Robert Durst witnessed his mother's death by jumping off a building in his childhood. Although the details are not too deep in the film, I believe this caused his split personality, and the devilish side of his personality was the main reason for his future murders. The convoluted plot makes the truth looming, and makes everyone happy to be a Sherlock Holmes: Durst and his close friend Susan join forces to kill his ex-wife, and then Susan threatens to reveal the truth because of her life embarrassment, which eventually leads to her own misfortune. . The neighbor's cause of death was straightforward as he discovered durst's true identity. On the other hand, durst's family covered up the truth for him while disinheriting him for the sake of the whole. When Robert thought it was all over, his carelessness caused the plot to reverse, just as he was arrested for stealing a sandwich with more than 30,000 dollars, maybe the other side of his subconscious told him To surrender, to make atonement.
In fact, it is not important to explore the truth, what is important is the thinking that the whole incident brings to us. As a person who grew up with a golden key, what exactly ruined his life? It's more money than his father. The protagonist's Simpson-like miraculous relief in the trial of the murder and dismemberment case can't help but make us sigh the power of money, and it also makes us hate the injustice that money brings to this society. But money is like two sides of a coin, and if you only see one side, you will pay for it. Just like Robert's life, if he was born into a relatively mediocre family, he would not be rich and rich, and of course he would not have experienced such ups and downs in his life. Some people may choose the latter because of the so-called wonderful, but when you face all this alone, especially the victim, can your soul really stand the torture? This is actually what I most want the interviewer to ask the protagonist, because I want to know if Robert will show even a little bit of regret and unease. The confession at the end of the movie can be regarded as an answer for me.
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