Many people think that Bob is a tyrannical metamorphosis, so he can't restrain the bloody killing, but in my opinion, every time he kills is forced by helplessness. He killed his wife when she rebelled against his authority. Killed him when he was threatened by a neighbor for blackmail, and he killed her when a close friend might denounce him... His bloody killing was the result of his tragic life, and the shadow of his childhood continued to stimulate and destroy his soul .
In childhood, he was called by his father to witness his mother’s jumping from a building. When he talked about the time he spent with his mother, the word he used was "happy happy happy." It was a painful blow. When he used the term to describe his mother’s death, it would be "death of violence." It can be speculated that maybe Bob attributed his mother’s suicide to his father’s domestic violence, which can be understood as a follow-up between Bob and his father. One of the anti-project fuse.
Bob, who is in this indifferent and money-oriented family, met his true love, Kathy. It is certain that they had a good time at least. During this period, Bob is definitely the authority of the family, but after that, Casey He began to challenge and rebel against his authority, which made Bob who felt that no one appreciates and affirmed himself even more irritated. To a certain extent, what Bob killed was not the original Casey, but the rebellion after the pregnancy. His own Casey, this also explains why he always keeps the early photos of Casey and the photos of childhood and mother together with him, because in his impression, only those with early Casey and childhood Mother and them are the happiest being together, and he can only recall the past time from these photos on his later escape.
When he killed a close friend, he obviously felt that the close friend might be at risk of exposing himself, so he killed the close friend, but then sent a letter to the police department in a crisis to inform the police station where the body was, as if a familiar friend didn’t want to. Seeing that the corpse of a close friend was decayed without care, it further proved that he was forced to kill the close friend because of helplessness. If he was really cold-blooded, how could he risk being caught by sending a letter to the police, and in the end this letter even sent him personally. Went to jail.
From the perspective of Bob’s motives for killing close friends and neighbors, he is not a tyrannical cold-blooded killer, on the contrary, he is forced to survive by the crisis, but ordinary people find another way to deal with the crisis. To solve it, Bob chose an extremely extreme and self-deprecating way to solve it.
And all this can be seen from the circumstances of his life. The shadow of childhood caused deep pain to his psychology, and his father's indifference made him, who was already sensitive, even more troublesome. He began to resist his father's actions and may act wantonly. The apostasy has been in order to attract the attention of his father and prove his existence. In my opinion, his resistance in this indifferent family can be said to represent an extension of his mother's continued struggle. Tore through the family's social mask of silence and hypocrisy.
From his always childish "bye bye" at the end of the phone call and his bewilderment and forced sophistry when facing deadly evidence at the end, I particularly feel that he is still in the state of a 7-8 year old child. Perhaps it was his mother’s premature death that made him not fully mature and lost the way to deal with problems. This also explains why when neighbors and close friends may threaten his personal safety, when his wife threatens his authority When (this is also his psychological safety limit), the way he takes is to kill them, just like a child will subconsciously smash it when injured by a favorite toy, and the series of deviant things he did For example, children are naughty and mischievous in front of their parents in order to attract their parents' attention. It is a habit of children to lie, and it is easy for children to torture and kill small animals without the guidance of their parents in the early days. The incomplete education in childhood made him lose his sense of awe for life and his morality towards society. When he faced potential harm, he still handled the same way as when he was a child. Whoever threatened his safety would destroy whoever he was. His mind is still in a period of childish ignorance, so I think if Bob’s mother leaves when his personality and mind are fully mature, or how much his father accompanies him to educate him, his life will be completely different. traces of.
Bob may have some acting personality. I even think that stealing sandwiches in the supermarket is a cause of deep down in his heart. He wants to re-enter the public eye from the ordinary escape life. He is afraid of people’s forgetting. He is afraid of his father’s forgetting. He does everything possible. He wants to stand out and refresh his sense of existence, but his heart is also struggling and contradictory. On the one hand, he wants to escape the danger zone far away, and on the other hand, he wants to stand out. His life has been denied by the outside world. He wants the world to see what is inside. And the real self will still participate in the documentary recording under the repeated warnings of the lawyer, as if doing so proves that he has truly existed in this world.
Bob’s wealth is inexhaustible, but he seems to have nothing in his life except money. His second smart and capable wife is for his money, and his close friend and the son of a close friend are for his money. He His lawyer was for his money, and even the reporter he thought he was talking to was a trap waiting for him to be arrested... When the reporter exposed the criminal evidence in front of him, when he hovered in front of his brother's house but was expelled , I think the world treats Bob very cruelly. When his thin body, limply hovering in front of his office building, and the door guard does not know him at all, it seems that his back is particularly lonely and lonely. Besides leaving behind the notorious heir to the murderous demon, what else is left in this world? Perhaps only the white wedding dress Casey in the photo and the mother who brought herself to play by the swimming pool in her childhood are truly dedicated to themselves. He said that he did not want to have children because he felt that he would be the child’s calamity. This psychological suggestion was mostly from the influence of his childhood fathers. However, the irony is that he has escaped from his father’s control all his life, begging for his family’s bondage. But in the end he reproduced his father’s tyranny and became a man who was domestically violent and disregarded his life like his father. He did not get rid of the shackles of the family. Under his gentle and elegant appearance, he also hid a riddled with corrosion. heart.
Bob's life has always been treated unfairly and incomprehensibly. He is rich and poor. What is rich is the economy, and what is poor is the spiritual world. Just like the colonel in "Scent of a Woman" said, "The incompleteness of the soul No prostheses".
How could Bob’s sin be his own sin? Are those murdered innocent lives just Bob’s responsibility alone? If his mother did not abandon him prematurely, if his father did not always ignore and deny his existence, if the brothers The sister didn't stand by and watch when he was in trouble. If the trusted friend did not betray and threaten him...
There are not so many ifs, no snowflake is innocent in an avalanche.
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