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The movie to recommend today is "Peacock Town" by Cilian Murphy and Alan Page. Although the subject matter of schizophrenia is no longer new, this film expresses a new meaning and is a masterpiece of psychology. Cirrian Murphy is even more amazed with his powerful and superb acting skills.
Unlike previous fine film suspense decryption, which has to be left at the last minute, the film clarifies the fact that the protagonist is schizophrenic from the beginning. John, a small clerk in peacock town, was oppressed and abused by his mother from an early age until her death. Although his mother died and John's love and murder with his mother was supposed to end, John separated from a personality named Emma and took the place of his mother to take care of his life. Like "Danish Girl", the male and female protagonists of this film are Allian Murphy, and the female appearance is also quite beautiful.
John had been living a peaceful, pleasant life with his split personality. Emma gets up early every day to prepare breakfast for John, then changes her skirt and puts on John's clothes. John wakes up, looks through the box he had hidden as a child, and then goes to work. Emma would also leave John a note reminding him to buy something. Day after day, this life is plain and harmonious.
Until one day a derailed train broke into John's yard, breaking this harmony. It just so happened that Emma was drying clothes in the yard. People came around and found Emma, who had never known there was such a person in John's house and guessed that it was John's wife.
John and Emma's secret is about to be discovered, and before they can figure out how to prevaricate it, the mayor and his wife suddenly arrive and bump into Emma, who is making breakfast. It turned out that they wanted to use the locomotive that broke into the courtyard to do a political struggle. They intend to start a rally in Emma's yard to get more donations for the mayor's wife's shelter, but then the locomotive will stay in John and Emma's yard indefinitely, which is not good for guarding their secrets. John strongly objected to the incident, but Emma was more than happy.
At this time, Maggie took Jack, John's unsuspecting son Jack, to John for help. It turned out that John's mother had been checking for both mother and son until his death. John had no idea about it. John's attitude toward mother and son was indifferent, but Emma showed enthusiasm.
Maggie was originally a prostitute, and Jack was not the product of their passion, but persecution from John's mother. John's mother's abuse of John is evident.
John was flustered by the situation, but Emma was calm. John does not like to be in contact with people and avoids socializing; Emma will take the initiative to talk to people, and the two personalities are very different. John wants to destroy Emma's personality, throw away Emma's clothes, and send Away Maggie's mother and son. Emma also put on John's mother's old clothes and shaved off her eyebrows, at this time Emma is the embodiment of John's mother, and the struggle between the two personalities begins.
In order to destroy John's personality, Emma even killed people, ordered her own house, and pretended that the person who died was John.
The struggle was won by Emma, and the personality replaced the cousin personality. But when she recalls what John did as a child, her mother regrets it. She gave up Jack, who was supposed to be adopted, and gave Maggie all her money, so that their mother and son would fly away. At the end of the film, Emma locks herself in the house and sits in front of a window with closed curtains.
If this film is really not exciting enough from the perspective of a suspense film, the tension is not strong enough, the narrative is flat and slow, but it does not affect its position in the heart of the editor. Forced by the personality change of life, and the bond between mother and child is the attraction of this film. When we think it will be a self-redemption, it is a failure of self-redemption.
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