Everyone can have ghosts in their hearts

Erica 2022-01-24 08:02:57

Two police officers hunted down a Southeast Asian man who stole a manhole cover and chased them to a forest. Police officer Wang Guozhu disappeared with a gun. Another police officer Gao Zhiwei returned safely. Since then, many armed robberies have been related to Wang Guozhu's gun. The police in charge of investigating this case did not have the slightest clue. Later, the case was handed over to the crime team inspector He Jia'an for investigation. He still had nothing to gain. He decided to ask the retired former detective Chen Guibin for assistance. Chen Guibin was a detective before, and he can solve all kinds of strange cases. Years ago, because he cut off one of his ears and gave it to the retired boss, he used to do something abnormal. Was deemed to be mentally ill.

Chen Guibin talks with his wife, and in the eyes of others, this wife does not exist at all. Chen Guibin said that he could see the ghosts in people's hearts. When he was monitoring the police officer Gao Zhiwei, who returned safely, he saw Gao Zhiwei’s heart ghost at first sight. Gao Zhiwei’s heart is very complicated. There are seven heart ghosts. The idea is waiting, and he believes that Wang Guozhu's disappearance was caused by Gao Zhiwei.

Under Chen Guibin's weird and magical method of solving the case, he restored the truth in the forest that day: Gao Zhiwei and the Southeast Asians stole the gun in a fight, and his partner Wang Guozhu insisted on informing the boss to be responsible for finding the gun. Gao Zhiwei feared that this would hinder his promotion, so he killed Wang Guozhu, and caused him to be killed by Southeast Asians, and Southeast Asians used his gun to rob him. And he will secretly continue to track down Southeast Asians, and then try to kill them. He Jiaan followed Chen Guibin's words to pursue Gao Zhiwei, but was misled by Gao Zhiwei's clever means, and began to question Chen Guibin's talent for solving crimes, so that at the last critical moment he even shot and killed Chen. Gao Zhiwei's true form was revealed at this time, and Chen Guibin also killed Gao Zhiwei before he died.

The basic framework of the story is like this. Let’s focus on the inner ghosts of the main characters in the movie, that is, the dark side of their multiple personalities:

This includes Chen Guibin, who can see through the “ghosts” of others, and the “ghosts” in his heart are His wife, I guess his wife divorced because of his abnormal behavior, so Chen Guibin has a kind of "ghost" in his heart who lives happily with his wife-a gentle and virtuous person who never wants his husband to be Hurting ghost (He Jiaan asked Chen to help solve the case and was obstructed by his wife in his heart, Chen wanted to ride a motorcycle and his wife was afraid of him being injured, etc.).
When Chen Guibin met his real wife in life, she hallucinated (became Chen Huishan's role) of his wife (which was supposed to be the role played by Lin Xilei), which was actually another "ghost" in his heart. When he faced his wife, his wife became a stranger, even Chen Guibin did not know him. And the wife in his heart prevents him from contacting his real wife in every possible way, which is also his inner ideological struggle. There is a description in the movie here-the wife in my heart said: He (Chen) was killed by her (real wife). Chen retorted: Stop talking, she (real wife) can't see you (wife in heart) at all. Then my wife said take care and disappeared. ——What is shown here is that Chen Guibin has eliminated his own ghosts and relieved many years of psychological baggage.
In reality, his wife has no feelings for Chen Guibin. She is a senior inspector of New Territories South. He and Chen Guibin only met to solve the case. I hope Chen can use his talent to help her solve the case. In fact, his wife's feelings for him have been like this for many years, and it is precisely this that created Chen's fictional image of a perfect wife in his inner world. (The above is my explanation of Chen Guibin’s psychological wife; a netizen raised a question, let me post it together: The ghost in Chen Guibin’s heart is not his wife. What is the ghost of the heart? The ghost of the heart is the bad thing in the human heart, this One point, what the film says is very clear. Is his wife the bad thing in his heart? Of course not. The Lin Xilei next to him is his imaginary wife, not a ghost. This illusion stems from his deep understanding of his former wife. Love. Heart ghosts dominate people's actions. Heart ghosts can be understood as a number of basic elements after the dark side of human nature is broken down. The combined effect of these elements determines human behavior. At the end of the film, Chen Guibin points a gun to Gao Zhiwei's head. , He said to himself: "Put down the gun, you are the same as other people when you shoot." Then he replied to himself: "I am also a human, why should I be different?" Then he shot. This is his ghost. )
I still feel that what he said is wrong. Chen Guibin’s wife is a "heart ghost", which represents Chen’s "guilt" towards his wife, and the "guilt" that protects Chen everywhere is actually Chen used his wife’s illusion that he did not leave her. Therefore, the image of a perfect wife emerged in Chen Ziqi's ideal world. It was still the "bad thing in the heart", so he eliminated the ghost of "guilt" after talking to his real wife. This is actually what I want to tell the audience: "heart ghosts" can be eliminated.


Gao Zhiwei's "ghosts": There are seven in total. These seven are not fully explained. In the movie, only three or four are explained. It is said that there are seven in total. They are just high-performing guys who are very scheming. The woman in the ghost is a ideological struggle, and the weird hairstyle is specifically for ruthless tricks-that is, "cruel/impulsive" (impulsive is the devil), and sometimes it is necessary to let "scheming" to stop it. There is also a greedy coward who is "weak". He is scared to do some bad things, and he also "makes suggestions" to help fan the flames. These "ghosts" are often dispatched together, which builds up Gao Zhiwei's complex psychology and greatly increases the difficulty of the police in solving this case.
In fact, Gao Zhiwei also has an eighth "ghost"-the "7 ghosts" before Gao Zhiwei are not the real Gao Zhiwei's inner world, those are his dark side. In the movie, Chen Guibin uses his talent to meet Gao Zhiwei who is looking for a gun in the forest at night. This is his high authentic self. It was in the forest that he shot and killed his partner Wang Guozhu, where he lost his soul. So Gao Zhiwei was lost in the forest in his own face and could not get out of the forest. He
lost himself under the sins of his conscience, so he could never get out of that forest.

He Jiaan's "Ghost": He Jiaan was like Chen Guibin's old retired boss, and he had no ghosts in his heart. However, as the case was repeatedly confused, He Jiaan produced a "cowardly child" in his heart, and he paid tribute to Chen Guibin's talent for solving crimes. This cowardly and nervous "ghost" made He Jiaan repeatedly want to withdraw from the case.
In the last fight, he used the shaken "heart ghost" in his heart to kill Chen Guibin. All the people died in the gun battle. Before Chen Guibin saw He Jiaan had another "girl ghost who gave advice" before he died, this heart ghost finally gave instructions on why he should fabricate facts in order not to be arrested and not to affect his girlfriend. Perhaps in the future, He Jiaan will be like Gao Zhiwei, and there will be more and more "heart ghosts"!

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Mad Detective quotes

  • Inspector Bun: [Bun talks to himself] If you shoot, you will be no different from everyone else.

    Inspector Bun: [on second thought] I am human too. Why should I be any different?

    [Bun pulls the trigger]

  • Inspector Bun: Apply emotions to investigate!