Stoker has been criticized continuously since the Sundance Film Festival in January. I will pay special attention to the comments on the screenwriters. Many of them are surprised to find the script is very good (the original script was selected for the 2010 Hollywood movie script) The dark horse of the blacklist), but there are also many comments who are puzzled by the behavior of the characters in the play, thinking that the actions of the characters are purposeless and incoherent. I think that behavior is subordinate to the heart. To understand the behavior of the character, it is necessary to analyze the character's heart.
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India is a strange personality, gloomy, quiet girl, she is a top student at the school, which actually reflects India is very smart, askew vase on the inside of watercolor art class is easy to see her observations Strong force. And she also has the inheritance of her father's high IQ. At the dinner at the funeral, the chatting among the guests mentioned that her father received a doctorate degree from Oxford University when he was 24 years old.
India has been close to her father since she was a child, and her father often took her to hunt and make animal specimens, while her mother was "always busy" and never even combed her hair. The relationship between her and her mother has never been very good. The death of her father, especially her death in a car accident on her eighteenth birthday, was a big blow to India.
Some people may be very puzzled about India's attitude towards death. Although she was a little frightened when she saw the murder of the old housekeeper's wife, she carefully identified it for a long time afterwards. I think that the fact that her father took India to hunt and make taxidermy since she was a child was very important to India's character shaping, because she was accustomed to killing since she was a child, and for her it was even the act of sharing with close people. The corpse in the freezer is actually a specimen that will not rot.
Could it be said that India has no feelings for the old butler wife? I don’t think it is. At the beginning of the movie, India rolled the egg shell to make it crack to overwhelm the gossip of the two workers and maids discussing the death of their father. At this time, the old housekeeper’s wife came in and scolded the maids and sat down. Talk to India and make her laugh. The reason why India showed a rather calm attitude towards the death of the old housekeeper’s wife. First, India’s character itself is gloomy, and second, she has just experienced the death of her father. Death is something that cannot be prevented and changed by her personal will. Then, Uncle Charlie asked her to go to the freezer and cast a meaningful look. , Recalling the quarrel between the two who had been seen secretly before, what did he have to do with the old housekeeper's wife? Why did he let her find the body? Isn't he worried that she will expose it? India doesn't understand Uncle Charlie.
And Inida went to Charlie’s room to see the father’s sunglasses while his mother and uncle were going for a drive. In the end, India told Charlie that the glasses were only worn by his father when he was driving, so they were kept in the car’s hand box. , So she had already "doubt" Charlie at that time.
India's attitude towards the death of his father is different from that of his mother. India put the shoes she thought her father gave to her father every year in a circle in memory of her father. She read the funeral encyclopedia, she wore a conservative skirt, and her mother kept fanning her fans at the funeral because of the heat, feeling irritable. More than sadness. Seeing India being depressed at home, her mother suggested to go for a ride outside to eat ice cream, while India accused her mother of filial piety.
Here is also a brief introduction to India's mother. Before marriage, her mother was also a college graduate and spoke fluent French. After marriage, she was "trapped" in this house. She had nothing to do with her emptiness. Her mother was jealous of her father. The girl always spends time together. From her attitude towards the visiting Aunt Qin, it can be seen that her relationship with her relatives is not very good, and the house is very secluded. I am afraid that she does not have many friends. The mother’s married life should be lived. She was very unhappy, she couldn't get rid of it, she longed to be loved and paid attention to.
The appearance of Uncle Charlie gave a new development in the emotions of mother and daughter. In such a small town almost isolated from the world, an uncle Charlie who claims to have traveled around the world for a long time suddenly appeared. His mystery and charm are not difficult to attract mother and daughter. His mother thinks he is like a young husband. , India thinks he looks like a father.
Uncle Charlie expressed his understanding of his mother's situation, and his mother also took the initiative to show her favor, go for a ride and teach to play the piano. The relationship between the two became ambiguous. Uncle Charlie is the mother's new hope and vitality. And India’s spring heart is sprouting. She has never wanted people (including her mother) to touch her body. She is very intimate with Uncle Charlie's piano duet. As the director said in the interview, it is India’s sexual fantasies. Aroused, India reached a climax under the ups and downs of piano music, and when he recovered, he found that Uncle Charlie had already left.
Speaking of sex, I should mention spiders, because I think spiders are metaphors of nature. The spider appeared many times throughout the film. From the time India played the piano at the beginning, it slowly crawled towards India, which actually hinted at the arrival of sexual enlightenment. After Uncle Charlie arrived, the spider climbed onto India’s calf. With the development of India, India’s affection for the charming Uncle Charlie greatly increased, so the spider crawled between India’s legs! Finally, when Uncle Charlie's face was covered with blood, there was also a scene of spiders crawling away quietly, which can be described as an end symbol of the demise of her sexual fantasy objects.
