In my opinion, it's not that the car accident escape is not the cause of the incident, but for ordinary people, it is obviously not resonant to explain the inability to sleep for a year purely for such reasons. It even seemed a little ridiculous.
From our own feelings, from the cases that happened around us, from the series of crimes we have read and seen. None of us quickly grasp why a person whose fault (rather than his own malice) has caused it would be caught in such a process of self-destruction.
Some people use the high moral standards of the protagonist's ego to explain such a disorder. But this statement is far-fetched in my opinion. This is just a kind of verbal rhetoric that "the hero's inner entanglement is difficult to understand".
Therefore, it is not wrong to satirize it as a "Public Law film" at all. Because of the emotions that it was supposed to brew, the emotions that it was supposed to foreshadow, it didn't do anything about it. On the contrary, films like "Black Swan" and "Fight Club" have successfully created a person's inner ups and downs, and they have a psychological trajectory that allows you to understand such emotional outbursts. And this film, obviously wants to ignore the process between the cause and the result, or is it that even the director can't grasp the process, so he simply put all his strength on the mysterious schizophrenia ?
On the other hand, what I think is superficial about the film is that it thinks that a major shock is bound to transform a person. A person's causal change is so clear, and a person's life trajectory is a kind of cause and effect. As superficial as people ask the cause of suicide, the reasons that seem to be the cause are the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Changes in people should be in the form of dispersion and re-dispersion, just like a glass of wine that will never be drunk to the end. Whenever it is almost finished, add some new wine. After a hundred years and a thousand years, this glass of wine still has its original ingredients. .
Director, you can try to simplify the reasons for explaining, but you can't perfunctory with a single reason.
Thinking about the cause and process of the protagonist's guilt reminds me of a surrender case in China: the murderer escaped for more than ten years, opened a company in another place, married his wife and gave birth to a daughter, and he seemed to be peaceful and stable. But he became more and more unhappy, because he couldn't face his daughter, and his happiness made him feel sleepless every day, so in order to face his daughter, in order to let her grow up under the shadow of a fugitive, he surrendered.
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