Stoker - a gifted hunter

Mireya 2022-04-19 09:02:07

If he hadn't shown up, Miss Stoker's life might have been uneventful.

Running in the lush and beautiful garden, facing the endless sky and wheat fields, there is a favorite shotgun at home, and my father will often take him to hunt; there is also his favorite Steinway piano. But she has never been able to love playing. Although she likes to sit in front of the piano very much, her ears can hear different sounds from ordinary people, but whenever she plays, she always feels that she is playing, as if something is missing. a few notes? Or a little resonance? A person's solo, lonely and lonely, is like waiting for a while while hunting, that loneliness, quietness, the tranquility at the moment when the bullet is fired, is like stagnant water without waves.

But when he showed up, this amazing uncle, it all seemed to change...

He appeared at his father's funeral, and his eyes were lake blue and bottomless. Mysterious and gloomy, with a touch of sarcasm.

She didn't like to be in contact with people by nature, but he made her want to get closer and understand, she was curious about everything about him. Does he like to hunt like her? Can he also hear his own voice and see what he can see.

Until she discovered that the "specimen" in the freezer was exactly when he made it, as if the real she had been repressed and slumbered in her body began to wake up. She longed for his attention and understanding, she was constantly longing for the thrill of hunting, and she longed to get closer to the yearning for hunting in her heart...

One afternoon, she was sitting at the piano again, just playing a few notes when his hand suddenly appeared beside her, playing the bass lines to her melody. He supported her, like a hammer hitting the thick strings, giving off the unique strong and deep resonance of the piano, as if he was calling her from the abyss...

Come with me into this killing abyss, take one step, and don't look back.

She fell completely, and with his joining, she gradually stepped into the sound of the piano, her fingers flew over the keys, and he continued to increase the density of notes, pushing the music to another climax. Her eyes revealed desire and enjoyment, and she enjoyed expressing herself in music with him. The flickering melody, the accelerating heartbeat, they cooperated with each other, echoing, this piano issued a melody that seemed to have never existed before. She knows that he can understand herself, he guides her, and her music is a whole only when she plays with him... In the ensemble with him, she sees hope and sees each other.

Qu Bi, she saw that there was no one beside her. She was very scared. Could it be that he just now was just her own fantasy?

One afternoon, she turned to a thick stack of letters he had written to her. They have the same behavior, the same experience, the same instinct to hunt and kill. They understand each other and see each other. He had been planning for a long time, just because he was looking forward to meeting her... He stimulated her desire and awakened the sealed power in her heart. The real her was closely related to him, very similar to him. They have the same blood in their bodies, they have the same last name, the same genes.

In the end, he died under her gun in order to wake her up. His own life, and the pursuit of the pursuit in his heart, he chose the latter. Because he longed to wake her up and live freely with the desire and spirit he had... So she took his belt and chose to live freely and truly.

She is not who she was before, she can't go back.

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Extended Reading
  • Maybell 2022-03-31 09:01:03

    Park Chan-wook's first-class audio-visual narration becomes more and more exciting when you think about it. The enlightenment of sex, the substitution of love, the inheritance and transcendence of blood, the climax of playing the piano and the pendulum of the body are praised. Matthew and Nicole look amazing on the big screen. The moment I pulled my pants belt, I followed it, and the heroine died, literary and perverted temperament, and her acting skills were excellent. The original sound is so good, #ShanghaiFilm Festival#大光光奧 experience is first-class. It just so happened that my hairstyle, clothes and shoes were similar to those of the heroine today, and I was in a cold sweat looking in the mirror.

  • Alexa 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    [A] The best sound effect editing case in 10s, a masterpiece of "sound" in Park Chan-wook's work sequence. How to judge a good sound effect, or in other words, how to judge a good "sound effect editing"? In general dialogue scenes or scene transitions, sound lag/first in is usually for smooth cuts. In "Stoke", Park Zanyu brought the "audio-visual inertia" of this technique to the extreme, and the multi-line montage paragraphs are extremely gorgeous. Park Zanyu transplanted the image idea of ​​confusing time and space in "Old Boy" to this film. , and completes an efficient morphological variant. Countless voices jump in the past and the present, the confusion and clarity of perception are so consistent, the narrative is really guided by audio and visual, not lines. Park Chan-wook's directorial thinking has been transformed into a realm, and those films with naked dazzling skills are like a feast tailored for fans who are obsessed with audio-visual analysis, and only the presentation of this kind of film technology can make people forget the story. To a certain extent, Park Chan-wook is considered the successor of Hitchcock and Palma, a carnival of genre films.

Stoker quotes

  • [last lines]

    Sheriff: In a hurry? Know how fast you were doing?

    India Stoker: [speaks in Italian]

    Sheriff: Pardon?

    India Stoker: [translating for him] Effectively fast, Mister Sheriff.

    Sheriff: Effective for what?

    India Stoker: To get your attention.

  • Charles Stoker: Of course I still love you, Richard. I just have to love you a little bit less now.