This movie is categorized as horror and thriller. In fact, it is a movie that combines science fiction, psychology, postmodern art, and a sense of religion. It is worth watching. Since the advent of Freud's theory of subconsciousness, people's self-recognition and expression have suddenly acquired an extremely rich and inexhaustible space. Movies can present this space in an imaginative way. "Source Code", "Inception" and this "Invasion of Brain Cells" can be more or less categorized into one category. But I am more interested in the plot of this movie. Although some people think the plot is thin, I was deeply moved by the plot. This plot level is quite rich in my opinion. Because of severe abuse in childhood, Carl Svenlow became a schizophrenic patient, and at the same time an extremely evil sadist and masochist. The most severe traumatic experience in childhood was being immersed in water by his father for "baptism." This is a cult ceremony: Carl was baptized not in the church, but in the water, and he was half-dead drowned. Carl told Catherine in his dream that in this evil ritual, everyone around him watched him drowning indifferently and indifferently, which made him maintain the sense of despair that day. Thus, in this baptism ceremony, Karl was "reborn", not from his mother's womb, but from the evil water, which gave him a devilish soul. Carl let those doll-like blonde and white women drown in the water and cleaned the bodies with bleach. It was just a repetition of the childhood baptism ritual-letting them get "rebirth" through washing. Carl's father showed him the private parts of his stepmother in front of him, and the sacred meaning of women giving birth to heirs was dispelled. In the world Carl's father presented for his son, there are no mothers or even women. Carl was beaten severely by his father because he played with a doll, and even burned wounds on him with an iron—a tool that women are good at. The shadow of Christianity can actually be seen in this movie, showing a complex religious complex. The girl who was imprisoned in the water tank in the secret room prayed desperately to the "father in heaven," and suddenly realized that she had to "self-help", so she climbed onto a slightly loose steel pipe in the water tank and breathed air with difficulty. The final rescue won time and opportunity. After being rescued, Peter Novak held her with both hands in the water, and switched between this lifting motion and Catherine's dream as a Virgin, holding Childhood Carl in the water to "baptize" him. . And this plot can respond to another important detail in the play: Catherine and Peter were chatting outside the laboratory building. Catherine said that Carl suffered severe sexual assault in childhood, so he would fall into the spirit. God is sick, but Peter said, “Someone suffers from sexual assault 100 times more severe than him, but he will not hurt anyone when he grows up.” Through the tacit eye contact between the two at this time, it can be known that the person Peter is talking about is himself. In other words, Peter actually saved his soul and became his own God, just as he saved the trapped girl at the end of the film and held her up like the "Father in Heaven." And another important plot of Peter Novak’s Father’s crucifixion is that Karl, who was pretended to be a demon in his dream, put his intestines out of his belly button on a special torture frame. To be precise, it was more like a paragraph. Umbilical cord. Later, Peter saw a picture of a cult in Carl's house, where Christ was placed on the torture frame and pulled out a section of intestines from his belly button (like the umbilical cord of a newborn baby). It can be seen that the ideal self of adult Karl is to become a demon king who can torture and kill Christ. Only in this way can he have "power" like his father, and the love of Christ is what he does not need and wants to kill. Moreover, the umbilical cord is an important organization that connects the fetus and the mother. He wants to destroy and eliminate this organization from the males (Christ and Peter) and separate them from the mother. Only in this way can the soul be "reborn." Even Peter's name has a deep meaning: Peter is one of Christ's apostles. The first scene of Peter falling into a dream is three depressed, confused, panicked, and helpless women sitting in a scorched field. This picture is the dawn of the Norwegian postmodernist painter oddnerdrum, which shows the director's respect for this work. In the original work, the three women have the same muscular lower limbs as men. What they said to Peter is also symbolic: my son fell from my hole, so what? The loss of motherhood, taboos, and religious sense has created the barren spiritual world of Eliot's "The Waste Land". Catherine is a child psychologist. She has outstanding performance in her work, not because of her professional knowledge, but because of her excellent communication skills—or rather, she has a gift for fraternity. She risked great danger to let the devilish Carl enter her subconscious world, and finally "save" Carl's soul. In the end, she defeated the adult Karl, nailed his limbs and heart to the ground, just as a pagan nailed Christ to the cross, and put the childhood Karl in clean water for "baptism." It can be seen from this that Catherine's talent is actually the ability to love and the courage to accept, which makes it easier to gain the trust and respect of children. Catherine wanted to save Carl, not by "invading" Carl’s world, but by opening up Your own world, let Karl enter-this is Christlike self-dedication. In the end, Carl bathed women in Catherine's world-also maternal love, washed away the evil beliefs imposed on him by his murderous father, and gained ultimate peace in his soul. In short, although this is a commercial film, it has various subtleties in its production. But I can’t understand why we want to put the mystical scenes in the exotic scenes of the East. Is it because European and American societies still have some kind of intolerance towards “blasphemy”, or is it more eye-catching because of this? Or is the director not enough to talk about this topic from a purely European and American religious background? The reason for not getting full marks is that this exotic dream scene is too glamorous and superfluous, and it is helpless to promote the plot.
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