I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish I wish he'd go away
the question is whether to convict the body or the
mind Treatment is useful. As said before,
there , only the integration of personalities. But the process of integration is actually a
process , and the outcome is beyond the doctor's control.
The film uses newspaper clippings to pave the way for a lot at the beginning. The Motel is where boys are abandoned and abused, and
the beginning of change for Rivers. So, the integration of personality is done in the fantasy Motel.
The fugitive 's return to the Motel after fleeing during the period implies that neither personality can escape until integration is complete.
The doctor's treatment of Rivers made him make all his personalities face each other and kill
each , and the last remaining is the original personality that is closer to the original. Ed is the most standard differentiated personality formed by Rivers in the process of
socialization , but in the process of integration, he died saving Paris.
Paris is the personality who went out after the initial integration. In fact, it also represents Rivers' mother. Ed rescued
Paris. It is Rivers' love for her mother, and it is also the attitude that social norms require children to treat their parents. But Timmy
represents the real Rivers. In the end, Timmy killed the other remaining personality, which is to represent his mother.
Pro-Paris, on the contrary, proves that what his mother did to Rivers has never been forgiven him.
Rivers discarded the various personalities that had evolved due to external influences in the integration process, and
finally chose the final personality Timmy who was most loyal to his feelings and thoughts. That last line "don't get
a second chance" wasn't just what Timmy said to Paris, it was what Rivers said to himself.
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