Recommending a movie to a friend has to come with the service of smoothing the plot. I also tried my best...
India Stoker, an ordinary high school girl who is slightly withdrawn, receives gifts from her father on her birthday every year - a pair of size-appropriate flat shoes and a letter from Uncle Charlie, India will change into the shoes from her father but never Chance to read Uncle Charlie's letter. On India's 18th birthday, the birthday star who found a gift on the tree in his garden had not had time to eat the birthday cake, but received the sad news of his father's sudden death.
At my father's funeral, my mother had been irritably fanning because of the hot weather, more restless than sad. India, on the other hand, lined up the shoes that his father gave him every year in memory of his father, and put on a conservative dress, read the funeral encyclopedia, and accused his mother of keeping filial piety at home.
The mother-daughter attitude toward the death of the father also reflects the differences in the relationship between parents and their daughters. My mother is a well-educated, high-achieving student who speaks fluent French, but needs someone else to take care of her. The married mother is trapped in a secluded house without friends, and envies the frequent interaction between father and daughter - hunting. His father took India hunting since he was a child, cultivated India's keen observation, calm and calm mind, released India's gloomy psychological pressure by hunting animals, and made the prey into specimens, so that India has no fear of corpses. The grief brought to India by the death of his father is diluted by the sudden appearance of the mysterious uncle.
Uncle is a "traveler" with a refined appearance and elegant manners, who calls himself traveling around the world. His appearance allowed his mother to take a breather from her suffocating married life. The uncle took her for a ride in a convertible sports car, cooked food carefully, played tennis and played the piano with her mother, and her mother seemed to have found a relationship with her young father in her uncle. The feeling of being in love. Unlike her mother, India has been suspicious from the moment her uncle appeared, watching him secretly, just like watching the prey before hunting. As everyone knows, my uncle has been waiting for India...
Accidentally, India discovered the quarrel between his uncle and his housekeeper's wife, and then the housekeeper's wife turned into a cold fog and evaporated. A doubtful India sneaked into his uncle's room and found his father in his uncle's luggage. Sunglasses and a birthday present in the same packaging as my father.
Aunt Kim's visit brings a sudden change in the atmosphere of the Stoke family. Aunt Kim tries to share some information with the mother and daughter that they should know, but before she gets the chance, she is miserable. India also found the housekeeper frozen in the basement freezer at this time. Just don't understand why uncle intentionally let her see the housekeeper's body?
Little did he know that his uncle was deliberately leading the temptation of India and awakening the unique genes of the Stoke family. In a four-handed sex with his uncle, India had an orgasm for the first time. But then he found out that his uncle was flirting and caressing with his mother. Jealous and full of curiosity, India tried to feel the same love from her classmates, but it backfired. India, who was trying to resist, was able to escape with the help of an uncle who suddenly appeared, but watched as his classmate was killed by his uncle. This kind of killing not only did not frighten India, but made her feel the pleasure of sin. It also made her understand that her uncle was not a good person and that he was hiding some secrets.
In a conversation with her mother, India revealed to her that she had seen her mother cheating with her uncle, and also understood that her father often took her to hunt not because he liked hunting, but had been teaching her hunting skills. Later, India used a key from his father's eighteenth birthday to open the drawer full of letters from his uncle in the study, revealing the true identity of his uncle.
It turns out that the uncle is not some bullshit globetrotter, but a mentally ill patient trapped in a nursing home. My uncle was as lonely and sensitive as India when he was a child, but he killed his own younger brother with his own hands. The uncle, who was forced out of the family, has been eager to return home to be reunited with his brother and niece. Although his uncle is in a sanatorium, he has been secretly learning about India's growth through the housekeeper. He understands that the blood of the Stoke family is also flowing in India, so he is eager to find a sense of belonging and identity.
Finally, on India's 18th birthday, my uncle asked to be discharged from the hospital and go back to "home", but I never thought that my father never thought of accepting his uncle and letting him return to the family, but letting him go away. In a fit of rage, the uncle killed India's father.
After confessing to India, the uncle took out the 18th birthday gift he had prepared for India, a pair of high heels, a symbol of a mature woman. India understands at this time that she and her uncle are the same kind of people, and her father has been protecting her and nurturing her.
Finally, waiting for the right time, India pulled the trigger, completed the hunt, and realized the dark and gorgeous transformation from loli to adult.
The details of the film are very subtle, with a strong classical temperament and a gloomy atmosphere. The sound processing and picture editing make the film's audio-visual language very rich, and the choice of actors also makes the film delicious. Generally speaking, it is a director's personal style. A significant alternative psychological suspense thriller, which may be more fancy in form and slightly perverted in content, but it does not prevent it from being a good movie.
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