Some thoughts on this film

Robb 2022-11-26 22:29:24

1. The editing of the whole film is not out of the norm, sharp and smooth, which swept away the chest tightness that ordinary horror movies give people, and all the paragraphs were handled properly without being sloppy;

2. To be precise, this movie is not only about horror In the ranks of the film, it goes beyond the category of horror in the second half, and the horror becomes the remainder of the means, and the means are used to explore the secret relationship between the body and the spirit, and the audience's viewing psychology has turned. Attractive;

3. Perhaps its discussion touches on issues that all researchers of religious origins are concerned about. For example, all the subjects in the film have to endure a series of physical tortures, but most of them fail. Why is this happening? Does the so-called "belief" play a more important role in these processes? What kind of projection is more interesting to think about;

4. Regarding death, I can't help but think of a passage I just read from Deleuze's "Lucretius and the Imagination": "The restlessness of the soul stems from our unease about death when we are not dead. Fear also stems from our fear of not dying yet. "What the protagonist conquers is death and not dying, reaching the state of eliminating the unrest of the soul before death. Those peaceful eyes seem to explain this, but the movie also Let us believe that the removal of that unease is not the final answer for us, there are still endless doubts after that... . . .

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Martyrs quotes

  • [last lines]

    Mademoiselle: Keep doubting.

  • Lucie: Is this making you sick? Can you smell that smell? Smells awful, huh? Every time she bent over me, I could smell that, every day. Understand? And it smelled different when she beat me.