Joe's eyes: the closedness behind the open ending

Ebba 2022-01-03 08:01:58

In the face of the divergent "story", it is better to watch how the movie
talks about yourself: 1. At first, my brother asked the door to pee, and Dottie was sleeping soundly. She was wearing gorgeous nails, something similar to Dolores── A body mixed with vulgarity and sexiness; in addition, there are toys such as a simulation big house in her room, a doll, and a crystal ball on hand; Dottie’s spiritual identity is explained and implied by these things;
2. The brother enters the door and sits. Chatting with Dad on the sofa. At this time, an old movie was shown on the TV (I don’t know which movie it was, sorry...). The camera was swept twice, and a total of two shots were fired, revolvers, and close-ups of the firing process;
3. When the family fell into violence and quarreling, Dottie was already awake. Her eyes were close-ups, not tears, but a familiar mixture of panic and coldness;
4. My brother asked Dad in the car if his mother was killed. Does anyone care about care. Brother means that there is no one. But at this time, my father unexpectedly said that there was one: Rex; then my brother said, Rex must be so cool (because her mother was not good to R) ── Thinking of the following plot, the father and son actually knew that the answer in this place became one Planting "seeds";
5. Then the father and son talk about killing mother to keep Dottie away from here (D actually wants to stay away from this family), but if you don't let Dottie know, but Dottie knows all. There is an inexplicable dialogue here. D asks if his elder brother builds the whole city alone, and his elder brother replied yes. D said she heard about it at the wedding. (How to understand this conversation? This "heard" is in the past tense. The only possible wedding for D in this film should be the wedding of father and stepmother. Why did the brother tell his sister this way at the wedding, the only possibility It is the omnipotent and protector attitude that my brother has always shown to his sister, but there is not much basis for this inference, no matter what) Next, the brother explained that D was sleepwalking, but after returning home, D said that she heard it and killing her mother was a " Good idea";
6. My brother dreamed of Dottie playing with lizards on the ground, then Dottie naked, against his brother Dottie; Human subconscious expressions are real, and the men in the film have desires and depressions on D's body;
7. Joe met Dottie for the first time, and D was practicing martial arts at home. J suggested that she find a teacher and can't just practice on the TV. In the following shots, Dootie is always the viewer, and the shots often go beyond the foreground. Until Joe started telling his story, at this time J also began to be the watched. J story said, "I guess he put his genitals to his girlfriend watched, but did not know she could not accept";
8, when there is a call comes in, Dottie know that the call is to find Joe, and this fragment Some places in the back show D's agility and intelligence, her eyes often get brilliant close-ups; in fact, the opposite of D's intelligence is not stupid, nor is she pretending to be stupid, but her thoughts and behaviors. There is something unreasonable in the movie, so the important feature of D is her certain "difficult to understand"-in the way of ordinary people, this is the most important thing in the "evil" classic movie. From this meaning In the above, it is D rather than J or anyone else who provided the most difficult part of the film; Dottie’s existence requires us to accept a certain incomprehension, that is, "understanding is incomprehensible", which is related to postmodern self-consciousness. , Not shown here;
9. Dottie said that sometimes she would be "abnormal" (because of the aftereffects of her mother trying to kill her), and she knew all this was "because I remember";
10. J decided to do D as a retainer when Playing with his own lighter, the scenes of D in the movie are slightly upgraded and obscured, which means a certain subjective feeling of J;
11. D talked about a third-grade love with his stepmother in the dining room. There is no fact in this love. Part, but D insisted that he did love, and it was pure love; then Dad came, and the stepmother told D not to mention that Jenny, but D said that you should have a boyfriend. As stated in Article 8, D’s smile is Very sly and adult;
12. D mentioned to his stepmother that Joe’s eyes were hurt for the first time here, but did not explain;
13. Dottie talked to her dad at home about her ass being too big. From the interaction between her dad and her, it didn’t seem to imply that her father had violated Dottie. What really made Dottie a little mad was that her father did not allow her to change it. This suit (father's idea is very straightforward, just what if the killer is not satisfied). Here Dottie has an emotional ups and downs. The most repeated words she repeats are "I want to change clothes", which is I have to change in English! Change also means "change". Dottie will eventually make a change. What's interesting is that Joe later asked Dottie to change in front of him, and Dottie did it-and raised his gun at the end of the film in the sense of "changing life" Do it;
14. D takes J’s flower here, and then talks about your eyes hurt in front of Joe for the second time. J’s reaction to this is I beg your pardon, and then J asks her "You Believe me?" D said incomplete; after that, Dottie bent over and took out the dinner (she became the object of being watched again), J immediately said she was "lovely", and Dottie said "I am a virgin"; this statement is
Admissible , brother and dad also talked about it in the car; 15. During dinner, D took the initiative to mention that she loved her brother. When her parents divorced, her brother laid on top of her until she stopped crying. Many people think this is incest, I think it is not, and is not supported by the warm memories of the younger sister and brother on the rails. In fact, it can be seen here that the way they deal with emotions is "suppression", which is a must for the outbreak;
16. In the "dating" scene, J asked D to touch him from behind and asked D how he was feeling. D's question and answer was "I don't remember", and she was 12 years old;
17. The brother was beaten home, J was dangling at home naked, mother's hands The expression covering his chest should be about his brother being beaten, J said excuse me when he passed by his mother, "borrow it";
18. The money was in vain, and my brother realized that he was cheated. Dad even hoped that his brother would commit suicide. At this time, my sister was very concerned about whether J would come back. Then there was a dialogue between brother and sister, and my sister still proposed to go. Seeing Joe, and shouting loudly at the brother who was still in the sweet memories just now, and then refused to get in the brother's car until the brother swears. At the end of this paragraph, my sister said that she was always excited, except for someone "annoying me";
19. When waiting for money, there are two things to pay attention to. One is that the brother mentioned that he had already known his sister in this situation ( I was caught by J) I am sorry, but my sister shook her head; my sister mentioned i ain't never been to a trial. The translation I read here is wrong. The translation says "I haven't been in jail", but it actually means "I have never participated in an interrogation." Trial is not going to jail here, because the sister above just asked "(about mother's death) will there be an interrogation?" and my brother replied "No, because J knows what he is doing." ;
19...Various...KFC...Haha
20. My sister said that she had agreed to the marriage proposal and looked happy until she was gradually provoked by different demands, disputes, violence, chaos, love-hate emotions Angry, then she yelled stop it! Then, she was really angry! Next, I think:

