38-year-old Lee Jun Ki returns with the most popular Korean drama "Flower of Evil".
The setting of the play is very exciting: as the son of a serial murderer and a fugitive with blood debts, disguised as a rich second generation with a good family background, he formed a family with the police, and his final identity was exposed for more than 10 years.
In recent years, this kind of "villain" role has been frequently searched. In "Others is Hell", the murder dentist Xu Wenzu played by Li Dongxu, the perverted boy Lin Jizi played by Xu Guanghan in "Sin Dreamer", and "Kill Eve" The talented professional killer Villanelle, etc., people seem to be more obsessed with "bad guys" than the incarnation of truth, goodness and beauty.
The public’s obsession with "perversion" is not only manifested in the image of film and television. The American serial killer Gary Ridgway, known as the Green River Killer, killed 48 women between 1982 and 1984. Not only that, Gary also likes corpse rape. Such a murderous murderer even received piles of love letters and "fan letters" in sacks after he went to jail; Wu Xieyu, who was in the mother-killing case of Peking University, served as a hospitality in a nightclub while on the run and also captured countless female guests.
In recent years, the psychology community has published more research discussing the attractiveness of abnormal personality. It has been found that some people with antisocial personality characteristics are more attractive in the market of both sexes, especially in short-term spouse selection. Normal person.
comes the question, why do we love "perversion" so much?
1, the charm of masks
People with abnormal personality tend to have some anti-social personality tendencies, lack of empathy, low emotional perception of others, etc. Therefore, they do not need to survive in a normal society, they need to be shaped A normal mask used to act as a normal person to deal with daily life.
In "Flower of Evil", the male protagonist entered into emotional autism due to childhood trauma, and forbids him to communicate with others sincerely. Therefore, he cannot understand and express ordinary people's facial expressions. He reads performance books and practices each in the mirror again and again. Kind of expressions (smile, sadness, pain, etc.). People like
are often very observant, have high imitating ability, and have strong logic. Sometimes they are accompanied by acting personality, so as long as they want to, they can easily "be considerate" and grasp the other side's "useful points" to perform. Corresponding "charm", if he happens to have a beautiful appearance, he is completely a talented PUA player at the top level. They have no guilt about this "deceptive" performance. After a long performance, they can even clearly separate the two personalities. Just like the male protagonist in "The Flower of Evil", the first one kills, the next second. With a baby, you can switch freely without any discomfort.
In the story of Rose in the web drama "Detective Chinatown", Janine Chang plays the transnational fraudster Ivy, who looks slender and fragile, has an intellectual and elegant temperament, but his heart is as deep as an ancient well, with superior deception, one mask after another, even as wise as a man. The main detective is also caught in the love of lvy, leading to misjudgment and letting go of the real murderer.
What is interesting is that this combination has long been reflected in "Holmes". Sherlock Holmes's favorite "that woman" Irene Adler is also a woman full of mysteries. It seems that it is not just "a man is not bad and a woman does not love", but the reverse is also completely true. The smarter the man, the more obsessed with the woman who is like a lie.
Lie flower is the most beautiful flower. You will never be sure of its final form. It will always bring you surprises. In this surprise, the smarter the man can smell the flaws, he chased the flaws all the way to the end. One after another maze, there is a valuable understanding that runs through this evenly matched confrontation. Only the person who arranges the game can thoroughly understand the person who broke the game, and this game can be played happily. Just like what lvy said
, "There are things that cannot be looked at directly in the world, one is the sun and the other is the human heart. No matter how beautiful a lie is, it will not bear fruit." Sometimes the greatest sincerity of a lie comes from her heartfelt love to herself. Abandoning, not giving yourself results, is the greatest denial of yourself as a human being, and sincerely self-destruct in the form of deception. The rose is as beautiful as a thorn, so that you can take it off and send it to death.
If you say the "people" in the playIt is deceived by the illusion created by abnormal people and loves them. Why would the audience who knows all the truth outside the play surrender to their charm?
The French philosopher Marie-François Azbruck analyzed why humans lie in the book "Lies". One of the psychology of lying is based on "self-protection." That is, when the external environment makes people feel insecure or others ask questions you don't want to answer, humans will choose to lie to protect themselves and gain a sense of security.
Just imagine in daily life, who has never told a lie? But we don’t lie all to gain benefits, to harm others and to benefit ourselves. Sometimes, as Marie Francs said, we just don’t want to expose ourselves because we feel insecure. In fact, which country's law requires us to be honest with the world at any time and anywhere?
But in real life, there are always some "concepts", some "rules" and some "human feelings" that require you to fully expose yourself. There are cameras everywhere in the name of protection, censors like "family and friends", gossip colleagues, and intimate Parents, male/girlfriends, etc. who expect you to "explain everything" in the relationship. To some extent, they are all intrusions without a sense of "boundary", and each person is an independent individual, each person There is a need for privacy. Even if this privacy may not be important, or weird, or shameless, it is also an important part of the soul. It needs to be respected and we have the right not to let anyone know.
But real life is often unsatisfactory. People have a very high enthusiasm for peeping into the privacy of others. In this atmosphere, the mask of perverted people will "anti-general" the spectators, and the audience will take them in this process. Enter a kind of thrill of counterattack, restore a sense of control over the powerful outside world, that is, "you can only know what I want you to know", and there is an illusion that I am the powerful person in power. Why does
say that this kind of power is an illusion? In fact, the real strong person is not the person at the top of the control chain, but the person who is not afraid to be your true self in any environment or state. Manipulation is actually a manifestation of weakness. Trying to control everything means you are afraid of everything, especially fear. "Out of control", and the real strong is to face everything head-on, can accept and deal with out of control at any time, he does not control everything, he defeats everything. Of course, it is precisely because the power of perverts is false, so they have a second charm-contrast cuteness.