When India saw her mother and Uncle Charlie kissing and caressing each other, she had always been quiet and chose to run away again, but this time her sexual demand was stirred up again. She went to find something interesting to her and it was more or less helpful. Her black-haired male classmate. She told him not to talk because she knew he was not the one she wanted to have a heart with, but she still let him kiss her and let him caress her like Uncle Charlie caressed his mother. The male classmate had sex because India bit him, and India's always calm and sober personality in the panic made her realize that she didn't want to do it anymore.
Next is the moment when the devil saves the beauty. It is worth noting that the general moral standards may have to stand aside here, because when India was thrown down, the male student was strangled for this reason, and sex was intertwined with killing and death. Together, the intimacy shared with her father in the past was suddenly inherited by the mysterious Uncle Charlie, so that even if India knew that Uncle Charlie was involved in at least three murders that night, she recalled the scene of death in the bath. Can still reach orgasm in masturbation.
In fact, India took the initiative to seek the love and understanding of her mother after experiencing this murder and burial. She asked her mother to comb her hair, but her mother who only waited for Uncle Charlie to come to her room had no time to deal with India. With the background music of her mother and Uncle Charlie dancing in the living room, India recalled that her mother had taken off the wedding ring when she taught Uncle Charlie to play the piano), but India said that she wanted to help her mother comb her hair, but her mother finally refused. India put on the silk pajamas given to her by her mother (of course because she felt that she had transformed into a woman that night), and took the initiative to comb her hair, which shows that she intends to show favor with her mother. In this drama, the mother and daughter exchanged some ideas and supplemented the relationship background of some characters.
But the mother-daughter chat did not get mutual understanding in the end. India’s words for personal behavior are not based on general morality: "Sometimes you need to do something bad to keep you from doing something worse." (Sometimes you need to do something bad to keep you from doing something worse." In case of doing something worse.) The mother is full of fear and alienation towards India. At this time, India has actually recognized her own nature, and her father has always helped her overcome it, hunting animals as a vent to prevent killing. Because she had the blood of the Stoker family flowing on her body, the gene of killing has always existed in her heart, which is why she said that she thought her father loved hunting, but in fact it was not. Her father was for her.
There was a scene when I recalled hunting with my father. A dung-shell man pushing a dung ball was actually a metaphor of India pushing the boulder at the beginning and after killing the black-haired male classmate, Uncle Charlie and India pushing the boulder together. Dung shells feed on the feces of humans and animals. It can be said that rolling dung balls is their nature. Therefore, the dung balls corresponding to boulders are also a metaphor to show that the killing genes of the Stoker family are born.
The mysterious Uncle Charlie is still intangible except for his murderous intentions. A great turning point in the whole play is that India found that there were some photos of the past in the locker locked by his father (father and Uncle Charlie also have a smaller India’s uncle (a total of three brothers) and a large pile of letters from Uncle Charlie to her over the years, India was extremely excited because she discovered that Uncle Charlie, who had never met before, actually cared about her silently, even though he was in a foreign country. Even if she never replied! People are eager to be loved, even if they look so cold and indifferent. Having lost her father who loved her, and not getting the love of her mother, she suddenly discovered that a loved one had been loving her. One can imagine the joy.
When India found out that all the mails were sent to the same nursing home address strangely, India realized the reason behind the terrible behavior of Uncle Charlie, and she decided to let him leave their home.
She asked Uncle Charlie about the other little uncle, so Uncle Charlie's entire past spread out, as well as the cause of her father's death. Uncle Charlie hits his father's head with a stone, and the splashed blood seems to have splashed on India's face. An angry Inida takes the hand of Uncle Charlie. She loves her father. At this time, India flashes back to hunt with his father. She is ready to go. The lens aimed at, it is not difficult to see her psychology towards Uncle Charlie at this time.
And when Uncle Charlie took out high heels for India, when he touched her feet and put them on her, the breath of India, the loose eyes and trances all showed that she was experiencing a whirlpool of emotions-the excitement of becoming a woman , Someone loves the illusion (Uncle Charlie said that I have been waiting for you, everything I do is because of you, but India can't get it from my mother), the time of wearing shoes is actually interspersed with Indian memories and father hunting In the picture, her father was shaking her head and disagreeing. Her father watched her waiting for her to make a decision. It all showed that India was struggling. However, because of the appearance of the sheriff, worried about the exposure of the murder, she decided to go with Uncle Charlie.
And the mother who witnessed India's high heels was very hateful (she secretly saw it before and thought that Uncle Charlie prepared it for her). She accuses India of who exactly is and why she doesn't love her (and always takes away India's father's love and Uncle Charlie's love from her). When she asked to talk to Uncle Charlie, although she also showed off all her doubts about Charlie, Uncle Charlie showed her a little charm, and she couldn't stand it up and couldn't tell the hypocrisy of Uncle Charlie.
