Watching this film late at night, the one-and-a-half-hour roller coaster makes people think deeply. In the face of natural and man-made disasters, all human nature is driven by interests, and family and historical relationships are fettered in an environment with strong religious connotations. Although the title of the film is called "The Witch", the witch has only appeared three times from beginning to end, but the inner prying has been shrouded in horror and darkness from beginning to end, and people have been restrained by their own imaginations.
At the beginning of the film, the father turned against the Christian church, and fled to the edge of the forest with his family, salutes the deep secret jungle, there are countless secrets and ghosts hidden in the back, the deep forest may be baptized, but it can also be Unleash the demons inside the human body. Beginning with the loss of the unbaptized baby, the father's wrong decision and arrogance were magnified infinitely. In order to show his authority, he made a fool of himself in front of his son who didn't know how to hunt, and secretly sold his wife's silver cup to the eldest daughter Thomasin. The despair brought a heavy blow to this man. The wife's complaints and lack of opinion, the human nature suppressed and distorted by the patriarchal society in the context of religion, and the torture of her daughter to release herself were also the last straw that overwhelmed Thomasin. The kind and beautiful eldest daughter Thomasin is the representative of most women in this era. Forbearance and sacrifices for the family are exchanged for the sale of the father and the suspicion of the mother. And the seemingly innocent eldest son's sexual spying and lust and self-blame towards his sister were also punished by stealing the forbidden fruit and died in prayer. The joke in the whole film is that the three- or four-year-old twins pretend to be mad and foolish, and they interfere with Thomasin's vicious remarks.
The kindest Thomasin in the whole film is the victim of the whole family. She is a metaphor for the women at the bottom of the time, who were dragged by the sins of religion, and her mother's abuse of her is a twisted interpretation of herself. The mother died on Thomasin's body, the younger brother's peeping, and the cowardice of the father forced Thomasin to finally go to the depths of the jungle. Seeing the witches around the torches, she seemed to see the deepest evil in her heart. When Xin ascended naked into the night sky, he ascended to heaven or went to hell. But the father's service and the family's care did not get the equivalent of even a trace of affection. The four children lost their youngest brother and heard that their sister was also sent to a "better place". With thought. The eldest son, who seems to be loyal and honest, snoops on his sister's chest, making him impulsive and restrained by guilt. He is also the person most affected by religion in the whole film. In the depths of the forest, he is led by a red-eyed rabbit, and the witch he meets is The most evil and fearful side of his own heart, the naked body returning to the farm is an answer and metaphor for his sexuality in the film, but it can't match the guilt in his heart, in the crazy nonsense mixed with prayer die. The mother's excessive sadness and the father's near collapse put the twins and the eldest daughter in the sheepfold, which also paved the way for his death. When the mother had hallucinations and the eldest son came back with the baby, the mother's breastfeeding expressed the deepest expression. The mother's love, but the crow pecking at the mother's breast again represents the evil of Satan. When dealing with his father's death, the director used a black goat to kill his father, which is also a metaphor for Satan, including the rabbit that the eldest son encountered in the forest, all of which are representatives of Western religious demons, which are also reflected in the film's three posters of the same series. The director is good at making use of the deepest weaknesses of the human heart, but ultimately the evil of human nature is driven by his own fears. When the shackles of religion are deeply shackled, it is difficult for the family to not be forced out. Each image is full and has its own distinctive characteristics, and the positions of the seven characters are also clearly in place, making it hard to believe that this is a film by a "novice" director, who returns to the place where he grew up - New England, according to him When I was a child, I scared the indispensable witch in my memory to reflect the inner evil of human nature in the real society and the conflict of religious beliefs. The director has a very high level of control over the entire film.
This film does not need to be compared with any horror film from the perspective of a movie. When his religious background, the interlocking music, the restoration of the costumes of the era, and the oppressive cool colors, all the atmosphere is just right to set off the whole. The trend of the plot, the demon metaphor represented by the three animals on the poster, and the masks of every detail are also exquisite horror films that have not been seen in recent years. There is no deliberate exaggeration, it is stable and restrains the thinking of the spectators, in the desire, sex, fear, cowardice, rumors, these seemingly unbearable but real lives, how should we deal with ourselves and balance, this is also the last to see us Questions you need to think about yourself.
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