This movie is more like a kind of digging. In the beginning, you will see gentle flowers blooming on the surface of the soil, then you will notice the flexible stems of the flowers, the flowers are like prophecy leaves, the flowers are intricately rooted, and then you dig , see the worms living below. Step by step, go to the abyss of original sin, from the awakening of the blood of the family, from the depths of human nature.
Indiya is a strange child in the eyes of outsiders. She is silent, calm, intelligent and very observant. She can hear what others cannot hear and see what others cannot see. She can play with extreme emotions. It can also depict details that others have not paid attention to, but in the eyes of outsiders, these do not constitute a standard of approval, and even make people feel fearful. She was afraid of being touched, refused to be near people, and even her mother couldn't fully understand her. Only the company of her father can keep her from falling into the bottom of the cliff of loneliness. I think she must have been puzzled, why she is so different from others, and she can't fully understand herself like this, until the appearance of Uncle Charlie .
It's hard to say whether Charlie's appearance is a disaster or a redemption for her.
That handsome vampire-like man didn't attend his brother's funeral, he only flashed by in a corner of the house, but he showed great importance to her as soon as he appeared. No matter the opening sentence, do you want me to stay? Down is important to me. It was the uninterrupted holiday letter at the end of the play. He was undoubtedly here for her. She asked him, what do you want from me. He replied, I want to be your friend. I think this is the truth. Because they are all so lonely, they all have the same blood, they are all looking for a connection with this world. They are the same kind.
Uncle Charlie was like a drug lead, triggering all her ferocity, and her bloodthirsty pleasure was finally aroused. It turned out that she was the most terrifying person. From the beginning, she knew that her father's death must be related to Charlie, but she didn't bring it up. Later, she found the corpse of the old housekeeper in the freezer. It was the corpse of the person she got along with day and night, but after the initial surprise, she became calm. She didn't tell her uncle, because she felt that human life, no answer was important interesting. Finally, Uncle Charlie aroused her awareness of eroticism. She ran out to find the answer on her own, but at a certain moment, she suddenly felt conflicted and wanted to reject the boy she seduced, but the boy refused to give up. At this time, Charlie appeared and they She joined forces to kill the boy, but she did not feel any guilt. Instead, the moment she heard the death, she was filled with unspeakable joy, and even masturbated to a climax in the process of recalling, which seemed to be a hint, suggesting that only killing , can give her real awakening and happiness.
Later, she finally understood who she was. The blood of the Stoke family was boiling with a coquettish light, ruling her soul. She was a natural hunter, a natural bloodthirsty.
Many people wondered why she killed Uncle Charlie in the end, since they were the same kind in this lonely world, why she didn't kill her mother, but killed Charlie. To me, that seems like an instinct. Perhaps she also needed a verification in her heart to verify whether she was really the continuation of the Stoke family, and at that moment, nothing could awaken her cognition more than killing a seemingly powerful and prevailing prey. After she killed Charlie, she looked at her mother angrily, which showed that she didn't actually have much affection for her mother, but at that moment, she killed Charlie out of instinct, and Charlie smiled weirdly when facing the muzzle of the gun. What he wants is not for her to follow, what he wants is for her to find her true self.
In fact, compared to Park Chan-wook's other films, this film is much softer on the surface. I even wondered at the beginning if Park Chan-wook read a lot of hymns in Hollywood. Later I discovered that the core of this film is actually Extremely dark, Park Chan-wook seems to want to tell us that even if you want to do some bad things to prevent yourself from doing worse things, once sin is your source, you will never escape hell.
The devil, no matter how many feathers are put on, can't become an angel.
And who are you, what are your colors, you really, know?
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