Recall the previous conversation between Lettice and the Vice Dean on the beach, when there were references to caves, and bodies washing up on the shore, and those provided the basis for Lettice's next delusion.
With great difficulty Letis finally came close to the lighthouse, as if he clearly heard Sean's voice, and saw a half-smoked and burning cigarette on the edge of the cliff, and a closer look would have revealed that at this point in time it was very windy on the cliffs, and with the wind blowing in Letis' hair, the wind was blowing to his right, and looking at the tiny cigarette, let's just say that a cigarette stood up against the cliffs in the high winds, and that the smoke was blowing in the wrong direction. Look closely at the direction the smoke is drifting and you will see that it is simply reversed from the natural winds of the time. All this proves that our Lettice is slowly starting to enter a serious delusion, a hallucination.
Seeing this cigarette butt in his hallucination, Laeddis thought it must have been left behind by his assistant, did he fall off the cliff? He looked down, hallucinations really saw Sean's body washed up on the shore, despite the danger, the good Lettice or defiantly climbed down the cliff to try to save his assistant, and look at a professionally trained soldiers, sheriffs wearing convenient pants are climbed so laboriously so frightened, I think an ordinary woman still wearing a skirt, but also with a bag of household goods, should not be able to fly over the wall! I don't think an ordinary woman with a skirt and a bag of necessities would be able to do that.
To the bottom of the cliff, of course, there is no body, because that would have been the illusion, and here from the lighthouse and very far, really can not swim over, desperate panic Lettice remembered the cave, a look up, and saw a small cave, the cave crawled out of countless countless rats.
The life habits of the rats are inserted here:
1, night and day with the sense of smell to know what food is in the, after eating a full three or two play, chasing, hungry or found a new tasty food, and then get together. Mouse
2, very flexible and cunning, afraid of people, sneaky activities out of the hole when the two front paws in the hole side of a crawl, look left and right, and indeed feel safe before going out of the hole, it likes to nest - food - water between the establishment of a fixed route to avoid danger.
3, eyesight agile most of the rats in the night activities, foraging, night activities of the rat in the dark light can detect moving objects, daytime activities of the rat better eyesight.
4, drilling skill is high, the mouse hole is very obvious, often in the wall nooks and crannies, livestock enclosures, warehouses at the kitchen.
Living environment
Besides human beings, rats are the most rapidly and successfully reproducing mammals. The moon mouse, for example, a house mouse that frequents human areas, can have up to eight litters per year, with four to seven pups in each litter. In addition to consuming or contaminating food, rats like to grind their teeth, so the packaging materials or construction equipment damaged by rat bites is quite substantial, according to statistics, the United States has a quarter of the unexplained fires, which may be caused by rats biting the wires.
Rats are easily adapted to human environments, making them a major pest. Rats are often found in sewers, toilets, and kitchens, moving back and forth between germ-carrying and clean places, spreading pathogens through their feet, body hair, and stomach contents.
It can be seen that rats generally live close to humans, where there are human food scraps to be eaten, and generally operate at night. What does it say about the natural impossibility of such a huge number of rats living in a cave by the coast? Our poor handsome Letis is beginning to experience increasingly severe hallucinations!
Since caves can have rats, they can naturally have people in them! Letis looked up and found a bigger cave, which seemed to be lit up with lights, could there be ...... desperate Letis finally got motivated and oriented, and quickly climbed towards the cave without a second thought.
On the hallucinations of psychiatric patients, we can look back at some of the TV shows and movies we have seen, often see patients with schizophrenia talking to themselves in the mirror, or to the air, and sometimes changing their tone of voice and sound, in the eyes of outsiders, they seem to be talking to the air, but in fact, they are in the conversation with their own split personalities in their spiritual world. another person. In this film, Lettice's hallucinations are concentrated in four places:1 Seeing his wife appearing in various places.2 During the interrogation of Mrs. Kearns.3 During his conversation with George in Area C.4 The section on the cliffside goes from hallucinations, to cigarette butts, corpses, rats, and next to Rachel.5 The section on the cliffside is a series of hallucinations that are not just a series of hallucinations, but a series of hallucinations. It is Lettice hallucinating hope and motivation in despair, while in actuality it is Lettice talking to his own split personality.
Lytis enters the cave, and his growing delusion causes him to see the so-called Rachel; what conversations have they had?
Lytis asks "Rachel" if she has three children, and Rachel says that she doesn't have any children, and that she's a doctor at the hospital. (Counterpoint to Lettice's own statement that Dr. Cowley said you have three children at the end of the credits, which Lettice denied outright, saying I don't have any children, and that he's currently the sheriff)
"Rachel" mentions the conspiracy on the island, and that if the hospital declares that you're mentally ill, there's no point in trying to defend yourself. (Corresponding to Lettice's own suspicions)
"Rachel" mentions that the various medications purchased on the island have made her suspicious. (In reality, these are common psychotropic drugs that Lettice takes or learns about from the hospital, and do not have magical hallucinogenic effects)
"Rachel" mentions lobotomies, which she says are horrific brainwashing surgeries that turn normal people into psychopaths, and that they can also turn American soldiers into traitors. (This surgery is real and is used to treat severely mentally ill people, and the fear of this surgery contributed to Lettice's fantasizing about it as part of the conspiracy and over-exaggerating and deifying its effects)
"Rachel" mentions that the brain has complete control over all of a person's actions, and that the brain is capable of recreating a person. (Aren't Rachel and Ted just people created by Lettice herself?)
"Rachel" mentions that this procedure was used by the Nazis and Soviets on prisoners of war. (Corresponding to the human-to-human injuries in the wars of Lettice's purpose, he was even more convinced that such injurious experiments existed.)
"Rachel" asked if Lettice suffered from migraines, sleep disorders, and hand tremors, and asked if he smoked cigarettes and took medications given to him by the hospital. A yes indicates taking the hallucinogenic drugs used by the hospital. (In fact, in this role-play, Lettice had already begun to suspect the hospital deep down, so he used "Rachel's" mouth to give himself a definitive answer, while the hand tremors and other reactions are the drug's withdrawal reaction, Lettice does not recognize himself as a psychopath, and naturally blames these reactions on some magical drug)
"Rachel" also mentions that everyone on the island knows about the conspiracy, including Lettice's "assistant" who is not to be trusted. (Lettice herself was already suspicious. During the two days of "investigation", all the strange phenomena he suspected made him almost come to his senses, but his "defense mechanism" made it necessary for him to find an outlet to explain these irrationalities, so the other personality told himself that everyone was acting, and all were plotting to harm him. He was being premeditated.)
In this conversation, Lettice expresses skepticism about some of the things "Rachel" says, which is actually a reflection of his own inner conflicts, doubts, and struggles, as one self tries to convince the other, and the one who wins is the one who firmly believes that there is a conspiracy on the island, and so he can continue to justify continuing the so-called investigation. the so-called investigation.
As he lost control of his medication, Laeddis suffered from severe migraines and light sensitivity, and suddenly collapsed on the ground. In his fainting spell, he thought he saw "Rachel" approaching him and telling him to get out of the cave, and then Laeddis woke up again and climbed out of the cave.