【The world view of Silent Hill】
"Trinism", "Dualism" and "Dualism"
Anyone who has seen Silent Hill should probably feel that there is more than one space in the movie. Regarding the question of how many spaces there are in Silent Hill, there are generally three views of "death theory", "dualism" and "triple theory". Viewers who are "dead" (that is, believe that Silent Hill is "the underworld" and that the person entering Silent Hill has actually died in the car accident in the title sequence) may "didn't understand" the movie or were subtitled by a mistranslated line - "You are all dead" (actually "You are all cursed") misleading. "Trinity" is a widely supported view, and some articles briefly and vividly summarize the three worlds of Silent Hill with the words "Yellow Chengcheng", "grey" and "black lacquer". But I think that although there are three worlds in Silent Hill, the term "triadism" is inaccurate.
First of all, we can distinguish what the three worlds of Silent Hill are:
1. The real world: It is the real world. In this world, Silent Hill is an abandoned town, that is, the world of "Huang Chengcheng". This is because most of the real daytime in the movie adopts a kind of warm sunshine. tone.
2. "The world of the table": the "grey" world, the world in which the heroine Rose wakes up after a car accident and finds herself in a world that looks like winter and is actually a demonized Alai. The world created by Alessa with the power of evil traps all those who "deserved" in it.
3. "Inner World": that is, the "dark" world, which is the world that has been transformed from time to time after the external world has sounded the alarm. It is a bloody, dirty scene and various monsters appear, which is actually Alessa's heart. A reflection of pain and repression and controlled by its evil powers and emotions of hatred. Both the surface world and the inner world are concepts borrowed from the Silent Hill games.
There seems to be no problem with the existence of three worlds. But after analysis, we will find that if we look at it from the perspective of "dimension opposition", there are only two spaces of opposition. Before that, let's look at a concept: dualism.
"Dualism" as a thought in philosophy usually refers to the recognition of two fundamental, indivisible and distinct elements, which conflict or complement each other, and which are subdivided into the application of these two basic elements to "Dualism in the sense of epistemology" in cognitive activities and "dualism in the sense of metaphysics" used to explain all objective phenomena in a broad sense. "Dualism" itself is also a product of the self-negative development law of Western history and culture since modern times, and it is a denial of Christian spiritualism in the Middle Ages.
The world of Silent Hill itself has a dualistic opposition between the inner and outer worlds. In this way, adding the real world, it seems that the "trinity" is established. But the opposing worlds inside and outside cannot be opposed to the real world at the same time. Because the world of Silent Hill is either the outer world or the inner world, and the two cannot coexist with each other, so either the real world and the outer world coexist and oppose, or the real world and the inner world coexist and oppose, and the real world cannot exist. A situation in which the world, the outer world, and the inner world coexist and oppose each other. It needs to be explained that the church in the inner world is only because of belief that monsters cannot enter. It does not have the characteristics of representing the world, so it does not represent the world, but only a special place in the world. The basement of Sha's hospital is just a special place in the surface world. Just because there are monsters and black paint in the basement of the hospital can't be regarded as the surface world, because there are monsters in the surface world, and the basement is naturally dark without light; The creation and formation of the inner and outer worlds in the game "Silent Hill" are different from those in the movie, and cannot be used as a basis for interpreting the movie "Silent Hill". So it can be concluded that there are indeed three worlds in Silent Hill, but from the perspective of "opposition", there is only binary opposition. Therefore, the worldview in Silent Hill is a "dualism" in which there are three worlds, or it can be considered that there are actually only two worlds: the real world and the changing world of Silent Hill. As a Western horror film with religious themes, "Silent Hill" has not broken away from the laws of dualism.
In fact, this binary opposition in the film was already hinted at at the beginning of the film, that is, the scene where Rose's daughter Sharon almost fell off a cliff when she was sleepwalking, which constituted the opposition between the upper and lower, the water and the water. , the opposition between the real world and the illusory world, the opposition between the good Sharen and the evil side of Alesha, and even the original underwater world has the opposition of water and fire like fire in the illusion. When the scene of Alessa's evil side falling from the cliff at high speed appeared, I admitted that I was really scared. Although it is said that this stop scene only lasted 0.7 seconds, but the terrifying smile is really shocking, it's really hard Imagine the image of the lovely Alyssa as the same little actor as this terrifyingly evil Alyssa! I really have to admire her acting skills!
