The Silence of the Lambs and The Silent Patient

Silence is sometimes the deepest wound, and sometimes it can be the greatest weapon. Whether protecting yourself or hurting each other.

The Silence of the Lambs, this book has been mentioned in many novels in the past, and it is a thrilling and bloody story in my memory. But in fact, except for the scene where Colette killed two policemen when he escaped from prison, the description was a little bloody, and everything else was restrained.

A female student in internship was assigned by the leader to do an impossible task. Maybe he meant no harm, maybe he wanted to embarrass her, or he wanted to help her get through the internship smoothly. I don't remember whether there is an explanation about Linda's background in the book. There may be, but it is absolutely rare. I don't remember anyway. No matter what the background, it is to highlight this woman named Linda, who is determined and a little stubborn, but there is no denying that she is still very smart, not only smart, but also very hard. Smart women not only know what they want, but also know how to get it.

Hannibal lecter is a thief and a big criminal in the field of mental illness and psychology. He has nine known murders, telling a real case and a real person. He admired that the American imperialists who advocated human rights did not have the death penalty, so Leda was only imprisoned, and even during his imprisonment, he shredded a nurse. Maybe he is a devil, but at least in some ways, such as treating Linda or taking good care of his nurse, he finally showed some kindness.

Linda visited Wright only to get him to talk. For his past crimes, he fell into a crazy crime period of a serial killer. Bill, a wild bull, kept killing the same type of women, peeling and dumping bodies to varying degrees. The police can only find the body, but they can't catch the hateful prisoner.

People who study psychology, perhaps the higher their grades, the more serious their psychological problems. Wright found a new way of entertainment. In exchange for Linda's past, he provided clues to Bill the Wild Bull. In fact, the clues he provided are limited, maybe just one direction. With her persistence and courage, Linda found this man and killed Bill at the last minute.

And lecter, the end of this malicious character, really made me unable to let go for a long time. He never gave up entertaining himself or pursuing freedom. He brutally killed two nurses, peeled off a policeman's face, disguised himself as an injured policeman, then shot him in the head and threw him on the top of a hidden elevator box. When the police found that the real deceased was a policeman, he got into an ambulance and killed two nurses.

As for his final destination, the novel did not explain it, but took his letter as the final report. Linda, are you sure you will never dream of those screaming lambs again? Maybe.

The story always goes on, and the ending is in reality, in your imagination. Anyway, I hope this ending is an end.

The book The Silent Patient really surprised me. In a word, its structure is ingenious. The story is divided into two lines. One is that Theo, as a psychotherapist, was influenced by a tyrannical father and a cowardly mother's family since childhood, and he was a little autistic, or had more serious psychological problems than autism. In order to cure himself, he finally became a psychotherapist. Theo is with her girlfriend's friend Kathy, and with her boyfriend who has a girlfriend. As a result, they fell in love at first sight, then had a one-night stand, and then identified each other. From determining the relationship to deciding to get married, it seems smooth and logical. But can we really die happily at the expense of hurting the other two people? It's not that I don't want to be kind. Really, such love should not be blessed.

Even if Theo became a psychotherapist, maybe he didn't cure himself successfully. The psychological trauma of childhood eventually led to his values not being changed so easily, so after Casey was found to have cheated, his thoughts and behaviors were still morbidly extreme. He doesn't want to face it. He wants to pretend that he knows nothing. He began to smoke marijuana and paralyze himself. He thought he didn't say anything, as if nothing had happened, and he could continue to live with Kathy. On the other hand, he kept reading Kathy's email, asking her whereabouts, following her for a walk and dating, and constantly trying to verify the evidence of her infidelity. Even if this is not enough, he has to confirm more, even if he doesn't really want to leave her. So when Theo followed Kathy, he not only confirmed that Kathy had betrayed him, but also confirmed the man's home address. He followed the man home, looked at his house, peeped into his life and made sure he had a wife. In his peeping eyes, he and his wife had a good relationship, kissed sweetly and had dinner together. What was he thinking during the long peeping? Anger, confusion or thinking about other things. Whatever it is, it may eventually turn into anger. Although he thinks this man's wife is as poor as he is, he doesn't really pity her, and he has never been kind to her from beginning to end.

