Human instinct is love, and love only happens to the right people, even in an instant. When Nick first met Catherine, he was instinctively attracted and could not extricate himself, and Catherine was also, and her interest in him was naturally instinctive, but because of her hatred of slutty men, killing became a Her conditioned reflex, at first her purpose was to kill Nick. This also implies a truth from a certain side: those who blaspheme love will be punished, and sex without love is a bloody ice pick.
In fact, although some suspense is designed in the plot, in fact, the real murderer has always been on the table, that is, the fascinating Catherine, who also symbolizes sex without love. Apparently Nick was not just for sex, not just for solving crimes, or careers for Katherine. He fell in love with Catherine, and he expressed his desire to live happily with her more than once. Although, in this regard, his expression was only naked sexuality, but it did reflect the consciousness deep in his heart, that is, a happy life with Catherine. In the end, the reason why Catherine stopped and put down the ice pick in her hand was because at that moment she found out that she fell in love with this man, and she also clearly realized that this man loved her. It is at that moment that sex is born with love, and sex is no longer the murderer. However, the icy icicle remained by the pillow, the story of the heroine and the heroine will continue, and every audience is always warned that when love is desecrated again, the brutal killing will continue.
Death is a punishment, more symbolic of punishment, in real life, this punishment is not limited to death. There are five people who died in this film, which are also the five morals of the film:
the death of the rock singer in the opening, directly to the theme of the film, that is, those who blaspheme love will be brutally punished.
Gay Losey, she likes to watch Katherine have sex with other people, but why can't she just watch Nick and Katherine have sex? It was because her intuition told her that Nick's presence posed a huge threat to her feelings, resulting in jealousy. Jealousy is a knife, and the final result is either harm to others or self-harm. At the same time, his death is a metaphor for preventing love and being punished.
Inspector Nelson's death is also about love. He died on the night of Nick and Beth's heated argument over the fact that he forced Beth to reveal the psychological file. At this point, it can be seen that Beth is the most hurt by the leakage of the psychological files, because she loves Nick deeply. She thinks that Nelson leaked the psychological files and made Nick go crazy, thus causing such a big difference between her and Nick. The conflict is the direct cause of her own suffering. There are two murder tools in this film, one is an ice pick and the other is a pistol. This also shows that the murderer is two people, not one. To be clear, the pistol refers to someone associated with the police, namely Beth. The motive for murder is born of hate, and it is also born of love. Love, is an excessive love for Nick.
The death of psychiatrist Beth, its moral is also very simple. If you love someone too unilaterally, in the end, everything about her will be destroyed by the person she loves, even if the one who is loved does not intend to hurt her. In the author's eyes, she who doesn't know love and kills for love should be punished.
The death of Nick's partner, the fat policeman Mollen, may be felt wronged, and as said before, death symbolizes punishment, and he was punished because of his paranoia about human nature, and his contempt for the existence of love in sex , in his eyes there is only sex between Nick and Catherine. Great directors also cannot tolerate the existence of such prejudice.
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