【Three Alyssa】
Regarding the role of the "little girl" in the film, some people may not be able to sort out the relationship between Alesha, Sharen and other characters. With reference to some accepted conclusions, we can clearly see that there are three different forms of "Alesha".
1. Alessa: The little girl who was burned at the stake more than 30 years ago is also the "ultimate monster" who was slaughtered in the church later. From her later figure, it can be known that she has been growing.
2. The evil side of Alyssa: the figure who caused Rose's car accident, and has been guiding Rose to track and solve puzzles. The little girl who disappeared in the form of burning and merged with Rose in the basement of the hospital. The blue-purple school uniform that Sha wore back then appears. She is the embodiment of the evil force image of Alesha, born of the extreme fear and hatred in the hospital after she was severely burned, and she gave Alesha the power of the devil.
3. Alessa's good side: that is, Rose's daughter Sharen, who was born by Alessa in the form of childbirth, and sent by Alessa's evil side to a monastery in the real world, and was adopted by Rose (by Alessa's evil side). This learns that Alyssa's evil side has the ability to travel freely between the three worlds). According to the fact that Alesha was raped, some people think that Sharen is Alesha's biological daughter, which is simply a lack of basic life logic: it was impossible for Alesha to be fertile at the age of Alesha at that time. In addition, according to Sharen's age Look, Alyssa can't have another child after 20 years of pregnancy, and Sharen's repeated sleepwalking to return to Silent Hill is called by a mysterious force to go back and "combine" with Alyssa's evil side.
[-The humanistic connotation in Silent Hill]
A large part of the humanistic connotation of Silent Hill comes from the existence of religious elements. Just when Rose was frantically searching for Sharen at the beginning and finally hugged her husband who came over, a lit cross appeared in the background of the picture, why didn't something else come out there? Like a Ferris wheel with lights on? A building with lights on? Because this is meant to be a hint, telling you the religious subject matter involved in this film. And a sign that appeared on the way Rose took Sharen to Silent Hill, the camera stopped on it, and the content on it was, "Do you not know that we will judge angels? Do you not konw that the saints will judge the world? ( Don't you know that we are going to judge the angels? Don't you know that the believers are going to judge the world?)" These sentences are originally the content of the "Bible 1 Duolingo", the original text is "Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! Are you not worthy to judge this smallest thing? Don't you know that we are going to judge angels? What about the things of this life?)" This is a foreshadowing of the prospect of them going to Silent Hill, and being "judged" by a group of self-religious bigots , but in the end it is suggesting that the end of the whole film is the judgment of the devil on the believers. Those who think they are righteous for evil will eventually be abandoned by God - don't tell me you didn't notice that the shape of the sign is a book Book, don't tell me you didn't think it was the Bible when you saw the shape of the book! There is also a shot of the text on the door frame when Rose was at Silent Hill School: "The foes of the righteous will be condemned. "This is the content of the "Bible Psalms", the original text is: "Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned (evil will kill the wicked; whoever hates the righteous will be condemned)." "Needless to say, the fate of those who think they believe in God will be convicted and judged, and the audience has once again been informed in advance.
From the movie, we can know that Silent Hill is a town that was abandoned in November 1974 due to the fire of an underground coal mine. Up to now, the underground boilers and mines are still burning with raging fires, so the air of Silent Hill is floating with deadly deadly fires. pollutants. This is not obvious in the real world. In the watch world, it appears to be falling "snow", but Rose later discovered that it was actually falling "coal ash". And how does the "Revelation of St. John" in the Bible describe "hell"? "It is a perpetual lake of fire, whose air is from scourge coals, and its light from flickering flames. The night is dark, and the place of the cursed is serpent. Their hope is despair. Ah, eternal death! Lifeless Life! Ah, endless pain!" In the "Bible Gospel" Jesus' description of hell also has the words "fire is unquenchable".
