"Disappearing Her": How to drive a man crazy
The movie "Disappearing Her" made a bureau, (article slight spoilers) Zhu Yilong played He Fei with his wife on vacation on a small island in Southeast Asia, his wife mysteriously disappeared, ten days later, a fake wife who appeared out of thin air forced the confident He Fei step by step into a madman in the eyes of others. When you look back after watching the ending of the movie, this process is particularly enjoyable, because it is basically a gender-flipped version of the "crazy woman" portrayed by some people in the social news, dramatizing the method.
The first is to trap them in an isolated environment.
At the beginning of the story, He Fei woke up on the big bed of an exotic hotel, and next to him fell asleep a beautiful and moving Wen Yongshan in a red dress, which is definitely a beautiful picture in other movies, but it made He Fei panic - Wen Yongshan (hereinafter referred to as fake Muzi) called him husband, and his wife Li Muzi has been missing for half a month, not her.
The sexiness of the fake wood is not a temptation, but a poppy that drives He Fei crazy. He Fei chose to believe in himself and frantically sought verification, and the result was even more weird, the photo in his mobile phone was the face of the fake Muzi, the photo in the passport was a fake Muzi, and the fake Muzi in which corner of the room the certificate was placed knew better than her... She could even clearly tell the details of the marriage between the two of them, and even the scars on her body were the same as He Fei described to the police.
Hotel employees also came forward to testify that she was He Fei's wife. Why not believe in evil, ran to the bookstore where his wife went before she disappeared, called up the surveillance, zoomed in, and the video was still a fake Muzi.
Seeing this, you must want to ask, could it be that the person is really his wife, and his brain is in the water? The audience does not believe that it is instinctively standing in the perspective of the protagonist, but other people in the movie will be more inclined to fake Muzi, and the eyes of He Fei are becoming more and more strange.
Every time he loses a way to seek help, He Fei's anxiety visibly increases by a layer of anxiety, and after repeatedly punching his face, even the local police played by Du Jiang no longer accept He Fei's report. In addition, this is abroad, why not be able to mobilize other social relations, there are only a few days left on the visa, there is no time to find foreign aid from the country, he is almost in a desperate situation.
The only hope is that he meets Chen Mai, played by Ni Ni, on the street, and accidentally learns that Chen Mai is a local black-and-white all-robin gold lawyer. At this time, there was nothing left but money, and he was willing to hire Chen Mai at a high price to prove that his "wife" was not his wife.
Second, they are emotionally stable and force the other party to prove themselves.
It is too appropriate to find Wen Yongshan to play a fake Muzi, her beauty does not look like a criminal group can afford to hire, and it seems that there is no force value, and anyone who speaks loudly with her should be sentenced. Every encounter she has with He Fei is a stark contrast, she is always confident, elegant, and soft-spoken - how could I not be me? It's all my husband who is crazy, I'm so sad.
Even if there is no evidence, I prefer to believe in fake wood, because the opposite is the evil form of He Fei. The more eager you are to prove yourself, the more emotional and rash your behavior becomes. Outsiders can't see the poisonous snake letter that the fake Muzi quietly spits out when he approaches He Fei, and they will only see He Fei rushing around, like a monkey whose tail has been stepped on.
Several times, He Fei carried out violence against Fake Muzi when he couldn't bear it, and once even when he was connected with Chen Mai's remote headset, when Fake Muzi sat on his lap and exchanged cruel words with him, his sentence "I am not a good class" could not resist Fake Muzi's gentle action: put him as shellfish on a charcoal fire and roast him. He couldn't control his behavior, and the fake wood fell into the well, begging him in public not to hit people again.
What's more, he also took psychiatric drugs for a long time because of diving facial convulsions, even if he did not happen to be taking drugs, all of the above were enough to send him to a psychiatric hospital with paranoia + mania.
