoned to the top, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, a middle-class male feeling. And when the female personality comes on stage, she wears a burgundy cashmere sweater and delicate black high-heeled shoes, her tone and demeanor have a maternal gentle aura. When the talented fashion designer personality Barry appeared, there was a sense of fashionable spirit who was very confident in his own design works, and his demeanor showed his understanding of fashion and design. What I want to talk about most is James' performance of the nine-year-old personality Hegway, who appears sitting with her legs crossed at the door of the room where the girls are imprisoned, wearing a yellow blazer and speaking with a big tongue, according to the sea Gu Wei's statement, he stole the time of other characters, he kept talking, He tilted his head and looked at them with a smile. At this time, his smile was simple and pure. When Hagway talks to the kidnapped heroine, a nine-year-old who quickly believes that the heroine likes her and shows her her dancing talent, the heroine looks horrified in order to gain his trust He complimented him, and Hagway had that exaggerated, uncontrollable happy smile that only a child would have, and that smile was morbid when it came from an adult face. This feeling evoked my existing memory. The son of my father's friend unfortunately contracted encephalitis while studying in the United States. This disease has only a 1% survival rate, and a person's IQ will drop to the level of a child. He was rescued from the brink of death, and although he could not be completely cured, fortunately his IQ was not deprived. During the brief time with him, I was very impressed by his uncontrollable facial expression when he laughed. Today, watching James' delicate expression of Hegway made me very confused. At a certain moment, it seemed that a real person who was really sick appeared on his face. I recalled the first time my nephew ate a popsicle when he was four or five years old. After he was suddenly frozen by ice cubes, his expression was very exaggerated. This kind of exaggerated facial expression is very natural for children, but if it continues to appear in Adults can be very weird, and that's what the movie does, and I can't help but sigh.
The script of "Split" was originally written by the director, but it refers to the story of the real twenty-four-person criminal Billy, whose story is described in detail in the non-fiction literature "Twenty-Four Billy", and his story inspired Many movies with the same theme were produced. Movies such as "Fight Club", "Deadly ID" and "Shutter Island" were directly inspired by him. It is said that the movie "Crowded Room" adapted from "Twenty-Four Billy" will be composed Leonardo starred. I haven't read the original book, so I can't compare the movie to the real story. But what I do know is that people with multiple personality disorder in both the movies and the real stories have had very tragic childhoods, including brutal sexual assault and domestic violence, if Billy's multiple personalities weren't something he made up to exonerate himself Lies, in a way, it is this split that prevents him from self-destruction, and begins to show special talents in each personality, and exerts his greatest potential at a certain zero point, and their spirit is highly concentrated. The power can surpass the limit of ordinary people's ability. Like the twenty-fourth character in the movie's climactic scene, he yells, "The broken are the more eloved, Rejoice!!" Pain is evolutionary, and I can't know and don't want to know how dark Billy's childhood was. Days, I know it makes the real Billy live in pain all his life. In the movie "Split", in the end, it seems that he is worshiping "pain". The twenty-fourth personality killed two girls and his psychiatrist, but stopped when he saw the wounded scar on the heroine. It turns out that the heroine is also the one who was violated, and the twenty-fourth personality wants to hurt those who have not been violated before, those who do not know what pain is. From the perspective of social ethics, at the end of the story, criminals with twenty-four personalities have not been arrested and brought to justice, as if to convey the message with certainty that those who have been deeply hurt will eventually devour the society.
The setting of twenty-four personalities can bring drama to a high position, which also sets the tone of the film, but there are also comments abroad that if all other characters are removed, the one-man show will have more room for performance. It's not hard to imagine how the twenty-four personalities will behave in a closed space. In this way, another movie with the same theme, "Crowded Room", which has not yet been released, is very worth looking forward to. Normal people cannot understand multiple personality disorder. Perhaps the best analogy is a devil and an angel in everyone's heart, but the struggle between the devil and the angel still comes from the same will, and multiple personalities are different in each personality. It is independent, that is to say, different wills occupy the same body. What I'm thinking about is that some lies are self-protection that comes out of the mouth. Is it possible that the twenty-four personality is just a kind of self-brainwashing formed by the suspect under the shadow of a high-pressure childhood. Details in "Twenty-Four Billy" may be able to bring me one step closer to the truth. My purpose is not to discuss the disease of multiple personalities. What I want to discuss is what kind of state people are in after being cornered. Of course, the case in the movie is too extreme. Yao Ming once expressed an idea that athletes It is a type of person who is constantly testing the limit. Today's limit has reached this step, and what step will the limit reach tomorrow? Curry is showing us the limit of shooting from beyond the three-point line. Cristiano Ronaldo recently showed us the stability of his feet in the World Cup in Russia. The ability they showed today, how many points are talent, how many Are points the day-to-day pain of training? Or maybe we can't feel arrogant in the face of even the greatest human potential. Like Frankenstein in Frankenstein, delusions of being gods can lead us to destruction.
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