The broken walls, the rusted pipes and doors, the iron staircases, the turning fans, the clanging metal clangs and the smoke or steam from nowhere seemed to exist only in iron black and fiery red. The oppressive environment of two colors is the reproduction of the industrial age of big machine production! This is all a rendering of the post-industrial art style of the film to the declining industrial era with a sad image of the end of the world.
For "Silent Hill", the artistic style of the post-industrial age is only its appearance, and the religious metaphor in the "Bible" is its essence. After the inner world was opened, what the believers in the church prayed to prevent was the arrival of the "Doomsday Judgment" in the Bible, or the so-called "apocalypse" in the movie.
【monster】
The monsters in Silent Hill are also a major attraction. Their appearance and features are all the manifestations of the severely burned Alesha's image of fear, pain, hatred, and anger. No matter in the movie or in the game, these monsters are not the product of "how ugly and how to design" just to cause terrifying visual effects. The religious connotation and sexual implication are enough to make these monsters worshipped by Freud believers !
The first terrifying sight that Rose saw after entering the inner world was an object on an iron bed. I looked at it several times and couldn't tell what it was. Specifically, it was a person who died horribly. That's right. A restoration of the game scene. Rose later discovered that the barbed wire wall hung a cultist (who was still alive) in a "protective suit". If I'm not mistaken, he has a broken hand and he is hanging there in the form of a cross (again a religious implication). The monsters that appeared next, which were still in the state of half-burning wreckage, were actually the classmates who bullied Alessa at school, from the perspective of their size and the sound of screaming like children. After the fire caused by the evil power possessed by Alyssa was charred, she existed in the inner world in the terrifying way of this monster.
The second monster to appear is called "Tights" by gamers, and is the only monster to appear in the table world in the movie. From the red blood it spewed out when she was shot dead by policewoman Sybil, it was basically a human being trapped in his own skin. It is said that when shooting this monster, it was also made by a real person wearing an armless bodysuit and then using a computer to synthesize it. This monster is a portrayal of the painful psychology of the male protagonist in the game "Silent Hill 2", who has been bound by himself around his sick wife for many years. There can also be a reasonable explanation for moving here. Because Alesha was also forcibly restrained when she was burned at the stake.
The monster that climbed out of the toilet was the cleaner Alesha was bullied by her classmates and then raped her after hiding in the toilet. The name Colin on the identity card was used twice in the movie to imply his relationship with the monster. The monster is bound with barbed wire in a twisted form, which should be Alesha's revenge for her rape. The monster's eyes were covered with barbed wire as punishment for Alyssa looking at Colin's body when she raped her. Only the infusion bottle on the monster feels strange, or it may be a respect for the details of the game. When the monster crawls, there will be vine-like blood vessels where its arms reach, accompanied by poisonous bubbles. Its constant "sticking out its tongue" is a sign of sexual suggestion, and according to its way of crawling with its legs hanging high, With each crawling, the genitals were rubbed so badly that it was Alesha's revenge for him to suffer so much.
In Rose Yuri's footage, there are many corpses of adult males hanging upside down in cages. Why are they all grown men? I can only explain that Alesha is an illegitimate daughter, she has no father since she was a child, and Suyi rarely contacts men. Later, she was raped by a man, which caused her to develop a sense of distrust and hatred for men. . As Rose descended the stairs, I discovered that one of the male corpses had no genitals (cut off?), and perhaps this is the reason why Alessa took revenge on the man. It is also because of this distrust and hatred that Alysha did not pull Rose's husband into the world of Silent Hill. And those corpses that were hung upside down actually have easy answers in the book of Peter's Revelation in the Bible. The people who are punished in hell described there are punished differently for different sinful reasons, but being "hanged" or "hanged upside down" is a very common one. In fact, the inner world of Silent Hill is "hell"!
