This is an old-fashioned suspense thriller. It has a good quality under the control of Söderberg, but the flip of the plot is actually quite cheap. Behind the plot of the murder is the contemporary psychotropic culture, and it is barely involved in some banker insider trading. The political profile of the psychiatrist and the patient’s battles are not good people on both sides, and even after seeing that, the mental health care system can be more terrifying than the judicial system. In the end, the revelation of the truth gave me a kind of director returning to the political inaccuracy of the sixth sense in the early 1990s, which made Dawan demonize. Under the type of packaging, it cannot be said whether the movie really asks meaningful questions.
In order to show the feeling of awkwardness after taking the medicine, the movie spent a lot of time for the heroine to lead the audience into the lives of depression patients, but you will find that everything is just awkwardness. The movie’s story did not follow the narrative point of view of one of the characters. All misleading was aimed at the audience. It’s just that when the audience discovered the truth, there was really no sense of awakening. On the one hand, the flip is as expected, on the other hand, there seems to be nothing to say besides playing the audience.
Of course, if you insist on saying something, the opening of the film will be drawn from the urban landscape to the window where the heroine lives. It is probably a fable that urban life is controlled by drugs. The ending film is pulled out from the window of the psychiatric hospital to be echoed, but the meaning is quite different. The role has gone from the illusion of manipulating drugs to the prison of being controlled by drugs and medical treatment. The film does not directly challenge the relationship between drugs and people, that is Turned around on the edge, but there was a sense of fright. The mental state of the heroine can also be said to be imprisoned in the illusion of material desire, but whether this is really related to the illusion of drugs, except that the heroine is very misty from beginning to end.
Think about whether there is too much demand for a genre film? Perhaps it’s in the dark gray world of the movie where the audience can’t really find a role that they identify with. No matter whether it’s an escape or not, commercial films will always find the possibility of moral correctness or justice in the story. This ideal and realistic relationship The ambiguous tension of collision, the boundary between innocence and guilt is always attractive, but this tension always feels non-existent in this film. The actor lost his original job and family after the incident, but after he succeeded in "revenging", he somehow repaired the relationship with his family. The seemingly happy ending is not satisfactory and lacks aftertaste and imagination.
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