The Oxford Killer tells the story of a series of murders that took place at Oxford University. Professor S and student M teamed up to try to find the real murderer with numbers and logic.
The story is not cliché, and the plot is not exciting. Ignore it for the time being. As for those logic and number theory, they are not in the scope of discussion. Let's play Character Profile.
Regarding student M,
I firmly believe that this baby has been entangled in the Oedipus complex (or the triangular relationship complex) from the beginning, and finally through the settlement of the case and then the successful "father-killing", which solved the problem of entering the same sex during the sexual bud stage. The crux of the period left, isn't this what this film is about?
In the budding period, boys are interested in opposite-sex mothers and reject same-sex fathers, forming an Oedipus complex in a triangular relationship, to slowly turning to their fathers, learning from him how to be a man, and entering the same-sex period, thus achieving perfection. Solve the Oedipus complex.
Student M's admiration, following, pleasing, and desire to be accepted by Professor S reflect his desire to be close to his father and to be close to patriarchy.
The disputes, denials and ridicule that occurred during the period also showed M's rejection and revenge on the same-sex father.
A passage in the play, based on psychological assumptions about criminals, says:
"Criminals are in a sense a mixture of desires for revenge"
"And a much stronger desire to belong to your world, S, he wants you to accept him, he's trying to please you like he's just starting to fall in love"
"Psychologists think criminals are lonely, repressed homosexuals"
You see, with the same sympathy for Professor S It is no wonder that M, who yearns and rejects the complex, is classified as a "suspect".
However, if for some reason, the boy in the sexual bud stage cannot successfully complete the development of "heart" to "sex", leaving unresolved crux, then after he grows up, he will still linger in the triangular relationship consciously or unintentionally. Among them, they often date married older women, or suspect that their spouse has another lover.
Therefore, it is because of the setbacks encountered by Student M when he entered the same-sex period that the development of "heart" to "sex" was stagnant and unable to mature.
On the one hand, student M is very afraid of maintaining a kind of close relationship with the opposite sex for a long time, and on the other hand, he has an instinctive desire.
Of course M is not afraid of having sex, but sex alone is not enough to resonate with suppressed desires, and Libido is bound to go against the flow.
Therefore, a substitute role for mother is needed at this time. Student M's older girlfriend, Miss L, who was a nurse who taught S's secret lover, has not only become a symbol of M's subconscious fantasy through "transformation", but also a symbol of M's Ambition wish fulfillment.
After reviewing it, student M ruled out the importance of romance and chose a heroic adventure, in order to win Miss L's favor and defeat his rival, Professor S, his "father".
Although Miss L or others misunderstood M's ambiguous feelings for Professor S, and even parted ways at the airport, this is nothing but a conscious defensive tactic of student M's confrontation with desire, rational self-restraint.
Hehe~ the evidence of what I said, you see, when M finally took out the blank answer sheet that Professor S gave him, he clearly knew that what he was expecting had appeared, and he grabbed it without hesitation, At this time, the existence or not of Nurse L has become irrelevant to him.
If M was just ambiguous with a longing for intimacy, he could have taken the paper folded into a triangle as the answer given by Professor S, but he did not, mixed with the pleasure of revenge, he abandoned his defense.
So, no matter how ambiguous, in the end, Oedipus, all he wants is victory—the outcome of this "father murder".
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