The film tells the story of a family in which a father forbids other family members from contacting the outside world, and trains children by training dogs from an early age, instilling in them "When your canine teeth fall, it's the day you come into contact with the outside world, and you have to drive when you leave. "thought of. At the end of the film, the eldest sister knocked out her teeth with a dumbbell, ran out of the house with a mouth full of blood, and hid in the trunk of the car. The tone of the film is bright and warm, but it is more like telling a chilling story in a peaceful tone. This is a fictional family tragedy, but the "totalitarianism" alluded to in the film is looming in reality, and it brings people far more than the dull pain of the eldest sister knocking out her teeth.
In this home of canine teeth, all words are misinterpreted as things visible in the home: "zombie" is a small yellow flower, "telephone" is a salt shaker, "whore" is a bright headlight...; children teach themselves Medical knowledge heals siblings; family entertainment is reduced to watching homemade videotapes and dancing choreographed dances. In short, all information must be carefully "dressed up" by the father before being contacted by the family, so as not to "taint" the purity of the family members' minds. I wonder if these plots are naked true portrayals that already exist somewhere in the world. Leaders there are revered as saints, attracting the crowd to kowtow and praise; the possession of non-native films and the promotion of foreign cultures will be severely punished... People not only cannot receive information from the outside world, but also live in a carefully woven lie, He thought he was in a "paradise on earth". And this is a more deadly suppression of thoughts than just blocking information - so that if one breathes a breath of free fresh air one day, he will scramble to escape.
If some parts of the film are taken out of context, you will mistake it for a happy, well-off home. The question is, why is such a harmonious illusion broken by the eldest sister's crazy escape? In the film, after the eldest sister exchanged her dignity for two tapes from the outside world (even though she didn't know what dignity was), her father beat her head mercilessly with the tape; , was beaten by his mother and collapsed on the bed. Under the dog-training education of her father, the eldest sister has a primitive desire for knowledge and possessiveness in her blood—the so-called primitive, because in order to satisfy these desires, she can abandon her dignity without thinking, hurt her blood relatives, and always expose her beast. Obviously, these desires are being suppressed under the "high pressure" of the parents. For a person who does not have the ability to think independently, when the desire cannot be satisfied, it will bring physical pain, and fleeing is an instinct.
It is human nature to pursue freedom. Before the eldest sister was punished, some of the children's actions were already revealed. They will whisper to the wall when their parents are not looking, throw food outside the wall, cling to the wall to catch the sound of the outside world, how eager they are for the outside world to respond! It's just that for them, the concept of "freedom" is chaotic. They only vaguely sense that there is a world beyond the walls, but they don't know how to obtain true freedom. It was not until the eldest sister danced a dance at a family party before her escape (to be precise, it was just her inner restlessness before she got rid of her bondage), and her movements were mechanical and ugly, and the idea of "pursuing freedom" was developed from the embryo for the first time.
At the end of the film, there is a ten-second close-up of the trunk where the eldest sister is hiding. There is no movement there. Maybe she has already suffocated in it, maybe she is just waiting quietly for the opportunity to escape into the distance. However, I'm worried that the outside world might be driving her completely crazy.
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