India's decision was actually made while sitting in front of the piano. This was in line with her hunting habit. She was motionless for several hours, and then decisively deducted the trigger at the right time. The piano seat was the place where she and Uncle Charlie became intimate for the first time. After getting up from the piano seat, she went straight to put the bag about life in New York from Uncle Charlie’s luggage in her bag. She had decided to have one of her own. People are gone. She took back what originally belonged to her father, which was actually a way of choosing her father and choosing revenge. Moreover, her mother was nearly strangled to death by Uncle Charlie. She didn’t have to kill her mother by herself, so she finally took It is not difficult to figure out what she is aiming at when she pulls the trigger from the shotgun.
Many people may think that India made the right choice between her mother and Uncle Charlie. But I think India made this decision not to keep her mother alive (Uncle Charlie hadn't beat her mother when she went upstairs to pack), but for her own inner release, her father's revenge, and the killing nature ( Corresponding to the opening film, India believes that flowers cannot choose their own colors, and people cannot be responsible for future behavior, because she believes that genes determine the direction of people). It can be seen that after shooting, India did not care about whether the mother was injured or not. It was Uncle Charlie who went to visit her, showing a look of affection. And when she looked up at her mother, there was resentment in her eyes. She hated her mother for not understanding her, and there was one less person who hated her in this world (from father, housekeeper wife, aunt Qin, black-haired male classmate to Uncle Charlie) , Or no more, and his death was in exchange for his mother's life. In the face of a mother who doesn't love her, what other feelings can she have besides being angry?
India’s Diablo came step by step, hunting animals with his father, stabbing a blond male student with a pencil, burying a black-haired male student with Uncle Charlie, and finally developing into shooting and killing Uncle Charlie with his own hands, but killing the devil. People are also contaminated with blood, and they are also reduced to demons. India can no longer be the original self. It can also be said that India has discovered the true self. She can only exile herself and put the belt in memory of her father and Uncle Charlie. Take it around her waist to commemorate her love for them and her inheritance of killing. Her high heels, sunglasses, cynical expression and casual teasing are completely female copies of Uncle Charlie. This is the growth of a girl killer.
Was India killing the police out of her murderous intentions that she was aroused for a while? I don't think so, because Uncle Charlie said that the police will come back. As a killer who needs to protect himself from subsequent pursuits, killing the policeman may avoid worries. Of course, the male classmate’s “disappearance” case was not over. Then Uncle Charlie and India also “disappeared” one after another, as well as the long blood stains on the floor of the house. Her mother might be implicated as soon as she left. Will India use a nonchalant and extreme way to solve the problem of police preservation of mothers? However, India left early in the morning and did not say goodbye to her sleeping mother, and her mother's angry words to her last night should have been one of the reasons that prompted her to leave. How much love she left for her mother is very suspicious.
Stoker's video overview is all about the arrival of mysterious uncles. In fact, at the end of the film, the mysterious person turns into India, a grown-up and well-trained hunter, where will she go from now on? If Uncle Charlie got a behavioral explanation because of the nursing home's past, then at least he can't make so jumpy conclusions about India. Stoker should not only have the prequel Uncle Charlie, but also deserve a postal India.
●●●About Uncle Charlie ●●●Uncle Charlie that the
film began to create is mysterious and terrifying, but once Uncle Charlie’s letter is discovered, and then he confessed to India on the stairs, it seems that Uncle Charlie’s behavior has been fully explained. : He is sick! There is a mental problem! But isn't his behavior all spontaneous and purposeless? Or does Uncle Charlie also have a killing guide?
Freud believed that the development of personality is based on personal childhood experience. Let’s take a look at Charlie’s childhood. He has an older brother called India’s father, and a younger brother. He sees his older brother and younger brother playing happily, and is jealous of the more love the younger brother gives to the younger brother, so he takes advantage of his brother’s attention. Shi buried his little brother under the sand. It’s worth noting that the little Charlie lying on the sand dances his arms and legs with the snow angel movement (which corresponds to the previous movement of India on the bed, and his uncle and nephew do not like being touched. These are all to strengthen Stoker. The effect of family gene inheritance), which shows that his heart is ecstatic, and the killing satisfied his possessiveness and brought him pleasure.
Later, Uncle Charlie entered the nursing home. On the day he came out, he killed his brother because his brother prevented him from going home. He attacked the old housekeeper wife and Aunt Qin because they knew too much about his past. He attacked the black-haired male classmate because Classmates want to be violent against India. They attacked India's mother (attempt) because she prevented him from taking India. These are all very easy to understand. The strange thing is why Uncle Charlie is so interested in his niece, India, who he has never met.
