reverse rationalization

Chris 2022-04-22 07:01:02

It's been a long time since I've been played around by the director, and I've been blinded by the smoke bombs the director put out from the beginning to the end, but I can't see the truth from the perspective of God.

The opening episode was amazing enough. The aura and oppression of the fake police almost overflowed across the screen. A group of little kids were frightened for a while, including me. When I thought the plot was ready When I started investigating the kidnappers, the camera turned, and the people who transformed themselves looked like middle-aged and elderly people. They had their own families and were busy with their own lives, which had nothing to do with the previous plot. Look what medicine is sold in this gourd.

When their backgrounds are almost explained, Dave is still the first to "make his debut", returning home with wounds and a panic-stricken look on his face, telling about the thrilling encounter tonight, encountering a robbery, and missing in the resistance. Killing people, and the wife who was watching all this did not act justly and dignifiedly, but hugged her husband to comfort him, preventing the spread of the matter, as if nothing had happened, until the death of Jimmy's daughter, all the signs seemed to be the same. Dave is concerned, but his wife still chooses to hide it. After all, this is love. Until this love couldn't bear the pressure from Dave, and slowly sensibility turned into rationality. In all that happened, everyone's acting skills showed a natural and real state, sad Jimmy, dedicated Sean, panic Dave, and the excellent acting skills of many supporting roles, let me follow the plot of each character and the narration of each scene They are also immersed in it.

This also led to the confusing and confusing direction of the plot, which has always tempted the audience to want to see the final result. When Jimmy received the clues brought to him by the outside world about Dave's murder of Jimmy's daughter, when Sean made a breakthrough in the investigation of the case, When these two happen at the same time, a bigger tragedy quietly unfolds, and the scenes of constantly switching between the two plots make me still expect Jimmy to keep his promise and show mercy, but it turns out that when emotions take over the mind, there is always going to be crazy. The act, after all, is love. Jimmy, who learned that he killed the wrong person, felt a little guilty and blamed himself, but Jimmy's wife, who also learned about all this, did not choose to kill her relatives righteously. She still chose to tolerate, comfort, and understand, so that her husband could accept her fault with peace of mind, because she told her emotionally, Love made her unable to live without her husband, and she did everything she could to keep the people she cared about.

When judging right and wrong, if sensibility overcomes rationality, it will behave like the characters in the play, extreme, selfish, and recklessly hurt others, and then use various reasons to try to convince yourself that you are right and rationalize your faults in reverse. behavior. Love is favoring, but not covering up. Anger is an emotion, but it is not the reason for losing control. Only by recognizing one's own mistakes, admitting one's faults, and correcting one's own problems can sensibility play its proper role.

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Mystic River quotes

  • Sean Devine: Do you remember the man's name?

    Liquor Store Owner: Do I look senile to you?

  • [thinking about Katie after her death]

    Jimmy Markum: I know in my soul I contributed to your death.