a. She will shoot J and hit J’s eyes. This is what Dottie has always reminded, and D’s feelings for J are not pure love, pure love lies only in her own world , She doesn’t completely trust J (she mentioned it directly) and J is the opportunity for her to make a change (to change clothes, make a change) in front of her after all; in fact, when her elder brother and dad pre-planned, she didn’t just say it. Rex is the person who really "cares", and they don't talk nonsense at all (this is the most common method in Hollywood), that is: after killing mom, Dottie is the designated "beneficiary";
b. She would not shoot her stepmother. The stepmother was actually good to her. When she said that she had a pure love with Little Fatty, the stepmother’s reaction was not perfunctory, she was always listening, and commented, "Such a thing It’s rare, I guess"; besides, the stepmother is obviously also a weak and manipulable without a bottom line. In fact, she will appear in court with perjury because she has been distrusted by her father and she hates her brother. And Rex is rich. The important thing is that she was indeed injured by Joe, and her brother was beaten by Joe... Finally, the younger sister will safely have her first "interrogation" experience;
c. The brother said that he was looking for a shortcut this time. His father said that every time you had trouble (you used to mortgage the farm), this time it was really a "super shortcut"-completely left this state and family that he didn't like, and went to a place where there are no sharks. The younger sister fulfilled her, she yelled before firing, oh god! oh god! Because my sister didn't want to leave here to go to Peru, she said it was warm here, and she could always exit.
Finally, the title "Killer Joe" still fully explained how the film talked about herself. The younger sister and the older brother actually want to leave here, and their definition of "here" is slightly different, and the reasons for leaving are also different, but they are all actually relying on the killer Joe to drive this change, albeit in different ways: sister sees She is more passive, consecrated and compromised, but in fact this is exactly her incredible way, and her brother is easier to understand, thinking that everything is under control but not at all. Perhaps, after truly acknowledging and touching the uncertainty and unreasonableness of this world, there is some shocking and even horrifying part of the sister’s way of existence, and one cult film after another tirelessly reveals what they have seen. Real and responsive.

Throughout the film, I don’t think there is any need to make too many assumptions, such as Joe’s JJ situation and other issues. In such cult B-level films, people's hearts are usually not only dark, but also inconsistent. The so-called "evil code" and "code" are also a kind of "standard" and "paradigm", that is, cult code has its own value of "code". In contrast, the "canon" reflects the normality and variation in the mainstream population, while the cult requires us to enter a world of less mainstream population first, but there are also normality and variation in it, and it also has the "reason" in the context of the story. "Just as postmodernism has actually deepened modern popularity rather than weakened it, in fact, cult movies are also the continuation and deepening of canon movies, which more fully embodies the dialogue between texts, the particularity of historical time and the local The awakening of individual self-awareness. It is the rush of romanticism within Western movies, and it is the "localization" within the West.

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Killer Joe quotes

  • Killer Joe Cooper: Do you want me to wear your face?

  • Chris Smith: Piece of fucking fuck-suck cake!