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Crime dramas, which are highly related to psychology, have begun to set off a boom in The Asian context. This is the inevitable result of the beginning of the development of action crime movies from the outside in. In the field of domestic production, there was a well-received web drama "Psychological Crime" earlier, which has now been made into a movie and is about to appear on the big screen. Today, let's talk about psychology crime film and television dramas.
This type of film and television works originated in the West and has long been very mature. Many of the theories in "criminal psychology" have been adapted and imported into film and television dramas. For example, CBS's episode "Criminal Psychology", which focuses on the psychological profile of criminals, has a Douban score of 9.0, which tells the story of how a group of psychological profilers can solve the case for the portrait of the criminal.
Criminal Minds Season 1
The psychological problems of the criminals themselves, coupled with the psychological analysis of the criminals by the case solvers, have become the biggest attraction of this drama. A dizzying array of psychological expertise, cleverly applied by criminals and the police, refreshes the audience's old understanding of crime.
The process of solving the case is also reconstructing the entire criminal logic little by little. It starts from the end of psychology, from the behavior, expression, traces of life, and even handwriting, tone to push back a person's psychological state, psychological shadow, in the scattered, disrupted, patchwork narrative at the same time, brings an unprecedented sense of complexity, but also triggered the fear of being seen through in each of our hearts.
Criminal Minds Season Seven
For crime films based on psychology, we must first talk about the master of suspense Hitchcock. His earth-shattering "Horror Story", in which the criminal Norman is a chilling oedipus, he is jealous of his mother's remarriage, and after killing his mother, he feels guilty, so he steals his mother's body, imitates her way of speaking, and finally splits the mother's personality.
Horror Story
The mother personality, on the other hand, was equally jealous of the woman who approached her son, so she killed Marianne, who was staying at the hotel.
The basement, the first floor, and the second floor of the apartment represent Norman's original self, superego, and ego, respectively, and when Norman dragged his mother's body to the basement, he completed his own personality split, and also completed the psychological transition from superego to original self. "Horror Story" is the origin of all future multi-personality crime movies.
"The Silence of the Lambs" tells the story of How Hannibal, a psychiatrist, taught the police to find murderers according to psychological principles. In this film, it does not matter how the policewoman played by Judy Foster finds Bill the Bison, what we care about is to see how Hannibal controls her spirit through the prison door with only a few words, breaks through her psychological defenses little by little, and finally makes her face the shadow of her childhood.
The Silence of the Lambs
The underground prison where Hannibal is located actually corresponds to what Jung said about the collective unconscious, and it is here that Juldy Foster plays Clarice, who is dug out by Hannibal little by little, and even he has not been aware of the inner shadow.
Her interaction with Hannibal slowly also showed an empathic effect, and she transferred to Hannibal the complex that she had not been promised to her father.
In China, the film works about psychology are relatively good in the "Hypnosis Master" of previous years, Xu Zheng played a hypnosis master, but in the process of hypnosis for Karen Mok, he was anti-hypnotized by her. These are two people who have trauma in the past, each wearing their own "personality mask", in the process of hypnotic confrontation, they are resisting each other's hypnosis and psychotherapy, so the effect of "anti-transference" has emerged.
Master of Hypnosis
Techniques that use psychological techniques to assist in solving cases do exist in real life. As early as 1957, the United States had the world's first successful case using trace psychology.
Convict George Metesky dropped 33 bombs in New York between 1940 and 1956, 22 of which exploded and never caught.
Convict George Mürtsky said after being caught: I'm glad I did it.
Psychologist James Brussels judged him to be "a middle-aged man with paranoia and heart disease, Slavic origins, and introverted personality" by bombing threats, the incognito writing of the translated tone, and the wrong slang.
Based on the time of his crime and the incubation time of his mental illness, it was judged that his age was between the ages of 40 and 50. Because the criminal wrote W in a more peculiar way, like two "U'" connected together, much like a woman's breasts, Brussels speculated that he was a single man with no marital history and some sexual problems.
The petulence characteristic of paranoia means that he is a very neat person and wears a double-layered suit with buttons. Subsequently, Brussels also delineated the area where the bomb was dropped.
In 1956, according to the psychologist's crime profile, Mertsky was actually caught by the police. He is indeed 45 years old, of Polish descent, unmarried, and lives with two older sisters.
Criminal George Mürtsky
When he was arrested, Mürtsky was really wearing a cotton double-layered vest and cleaned up. And in terms of disease, it's probably the only deviation in Brussels, because Multski got tuberculosis, not heart disease.
This case is an amazing success of psychology in solving cases.
