A film that depicts how people grow up seeing and dealing with their animality

Reyes 2022-04-20 09:02:05

The movie is not as bloody as I imagined, so you can watch it with confidence. This film resonated more with me, not that I craved cannibalism as much as the heroine, but that the questions it raised were things I had been exploring while growing up. As I grow older, I gradually understand that while a person has human nature, he also has animal instincts that cannot be erased. Some of these animal instincts are not accepted by the world, and some will affect the people around them, and how to face them Dealing with and dealing with these animal instincts is a big challenge we face as we grow up.

In this film, we can clearly see the transformation of the heroine, from being ignorant at the beginning, to gradually arousing animal instinct, that is, a desire to eat raw human flesh that is destined not to be accepted by human nature. The specific performance is that at first, the heroine was bound by family education and rationality, and tremblingly broke the moral boundaries of the past. Later, under the leadership of the heroine's sister, she slowly began to release her desires.

In the end, this act of wanton indulgence of one's own desires quietly ended when the heroine and sister did something completely dehumanizing. If the blood poured down without warning at the beginning stimulated the animal nature, then the conscience, legal and moral constraints of people at the end are a basin of ice water full of reason, which wakes people up from the beginning to the end.

However, this film does not simply allow us to blindly suppress and control our own animality. The words of the father at the end become the finishing touch. The road to adulthood is bound to be full of temptations. Born as a human, there must be primitive animal instincts and desires that must be controlled. What the film tells us is to learn to admit and face this desire, find the right balance in the path of life, and try to find a way of living that suits you. Desires need to be faced with recognition and satisfaction, but at the same time, they must also be built on the premise of not wanting to influence others.

We are not the characters in the film, and most of us don’t have the experience of the heroine’s sister, and there is no one who understands, tolerates, and guides us positively like the heroine’s father. So how to save yourself, how to deal with human and animal nature Finding a balance point in growth is a big problem in growing up, and this film presents this problem naked in front of the audience.

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  • Adrien: You're up?

    Justine: For breakfast.

    Adrien: Putting on a barbecue?

    [smiles]

    Adrien: What do you eat?

    Justine: Cereal.

    Adrien: Cereal's up there.

    Justine: I'm just getting milk, OK?

  • Le père: Your mum was tough at first. Kept saying I was her best friend at school. It drove me nuts! It's not like she had a boyfriend. Just me. And then we had our first kiss. And I understood...

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