2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
I finally saw the movie "My King" (2015) starring Vincent Cassel and Emmanuel Bercot.
Kassel is beautiful. Berko plays the role of victim in a codependent relationship very plausibly. Nobody kills, beats, or rapes anyone - just a woman is slowly going crazy in this amazing relationship, where it would seem that they love her, appreciate her, carry her in their arms and want a child from her.
The film is good precisely because it frankly shows not only the invisible horror of what is happening, but also the good in the relationships of the heroes, giving the viewer the opportunity to track the algorithms for the development of codependency and some kind of personal degradation. At the same time, the main character is not presented as a monster deliberately destroying his victim. He is alive, charming, sincere and … broken - just the way he is. And he really cannot behave otherwise. It's his nature - take it or leave it. Someone considers him a psychopath, someone tends to the typical narcissist. It is very difficult to stick a label on the artistic intention of the director, but one thing is invariable - Kassel's hero is a typical representative of cluster B personality disorders - emotional, dramatic and irratic.
Another very important point - look at the psychotype of the heroine - how she behaves from the first shots, how she laughs, how she reacts to external stimuli, how she communicates with other people, what her family is, her relationship with her parents and ex-husband - yes, who is the side of the bed also matters. This, of course, is a collective image, but it very accurately reflects the behavior and needs of women who most often find themselves in such dependent relationships.
The trigger was not childish. In principle, everything can be expressed in one phrase of the main character: "I will succeed", uttered exactly in the middle of the film. This is exactly the same rake that women who live with psychopaths and others like them step on. A perverted sense of being chosen, a loss of connection with reality, a distorted perception of what is happening and an irrational fear of losing it all.
The film is dreary (sorry, I don't like French cinema), but very true. If you haven't watched, then it's worth it - at least for the sake of psychological education and the realization that highly functional narcissists and psychopaths do not run after victims and do not walk the streets with an ax. Rather, the opposite is true. It is the victims who fly into the glitter of their sociopathic charm, burn themselves and die - of course, from love.
I would be glad to receive your feedback and recommendations in the comments. If you're interested, I have a Facebook section on the tag what to watch with reviews and analyzes of psychological thrillers, which I choose based on the plausibility of the mechanisms depicted.
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