On the Raising of a Witch

Marcellus 2022-04-21 09:01:43

The whole movie can be understood as the development of a witch. The play has been hailed as a rare horror masterpiece in recent years. However, because the expression is more obscure, some people say that they do not understand. Throughout the film, the color tone is rather gloomy and depressing. Even if the weather inside was sunny, it didn't feel the presence of a ray of sunlight at all.

Do witches really exist? It's the suspense of the whole movie. Presumably the vast majority of people watched this movie with the idea of ​​looking forward to the appearance of the witch at the beginning, so in the end they felt that this movie was bad. If there is a witch, I think this movie is a really bad movie, and the situation will become a family united to fight against the witch, and finally usher in the light together. become vulgar.

What is a witch? Baidu, before the Middle Ages, women have always been respected in the Germanic traditional cultural area, especially women who are pharmaceutical, medical, and can read and write. At the beginning of the Middle Ages, with the development of Christianity in the Germanic region, the church believed that according to Christian teachings, women should be absolutely subordinate to men. The church demeans and vilifies women, fabricates images of witches, persecutes women, and even burns so-called "witches" alive.

In the film, what can be directly seated is that the first family is a devout Christian who prays every day, even when encountering anything. The second is male superiority. In one episode, the father was going to look for his son in the rainy night. The mother tried to persuade him to stop it. The reason was that if the father did not return, the family could only rely on Jonathan (the youngest son, about 7 or 8 years old) to carry the burden. . The eldest daughter (18, 19 years old) is completely ignored. And the eldest daughter has been treated coldly by her mother ever since she left the youngest brother in the swaddling hands.

What is the scariest thing? people's hearts. Even the closest person, once spoiled, is a sharp dagger every minute. Suspicion, another major theme in this film. Originally it was just a joking and threatening remark, but it turned into the fact that he was a witch. The mother and the younger siblings are suspicious of the heroine, and the heroine is suspicious of the father and the younger siblings. They inform and expose each other's shortcomings. Is the heroine really a witch? It doesn't matter, as long as the mother is satisfied with the result.

Therefore, in the end, the heroine accidentally injured her mother, causing her mother to bleed from her forehead, and she felt a little panic in her heart. But when she saw that her mother was strangling herself even if she was bleeding, the heroine finally felt a chill, and she was cruel and kissed her mother with her hands. Become a veritable "witch". why? The dog jumped off the wall in a hurry, forcing it to Liangshan.

Movies are like chemical experiments. Under a specific environment or stimulus, they spy on the reaction process between people and explore the final reaction results.

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Extended Reading
  • Claude 2022-03-25 09:01:06

    Calm, restrained, unique, concise, authored, stylized... an indie horror film that brings new developments to the old genre! The director got the best shots at low cost, and the handling of the soundtrack is even more amazing, and it brought to life a strange New England story on the screen. There are many kinds of horror, and the atmosphere, mystery and weirdness are also a kind of horror, so using the expectation of cheap thriller to think that this film is not "horror" enough, in my opinion, is a misunderstanding of horror films.

  • Nils 2022-04-22 07:01:07

    It's not a horror film, it should be regarded as the overall setting of a drama film + photography adds many highlights to the film. The plot is flat and slow step by step into the horror Favorite of this kind of film is that it is behind

The Witch quotes

  • [first lines]

    William: [before the court] What went we out into this wilderness to find? Leaving our country, kindred, our fathers' houses? We have travailed a vast ocean. For what? For what?

    Governor: We must ask thee to be silent!

    William: Was it not for the pure and faithful dispensation of the Gospels, and the Kingdom of God?

    Old Slater: No more! We are *your* judges, and not you ours!

    William: I cannot be judged by false Christians, for I have done nothing, save preach Christ's true Gospel.

    Governor: Must you continue to dishonor the laws of the commonwealth and the church with your prideful conceit?

    William: If my conscience sees it fit.

    Governor: Then shall you be banished out of this plantation's liberties!

    William: I would be glad of it.

    Governor: Then take your leave, and trouble us no further.

    William: How sadly hath The Lord testified against you.

    William: [turning to leave] Katherine...

  • Thomasin: [walking gradually toward her sister] I be the witch of the wood.

    Mercy: Liar! Liar!

    Thomasin: I am.

    Caleb: List' not to her, Mercy.

    Thomasin: I am that very witch. When I sleep my spirit slips away from my body and dances naked with The Devil. That's how I signed his book.

    Mercy: No!

    Thomasin: He bade me bring him an unbaptized babe, so I stole Sam, and I gave him to my master. And I'll make any man or thing else vanish I like.