The film uses flashbacks to present unusual fragments of daily life. As the plot progresses, the male protagonist is also crazy due to doubts. When the madness reaches its peak, the male protagonist recalls his hit-and-run a year ago. The car accident, so all the doubts were explained - because of his own mistake, he hit the child crossing the road and escaped. This created my guilty sense of uncleanness so that the male lead would have the compulsion to wash his hands with bleach. Because I feel guilty, I project this feeling on the people around me, as if everyone around me is targeting me and hurting me. So there will be such a feeling or just my own imagination - when I am at work, I have been excluded by my co-workers. And would really think that the near-miss accident where the left hand was squeezed was deliberately murdered by someone, and a non-existent person would also be transformed into a person (schizophrenia). In the airport cafe, he also felt that everyone present was collaborating to kill him (delusions of persecution). At the same time, I imagine that the child fell to the ground not because he was hit, but because the child had an epileptic seizure when crossing the road - in this way, the male protagonist does not need to blame himself too much. It's too painful, so the actor still wonders what the "-er" on the refrigerator is? "mother", "miller"? When everything appeared from the subconscious to the conscious, he understood that it was actually a "killer". ROUTE666, the airport, and the red car that surprised the male protagonist or were often involved were all noticed by the male protagonist at the moment of the car accident, so he linked these with the car accident and his own symptoms.
I have little knowledge, so I can only write this. Everything is at work by the unspeakable secret of the mind. The movie still didn't explain two questions: 1. In the end, the male protagonist turned himself in. He made atonement for the sins he committed, but will those symptoms disappear? 2. Are all the illnesses of the male protagonist caused by the escape accident? Is it because the previous male protagonist had some characteristics or experience that made him dragged down by the accident.
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