Kathy is a dramatic actor. Maybe she loved Theo from the beginning, very much, but that beginning was destined to mean that she would also fall in love with the people she met in the future. Maybe she will transfer her love to another person, maybe because she loves him all. Who knows, whatever the reason, the ending will be the same. So in the end, she had an affair with a photographer, which seemed very exciting, but Theo only read the email sent by the computer once, and then deliberately peeked at it many times and failed, which probably showed that Kathy didn't really intend to leave him.

That photographer, his wife is a very talented painter, creating and exhibiting, quiet and beautiful. But why did he cheat? Can't stand the wife's nervousness? She is also a child with psychological trauma since childhood. Like Theo, she thought she had met a love that saved her. The more she thinks she has got everything, the more disappointed she will be. After all, human nature is selfish. When the devil gives you a choice to live, he says, I don't want to die. No problem. We can accuse him of disloyalty to love, but there is no reason to accuse him of selfishness. Faced with such a situation, how many people can make a choice calmly?

Alicia, another hero of the main line, the silent patient, tells her at the beginning of the novel that she shot her husband, shot him five times in the head and broke his head. When the police came into the room, she stood beside his body as if in a daze. Since she was arrested, she has kept silent, just painted a self-portrait and was nominated as Arctius. The goddess in ancient Greek mythology was rescued after her husband's death, but she was silent since then. Alicia remained silent until Theo became her therapist. Theo always believed that he could get her to tell the truth, and he did put a lot of effort into it. He went to her agent to know about each of her works, knowing that her agent had always had some ambiguous ideas about her or her works, or perhaps he was selfish and wanted to keep her works forever and didn't want her to recover; He went to her hometown, met her aunt and cousin, learned about her growing experience, and knew that her mother's death had a psychological shadow on her. Her mother was going to die with her, but then she heard her father say on the roof that she wanted to die, which really killed her. Then Alicia lived with the tough menstruation for a long time, and finally escaped from such an environment, thinking that she married love and ushered in a new life. In fact, she still had serious psychological problems, but she ignored them until her father committed suicide. She had a nervous breakdown and even committed suicide. Although I can't understand why this happened, it was invented by her husband. In short, she received psychotherapy. Cleverly, this personal doctor, Alicia's pharmacist in the clinic, prescribed a lot of psychotropic drugs for her, which caused her to have no mental thinking, empty eyes, uncontrolled trembling hands and drooling. Maybe he was really afraid that she would talk, and he identified himself as having treated her privately, so that he was disqualified from practicing medicine. However, Theo advised him to reduce the dosage. In order to treat her, let the patient who has been silent for six years speak and tell the truth of the murder. Is it to treat her, to show his specialty, or to prove it? This is a mystery. There is no answer to this question for mentally unsound personality.

It was quite surprising when the truth came out. Everyone thinks Alicia is crazy, and no one believes what she said is true. Everyone thought it was an illusion that she said someone was following her. No one believes her, neither does her husband, nor does her doctor. No one understood her fear without believing it. A person who has no sense of security since childhood is always in a state of tension and fear, and no one helps her. What kind of despair is that? Maybe Theo acted on impulse that day, or maybe he stared at the house for a long time before acting. Anyway, that day, Alicia was the only one at home. He went into the house and kidnapped Alicia. He didn't hurt her physically, but told her the truth and stabbed her in the heart. Then when the photographer came back, he attacked him, tied him to a chair and gave him multiple-choice questions. Theo fired the first shot at the ceiling, and the photographer thought that the masked man really killed Alicia. That shot, or before that shot, she really died. So when Theo finally killed the photographer and left, Alicia became a silent patient. . .

It's hard to understand. Maybe it wasn't all Theo who caused Alicia's tragedy, but he did give her the final blow. He turned her into a silent patient. After many years, he insisted on curing her. Yes, he cured her, and she can trust people to talk again, but she also recognized him. Theo finally didn't want her to tell the truth. He grabbed her wrist and injected an overdose of morphine.

If a psychotherapist is mentally ill, if he still smokes or smokes marijuana, it is really an unimaginable tragedy. . .