Crime profile, called "Criminal profiling" in English, can also be translated as criminal portraits, psychological portraits, etc., refers to the use of psychological principles, statistical data, through the analysis of traces, physical evidence and other relevant information at the crime scene, depict the psychological and behavioral characteristics of criminals, so as to assist in the investigation of a technique.
The squad in Criminal Minds is the identity of the profiler.
Criminal Minds Season 6
Psychological Sin (two previous seasons of web series) based on the novel of the same name is also about profilers.
The film is about fang mu, the male protagonist who is well versed in criminal psychology, and Tai Wei, a veteran criminal police captain, who team up to solve the "human blood milk" case.
"Psychological Crime" chose Liao Fan to play the criminal police captain Tai Wei, and I want to applaud this casting.
Duan Yihong and Liao Fan are probably the two best mesozoic actors who play police at present. One has "Burning Heart" and one has "Daytime Fireworks". Two films with such similar titles, two international film emperors.
Liao Fan won the Best Actor Award at the Berlin Film Festival for "Daytime Fireworks", and he is particularly good at playing the kind of role that twists his heart. The policeman Zhang Zili in "Daytime Fireworks" has a certain commonality with Tai Wei, who is tough on the surface and soft on the inside, in "Psychological Crime".
Liao Fan is definitely a pillar that supports this film.
Tai Wei, played by him, initially did not believe in the criminal profile and psychological analysis of psychological expert Fang Mu, and this disbelief actually represented the audience's point of view. The audience needs to be led, from not understanding and doubting to believing and admiring.
Tai Wei's hardness and toughness, on the one hand, is cruel to criminals, and on the other hand, it is the questioning of Fang Mu. But on another level, Tai Wei is also a tough and gentle person, who has both the experience of wrestling with criminals in the mud and the shot of gently hugging a little girl.
The one who plays Fang Mu is Li Yifeng. Li Yifeng gives people the feeling that he has always been relatively sunny and neighborly, and this time he wants to play a thoughtful genius who has studied criminal psychology, which is unprecedented for him, and can only be said to look forward to his performance.
Fang Mu called his research on criminal psychology a "psychological invasion." In Fang Mu's words, what Tai Wei constantly discovers is the sin of others; what he himself constantly excavates is the heart of others.
This concept was invented by this film, and we don't need to pursue it academically. It uses psychology in a more aggressive way to solve cases, and it is enough to bring a certain entertainment.
As for Wan Qian, this is not the first time she has acted in a psychological crime movie. Not long ago, she was in the movie "Hello, Crazy! In "," a personality split into seven identities is also the most vivid play she has played from the film to the present.
This time she played a female forensic doctor in the film, which should be a harmonious and balanced role between the two male protagonists.
The two male protagonists appear to be cooperating on the surface, but in fact, they can also be put into the "two male duel" model, they have different ideas and methods when facing the same case, and they will challenge each other in cooperation.
If tai wei is in this, he is a role that walks on the front line, fights hard, and takes physical risks. Then Fang Mu undertook the role of a psychological profiler who analyzed the psychology of criminals and invaded the thinking of criminals. More often than not, he retreats behind the scenes to conduct psychological and criminal motive analysis.
For example, through the observation of the depth, direction and edge of the knife marks on the corpse, he will analyze that when the criminal is under the knife, it is not fear; but careful, with a hint of excitement like creating a work of art.
What Fang Mu bears is a psychological crisis immersed in the evil situation of crime, and it is very likely that he will fall into the abyss with the psychology of the criminal.
Such a setting makes the "psychological state" in the crime story the protagonist. This state of mind. Not only pointed to the criminal, but also to Tai Wei as a case solver, and Fang Mu as an analyst.
This makes the film of "Psychological Sin" a bit like the analysis of personality and psychology in social reasoning. Psychological motivation and psychological shadow, replacing the violent bloodiness of the crime itself, have become the focus of the film, in fact, it is also very consistent with the current situation that in the impetuous city, everyone has psychological anxiety disorder.
In fact, such works are more difficult to make than films that emphasize the crime itself. Because after removing the crime gimmick, the audience will become more concerned with logical reasoning and psychoanalysis itself.
As we have said many times before, domestic crime movies have made a lot of progress in the past three years, but the sub-genre of psychological crimes is still relatively rare, so I hope that "Psychological Crimes" can become a breakthrough for domestic psychological crime films, exposing the dark crimes in our hearts to broad daylight.
The psychological crime film genre is actually a bit like a web of fine stitches, the viewer looks complicated and disordered, but under combing, it will be found that each stitch is justified, and often in the end, the key knot is a very simple element.
What fascinates people is the process of dismantling this web.
This fascination applies not only to the viewer, but also to the creator. And the difficulty is probably no less than the characters in the story who have psychological problems.