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Andreanne 2022-04-24 07:01:06
With the memories of Midsummer Night, it is inevitable that the first 70 minutes were flat, but the reversal was really beautiful, from suspense to thriller, rough and silky, I thought the police's rigidity destroyed the atmosphere, and the last few minutes of collapse formed a strong contrast. And shocked. . Compared with the hideous-looking executioners, a group of elated people help you bathe and change clothes, singing and dancing around you and burning you to death is too scary. . British...
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Blaze 2022-04-24 07:01:06
It's so weird. They advocate freedom and nature, which is different from ascetic and serious Christianity. Christians who are considered orthodox eventually die at the hands of a group of pagans because they like...
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Marcos 2022-04-24 07:01:06
It can also be the same as "The Exorcist", the alienation of belief will never frighten the people of the Celestial Dynasty who believe in Marx's ideas. ....
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Deontae 2022-04-24 07:01:06
Mixing 35mm and 16mm is more terrifying than paganism itself, and of course once a film is labeled cult, you'll never be able to speak of a technically incomplete...
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Kamille 2022-04-24 07:01:06
On IMDB, the teen group ratings for cult thrillers seem to vary widely between males and females depending on the gender of the hapless protagonist (see Pagan, The Tenant, Vertigo, etc.). This is the effect of adolescence on the opposite sex....
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Jaclyn 2022-04-24 07:01:06
The screenwriter is Anthony Shaffer. Group sex and snail montage in the graveyard at night. If Nicholas Cage's remake of "Ghost Clues" is shit, this one is junk food that hasn't yet entered the digestive tract -- a pure misfortune straying into a different place, a pure critique of religion. (But personally I don't like this kind of...
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Rowena 2022-04-24 07:01:06
The police are a big idiot. Since no one on the island admits that Morrison exists, who wrote the letter? Does he not know how to call back and ask for support? He checked the encyclopedia and didn't see that it was possible to sacrifice to pagans? It's a little too blind and arrogant for the cop to stand on the moral high ground and confront what he considers heretics. His piety and stupidity finally sent him into the Wicker...
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Kadin 2022-04-24 07:01:06
wow late night surprise. Hot Fuzz must have learned from this film, the portrayal of the villagers, the shaping of the atmosphere, the writing of the story to the other extreme, and the British policeman who is not cool at all, but unfortunately it does not have the beauty and milk volume of this...
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Dovie 2022-04-24 07:01:06
Like, insinuating Christianity with paganism. Apples are food and a source of desire; rabbits are prolific. Heralding an age when Christianity was rampant, even those in power like the police were doomed. The stronger the resistance, the...
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Ulices 2022-04-23 07:02:05
The problem is that you have to agree with the male protagonist's religious views first, so that the ironic effect can be reflected in the confrontation between the heretics at the end of the film. If you have a negative attitude towards religion in the first place, you will feel very flat watching this film, and even a little gloating at the...
The Wicker Man Comments
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Sergeant Howie: Where is Rowan Morrison?
Lord Summerisle: Sergeant Howie, I think that... you are supposed to be the detective here.
Sergeant Howie: A child is reported missing on your island. At first, I'm told there is no such child. I-I... I then find that there is, in fact, but she has been killed. I subsequently discover that there is no death certificate. And now I find that there is a grave. There's no body.
Lord Summerisle: Very perplexing for you. What do you think could have happened?
Sergeant Howie: I think Rowan Morrison was murdered, under circumstances of Pagan barbarity, which I can scarcely bring myself to believe is taking place in the 20th century. Now, it is my intention tomorrow to return to the mainland and report my suspicions to the chief constable of the West Highland Constabulary. And I will demand a full inquiry takes place into the affairs of this heathen island.
Lord Summerisle: You must, of course, do as you see fit, Sergeant.
[ringing a bell]
Lord Summerisle: Perhaps it's just as well that you won't be here tomorrow to be offended by the sight of our May Day celebrations here.
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Lord Summerisle: In the last century, the islanders were starving. Like our neighbors today, they were scratching a bare subsistence from sheep and sea. Then in 1868, my grandfather bought this barren island and began to change things. A distinguished Victorian scientist, agronomist, free thinker. How formidably benevolent he seems. Essentially the face of a man incredulous of all human good.
Sergeant Howie: You're very cynical, my Lord.
Lord Summerisle: What attracted my grandfather to the island, apart from the profuse source of wiry labor that it promised, was the unique combination of volcanic soil and the warm gulf stream that surrounded it. You see, his experiments had led him to believe that it was possible to induce here the successful growth of certain new strains of fruit that he had developed. So, with typical mid-Victorian zeal, he set to work. The best way of accomplishing this, so it seemed to him, was to rouse the people from their apathy by giving them back their joyous old gods, and it is as a result of this worship the barren island would burgeon and bring forth fruit in great abundance. What he did, of course, was to develop new cultivars of hardy fruits suited to local conditions. But, of course, to begin with, they worked for him because he fed them and clothed them. But then later, when the trees starting fruiting, it became a very different matter, and the ministers fled the island, never to return. What my grandfather had started out of expediency, my father continued out of... love. He brought me up the same way, to reverence the music and the drama and the rituals of the old gods. To love nature and to fear it. And to rely on it and to appease it where necessary. He brought me up...
Sergeant Howie: He brought you up to be a Pagan!
Lord Summerisle: A heathen, conceivably, but not, I hope, an unenlightened one.
