This is an extremely sick movie. It starts from the self-injury pastime of whose finger is put in hot water for a long time in the opening game, showing the extremely sick mental state and current life of the characters in the play. After that, morbidity is everywhere, from the costumes, expressions, behaviors, and setting of the characters, the tone of the film, etc., all revealing distortion, depression and morbidity.
This is the Garden of Eden imagined by a father, and he trapped his children here according to his own fantasy, preventing them from having any contact with the outside world. They live in an extremely remote place, surrounded by walls on all sides of the house, and buy everything back. Before the home, you must remove the label and tell your children that things like cats and fish are meant to kill their enemies, and there are such things everywhere outside, so it’s dangerous outside, but it’s safe to stay in the yard. Their TV sets can only watch family video tapes, and they make up all kinds of big lies that children must wait until their canine teeth fall off before they can go out to ensure the stable existence of the Garden of Eden that they have created.
He took the female staff of the company home to solve his son’s physical needs, but the female staff used all kinds of small things as a temptation to get his eldest daughter to give her oral sex. His son is free to choose between the two sisters. The son looks at the naked sister and touches their breasts and bodies. They have the same expressions on their faces. They don't know what this means, like parents asking their children. Do this as obediently as a bath, and when the behavior of the ignorant is shown in front of the audience, the viewer is shocked but afraid of anger, because they are so pure.
When the film developed to this point, I thought that the role of my mother would be rebellious. My mother used to be an athlete. It is hard to imagine why she became like this. But my mother chose to obey and extinguished the most recent trace of light in this morbid world. Desire, she is reduced to a tool for her father to rule the world. In order to show that the centralized director chooses to infinitely weaken the role of mother in the family, it becomes very virtual and has no sense of existence, but it is as ubiquitous as air.
What about these three children? It looks like a fairy tale of life, where there are no sorrows and worries. They live a rich life and love their parents. Their task is to live and kill the wild cats that suddenly enter, but in fact they are extremely empty. But because of their ignorance, they couldn't explain their emptiness, so they invented many boring games to pass the empty time. The emptiness of this spiritual world forced them into the pathology.
In this morbid state, there are things darker and colder than real life. The father’s random violence, the mother’s horror of talking to herself (phone), the uncontrollable anger between children, they fear and yearn for the outside world. They often look at the outside of the fence in a daze, but it is punished to be caught. The most terrifying thing is that they don't even know what they desire.
All this was built according to the father’s will. He didn’t even let the mother cry because it was not good for the children to see. He even fabricated an older brother and killed him to convince the children that this was what he thought. The perfect family relationship here is his world, but what is the difference between this kind of education and dog education? The canine teeth will not fall, what he needs is absolute loyalty and permanent ownership like a dog. When the eldest sister disappears and the family lays at the door after the barking of dogs, is there any difference between humans and animals at this moment? People who saw them couldn't believe that they were human beings, and those who couldn't see them absolutely regarded them as dogs.
The eldest sister danced at a family party until she was exhausted and went to the bathroom to smash her canine teeth. This is the enlightenment inherent in the human nature of the ignorant. Then she hid in the trunk of her father's car, because in this utopia The concern is that only cars can get out. The final shot is fixed on the car driving out of the house. I have been waiting for her to come out to see the outside world, but she did not come out, is she dead or alive? How should we face the real world if we live? And
knowing ... everyone in this world lives like a neurosis. I don’t know whether it should be understood as the father’s desire and ambition to control the family, or it should be understood as the self-pity and self-satisfaction of a perverted man. I prefer the latter because he maintains all of this with such vigilance, anxiety, and trepidation. Children are also equally vigilant, uneasy, and fearful, or
the composition of the family being raised is actually a metaphor for many things, such as politics, authoritarians, tools of governance, and the behavior of the ruled at different levels, and even has a clear system. The state integrator is lost in the illusion of his own creation. For example, in today's society, all kinds of people play different roles in themselves, but they can always run into the role that they are after all, but they don't know it.
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