Self-healing by a strong person-non-horror

Eliezer 2022-01-05 08:01:13

Many people saw it as a horror movie, and the result was disappointed, so it was negative.
In fact, this is a very high-level psychological film. The hero has experienced a nightmare past, showing his self-recovery and self-rescue process. Warm home, his beautiful wife and children never left in his heart.
In this process of self-healing, it is his beloved wife and daughter who accompany him. This is his inner subjective desire, but as a living person, the injury he has suffered made him forget who he is, and it is a scapegoat. Self, his transformation into someone else, selective amnesia, and the incarnation of another person are psychologically a manifestation of the activation of the self-protection mechanism. In his mind, he still lives with his wife and daughter, which is part of him; and the disturbance from the outside world is that the strange things and the performance of the police make him doubt and prompt him to find the truth. When he finds the truth little by little, he Begins to walk on the road to recovery. In the last fight, the murderer (neighbor male protagonist) still has to complete the assassination that was not completed five years ago, namely his own wife, and is trying to plant Ward who was released from the mental hospital. , Because he has a background in killing wives and children and insane. In the film, it is seen that Ward, who was stunned, was awakened by his ghost wife. It is not so much his fantasy as his desire to save all of this, instead of waiting for death like five years ago, so Must wake up from a coma (nightmare).
There is also an interesting detail in this. When Ward gradually learned the truth from the police and the mental hospital, his daughter began to have a fever, and blood began to ooze from the shot. This is a manifestation of his self-consciousness starting to face reality. He told his wife: You are dead. In fact, I am telling my inner self: my wife is dead.
The warmth and love in the film are his neighbor woman and her daughter. They were good friends once. Chloe, the daughter of this neighbor woman, should be as old as his pair of girls, but his The daughter died five years ago, and they were fixed at that age in their hearts. Chloe asked kindly: Are they still that old? And let him convey his miss. From this perspective, Chloe understands Ward and expects from the heart that he can communicate with them. If it were ordinary people, they would say: You are crazy, they are already dead.
Ward's vitality is very strong. Although the catastrophe made him stay in a mental hospital for five years, he eventually healed himself and found that the ultimate culprit was his neighbor, the male protagonist. This process is also the process of finishing his book.
The commercial society commercializes everything. Without eye-catching names and some gruesome exaggerations, how can anyone look at it? In fact, this is really a good film.

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  • Antwan 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    I'm embarrassed to say this is Sheridan's work! Whoever goes to the cinema to watch is really stupid! This way, the ending can be guessed when the story is halfway through. Playing with schizophrenia and the imaginary persecution of the innocent protagonist, the old routine is so worn that even the ending song is very unpleasant.

  • Nikki 2022-04-24 07:01:16

    The subject matter is too old to be old, the narrative has no fluency at all, and it is not as good as the movie ten years ago.

Dream House quotes

  • Chloe Patterson: Mom says you see them.

    Will Atenton: Yeah.

    Chloe Patterson: Could you tell them how much I miss them?

    Will Atenton: Yeah.

  • Libby: There is something wrong with this house.

    Will Atenton: No, Libby, there isn't. Look, we'll do whatever it takes, okay ? We'll hire a priest.

    Libby: [chuckles] Hire a priest ? Where do you do that ?

    Will Atenton: Well, like... oh, a witch doctor, whatever... I don't know. We'll fengshui the place. It's our house. Hmm ? There's joy in this house. There's real joy in this house. You're in it, so...