Try to analyze it from a psychoanalytic point of view: as the eldest sister in the family, my sister is ignored by her parents, and she longs for love but cannot be satisfied. These longings are deeply suppressed into the subconscious. The black forest is the symbol of the subconscious. The first witch It has some characteristics of the god of death (prototype), and it can actually be understood as the appearance of the shadow (dark side) of the elder sister. It is also her own shadow that controls her and kills the youngest child first, and the younger brother enters with her. The black forest is actually a metaphor for the incestuous sexual relationship between the younger brother and her (the younger brother holds a gun to symbolize the male organ of the younger brother, and the black forest can also be a metaphor for the female genitalia), and the poisonous apple in the mouth of the younger brother after returning is even more The exact symbol (the apple is a sexual symbol in Christian mythology, the poisoned apple is poisonous sex, indecent sexual relations), then she killed her own sisters under the manipulation of the inner shadow, and the black goat died Father (sister’s inner hatred for parents attacked him like a devil; the goat’s horns symbolize aggression, and black is a symbol of depression. On the psychological level, purity and goodness are mostly reflected in light and white, while evil and darkness are represented in black, Grey, dark red to reflect), and then she killed her mother with a knife (seemingly careless is actually the embodiment of the true desire of the heart), and then walked into the black forest and was completely controlled by the shadows and turned into a witch (with a devil and death) her healthy personality is also completely dead.
The church at the beginning of the film represents the power of repression, the repression of sex, the repression of death (death) and desire (the devil), and repression cannot really eliminate these forces, it can only make them stronger, and eventually lead to perversion. Thought and behavior, and because of this, they could not bear this repression and left the church (also a metaphor for society's repression of human nature, if they do not escape, they will become rigid and become walking dead, and if they escape, it will be difficult to survive alone).
Of course, witches and demons cannot be seen in material reality, but such archetypes do exist at the psychological level. For example, antisocial personality is partly influenced by demon archetypes and demon archetypes. In this movie, witches do not want to be pure "Wizard", and similar to the witches who are influenced by devils and demons, maybe they can be called "dark wizards"? To learn about archetypes and the collective unconscious, see Carl Jung.
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