Later, the troubled Rose encountered a swarm of scarab beetles or monsters known as "human face bugs". The three cultists who didn't have time to escape were eaten by the bugs, and it seemed that they were wearing sturdy protective suits. Not too bad, at most it should be able to resist the venom sprayed by the "tights" monster in the lower table world. Regarding the origin of these bugs, some people think that Alesha was bitten by a beetle when she was seriously injured or felt like she was bitten by a beetle In fact, these are all without any basis, at least there is no such plot in the movie. It seems far-fetched to think that the bug is Alesha's former classmate, and I don't really see how the beetle's face looks like a human face. These bugs are scarab beetles, which are considered to be the incarnation of the sun god Cohopra in ancient Egyptian mythology (of course, there is more than one sun god in ancient Egyptian mythology), because the ancient Egyptians saw the sunlight reflected by these jet-black beetles and thought that They are the incarnation of the sun god. Some people think these worms are corpse worms and not scarab beetles, which is not contradictory, because the ancient Egyptians did pour the worms, which were thought to protect the body from evil spirits, into the coffin. Another meaning of beetles in ancient Egyptian mythology is "resurrection", and in the film they represent the hatred of Alesha "resurrected" after she was almost dead at the stake. Or you can try to figure out the religious metaphors of these bugs. Jesus’ description of hell in the “Bible Gospels” mentioned that “worms are immortal” in hell (scarabs can be resurrected with the transformation of the world of Silent Hill.) In the Bible, Peter's Revelation even writes that those who persecute the righteous will "stand in flames" and be "devoured by undead worms", while murderers and accomplices are "thrown into A small place of vermin, tormented by those creatures, writhing in agony. Black clouds of vermin come upon them frequently. The souls of the murdered stand by, watching their foes punished and punished against them Said, Lord, your punishment is extremely just." Does the above remind people of the scene when the three believers were eaten by scarabs? Which of these people was not the murderer who wanted to burn Alessa, and which was not the accomplice of Ghristabella?
The next appearance is the "big iron head" monster with great visual impact. This symbol represents the protagonist's own violent tendencies and self-judgment for sins in the game "Silent Hill 2". It is said that its typical feature "triangular iron head" comes from the image of an executioner in a prison during the American Civil War in the history of Silent Hill. . In the movie, this monster who walks in the inner world with heavy steps and kills people when it sees it is really terrifying and shocking. The triangle on its head is the most stable structure in geometry, but in psychology and aesthetics, it is a symbol of "extreme instability", "violence" and "irritability". The sturdy body with strong male characteristics expresses Alesha's desire for revenge. The reason why Alesha will be bullied, raped, and burned by her classmates and cannot resist is because she thinks she is a weak girl, and Such a powerful shape is just in line with the conditions of Alyssa's revenge. Someone once regretted that the weapon of the triangle head in the movie was replaced by a large sword from the very sexually suggestive spear in the game, but I don't think this is necessary, because according to Freud's theory, not only the spear, everything Long, raised, raised, hard and piercing objects, especially weapons themselves, are highly suggestive. In the plot of Rose and the policewoman Cybil hiding from the iron-headed monster behind the iron door of the hut, when the iron-headed monster "stabbed" the iron holding the two "women" with a very sexually suggestive knife When the big knife that had "entered" the irons was "stirred" back and forth, the "big knife", "house", "iron door", "hand" and "door latch" where the big iron head came in were even put The few scarabs that came in themselves took on the ambiguity of Freud's sexual suggestion. Then think of the big iron head in front of the church door because Anna once threw a stone at Alesha's biological mother and torn Anna in half, you said that you can tear the iron head monster if you want, Why strip off Anna's clothes and then tear them up? When Big Tietou picks up other people's clothes, there is a bit of rape charm. Is this Alesha's revenge for being raped? Floyd is smiling again...
As far as that big knife is concerned, it seems that the Bible will also have a share of the pie. In "St. John's Revelation", it is written that in the last judgment, the Lamb (this refers to Jesus, can it be a metaphor for the weak Alyssa in the movie?) opens the seven seals and slants out anger (this is consistent with the movie) , released four people, the first was given a "crown" (iron triangle?), the second was given a broadsword... It seems that this time, God is going to smile with Freud.
