In the subconscious, people use images as metaphors and symbols to express some meanings that are different from the superficial meaning. The most obvious example is the dream, which is absurd on the surface and has no logic. However, if we understand psychology, we can know that these seemingly inexplicable things actually represent the person's subconscious psychology. If a person dreams of flying in the sky with a member of the opposite sex, it is illogical. However, this may indicate that he wants to make love with this opposite sex, and flying together can represent love, because the happy feeling is like flying.
Dreams are visualized, as are movies, so movies can also use such symbolic methods to express subconscious psychology.
Of course, as a movie screenwriter, he does not need to understand the psychology of the subconscious. He just wants to tell a horrible story, but to achieve the more horrible the better. If you want to have a horrible effect, the stories he tells must be the one that scaries him the most, and it is also the one that makes the audience most vulnerable to fear. He knows that such a plot can be terrifying, but he doesn't know why such a plot can be terrifying, so his movie shows the most true subconscious mind. This movie is like a nightmare for a screenwriter. So we can use psychological methods to interpret this movie like dream interpretation.
Using psychological methods, I can explain almost every detail in this movie one by one. It has iconic meaning. Using psychological methods, I found that this movie is a manifestation of a kind of psychological conflict among people.
Let us also analyze step by step to understand the psychology represented by this "female ghost" and understand her motives and behaviors.
The video was broadcast on TV. When we analyze a dream, if there is TV. Psychologists will think that it is a symbol of the subconscious, or a symbol of our innermost being. Video is a recorded past event, so it is a symbol of memory.
The phone can also be a sign of the subconscious.
Here, it obviously symbolizes the memory of the girl in the well.
Isn't the girl in the well in the story dead? How can there be memories? This seems unreasonable, but it is reasonable in the sign: saying that a person is dead in a subconscious symbol does not actually mean that the person is really dead physically. It just means "the heart is dead." We usually say "sorrow is more than the heart's death", which is what we mean. Death means that she has a serious psychological disorder. This mental disorder is of course related to the memory in the subconscious.
So, what memory does she have in her subconscious mind?
On the surface, it is scattered, with the appearance of a mother, with reports of earthquakes, and the well where he died.
Asakawa and that friend search for clues. It's as if our psychologists are doing psychological counseling for this girl, trying to find the root of her psychological disorder. Through layers of clues, they found the root cause because she was killed in the well by her father.
What does "kill in the well" symbolize?
The shape of the well is similar to that of a female vagina, and it is closed. Being killed by my father in this well represents a common psychological conflict among psychologists, the desire for and the fear of incest.
In the movie, it is not said why this father killed his daughter. And from the perspective of psychoanalysis, we can know what happened: this father had a sexual desire for his daughter, maybe he also evoked her daughter's sexual consciousness. Then, the act of throwing her into the well has multiple meanings. On the one hand representativeness. The reason is that the shape of the well is similar to that of a female vagina. Moreover, in women’s sexual fantasies, sex is sometimes related to being abused and conquered. In this scenario, the father is abusing and conquering his daughter. Another meaning is to represent depression. Because the daughter was sealed in the well. Moreover, there is a lid on Inoue, which is also representative and depressing. The closedness of wells is also related to the fear of incest, because the greatest harm of incestuous emotions is to make people's emotions closed, and their emotions are not directed to outsiders but to people in their own homes.
In the movie, when looking for the remains of a girl in a well. The girl's skeleton reached out and grabbed Asakawa's arm. However, Asakawa, who should have been scared, showed no signs of horror. She hugged the skeleton in her arms like comforting a child.
In fact, this is also a sign. The appearance of the skeleton symbolizes catharsis, and Asakawa is comforting her.
The death of the boyfriend who watched the video also needs to be explained. A female ghost in white climbed out of the well in the video and out of the TV. The influence of a TV comes out of the TV, which means "the boundary between fantasy and reality is not clear". The things in the TV represent imagination or fantasy, and the real world outside the TV. If a person’s imagination and reality are not clearly distinguished, that person is a patient with a serious mental illness. Mental patients are all
"female ghosts" who take their hallucinations as real things , and put out her long hair to show her face, and her eyes have almost no black eyeballs. What's so scary about this? She didn't have a bloody face or a long tongue, she just showed her eyes. Why would you scare a man to death?
In fact, anyone who has studied psychoanalytic psychology knows why it is the most terrifying sight to open long hair and leak out eyes without black eyeballs.
Because this is also related to incest, it symbolizes seeing something that shouldn't be seen. Long hair symbolizes the hair on the sex organs, while the eyes without black eyeballs symbolize the female sex organs.
The greatest horror of people is that they have incest desires.
At the end of the movie, Asakawa called his father and told him that he would take his grandson to see him. What are you going to do. The movie did not say. However, we can reasonably make a guess that she wants her son to show the video to her father. This is the greatest fear of father killing.
The so-called "female ghost" conspiracy is the so-called "female ghost" conspiracy. There is no such law at all, and the "female ghost" tells them that there is such a law. The goal is to let the heroine do what she wants to do in the last episode, killing her father.
This plot reflects her hatred of her father.
Synthesizing the entire movie, our psychological analysis conclusion is: this movie is explaining the psychological experience of a girl with a mental disorder.
She may have been sexually harassed by her father, perhaps subconsciously, she has sexual desire for her father, and she has great anger towards her father. These feelings of her were suppressed by her father.
Asakawa is what this girl looks like in adulthood. She has found the source of her mental disorder (found the remains). To comfort the victim, let her do catharsis (cleaning the dirty water in the well is like catharsis of negative emotions). However, she did not solve her own problems, so she still has great anger towards her father in her subconscious mind.
Her psychology affected her male friend, and the man also evoked the fear of incest, and even went crazy because of it.
Did you feel terrified after seeing the midnight bell? Are these terrifying sights lingering in your mind? If so, it means that you also have fear of incest. Although you don't know what the midnight bell is saying in your consciousness, your subconscious has been infected by it, and it evokes the same psychological conflict in you.
There is nothing terrible about this. In fact, the psychoanalysis master Freud pointed out that everyone has more or less such psychological conflicts. However, most people can gradually come out of this conflict without mental illness.
If there is no psychology, I am afraid that no one knows, there is such a psychological secret in this horror movie.
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