The flashback method adopted in the film, everything is obtained from the eyes of the girl Susie after her death, looking down from the road of death. The emotions in these eyes fluctuated like a plot, at first calm and cold, then surging and intense, and finally peaceful like a song. However, the background color is always a faint twilight gray and purple, just like the poster of this film, the girl runs alone under the flowers and trees in the wilderness, facing the color of the sky. The purple color looked peaceful and sad under the splendid twilight, as if it was the other side of the river of human growth, a long-term memory of the unreachable and lost in the past.
Saoirse Ronan performed very well. How fascinated Susie's eyes are - there is the clear and innocent little girl, and the ignorant temptation of the girl due to ignorance and fearlessness. However, the wonderful moment that was about to bloom happened, but it came to an abrupt end in the next moment. The delicate flowers were brutally destroyed, and it is precisely because of this that people can more deeply feel why a family collapsed after the tragedy. Among them, the father's almost frantic search is in stark contrast to the mother's indifferent escape, which makes people wonder whether the mother's love for her daughter Susie exists, or how much. But in my opinion, it's a mother's instinctive stress response. It's not that she can't search for inquiries like her father, but the woman's remaining rationality makes her see the futility of all this. She can't face the reality, because the pain of reality cannot be relieved by personal strength, she can only go to another country before she is grief-stricken.
What if it was just a dream. In the morning, the dream disappears, and the beloved daughter will return to the embrace of all those who love her.
Susie fell into a chaotic world, her life disappeared little by little, and her existence was only attached to the thoughts of the real world. But this Qiannian is as weak as a hairspring, she is like an exiled balloon, floating alone between heaven and earth. This middle world, like an overturned palette, can't wait to give her all the colors she longs for but can't enjoy, she is the big star on the cover, she is the proud commander of the beautiful planet, she is the butterfly of freedom Elf, she travels through mountains and fields, and under the crystal ice surface of the huge lake, bright red roses are in full bloom. All the good things are like chaotic flowers, gradually charming the eyes.
Some people complained that Peter's special effects were too overwhelming, but I think it was just right. The special effects showed all the colorful wishes of the girl with ease, and also conveyed some hints to the audience. For example, the red camellia, which looks bright and bright in the safe, has withered in the hands of the father in the real world. In fact, it implies that the young girl's premature death has been sealed forever and become a dry specimen. Another example is the house of the murderer that is reflected in that world like a mirror image. Behind the house stands a lighthouse made by his father. In that world, the light from the lighthouse swept across the desolate cornfields and her sojourn every night, but never entered the gloomy house. Surprisingly, the girl who accompanied her told her and the audience that Susie could only leave this embarrassing world and be reborn if she had walked into the house that daunted her.
Perhaps the director wants to tell the audience that in the journey of the soul, there is always a dark thorny jungle that cannot be reached by external love and warmth. There are always problems that we need to solve by ourselves, and this process may be accompanied by pain. Death is the end of Susie's life, but not her soul. Her soul grows and nirvana in the decision to go or stay.
In the film, the white pavilion where Susie lives is a viewing platform for Susie to communicate with the underworld and reality, and it is also another symbol of her being sheltered. This exquisite birdcage-shaped pavilion seems to give her everything she desires: warmth, light, and a lover in the middle of the waves, but at the cost of imprisoning her in a world that seems to have everything but nothing is real. Everything in the world, whether it is clean, warm or evil, has become a mirror of water, she longs for a soft kiss, but it can never be obtained, she hopes for a righteous judgment, but it is too late, she and them are parallel but cannot touch each other.
So, continue to lean on the fence alone, entangled in an unchangeable painful past, or accept it and walk away bravely?
The side branches of the film's rendering theme are also interesting. The first representative is the performance of Susie's relationship with her mother. The adolescent girl and her mother have the most delicate relationship in the world, like a grafted flower branch. The daughter is a scarlet beauty that grows from the mother's wound, absorbs the nutrition of the mother plant, and also carries the mother plant. of pride and pain. They depend on each other, but there is a slight hostility hidden in their hearts more or less. The hat that the mother handed to her daughter was a wonderful metaphor. Susie was reluctant to accept the hat woven by her mother's hand, but in the mother's eyes, it was her willingness to be a housewife at the expense of her youth and knowledge. exchange. The daughter's contempt was probably enough to arouse the mother's faint anger.
And when it comes to the flower that the murderer handed over to Susie when he lured Susie, the stark contrast between the two also points out that warmth and coldness, beauty and evil, are almost all presented in a way that does not match their insides. This foreshadowed the reason why Susie was later lured to kill. And Susie was tempted and lost by flowers, and how similar is Persephone in Greek mythology to the underworld who was tempted by Hades with pomegranate seeds! In the meantime, only the mother's sadness and love remain unchanged, and only the mother can know the pain of the arm being broken. In the film, she said to everyone in Susie's tone: "When my mother came to my room, I realized that I had been waiting for her. I had waited too long, and I was afraid that she would not come."
Then there is Susie . A crazy grandmother who appeared in fashion after she disappeared. Some people say that her appearance is a snake's foot, which subverts the tone of a good film into four different things. I don't know if it is surrealism, a thriller, or an absurd comedy family film. The effects of these are noncommittal, but in my opinion, this is the nature of life. We cannot use any one word to define it, because it is inherently variable. All sentient beings are crappy actors, and only when they open up everything can they be good and take home their own Oscar.
In addition, I would like to praise the director's sophisticated technique in handling the rhythm of the drama. When Susie was killed, it was a warm moment for the family to reunite, but at the other end of the school, in the direction away from home, the girl withered in loneliness and fear. Let onlookers watch heart-wrenching pain; while Susie wanders in her fantasy, her family is crying for her. The confrontation between the younger sister Lindsay and the murderer Harvey when she steals the diary is thrilling and exciting.
"My name is Salmon and it sounds like salmon.
I came briefly and then left.
I wish you all a long and happy life. "
Salmon, that is a kind of fish that can grow up after going up against the current and going through hardships and dangers.
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