After seeing a lot of movie reviews, I watched it again before I understood it, and I was amazed at its meticulous logic. It was the best horror movie I had ever seen.
1. Sacrifice is the exchange of bodies. This is the unique secret of this couple. It should be known only to them, or only to those who have successfully implemented it. The black couple Sicily and Jasf may have tried it for the first time on their children. It may not be the first time to use it (this means that the body of this black couple is actually exchanged by them), this is not important, but they succeeded in swapping the body of the child. Some critics say that their swap was discovered close to success, which I don't think can stand up to scrutiny, and the story clearly describes them as a success. But what I want to say here is not this, but about the meaning of sacrifice is the exchange of bodies, only they know or only those who have succeeded and the few other people who understand the essence of the code and want to try, and the greed of human nature So that they will not inform the public about this to avoid disaster, but may only try to implement it to achieve immortality. Therefore, these people will try their best not to let others know or mislead others about the meaning of sacrifice. And the few who knew witchcraft originally, the vast majority of them, even everyone except the two black wizards, understood the meaning of sacrifice as stealing another person's life, so the protagonist didn't tell her until the end of the old witch It was only when he realized that the original sacrifice was to exchange bodies with the other party. This is very important. They used this information difference to change one body after another.
2. Sicily and Jasf (the name may be wrong) a black wizard couple took a look at the body of the banker, a boy and a girl, and possibly the banker's house, designed the exchange of sacrifices, and exchanged the souls of the two children After entering the body of the black couple, they were burned to death by everyone that night, killing two birds with one stone. Of course, this should be designed by a black couple. It was a good day and auspicious day that was specially selected. It should take a lot of effort to choose such a party, so that everyone's anger value can be maximized by drinking alcohol and do the most extreme things by drinking alcohol. That is, the bodies of the two of them (actually the souls of the two children after sacrifice) were burned to death. Because people don't know that the sacrifice is actually to change the body, not to steal the other's life, so they thought that the two children didn't die because they found out in time when the black couple wizards were about to succeed, and they burned the black people in anger. The couple, they thought they saved the child, no one knew that the two children were already wizard spirits by then.
3. After the wizard borrowed the child's body to sneak into the banker's house, the banker started a series of absurd actions. The bank collapsed, killed his wife and committed suicide. People thought it was the souls of the two dead black wizards seeking revenge, but in fact it was Their children are doing it. After getting rid of their parents, they also inherited the house logically, and lived in the film until the arrival of the old woman Violet and the old man Ben. Of course they came with young bodies. This time Sicily and Jasf replaced the bodies of their aged children with Violet and Ben who were still young. In the film, the old woman told Caroline that the house was two children. The financial constraints had to sell them to themselves. In fact, they changed their bodies. This is not stated in the film. It is shown by means of hints. In the end, the face of Violet when he was young appeared in the mirror, which means that this is also a burial. One of the victims of the drug scheme. As for what happened to the two old children after they were exchanged, it seems that the film also said how they died. I forgot, and I will revisit them later. Even if they didn't say it, it was easy for these two super wizards to kill two old people. Don't be confused here
4. Then Violet and Ben are getting old, and they need to find new targets. They chose the lawyer Luke, and they exchanged with Ben first, and then they found the heroine Caroline, and the exchange was successful. This article is the main content of the description of the film. They rewrote the will through Violet and Ben's body, inherited the house to Caroline, and then inherited the property through Caroline's body, which is really clever.
5. I saw a lot of comments about the role of mirrors in the film, why are they all put away, and why are mirrors placed in a circle at the end. I usually put it away because I was afraid of seeing the victim, but I finally put it on Violet (Sicily), because this method must be useful to people who believe in witchcraft. Caroline didn't believe it at first. , Later, when Caroline began to believe, she would see things in the mirror that she should not have seen, which would make her believe even more and could not control her mind to believe or not, and also increased the probability of the final casting success.
6. The film actually left a little foreshadowing at the end. Caroline's black friend Jill saw some clues, and her last frightened eyes showed a hint of suspicion. If you make a sequel, you can start from here. Caroline slowly recovered from the panic, and developed a relationship because she cooperated with lawyer Luke to take care of the elderly, and got married smoothly. After a period of treatment in the hospital, Violet and Ben died and were admitted to the old family inherited by Caroline. In the couple's big house, but Jill was suspicious of Caroline, always feeling that she was weird, just like a different person before. In addition, she had some knowledge of witchcraft, so she secretly investigated. He went to the government housing management bureau (forgive my limited knowledge, haha, I can only think of this department) to secretly investigate the house that Caroline inherited. In the background, the mystery ensued. Then. . . finally. . . Think about it, haha, after 15 years, it is estimated that there will be no sequel.
This text is what I wrote down after reading it to sort out the plot and prevent myself from forgetting it so I can use it again. Any better insights are welcome to discuss. Watching such films, what you see is whether the logic of the work is complete, reasonable, and justified. Of course, I haven't seen anything that can be done completely, but the logic of this film is very meticulous as I have seen it, so it is a five-star praise.
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