The base colors of the film are the white of the snow and the black of the night. Snow, pure and cold, is the best symbol of this story.
Oscar and Ellie are two lonely travelers on the vast snow field. Oscar, who comes from a single-parent family, is cowardly and lonely, and almost no one can enter his heart. This seemingly beautiful Swedish town is like a snow field in the middle of the night to him, bullying his classmates is like a raging cold wind, and his father is the faraway North Star who can only provide hope once a few weeks , but could not walk with him and give him warmth.
So he collects newspaper clippings about crimes, stabbing trees in the middle of the night for distant vengeance, like an abandoned wolf cub.
Ellie is a young vampire on the outside and old on the inside. Her (his, the same below) cheeks were covered with two hundred years of loneliness and resentment, and her broken body hinted at the original bitterness. Her body seemed to melt into the surrounding darkness and snow, exuding a light of despair.
Twelve years, eight months and nine days of loneliness drew an unsatisfactory end when they met. The love between them is the two adjoining windows in the middle of the night, the Rubik's cube covered with bits of falling frost, and the lonely warm-colored buds on the dead branches in the snow.
Meanwhile, the old man who lives with Ellie suffers from bone-breaking loneliness. His faltering steps when he took blood, his helplessness when he was punished, and the desolate look he begged Ellie not to see Oscar, all explained the endless grief in his eyes. When he failed to collect blood for the second time, the director covered the desolation of despair and the joy of escaping in one shot. One left and one right, one sad and one happy, quiet contrast, silent sadness.
But the old man endured the pain of sulfuric acid corrosion to protect Ellie, and even gave her a last supper with himself, leaving only the mummified corpse on the snow.
In the end, Oscar and Ellie got on the train to flee into the distance. At that time, the sun was brighter than the snow - it turned out that this was a reincarnation.
So the question is answered. I still remember the restaurant the old man went to, "Sun Palace", how ironic. The elderly are voluntary and helpless.
Oscar took the stick that the old man was dragging the corpse with to defend himself, and Ellie went to him immediately after the old man died. Obviously, he is the successor.
But I still believe in Ellie's true feelings. Thinking of Ellie's pained expression after Oscar left after taking over the Rubik's Cube, Ellie's tenderness when she caressed the old man's cheek still warms her heart. And the castrated lower body she showed, and the face that became old at the moment of kissing, let people understand that she was not only a vampire, but also a child who had gone through hardships and longed for warmth.
They wanted to flee, but where did they flee?
The truth is ultimately no match for the erosion of time and the indifference of the people of the world. Years later, Oscar is just the next old man. True love turns into a terrifying love, I am afraid it is the final outcome.
The infected woman used self-immolation to tell Ellie the intolerance of human society, and their love was doomed to tragedy.
But life and death are his own choices, and Oscar chose to leave. As Truffaut expressed in "The Four Hundred Blows", perhaps the price of pursuing freedom is the loss of freedom.
Ellie longs for warmth, but who knows if there will be a lonely heart willing to snuggle with her after many years. Will she end up being a real indifferent devil?
The frozen town, indifferent people, and the contradiction between humans and vampires form an endless snow field. Can they escape? I can't bear to imagine their future, I can only quietly enjoy this beautiful bloody fairy tale.
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