The story mainly tells the story of psychotherapist Xu Ruining. A few years ago, his girlfriend and friends were killed in a car accident because of drunk driving. Xu Ruining felt guilty because of this accident and lived in the shadow that he could not forgive himself. His teacher turned to Ren Xiaoyan for help and hypnotized Xu Ruining on the grounds that Ren Xiaoyan was a patient. Finally, Xu Ruining's heart was untied and freed from the abyss of sin.
The most successful part of the film lies in the reversal of the plot, which makes it impossible to see through the truth at a glance. The audience explores and infers the real story step by step with the director's lens. At the beginning, Xu Ruining gave a lecture in the lecture hall, which showed the audience a professional and fresh psychotherapist. He cured many patients through hypnosis, and Ren Xiaoyan was the last patient to receive treatment that day-that is, another hero of the story appeared.
Whether it is Karen Mok's performance that she can see things that others can't, or the weird atmosphere created by the director, the audience believed that Ren Xiaoyan was a patient at first, and everyone followed Xu Ruining to try to uncover her secret. Until the audience saw two people in a dream, Ren Xiaoyan pushed Xu Ruining into the water. Everyone guessed that the patient was Xu Ruining.
I have to admire the director's narrative skills. I can touch the audience's mood through his lens and see who the person who needs to be cured psychologically and what kind of story happened behind him.
The film also shows hypnosis techniques in detail, including Xu Ruining's and Ren Xiaoyan's concentrated hypnosis techniques, the body's reaction after hypnosis, and the scenes created during hypnosis. People who are interested in psychological hypnosis can find a lot of research information from this film.
In addition to showing his shooting skills and narrative skills, the director will be deeply impressed by that line after watching the movie: "No one can forgive you, only you can forgive yourself." The so-called guilt that can't be forgiven for a lifetime is that you don't want to untie that knot.