The group of nurse monsters was originally the product of the long-term repression of the male protagonist in the game "Silent Hill 2" or the product of Alesha's dislike of the hospital in "Silent Hill 1". In the movie, it can only be explained that Alesha got the When the evil forces were extremely angry, they killed all the people around them and turned them into monsters. From the film, we can also know that the fire in Silent Hill did burn some innocent people to death. The red-clothed nurse who had no eyes was out of curiosity and saw Alesha after being seriously injured. After Alesha had her eyes gouged out, she has been taking care of Alesha's life. Nurse monsters use sharp weapons to kill each other is not cannibalism, but the reaction of feeling that there is someone around but because of lack of light (it is said in the film that they only respond to light), and the movements of these nurse monsters when they walk are affected. Known as "spasmodic ballet", they are said to be played by showgirls and jazz dancers.
In the slightly "gorgeous" slaughter of the church at the end, on the church floor corroded by the blood of Rose (or Alyssa's evil side), the real Alyssa emerged from the dark red fire and steel equipment. underground appeared. When she killed the leader of Kress, she could clearly see that the barbed wire that first penetrated her body was inserted from under her skirt and directly penetrated her lower body, which was another obvious sexual suggestion. From Kress's blue-purple dress that matches the color of the uniforms of the school where Alesha is studying, we can know that Kress may be a teacher in that school. If you want to promote a religion, it is entirely possible to start with the children. Yes, not to mention that there are no religious schools in the West. So that means that the children think that Alyssa is a witch. In addition to the "parental indoctrination" mentioned in the film, it is very likely that she was instigated and ordered by Teacher Kress. Among them, Kress closed the door and pushed away a few curious students when she was talking to Alyssa's biological mother. From this, she learned that the place where they talked was the school, and who could summon the parents at the school, besides the teacher? And it was precisely because the students were instigated by Kress to bully Alessa that she hid in the toilet and was raped. Therefore, it is completely known that Alessa killed Kress in this way as revenge for her actions that led to her being raped. In the end, Alyssa divided Kress in two, just to let her know the feeling of Alyssa being burned at the stake and painfully split into a good body and an evil body. The massacre in the church is the embodiment of Judaism eschatology and Teutonic Christianity's concept of the Last Judgment Day. Perhaps walking into Silent Hill is the opening of the Bible. A tentative interpretation of miscellaneous items in "Silent Hill":
1. The real world and the external world in Silent Hill, the real world and the inner world can be connected in a certain way. Here you can get the phone call from Rose to her husband, the policewoman's call for help from the headquarters, and the husband smelling Rose's perfume. Taste know.
2. Alesha pulled Rose and the policewoman into the Silent Hill surface world space with mysterious power through the car accident caused by her evil side, which can be proved from many relevant materials. It is very likely that the female cop was deliberately pulled into Silent Hill by Alessa to protect Rose from completing her mission. The reason why the policewoman followed the mother and daughter was that the policewoman had gone to Silent Hill to investigate the case of a murderer who stuffed a boy into the ventilation duct of a coal mine, and then suspected the combination of adults and children who wanted to go to the abandoned town. I don't support the fact that there was a plastic female model next to Kress that was an allusion to a policewoman. I think the reason for this idea is because the policewoman has short hair and the plastic man just doesn't have hair, so it looks similar. , and it would be better to say that the plastic is alluding to Kress herself, the "puppet" who is controlled by Silent Hill without knowing it.
3. Pay attention to the name of the policewoman, Sybil, which is "Cybil" in English. At first glance, it looks like a common English name. But the word "witch" in English, in addition to the commonly used "witch", there are two words, "sybil" and "sibyl", which means witch, female fortune teller and female prophet. Did you find that the first word in these two words is only one letter apart from the policewoman's name "Cybil" and their pronunciation is the same? And the second word "sibyl" just swaps the two letters "y" and "i" in the middle of the first word "sybil"? And it's pronounced the same as "Cybil"? That said, the policewoman's name itself is "witch" or is set to be a homonym of "witch", which is another hint that the policewoman Cybil was burned to death (consistent with the way witches were executed).
4. The real world conversion and the appearance of monsters in the table world will cause noise in electronic products such as radios and mobile phones. This is a restoration of the game, and there is no scientific explanation.
