Go home. Forget this thing. I can recognize an obsession, no good will come of it.
Why, haven't good come of your obsessions?
Well, at first. But I followed them too long. I'm their slave... and one day they'll choose to destroy me.
If you understand an obsession, then you know you won't change my mind.
Cutter: Obsession is a young man's game
The Prestige (Christopher Nolan, 2006)
What about you guys, what's your motivation for watching Mindhunter?
Many people may have watched the show with David Fincher's name on it.
When we are no longer unfamiliar with the term criminal psychology, Mindhunter takes us back to the United States in the 1970s to witness the epoch-making significance of psychology in the analysis of criminal behavior.
"Means, motives, and timing" have always constituted the three elements in criminal investigation, but the horrific and inhumane murders are puzzling. Is it a case, is it madness, or is there another reason.
The natural curiosity and desire to control always make people feel uneasy about the unknown and incomprehensible.
Mindhunting of Holden
[Empathy] x [Agent]
"I can feel his pain, his struggles," Holden said after watching a film about gay relationships with his girlfriend. This kind of empathy is also one of the driving forces for him to understand the psychology of criminals. When the motives of the crime became vague and the criminal behavior exceeded the cognitive scope of the time, a simple and crude but prevailing view was that these criminals were born demons. However, the conversation with Ed sparked Holden's intense interest, even fascination, and he believed he would unveil a whole new world for the world. Senior Bill warns him that Ed knows too well what his audience needs to hear, and don't be fooled by his eloquence. When the cops express disdain and contempt for the idea of interviewing ruthless and ruthless criminals, Holden desperately and clumsily tries to convince them, and Bill helps to smooth things out by saying, "How do we get ahead of crazy, if we don't know how crazy thinks?" quite literally means "learning from the barbarians to master the barbarians".
What is empathy. Isn't empathy the premise for us to let go of our stereotypes, let go of our positions, and create space for dialogue and understanding. As Wendy said, if she didn't have the slightest sympathy for the criminals, how could she go about her job.
[Sex] x [Work]
Have you ever imagined that the most normal foreplay today was considered a forbidden place forty or fifty years ago. There is no doubt that in the beginning, the female protagonist is more proficient in sexual experience and sexual skills than the male protagonist. He pressed his girlfriend to ask how many boyfriends she had before. He is both jealous and inferior, afraid of not being able to satisfy his girlfriend. He asked her what she liked about him. In fact, it was because of his inner insecurities that he felt that he could not control the beautiful and intelligent young woman in front of him. And as he gradually visits the psychology of criminals and gets better at work, men's self-confidence is also gradually expanding. The balance of a relationship shifts quietly with the plot, which is the show's most subtly synchronized innuendo.
And this kind of conflation of work and life is itself an extremely dangerous thing. There is no exit for respite. The sadness of being enslaved by one thing is also looming in this play. When his girlfriend asked Holden what he would choose to wear outside of work, he said it was also a shirt and trousers. It's so sad that his girlfriend laughed at him. We are what we are obsessed with. If you don't know how to detach, you are going to let it drown you.
But Holden's motives gradually lost focus in the vortex. When they got a call from the police that another old woman had been attacked in town, Holden was very excited, and repeatedly told Bill that their conjecture about the serial crime was correct, and Bill's questioning was like a flat lightning strike. In Holden's "What's the matter with you? An old lady just died", curiosity, knowledge, and prying also made him satisfied by testing his reasoning again and again, and it also made him gradually blur the bottom line and regard criminal reasoning as a game. Become unscrupulous to obtain information. In the beginning he and the interviewee were supposed to be equals, neither friend nor subordinate, but he did not follow this rule. Because he desperately wants to enter their world, he needs their approval, and the quickest shortcut is undoubtedly to be their friend. However, when his desire to seek is fed, he throws the random aside and stands by at all times. He also applies the techniques of psychological mastery to the relationship between the sexes—from passive to dominant, from ignorant to knowledgeable. From the beginning of being fascinated by her, to just wanting to worship her, quietly absorbing the knowledge of her girlfriend, to gradually overriding her.
Not only did he enter a new world at work, but he also embarked on a whole new journey in personal relationships.
Of course, we don't want to tease dangerous people in real life, so we all seek pleasure in movies.
Just, isn't the pleasure of entertainment just a little respite from a troubled life :)
postscript:
Probably the show I watched last year. After completing the above text, I always think about adding something. Who knows that it takes half a year to delay, and what I wanted to write at the beginning has long been forgotten.
Whatever, so be it.
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