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Toy 2022-04-21 09:02:07
Superbly shocking. But I don't see any horror in Wicker Man, for the mood is as far from dread or fearful expectation as it might be. There isn't a shadow in sight. In fact, it's very bright, light and joyful , full of sweet and sensual folk songs and dances - slightly freakish but happily so. Most of the action takes place in flowery, open settings, irradiated by the sun and surrounded by the sea. I never completely bought into the murder or sacrifice of young Rowan, and speculated that the...
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Clair 2022-04-21 09:02:07
The 93min version is a well-known religious horror film, but it is also completely different from other religious horrors. Persistently watching it, I was drowsy, even though the singing and dancing continued, the narrative and plot were too strange, and there was an unnamed fire in my heart: Christians or pagans, they should all be treated as cults, and all these people would be tied to pillars and burned to death . I'm only interested in nude shots, the wild night of the islanders, the dance...
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Conrad 2022-04-21 09:02:07
In addition to the good idea, other aspects are not very good. The pace of the story is especially...
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Dereck 2022-04-21 09:02:07
One of the standard textbooks for beginners in screenwriting, which clearly influenced the likes of A Midsummer Night's...
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Hailey 2022-04-21 09:02:07
The plot feels a bit procrastinated, and the only bright spot is the bee kingdom-style female series. Ironically, they all play roles that kill people without blinking an eye. The ending is surprising, but it doesn't save the entire...
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Nils 2022-04-21 09:02:07
The same script, five stars and one star, are entirely based on the core explanation, the old version of religious ideas, the conflict of religious ideas, and the creation of a three-pointed, new version of Nicholas Cage's new version of more than a dozen roads. If you have been tricked by Nicholas, you must read this old version wicker...
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Scotty 2022-04-21 09:02:07
Still one of the best pagan films. I couldn't fully understand it without subtitles before, but when I watched the subtitled version again, it became more and more classic of the film. The music is also great! Strong...
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Mina 2022-04-21 09:02:07
The Hunter is...
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Scarlett 2022-04-21 09:02:07
Very personal film. The male protagonist believes in Christ, and the villagers believe in the Son of the Sun (ms is??); the male protagonist finally said that what the villagers believe in does not exist, but at the same time he is still talking about the omnipotence of God; the villagers sing their sacrificial songs, the male protagonist The Lord sings the song of his faith. I really don't know who is an infidel... The last sacrificial lord wore a very casual clothes -- the island has a good...
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Ellen 2022-04-20 09:01:41
Such a beautiful scenery can make people shudder, and the last sacrifice of the wicker giant has...
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.