5. The metaphor of the fan that often appears in the inner world: one is the ventilation equipment necessary for industrial production itself, it is also an element of post-industrial art style, and it is also the source of the suppressed industrial operation sound of the inner world, and it is also the "meat grinder" to the inner world. ” hints, and there are religious views that the running of hell is the reason why the “iron wheel” turns back and forth.
6. The alarm tool used by the believers to switch between the outer and inner worlds is the bird in the cage, which is also the tool used to monitor the carbon monoxide content of coal mines today.
7. The world of Silent Hill in the film is surrounded by cliffs, which is why people trapped in this space cannot escape. Even if you can run out, the other place is the outer world and the extension of the outer world, and it will turn into the inner world, so it is better to stay in the church and take refuge.
8. Do not support the "DRUGS" (meaning drugs, also refers to drugs) under the title NATHAN Hotel is a hint to the town's drug trafficking. This is the plot in the game, not explained in the movie. This is at most a restoration of the game, and if it is implied, it can only imply that the believers' belief in their religion is like drug addiction.
9. The male policeman who appeared in the film was the one who rescued Alesha from the stake in Silent Hill. Because he was a good person, he was not trapped in the space of the Silent Hill world by Alesha.
10. Why must a knife that Rose got lost in the jump? I'm still thinking about this, but many people on the Internet think it's weird that there is no sound when the knife falls, and I think if there is something soft on the ground below, it's normal to have no sound.
11. The mailbox number that Rose received the painting was 111. Later, she found the room behind the burning painting in the hotel (that is, the room where Alessa was burned at the stake), which is also 111, an obvious hint.
12. When the policewoman escorted Rose off the elevator, she fought with several believers in protective clothing. She once beat a person through the protective clothing until the head spurted blood. Such a person could get up again and beat the policewoman. , I don't think Schwarzenegger does either! Firmness is a hard injury!
13. It's not clear how this should be explained: the film has already told that Alyssa has the evil power to cause the fire to make Silent Hill abandoned in 1974, Rose came to Silent Hill in 2006, and there have been 32 years in between. But from the 32 years before and after the appearance of Kress in the film, we can find that she has hardly changed, which means that the people who may be trapped in Silent Hill have stopped, because from the dilapidation of the Silent Hill table world building, we can see that if not This is not the case with age. And it is impossible to think that Anna is Alesha's former classmate, because she is only in her twenties, she is definitely not like someone in her thirties or forties. She may not have been born in 1974. . And Alesha can only pull the believers who have persecuted her into her space, so it seems that the believers have stopped growing since 1974, and it is strange that the body of Alesha at the time of the final slaughter is already an adult It can be seen that she has been growing. The question is that even if people don't grow, the people in the film still have to come out to find food. In an environment like Silent Hill, any planting and food processing are impossible. We also see that Anna is looking for some old food. Canned food left over from Silent Hill. But be careful! What cans have a shelf life of 32 years? How many cans in Silent Hill can last that many people for 32 years? And where did the people in Silent Hill get their water from? The waterworks must be in ruins, and the film says that the river by Silent Hill is also cut off by a cliff. It seems to rain in the inner world, but is the rain in the inner world drinkable? Even if you can drink it, can you serve so many people? Will the rain in the world disappear as the world transforms? If the people of Silent Hill are "postponed" rather than "stopped" to explain the age of the believers, what about the male policeman who rescued Alessa? Suppose he was only 20 years old in 1974, and he was 52 years old in 2006, but in the film he is only in his thirties at most. How can his age be "delayed" in the world where he is not in Silent Hill?
