I remember that when I was in the second year of high school, I borrowed from the same table "Adult Grimm's Fairy Tales". It said that the reason why Snow White’s mother wanted to kill her was because Snow White had a strong Electra Complex of possessing her father. He desires to have sex with his father, and all the prince who wants to move away the dead princess lying in the coffin is because he has necrophilia. I immediately yelled that I was deceived when I was a child. "The Grimm's Fairy Tales" turned out to be a blushing and shameful collection of stories full of controversial plots of sexual intercourse, pregnancy, and incest. During the cultural heyday of Kant Schiller, farmers in the German countryside were watching this stuff. But having said that, no era will be outdated when this book is obtained. The director of the film, Park Chan-wook, must be a loyal fan of "Adult Grimm's Fairy Tale". After the "Old Boy" that made people sick all night and nightmares, he launched "Stoke".
The lonely girl Indy Stoke lost her father on her 18th birthday and was depressed, but when her uncle Charlie entered her life, her Electra complex was replaced by an uncle complex, and she quickly became infatuated. On the mysterious and handsome uncle, at the same time she began to jealous of the ambiguity between her mother and uncle. When her uncle strangled the male companion who was trying to possess her in order to protect her, she fell into an inextricable pleasure, and this pleasure also brought her confusion and fear. Later, she discovered that her uncle had been paying attention to her all the time for 18 years, writing to her from all over the world, and sending her a pair of black and white leather shoes every year on her birthday. When one of the letters fell on the ground, She discovered the secret of her uncle.
It is said that the film was inspired by Hitchcock’s 1943
, Korean directors seem to care more about the handling of each shot than Hitchcock’s efficient plot advancement. Some treatments are appropriate, but personally think that it is more pretentious, and even a small part of it to a maddening degree, Virgo's fault. For example, on the first few nights of Uncle Charlie’s appearance, he made dinner and had bloody steaks. The three of them looked at each other at the table. The actor consciously waited for the next shot from a different angle after saying his lines (or after an expression). The cutting in and slowing down the performance of the actions and lines. This extremely unnatural sense of rhythm destroys the smoothness of the suspense movie, which makes people feel that the director is making music MTV. The night the uncle flirted with his mother had the same problem. The scenes that put too much emphasis on switching shots and slowed down the progress of the movie constantly remind the audience to "pay attention to the big bad wolf". In addition, Director Park also pursues visual effects, such as the garden like Alice in Wonderland at home, Stoke’s mother room is like a greenhouse flower room, and the high-end mental hospital like the museum where his uncle is. These hazy film-like pictures The audience's attention shifted from the lines, and logically speaking, the lines of mental illness films should be the center of the characterization. It is a pity that the stunning lines: "we are not responsible for what we have come to be; sometimes you need to do something bad to stop you from doing something worse" are diluted by gorgeous pictures.
Asian directors who bravely ventured into Hollywood seem to be prone to this kind of "excessive" problem. They are too pursuing the method of storytelling and ignoring the story itself, and regretting that they are too pursuing the form and cutting off the integrity of the story. I think that the 17 pairs of shoes arranged in an arc at the beginning are the evidence. Why did my father lock up all the things about my uncle, but send the shoes that my uncle sent to Little Stoke on his birthday every year. From my point of view, the director is completely It is for the visual effect of the shoes (can anyone give me another reasonable explanation?). "The New Yorker" referred to Director Park’s style euphemistically as "Purple-prose", while "The Guardian" more directly called it "Over-emphatic". (Excessive force). However, compared to director Chen's 2002 "Killing Me Softly" in similar horror suspense, this one is not too hard.
In addition, Director Park chose a few good actors and stylists, Mia Wasikowska's inherent gloomy temperament and sober-to-the-limit dress, Nicole Kidman's newly injected pink lip glue that looks like a 20-year-old beautiful girl, Matthew Goode's brown sweater sets off blue pupils like glass marbles. The frozen maid in the freezer reminds me of Sheryl Lee in David Lynch's "Two Peaks". These elements are superimposed to make the film visual There is a sense of gothic drama on it. In addition, Matthew and Nicole are both extremely beautiful actors. They walked in and out with long legs in various exquisite costumes so that boring audiences can watch them as fashion movies.
If you want to give Samsung the biggest motivation, it is because of the original soundtrack. Variations from the music box, arriveThe dark piano sound on stage, followed by the succinct repetition of the piano duet by master Philip Class, makes the climax of the movie and the orgasm of the girl Stoke perfectly blend in the melody of the flowing water, and then the girl’s performance in Vivaldi(Flame is burning) get violent pleasure, and thenA piano solo rose up in the string symphony, and finally the film subtitles were in Emliy Wells The explosive voice flows from bottom to top. This is the best original sound I have enjoyed in a movie theater in recent months (the last time was 007 in October last year). The soundtrack master Clint Mansell from Coventry, the island country, is once again aurally stunning after the gods composed "Requiem of Dreams".
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