A person who goes crazy in public, no one will look into how many times he has been provoked in private or how many grievances he has suffered, but if he goes crazy once, he will become a madman in the eyes of everyone. So people appreciate that Yeonjin never proves herself, and if she doesn't prove herself, she won't fall into a trap.
Third, reinforce the threat of violence, but play the victim yourself.
Chen Mai told He Fei that behind the fake Muzi was a huge criminal gang that specifically targeted the rich, playing their partners to send them to a mental hospital and then embezzle property. When he asked how much money he had given to spare him, the fake Muzi told him explicitly - he wanted all of him.
However, He Fei is not as simple as it seems, he hid from Chen Mai when he was cornered, and only revealed that he was a rotten gambler when he was discovered, relying on his rich second-generation wife to go ashore, and not long ago he was in debt again. Presumably he also knew that once he knew this information, Chen Mai and the audience would no longer sympathize with him.
But because of this background, the process of driving crazy has become more beautiful. As a rotten gambler, He Fei not only has excellent psychological quality, but also has seen violence because of debts, and his life is rotten, and it is difficult to deter from the psychological level. Normal people are scared in his situation and just want to run, he didn't, and he was still bent on proving that the other party was a fake.
The fake Muzi gang chooses to constantly show him his power without actually hurting him. Remembering that in "Nine Pins Sesame Officer", Stephen Chow wanted the witness to tell the truth, instead of directly looking for the witness, let Wu Mengda play the person who was half guillotined for lying. This method was tried and tested, and he was chased by mercenaries with guns and did not give up until a witness was killed next to him, splattered with blood, and his first psychological defense was defeated.
Not hurting him is to continue playing the victim. He Fei, who became a frightened bird, packed his passport and wanted to flee back to China, and the haunted fake Muzi was of course waiting for him there.
In just a few days, a hard-minded man turned into a helpless beast in a period of stress, knowing that the other party was still provoking him in the same way, or obediently fell into the trap. When outsiders rushed in, sure enough, they saw that it was another fake wooden head breaking through the blood, and he was hysterical.
There was a news a while ago, the husband killed the pet dog in front of her in order to threaten his wife, if the original woman was not photographed and cried again, wouldn't it be the same? The fake Muzi gang does not want his life, but wants him to be afraid, he is crazy, he will not resist you if he is afraid, and he is not responsible for hurting him if he is crazy.
At this point, the process is over, and the most terrifying picture comes: why not wake up in the ward, the doctor smile at him, accept everything he says, and then ask the nurse to prescribe medicine, give injections, and shave his head.
I think of a video of a man filming his wife emotionally broken down over a small matter, in fact, his wife's accusations are logical, but he does not communicate at all, but puts on a solid attitude like a city wall: I am calm, you see her crazy again. The audience saw that the woman was getting more and more collapsed, and also said yes, your wife is so crazy, how can you stand it.
Once people fall into such a situation, any resistance becomes futile or sinful plus, and when your words and actions are assumed to be unintelligent and not worth listening to and considering, you lose interaction with this society, and anyone can only despair. The prelude to the mystery that is about to be revealed in the movie is that the doctor wants to perform a lobectomy on He Fei, which is a mental surgery that has been abandoned, and after doing it, he will probably become an idiot, which is equivalent to mentally killing him.
Why not a man who is rich, has freedom of movement, is full of resistance, and still has people willing to listen to him after being suspected of having mental problems, if he is changed to gender, the process will only be easier, and it may be finished in twenty minutes because there is no difficulty.
The trickery of driving him crazy is only one part of the story, and the real button of the movie is not here. Finding Zhu Yilong to play is the right decision, he is a little weak in appearance and more convincing than Kong Wu's powerful man, his introverted, nervous, neurotic and non-oppressive temperament can obscure some details, which are necessary for suspense films.
When watching the film, I kept guessing who was behind the scenes, guessing whether He Fei's wife wanted to punish him, and guessing whether Wen Yongshan was He Fei's wife's best friend, until the key information was revealed, I realized that no matter how powerful the external force is, it is not as good as the person who knows you best.