2, Contrasting Charm
Freud's psychology school believes that the cultivation of every perverted personality is closely related to childhood experiences. The mother of the Green River Killer is a woman with strong desire to control, and the male of "The Flower of Evil" The main father himself is a serial murderer. He also suffered a lot of psychological trauma in his childhood. In his childhood, a person is relatively vulnerable. When he suffers more than his own ability to withstand injuries, he will often develop another personality to protect his childhood. This leads to their very unsound personality development. Compared with normal people, their hearts may always retain their childhood ego, allowing them to indulge this ego without growing up, so the true heart of many abnormal people may be very naive, Innocent can even be a little...cute.
Villanelle, the professional killer in "kill eve", has no count of killing and has gorgeous techniques. When killing people, she likes to watch the eyes of the slain gradually lose their luster, but her own behavior and behavior often reveal the clumsy and cuteness of children. Because he was close to the contact person Constantine, he pretended to be dead and frightened him and gave the elderly Constantine a birthday party for the 3-year-old child. It was completely in vain that Constantine was the contact person of the organization and had the ability to execute when she was disobedient. Her power.
Villanelle shuttles between the ages of 3 and 30, but it is not easy to switch, because 3 years old is a part of the real herself, so she will only be exposed in front of people close to her, but this real personality is like behind a mask The smoke will always come out of the minutiae. At this time, the contrast and cuteness come out. There is nothing more pitiful than the big devil being a child. This will stimulate the spectator’s redemptive impulse. Who doesn’t want to be the savior? Saving others from the abyss can satisfy a person's sense of value to the greatest extent.
Last second female killer
Next second crying bag
But I want to say that this kind of rescue impulse is very stupid, a person who has not fallen into the abyss will be too optimisticIt is estimated that it is difficult to save, and this optimism itself is an offense to the people of the abyss. If you have not suffered, don’t let others contempt the suffering. If you have not despaired, don’t let others overcome despair. The most unbearable thing for abnormal people is " Standing and talking will not hurt your back. If you can't do it, you will arouse his thoughts of making you "backache". This is called giving someone a head.
So the rescue of the people of the abyss must be a show operation that people who have crawled out of the abyss can try. Ordinary people often do it like a tiger and bow their heads. But the characteristic of human beings is that they are overconfident and always want to be the savior. Therefore, the desire to "save" is also an important psychological basis for people to be obsessed with perverts.
Measure the depth of the abyss
3, the impulse of death
There are two extreme human cultures in Greek culture, one is the helios culture, that is, the spirit of Apollo, which represents correctness, order and intelligence, and the other is Dionysus culture represents indulgence, chaos, and animalism.
In fact, human beings have only appeared on the earth for about 5 million years, and the history of human civilization is even shorter, especially the history of modern civilization. Even in contemporary times, the development of the world is extremely uneven. Human trafficking and slavery are also common on the contemporary earth. Yes, modern people always forget the fact that humans are also animals. Human nature is related to civilization, and animal nature is related to animal instinct. Sometimes it is difficult to say which is human nature. If killing is anti-instinct, why humans are so keen on war and slaughter ?
Which one does not bleed when opening a history book? According to psychological analysis theory, personality is composed of the id, ego, and superego. The id is similar to the animal instinct. The ego is social, and the superego is the representative of civilization. It is undeniable that people have the need to return to the id. People in the id state are the most free, and perverted people are more thorough in returning.
ignoring the deception of the rules, wanton killing, hurting others to satisfy themselves at no cost, even ordinary people have to admit that watching others do evil sometimes has a "sweet feeling", but undoubtedly, human beings develop reason not for the sake of being gentle and frugal. It is for human beings to survive better, completely surrender to animality, and will surely go to extinction very quickly. Therefore, the spirit of Bacchus contains a kind of "death drive", that is, the impulse to pursue the ultimate and stimulate even death, but the spirit of Bacchus It is not such a superficial indulgence, it also represents the tragic intoxication from the absolute meaninglessness of life.
The male protagonist in the American drama "True Detective" is a human who shuttles between Apollo and Bacchus. The true Bacchus does not break the rules, but leaves the rules. This is a different kind of beauty-he has been there. No man’s land, extreme freedom is the result of self-exile. Only when the world is left with dead silence, is freedom still so important? Without the opposition of the crowd, does the individual still exist? Is there no black and white? Bacchus is more like the ending chapter of Apollo, and the end of the exquisite logic may be dead quiet.
Maybe every human being has Dionysus and Heliotrope in his heart. Just like Villanelle said in the third season of "Kill Eve", everyone has a monster in his heart. Some people don’t realize it exists, and some people pretend it doesn’t. It exists, some people are tamed by it, some people try to tame it, and some people decide to live with it. Sometimes the
crowd will help us ignore monsters, and sometimes they will arouse monsters, but I don’t think anyone can really defeat this monster. The human beings who can kill the animal are no longer humans but gods. Most people pretend that it does not exist or have been tamed by it, but some people choose to live with it. When they move towards symbiosis, they may find that when they stare through an abyss-metamorphosis is me, and I am metamorphosis.
Everyone has the urge to be a thug, just as everyone has the urge to be a saint. It is our human nature that is vacillating, struggling, and full of light between divinity and animality.
