Movie "Once Quiet Man" Commentary
Plot introduction:
McCann is an office clerk whose job is statistical data. He goes to work with a gun every day. When he goes to work, he often secretly loads bullets in and out, but once the supervisor scolds him when he was very frightened. There's a cheesy and sexy dancing girl doll on his desk, and whenever he looks at the doll, he has a look of infinite yearning. Every night he would go back and chat with the goldfish who was actually dead, and the goldfish would laugh at him for failing to complete his plan: kill everyone and then kill himself. And this movie is about McCann's fantasy.
In fantasy, Coleman shoots everyone and he doesn't stop until he wounds Venessa, he shoots Coleman and saves Venessa, the secretary and lover of the big boss (which actually goes on It is a character made up by Elisa in his fantasy), although Venessa was rescued, but he was paralyzed, only a little finger can move, he and Venessa live happily together, he is also reused in the company, and has friends , happily playing golf with friends, but soon, his position in the company is threatened, and he suspects that people around him know that he is actually a murderer. He suspected that Venessa was hooking up with the big boss again, and he also found that Venessa had previously given the big boss a photo with "I love you" written on the back.
At the end, back to reality, McCann committed suicide in the office. The narration is: Actually, I just want you to remember me forever.
In his fantasy, McCann projects a lot of sexual identification, he projects his own aggression to Coleman, and let Coleman complete the mission of killing in his place, which makes Coleman's killings ranked in the same order as his own. The same, so he can get rid of his aggression and become the hero who saves Venessa, but the inner aggression constantly intrudes on him, so there is the fear of a colleague to reveal that he is actually a murderer, he is powerless and desperate to argue that it is not him, It's a terrorist, it's his fantasy and projection again, this terrorist has an identical dancing girl doll. Venessa is a character he made up based on Elisa, because he cannot integrate the good part and the bad part of the object, Venessa is gentle, kind and loves him, while Elisa is frivolous, vicious, always mocking and humiliating him. McCann's main self-image is a humble and cowardly image, so he would not believe that a healthy Venessa would love a person like him, so he created a paralyzed Venessa in his fantasy, so he became Venessa's hero, And Venessa is completely dependent on him, and he can have Venessa, but this means that he is only a tool of Venessa, which is also unacceptable to him, so no matter how hard he tries, but the inner object relationship: extremely humble self, persecute him or use His object ultimately drives him toward suicide. Venessa is actually the incarnation of his mother. When in fantasy with Venessa, he is immersed in great happiness, like a fusion experience, but in fact it is he who paralyzes Venessa, and he cannot be completely isolated from this projection. Still connected to a certain degree, so when Venessa was going back to the scene of the shooting, he was very scared, and Venessa started from here, it seems that although Venessa is still physically paralyzed, to some extent, she is gradually recovering, and It was from this time that McCann began to collapse.
Judging from his state of psychological development, he is in a paranoid split position. His superiors, bosses, and Elisa all represent objects that will persecute him. He is controlled by strong persecution anxiety, which is the source of his humble and cowardly personality. To defend against persecution anxiety, McCann used the mechanism of splitting, in which he imagined himself a hero in unconscious fantasies, isolated from his humble self-image, and split the object, separating Venessa and Elisa.
In McCannaw, the problem of self-esteem is also prominent, in order to defend against lowly feelings, he is transformed into a hero in fantasy, has a group of friends, and himself is the star of these friends, he is Venessa's hero, and To give full meaning to the paralyzed Venessa is to exaggerate the empathy of the self, however, when defenses fail, he finds himself only the laughing stock of his friends, his boss sees him only as a poor man and Venessa is not. will love him.
At the same time, he also develops an idealized empathy for Venessa. When Venessa accepts him and can be with Venessa, his life is full of meaning. As long as Venessa loves him, everything else is unimportant. Ultimately, narcissism and The idealization is accompanied by shattering, and at the moment of shooting, he just thought: In fact, I just want you to remember me forever.
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