Fracture, When Reality Does Not Correspond To The Truth

The mind has a potential that can directly influence people’s lives, to such an extent that it affects everyday actions or even conscious acts. To analyze the force it exerts on people, we can take the movie Fracture as a reference , when in reality it does not correspond to the truth.

This Netflix production is consolidated as one of the most momentous due to the controversy that arises in history itself. He has received criticism of all kinds, for and against ; What there is no doubt is that it involves the viewer directly, making him think about everything that is happening.

To delve into the story, we are going to make a more precise reflection from the psychological point of view.

Fracture, a thriller with suspense, action and tension

The story takes place in the United States. A family is going to celebrate Thanksgiving with the family and in the middle of the trip stops at a gas station. The protagonist, Ray Monroe, played by Sam Worthington, at a certain point stops paying attention to his daughter; it falls into a tank and the arm is broken.

Joanne Monroe (the mother), played by Lily Rabe, notices the accident and, between them, they help the girl. They then take her to the hospital, where the mother and daughter seem to disappear, without anyone claiming to know them after being admitted.

The film is classified within the psychological thrillers that, broadly speaking, tries to generate in the viewer a state of continuous tension, transferring the same concern that the main character feels when not knowing what is happening.

“The mind of man is capable of anything.”

-Joseph Conrad-

The reality does not correspond to the truth

The protagonist tries to find clues that show that the woman and the daughter were admitted to the hospital emergency room. In this way, the viewer can also do this process :

• The tape clearly shows how mother and daughter enter the hospital, doing the necessary procedures for the child’s admission. The father, losing the trail, begins to look for them. In this way, the viewer is encouraged to put himself in the shoes of the protagonist and also try to interpret the events.
• The very scenes that appear are realistic. It is thus certified that something strange is happening at least; that is, it is known that the father may be right, despite the fact that he is accused of being unbalanced and that it is all a possible conspiracy against him. Therefore, it is put to the test that psychology is the protagonist in the argument.

• Throughout the film, we see how the father loses control at times, with behaviors that may seem out of order to those who do not believe or know the sequence of events; However, the scenes during development do not show it, as he manages to find the wife and daughter on an inaccessible ground floor. It is here where the story is resolved, since it does not really find them, being an invention of its own that the mind has created.

Fractura challenges the viewer to choose what they have seen is true and what is just a trick on the father’s head; that is, if everything is a conspiracy against the protagonist or if everything is in his mind. It is played with doubt, the same with which the director intends to introduce the viewer into the film.

The outcome of Fracture

NOTE : we recommend that if you have not seen the movie, do so and then return to the article at this point.

In the end, everything is the fruit of your imagination. He had murdered his wife and daughter, but he preferred to create an alternative reality that was not true, in such a way that he convinces himself of the events that take place and involves the viewer in them. In this way, he suffers a psychotic break and causes a homicide, something that he does not want to recognize and generates hallucinations of which he is convinced.

According to the psychologist Cristina Blanco, a psychotic disorder can produce cognitive impairment and delusions, and can create a parallel reality. In the same way, Dr. Pedro Sánchez Escobedo, from the Autonomous University of Yucatán, certifies the realism that a psychotic reaction can suppose in a person’s mind to distort it.

This is reflected in the film. A great psychological thriller, both for the story and for the interpretation of the characters themselves, as well as for a very careful photograph, very in tune with the emotions that we may be feeling at all times as spectators.