Sam Raimi later reverted to the "Spider-Man" series of mainstream movies, but it didn't interest me in comic book fans. In 2009, his "Falling into Hell" appeared in the non-competition section of Cannes, becoming a coquettish poppy among the elegant chrysanthemum-like theatrical films, diffused with a ghostly and seductive fragrance.
"Into Hell" has the values required by mainstream commercial films, that is, the price women have to pay to succeed in a patriarchal society, including all property and life, as well as the unequal identification process of family classes - only honesty can make people born in rural areas , The heroine Christina whose mother is an alcoholic is recognized by her boyfriend and mother who belongs to the upper class; she also retains the characteristics of her personal style of cult films, vomiting maggots, spewing blood, green corpse water straight into the mouth, eating flies, etc., doing her best to disgust , especially in the scene where Christina confronts the old gypsy for the first time in the parking lot, she has every opportunity to escape from the scene, but she curses "I beat you, bitch!" very "Sam Raimi".
What makes "Three Days Apart" is Sam's use of elements of psychological suspense and psychoanalysis. The source of terror and the perpetrator, the old gypsy woman, died after being cursed, but her reappearance often opens the way with her most intimate handkerchief, which is indeed quite like her character, dirty and haunted. The psychic later explained that the gypsies were blessed by the living to live forever. Therefore, the handkerchief, an object that does not disappear automatically, becomes the medium through which she can appear in the real world, which is what Freud called the "death drive", which manifests as "the phenomenon of partial self-releasing of objects". In Žižek's words, that is, "something that remains indestructible after it dies is a part of the body that makes you feel like you don't have any" ("The Pervert's Guide to Movies"). It just corresponds to the Gypsy woman's extermination teacher too. If you think about it carefully, it can't be regarded as Sam's progress. "Partial self-release of objects" is a habitual method in almost every thriller and horror film. Like the flying dead head, the stump of ten fingers will still appear. vengeful. It was Christina's boyfriend's profession, a psychology professor, who reminded me to pay attention to and interpret it psychologically, but his professional identity has no function in the film. Could it be that he was just a psychologist explaining to the police why she was mentally abnormal? As for the humiliating history of smashing the "Queen of the Sow", it reinforces her determination to stand out. The details of the director's voice-over that reads "Baby hang on" on the cat poster by the door as Lamia approaches, also reflects Sam's growing maturity. .
Favorite the penultimate passage, Christina came to the cemetery to reproduce the gothic style that Sam showed in "Ghost Man" many years ago. The soundtrack uses the faint vibrato of the organ and the rapid melody and dry tone of the violin to render the gloomy atmosphere of the cemetery (I have to mention that every time I hear Saint-Saëns' "Dance of the Skeletons", I will think of the Ash single, which also has a violin soundtrack. Pick the cemetery skeleton scene). After a battle of mud and water, Christina finally struggled to climb out of the grave when the sun was rising, like a phoenix in Nirvana, and was reborn: the boss was promoted, her boyfriend proposed, it seems that Cinderella's dream is about to come true. Audiences familiar with Sam's style, though, will know that this guy won't make it any easier for her to keep a hand. From the moment Christina and her boyfriend left the psychic home and almost ran into the old man, their fate took a turn for the worse, and they were cursed again. The old man said, "You will go to hell". There is no new life in the grave.
Looking back at the whole film, the nightmare started when Christina refused to give the old gypsy a reprieve. She has a kind-hearted nature, but on the one hand, she has to fight against the competitors who come from behind, on the other hand, she has to prove to her boyfriend and mother that she is as capable as her rival who graduated from a famous school. In the end, she has never escaped from hell. The arrangement of the ending is undoubtedly a denial of her struggle. Christina could have been Cinderella, but the price was against her conscience and became Faust, whose soul was sold to the devil. Unforgivable? Unforgivable!
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