Formless Notes

Hilbert 2022-04-22 07:01:31

Sc 1

India monologue.


Sc2

Dissolve transitions.

India ran in the forest, puncturing the blisters on her feet, and when she put on high heels, she could see the thick calluses on her feet, growing like this.

India is next to the marble balls, which were eventually used to bury the bodies.

India opens her father's gift on the tree, leading to the next birthday cake.


Sc3 Living Room

The phone rang with bad news.


Sc4 Funeral

Charlie's appearance is like a reflection on the water in India's eyes, reflecting the relationship between the two.


Sc5 Living Room

The sound continues to transition.

India talks to her mother. Spiders (personally understood as a metaphor for evil thoughts) also began to appear, heading towards India.


Sc6 Dining Room Kitchen

India listened to the servant discussing her father's accident, covering up the gossip with the sound of crushing eggshells.

Yellow Ribbon Strings Gift Box, Butler Insider


Sc7 Living Room

The door is full of guests, and the mother is full of spring breeze.

The two Stokes officially met, and there were several strong heartbeats in India's subjective picture as a voiceover.


Sc 8 Restaurant

India talked to the housekeeper, recalling that her father gave 17 pairs of shoes for her birthday every year,


Sc9 Study Room

Showcasing India's hunting achievements and having a good relationship with her father


Sc10 Living Room

The bird's egg and India's eyes are superimposed and transitioned.

India's keen observation, the secret pursuit of the two

The long shot brings up the indoor and outdoor environment, and family information is revealed in the guest discussion.

The two Stokes had a formal conversation, and finally the two also had a showdown on the stairs.

India seems to be the only one in the world mourning the death of her father


Sc11 Garden

sound continues

India watched Charlie test the soil in the garden, suitable for hiding a body.


Sc12 Garden

The two empty mirrors that left no trace brought India to see Charlie kill the housekeeper in the forest, and I thought it was the same scene. The screen cuts off, leaving only half of the information.


Sc13 Home

India talks to her mother, one asks about the housekeeper, and the other hides the murder of the housekeeper.

India doubts her mother is too relaxed

When her mother walks with Charlie, India wears silk pajamas (gifted by her mother, implying adulthood) on the bed, and makes the same wave of hands that Charlie did when he was a child (a boring and indispensable simile).

India searches Charlie's package, and clues are revealed. Hide the clues in the shoe box (two times I have to open it for a beam of light, I thought it was an amazing thing, and it turned out to be such an ugly shoe).

Seeing the reaction shots with mouths on gifts, I always think it's some kind of sexual innuendo. Although there are a lot of erotic messages interwoven throughout the film, I may be lustful here.


Sc14 Kitchen

The angle and position of the three-person dialogue camera are very interesting, but no special information can be found.


Sc15 Basement

Turning on the lights along the road, in addition to being good-looking, illuminates her mother's flattery, and Charlie's gloomy, pushing her to face death, but India has not accepted it at this time.


Sc16 Kitchen

India came up from the basement and subtly picked up the sound of Charlie's knife, a hint of murder.


Sc17 Restaurant

Three people talking. The camera pans directly from the two-person dialogue between Charlie and India to the three-person dialogue, (Charlie is between the mother and daughter), and then transitions to the dialogue between India and her mother through a single shot, the camera is pushed forward, emphasizing Important line clues "What kind of family is never home".

The bottle of red wine that my mother admired was India's birth year. In Charlie's eyes, India was already the bottle of wine that was fully fermented and ready to drink. (dead pervert)


Sc18 Studio

India's peculiar perspective

Sc19 School, Outdoor

Charlie tries to pick India up home, a few funny transitions

Sc20 Living Room

India meaningfully sees her mother drunk at home, jealous or angry

Sc21

India refused the yellow umbrella, and when she returned home, she saw her mother and Charlie playing the piano together, paving the way for the fantasy of playing together.

Sc22 Garden

Important weapon: father's belt

Sc23, 24 Aunt Jin visits and leaves

Sc25, 26, 27

The three scenes of Aunt Jin, mother, and India are interspersed in succession. They are connected by the sound of the animal world on TV, the sound of the phone, and other sounds.


Sc28, 29 School, Home

India's savage aggression began to show, and the pencil case and refrigerator both contained the bloodthirsty and aggressive nature of the Stoke family.


Sc30 Fantasy piano ensemble, aggressive awakening makes India aware of Charlie's actions, spiders crawling under skirts.

Sc31, 32

In the living room, I saw the ambiguous relationship between my mother and Charlie, so I went to find a classmate to imitate.

Sc 33 Bathroom

Recalling the death of a male classmate, and discovering Aunt Jin's body, and becoming an accomplice, a distinct death education, overnight, sex education, death education, homicide education, crime education, all alive.

Sc34 Bedroom Mother Combs Hair, Excellent Transition

Hunter's Basic Rules, Keep Your Breath

Sc35 Study Room

India discovered Charlie's true face, and to be honest, the single scene, the brilliance dropped a few points.

The voice of reading the letter together, emphasizing the same root and the same origin.

Sc36 Staircase, Memories

One is that the past is crazy, the childhood days and the day of discharge, plus the dialogue with India at this moment, the three scenes are seamlessly connected, and the truth of the incident is briefly and powerfully conveyed. I don't know where to take the screenshot.

The other is a hunting scene crossed with a shoe-changing scene, with India poised to go.


Sc 37 Police Interview

Calm, calm and cooperative.

Sc38, 39 Study, Living Room

Burning the specimen, the mother felt betrayed, approached the truth, or tried to seduce and was killed,

Sc39 Living Room

India came in and was shot dead. Seeing the shadow of the second generation of Charlie on India's face, the mother should also understand that the child must leave after all, and it cannot help the parents to complete the things they have not completed.

Sc40

Indoor bloodstained, outdoor garden graveyard

India hits the road, throwing away all her shoes. The mother's words came true, and she stayed in this house alone.

Sc41

Last step, kill the police officer.

From then on, with mother's shirt, father's belt, uncle's shoes. Don't shy away from the quirkiness of the past, and take a new journey.

Finally, images and forms are very eye-catching, and from content to language, there is a state of inability to achieve perfection, which is about to exert strength and lack something.

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Extended Reading

Stoker quotes

  • Evelyn Stoker: India, who are you? You were supposed to love me, weren't you?

  • Evelyn Stoker: India. Come meet your Uncle Charlie.