Such an unreasonable thing is the truth in this family.
Parents keep their grown-up children in a large garden. The children have never stepped out of the garden. The outside of the garden is an unknown and fearful existence for them. The children's physiology has matured, but their psychology stays in their childhood. The father believes that this is their utopia, and all undesirable things must be eliminated, but he brought prostitutes from outside to meet the needs of his son, and even made his eldest daughter incest with his son in order to keep the family completely closed.
In this paradise, the father has the supreme right, and the mother, as a vassal, obeys the father’s words. They try to maintain the isolation of the paradise, brainwash the children, and do not allow them to have any contact with the outside world, let alone have their own. Thoughts-for this, he used various methods such as deception, threats, and intimidation to prevent the children from taking a step out of Paradise.
"Only home is the best. The outside world is full of unknown monsters and terrifying darkness." The children thought. They are full of contradictions: Although they are full of curiosity and impulse towards the outside world, their consciousness is deeply imprinted with fear and resistance. Father told them that only when their canine teeth fell off, they could leave home and go to the outside world-and their canine teeth would never fall off.
At the end of the film, the eldest daughter danced a crazy dance on her parents’ wedding anniversary, then used dumbbells to knock out her canine teeth in the bathroom, sneaked into the trunk of the car, and escaped the "paradise" created by her parents.
This may be a dull movie. There are only two main scenes in the whole movie: the father's factory and the children's home. Then there is the lengthy dialogue in the completely subverted worldview; at the same time, this is also a very interesting movie-at the beginning of the movie, you will hear some familiar words, but their explanations will make you feel inexplicable. The confusion gradually expanded, and people couldn't help but be driven by curiosity and plunged into this chaotic world step by step. The picture of the film is beautiful: the bright sunshine, the green grass and trees in the garden, the children play in the swimming pool, run in the garden, play hide-and-seek... It seems like being in a real paradise. However, in contrast to this is the family's abnormal survival mode and the sluggish expressions of the children. The two are subtly fused together, making all of this extremely contagious.
The film is so implicit and straightforward that totalitarianism is displayed in a wonderful face: symbolizing the father of the ruler, the mother of the vassal party, the children of the ruled people, and their only freedom-the garden. The rulers appear as parents, imprison the people in their cages, control and interfere with their thoughts and private lives, without freedom and human rights, and put the country above everything else. An ideal society like the kingdom of heaven acts as a proxy for the real society, trying to cut off all ties between the people and foreign countries. They created a so-called moral and ethical system to intervene in the people, and when their rule was threatened, they did not hesitate to use extremely dirty means to maintain stability.
Despite the pain, some people escaped. However, most people still live in this false garden, like walking corpses without knowing how sad they are.
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