Living in My Sister's Skin-Film Review of "The House at the End of the Street"

Alysha 2021-12-30 17:21:33


First of all, the "girl" with blonde hair, blue eyes and white pajamas at the beginning of the film deceived us, so we all use "Nervous Girl Killing Parents" as the premise of this horror film without any doubt, even when When the male protagonist frequently drags the basement girl home and warns her not to hurt the female protagonist, we still feel sympathy for the male protagonist. People naturally lead the plot to dog blood, but the female protagonist breaks into the basement to really solve the mystery.
I have to say that at first, I really didn’t understand the basement girl. I don’t know why she was always sneaking up to assume a murderous posture, and she was indomitable. It turned out that her purpose was not to hurt but to escape. It's a bit far-fetched, but it's far-fetched.
The male protagonist’s introverted temperament, lack of turbulence in his eyes, and even the attitude of looking down at others forever, exudes the meaning of "chuchu and pitiful" everywhere. This is also the cause of the protagonist’s "maternal proliferation", and the heroine’s mother knows that “people cannot The principle of "appearance" has repeatedly warned her daughter, showing keen "female intuition", and it is more the truth of "ginger or old hot".
The house of the male protagonist retains the layout of his childhood. Although there have been murders here, even though he smashed his parents’ heads with a hammer, he showed his nostalgia for this place with his behavior. In fact, his "sister" whom he always loves deeply is actually It’s him. This is the same as "A man loves himself the most" in The Legend of Zhen Huan. The chaos of this role is due to his neurotic parents. I am really surprised that the hero’s mother punishes his son. In this way, she did not excessively blame the son who killed her sister by mistake, but implemented a kind of "soft violence", that is, raising the son as a daughter: daughter's name, daughter's birthday, daughter's clothes, daughter's hair style. . . . So much so that the male protagonist subconsciously regards himself as his dead sister. He frequently "adopts a younger sister", not only needs to share his guilt, but also expresses his nostalgia for the family relationship. The "sister" is his guilt and warmth. The source is perhaps his only nostalgia for life. The younger sister has long since died, and the hero's soul has long since died, and his cruelty has no longer been so outrageous.
From the perspective of a horror film, this film lacks horror effects, but the psychological chill is quite strong. The male protagonist lives under the skin of his sister, which means that he is always reminded of the regret of killing his loved one, and also always Living in painful memories even confuses him, whether it is his sister or himself who died.

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House at the End of the Street quotes

  • Sarah: I know what you're doing.

    Elissa: What?

    Sarah: You're trying to save him.

    Elissa: I am not.

    Sarah: Yes, you are. That's what you do, you like to fix people.

    Elissa: Oh, yaddayadda-yadda.

    Sarah: Honey, sometimes people can't be fixed.

  • Elissa: Dawn? What are you doing up that early?

    Ryan: I sit out back and I write stuff. Like stories. You know, it's easy. I don't know, it's like - it's like at time of the day, because everyone's still asleep, all the best thoughts haven't been taken yet.