Stoke beauty to brutal killing
On her eighteenth birthday, a young girl, India, was shocked to hear the news of her father's death. The eighteenth birthday is a special day for each of us. It is a legal demarcation between minors and adults, and it means that an independent personality begins to form. From the very beginning of the film, the director sets the overall tone of the story with a set of profound shots.
India climbs the tree to find her father's birthday present. On each of her previous birthdays, her father would give her a pair of shoes, but this time it was a key. While India was confused, she also noticed the strange man standing in the distance with her keen observation. The key can open a drawer that seals the past, and the strange man who appears with the key seems to symbolize some kind of opening.
At the funeral of her father, the identity of the strange man is revealed, she is the uncle who traveled the world but never met in the legend of India. In contrast to her mother's behavior, India, who was close to her father since childhood, put the shoes her father gave him on her birthday every year on the bed to miss her father, read books about funerals, and told her when her mother suggested a drive to go for a drive. She should be mourning.
India's expression was gloomy. When her father had just died, a spider crawled into India's smaller shoes. The shoes have the function of protecting the feet, and the shoes become smaller, symbolizing a crack in the protective barrier that her father had built for her through hunting. And the spider is a low desire, a sexual desire, but not just a sexual desire.
Among desires, sexual desire is one of the most easily captured and expressed desires. Behind the palpable sexuality is the bloodthirsty and murderous nature of the Stoke family.
After his father's funeral, his uncle moved into India's house and had an affair with India's mother. The aunt who knew about his uncle's past was strangled to death by his uncle in the phone booth after trying to remind India's mother unsuccessfully. The uncle hid the aunt's body in the refrigerator, and asked India to put ice cream in the refrigerator, creating an opportunity for India to see the body.
When the uncle moved into India's house, the uncle showed all kinds of favors to India. He drove to her school to pick her up from school, and prepared an umbrella for her when it rained. He was such a gentle and considerate uncle who chose to stand by while India was molested by the boys in his class.
The nature of the Stoke family buried in India's body was provoked for the first time. India used a sharpened pencil to stab the boy in the palm of her hand, ready to attack her. After returning home, she shaved off a layer of the bloody pencil and put it into the pencil case as if nothing had happened. Then India went to the place where the refrigerator was kept to eat ice cream, and found the aunt's body, but she was not afraid at all, but quietly stared at the body, as if staring at the prey during the hunt.
India's violent and murderous nature was provoked for the second time. When India returned home in the heavy rain, she saw her mother and uncle sitting and playing the piano together. The drenched girl seemed shocked by this scene. Jealousy is the most important key to unlocking the nature of the Stott family.
You can imagine a girl who just lost her father. In her heart, she longs for the care of her mother, but she and her mother are in a state of mutual expectation and mutual disappointment. From here, India's attitude towards his uncle began to undergo a subtle change. The spider crawled up his uncle's face, and his lust and bloodlust began to swell. India and her uncle play a two-person four-handed piano, fantasizing to orgasm.
Afterwards, India saw her uncle kissing her mother, and until now India is still trying to suppress her own nature. The target of India's attempt to get love has changed from her mother to her uncle. India teased an acquaintance of a teenager. After being teased by India, the teenager tried to rape her. The uncle appeared in time and killed the teenager. And dispose of the corpse with India. Each ball in the garden represents a person.
India took off the clothes she was wearing when disposing of the corpse, put on sexy pajamas, and went to her mother's room to comb her hair. The camera cuts seamlessly from the mother's blond hair to the scene where her father takes her on a hunt.
India told her mother what her father had said to her, "Sometimes you need to do something bad to prevent you from doing something worse." The mother expressed fear for India who said this, and at this moment India and The mother's relationship is officially transformed into an antagonistic relationship.
Before my father died, India had a close relationship with my father. After my father died, my mother tried to care about India, for example, suggesting that India exercise more and feel the sun. At this moment, India, who is immersed in the grief of losing her father, is disappointed with her mother's joyful attitude, and her mother is also disappointed with India who ignores her.
Through the mouth of a disappointed mother, the director expressed his thoughts on the continuation of life. "At a certain point in our life, we realized that things were too bad to be salvaged, so we decided to start over." This is what I have been looking for for a long time. The most perfect explanation for why we have children to perpetuate future generations.
India used the key she got on her birthday to call the locked drawer in her father's study, where there were letters that her uncle wrote to him every time he went to a city. India keenly found that all the mailing addresses of his uncle came from the same mental hospital.
Since then, the true identity of the mysterious uncle has finally been revealed. The uncle did not travel around the world, but was locked in a mental hospital for killing his younger brother. At the same time, the secret of India's father's death is revealed.
After his uncle's treatment was over, his father drove to pick him up. The happy uncle thinks he can finally live with the family he misses, but his father gives him money and a house in New York.
The uncle may feel that by killing the younger brother, who is more concerned by the elder brother, the elder brother can love himself. The fact is that India's father had to drive away his uncle in order to protect his daughter. The uncle was so heartbroken by this hypocritical concern that he vomited and eventually killed India's father.
The uncle put on high heels for India, which is a sign of India's maturity. The bad thing, and the worst thing, is that it is much better to release sexual desire than to release the desire to kill. At the same time, the police began to investigate the missing young man, and his uncle told India to go to the house that India's father prepared for him in New York.
Before leaving, the uncle was going to kill India's mother, but was killed by India. Uncle is only looking for his own kind, and India is strikingly similar to his uncle in many ways. India turns the killing gun on her uncle, ultimately unleashing Stoker's killing instinct.
Uncle and India are the same people. The same people cannot hug each other to keep warm. There is no room for two forest kings in a forest.
The film opens with India's monologue "Just like a flower cannot choose its own color, we are not responsible for how we grow up. Only by realizing this can we feel true freedom." Perhaps for India For example, she had tried to suppress her bloodthirsty nature, only to get pain and failure. Therefore, for the future, there is no need to forcefully suppress yourself, what should come will always come, and what should go cannot be retained.
summary:
There are many very subtle details in the film that are worth savoring carefully, and there are many lessons for thinking about love, desire, and life. In our life, there may be times like this. Our unfulfilled attempt to get love from someone turns into a desire, quarrels, abuse, denigration...and that ensues. Art comes from life. The director captures and amplifies the emotions that can be seen everywhere in life, and finally presents them with exaggerated expression.
(A thousand readers have a thousand Hamlets. The above is purely personal opinion. If you don’t like it, don’t spray it.)
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