Uncle Charlie said to his brother who came to take him out of the nursing home: family members who didn’t meet are considered family members, and tears are streaming down his face. It can be seen that Uncle Charlie has high hopes for returning to the family and the tolerance of the family. He wants the company of his family. With identification. When his brother sent him to the nursing home, this behavior was an unforgivable signal to Charlie. He lost his brother’s company, so when another member of the Stoker family, India, came to the world, he assumed her as His friend, he sent her a letter, caring about everything about her, and sent her a new pair of cloth shoes every birthday to witness her growth and make up for his absence.
And for many years, the old housekeeper's wife has been his eyes and ears. He saw his shadow in India's behavior (not like being touched and being a great hunter), and he knew she would be his confidant. When Uncle Charlie came out of the nursing home and learned that his brother had no intention of letting him go home but let him go to New York, he was definitely rejected by his family. He was extremely sad. In order to achieve the goal of going home, seeing may be the only thing he could do to him. Embracing India, who is understanding, he hits his elder brother.
This desire to become friends with India fascinated him: he went to school and waited for her to finish class, reminded her that it was raining, brought an umbrella, and sent her to the gate, played a piano duo with her, and saw her running away at night. Immediately put down her hungry mother and ran out to find her. India asked what Uncle Charlie wanted from her? Uncle Charlie’s answer: Become a friend. This is his heartfelt words.
When Uncle Charlie gave India the 18th birthday gift he gave her, which marked her adulthood, he asked her to go with her. Uncle Charlie chose India to leave the hospital on the 18th birthday for this purpose. Once When India reaches the legal age, she has the freedom to move and is no longer controlled by her family. Charlie has not received a reply from India for so many years. Wouldn't he know why? In fact, it was India's father, and his brother was preventing their contact. Therefore, he said that he has been waiting, and he wants India, who is also of the Stoker family, to be with him to make up for the love that the family cannot give him.
After the showdown, on the stairs, Charlie hesitated and did not touch India's cheek. It felt like a boundary here, whether it reached the boundary of incest. But in the end it was interrupted by the appearance of India's mother.
Of course, Uncle Charlie's definition of a friend is not very general. Uncle Charlie wanted to share everything about him with India, including his dark and happy side: he asked her to go to the freezer to see his stash, buried a black-haired male classmate with her, and finally wanted to share with her the killing of her mother. moment. Finally, when India raised the shotgun, Uncle Charlie smiled. He may not particularly care who India’s gun was aimed at, because he allowed India to share his happiness, and his world got the understanding of India’s actions. With recognition, India finally inherited the surname of the Stoker family in a true sense.
Uncle Charlie is actually a very lonely person. He cannot get the love and understanding of his family. The means he uses to achieve his personal goals are very indifferent. The almost incest love for India is also out of the desire to find friends for himself. If he really loves India, he will not kill her favorite father without shame. Death should be a kind of relief for Uncle Charlie, a relief from not being loved and incapable of love. Uncle Charlie should indeed die with a smile, but his life was ultimately ended by his friend India, whom he had always imagined. What is this? Satire.
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Stoker’s inner reality is still the eternal theme of mankind: love. After losing her father, India looked for alternative love, maternal love, uncle love, and awakened sex. The mother looks for alternative love and sex after losing her husband. And Uncle Charlie has been looking for the love of family all his life (the past in the nursing home is unknown, I believe we will get the answer in the prequel Uncle Charlie^_^), but they all go further and further on their respective paths of searching, In the end, mistaking oneself was tiring, and the tragedy ended.
PS. I
just saw a film critic saying that the film’s lines are very pretending to be B. For example, I used the sentence Uncle Charlie said on the stairs at the funeral dinner: "Want to know why you feel that you are at a disadvantage now? Because you are standing under me. "
In fact, the plot (screenwriter) and filming (director) of this film are still quite bothersome. There are many contrasts involved. From the beginning, Inida's sitting posture with blisters on her feet is exactly the same as the sitting posture of the little angel next to it. NS.
Uncle Charlie’s “pretending B” is actually a deliberate interpretation and reference to several places in the back:
1. In the school. Uncle Charlie stood at the highest point in the school building, overlooking the blond male student and India, and the blond male student was higher than India, indicating that India, surrounded by a group of boys, was at a disadvantage at the beginning.
2. When the black-haired male student was killed. Uncle Charlie strangled his neck with a belt at the highest position, India was at the lowest position pressed by the black-haired male classmate, and the pros and cons of the three were at a glance.
3. When India asked Uncle Charlie to take the luggage and leave. India is at the top of the stairs, and Uncle Charlie is at the bottom.
4. When Uncle Charlie killed his little brother. Uncle Charlie is standing at the top of the slide, while the little brother is at the bottom of the sand.
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