Satan's Refuge

Sigurd 2022-04-22 07:01:40

First of all, I don't see much horror movies, so I don't see much of the bloody scenes in them. But it must be acknowledged that every time a person dies, a life is hunted. All give strong stimulation.

The film is really everyone's work, including the shots, the details, the plot control, the use of color, the shock of the sound and the use of music. A dark and depraved aesthetic. VIPs want to believe.

What the film wants to discuss most is killing, killing another person, what is going on. The description revolves around Jack's murderous path, and finally presents the story as a religious Satan ending.

But the problem is that the problem Jack faces is also a human problem and a fascist problem - the huge contradiction between art and human nature. I think maybe at the end, near the end, the house built by a person's body is a great shock to everyone. And because it is extremely unethical, it will even exile those who think it is beautiful. But it is undeniable that it is trying to reveal the Satan and the devil in everyone's heart. It relies closely on art, passion, and people are trying to suppress it.

But this film also has flaws in the ointment, and it is even fatal-in some plots, it is too simple. Of course, on the one hand, the director wants to show the indifference of others, so the characters opposite to the protagonist, as Merge said, are indeed There is a common stupidity reflected in the body, of course, this is also to show that the reality of the protagonist is not necessarily the real reality, but something that has been stripped out. Only such logic can go to the back, the hole that the house goes underground, and the possibility of going to hell. Turn a realistic story into a metaphorical one. The problem, however, is that such conversions are rather blunt and unsatisfactory. It's not like "Fight Club" where it goes to fantasy at the end of the explosion, and it has a good sense of rhythm. Even when this loop is closed, when jack encounters merge and starts the story at the beginning, the loop is not well established, the later exploration in hell seems to be procrastinated, and the ending is normal, and the only bright spot is the golden world of harvesting wheat. There.

This question makes this work confusing at the end, and to be honest I didn't understand the metaphor at the end, which may even be a very religious expression. But it's really unsatisfactory.

These two points, plus it doesn't make me feel great, or more, I give it three stars.

But I have to say that the change of the protagonist Jack is actually very big and interesting. From the beginning, the stiff and stiff middle-aged man. From a passionate, paranoid man on crutches in the back, to Satan at the end. All this was brought to him by the killing. The metaphor of the street lamp is also very interesting, which makes me feel a little different when I walk at night hh.

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The House That Jack Built quotes

  • Simple: Why do you always have to be so cruel? I'm not completely stupid.

    Jack: That fucking depends on your definition of "completely."

  • Jack: All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Simple back together again.