14. Rose drove Alessa home. Although she left Silent Hill, the world was still gray, and the bustling gas station on the way to Silent Hill was empty. When returning home, the movie uses the repeated appearances of Rose in the gray Silent Hill and Huang Chengcheng's real world to illustrate that Rose is actually trapped in the surface world of Silent Hill forever. The reason is very simple, the Sharen at that time was actually the person after Alesha's evil side merged with Sharen through looking at each other, or in other words, Sharen no longer existed. Didn't find that Sharen had an adult look after returning home, and it was as if she had never been to her own home. She felt a sense of curiosity after entering the house? Alessa felt the real maternal love from Rose because she was once abandoned by her biological mother, and wanted to keep Rose trapped in the world of Silent Hill forever to enjoy her mother's love alone! And the action of "Sharen" sucking her finger after getting in the car was using a mysterious power. After she sucked her finger, the car that could not be started started. Some articles think that the car "flyed" out of the cliff. I don't think so. From the picture of the car passing the cliff, it is obvious that a bridge has appeared on the original cliff. As a result, the space that finally represented the world was extended all the way to Rose's home. I think that after the disaster, Rose actually knew that her daughter was not the original Sharen, and also knew that she would be trapped in the world of Silent Hill forever, otherwise why would she go up and try to drive this car that has been driven before but But what about the ineffective car? Rose also knew that Silent Hill was surrounded by a void with no way to go, so how could she dare to drive out? The reason is that she knows that "Sharen" or Alesha will not let the car fall into the cliff and will definitely let herself drive out of Silent Hill. The world was still gray and the gas station was empty. Rose couldn't have noticed it. In the end, she stared at the sofa after entering the house. She felt her husband's existence, but she also knew this "two spaces". The existence is so far away. In fact, all of this was arranged by Alesha. She sent her kind face Sharen out of the sinister place of Silent Hill to be adopted, and when she grew up to the age of being burned at the stake, she was recruited back to Silent Hill to take revenge and complete the fusion. Then enjoy the mother's love alone. -
[Themes to be expressed by Silent Hill]
1. Maternal love: It is reflected in Rose's determination to find her daughter in the face of such a difficult and dangerous environment, and Alyssa's biological mother is safe and sound both in the inner world and in the final judgment. The policewoman's phrase "in the eyes of a child, a mother is God" and Rose's reference to it, as well as the policewoman's call to her mother when she was burned to death, reveal this.
2. Post-industrial era: Like the industrial cities in the United States and even the world that have declined in the post-industrial era, Silent Hill also symbolizes the end of an era.
3. Religious reflection: Alesha was rejected by the local "cult" because of her illegitimate daughter. Similar to the bad habit of women in some parts of old China who were drowned before getting pregnant before marriage. The United States itself is a Protestant country, but there are countless "witches" burned by Catholicism in Europe in the Middle Ages. Countless innocent people were burned at the stake in various names, becoming victims of religious fanaticism and ignorance. The most absurd thing is that in 1474 the city of Basel was burned to death because a rooster laid an egg (a fighter in a rooster?) and was considered a "witch"! Before the founding of the United States itself, there were also various denominations from the European continent, resulting in various religious organizations in the United States today. In the chaotic state before the founding of the United States, each denomination believed that each other was a "heretic", and as a result, more people were put at the stake because of "heresy" or "witches." Therefore, "Silent Hill" is not only a reflection of Protestantism on Catholicism, but also a reflection of Protestantism in the United States itself. Just as Alessa's biological mother said: "Our faith is our gravedigger."
4. Thoughts on good and evil: In the film, the male policeman used the mouth to say that "the devil also has his own justice". If justice destroys evil by evil means, then is it justice or evil? What exactly are good and evil? Is there an absolute standard?
5. The Land of Atonement/Judgment: This was originally the theme of the game "Silent Hill 2", and it applies here as well. Silent Hill is actually the moral bottom line in everyone's heart, and it is the self-torture that everyone will endure in the end. Those who have done bad deeds will eventually be judged, and the way to atone for their sins is to accept judgment, just like those believers in the movie, those who do evil and excuse themselves without knowing it, will suffer the final judgment of the devil sooner or later!
Silent Hill is a terrifying, depressing and charming place, I don't know why I wrote "Take me back to Silent Hill" in the title of the article, as if I have been there, maybe there is a kind of feeling in people's hearts. Mysterious appeal. Director Ang Lee once said that there is a Broken Arm Mountain in everyone's heart when he won the Oscar. If this is the case, then I think everyone has a Silent Hill in their heart. back to the place...
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