The creators have a very good way of dealing with horror scenes and explaining the relationship between characters. Although there are many characters in the whole film and the emotional clues are chaotic, the characters are three-dimensional and vivid: the dependent mother, the murderous father, the incompetent son, the down-and-out ex-husband, just around the corner. His subordinate, embarrassed lover, and sadistic neighbor appear one by one, presenting their respective performances just right. The heroine Michelle is surrounded by a group of ugly ordinary people, who will pull them into the quagmire of life every minute, and the appearance of the neighbors has become the biggest threat to Michelle's normal life, and at the same time leads to the main dramatic conflict of the whole film clue. Michelle's suite, as an excellent space for film expression, condenses the film's dark, oppressive, and absurd temperament, and has also become a stage to show the heroine's mentality.
In the quiet residential area, a crisp sound of falling objects accompanied by a suppressed moan led the audience's attention to the space inside the glass door. The black cat opened innocent eyes and silently stared at everything we could not see. As soon as the camera turned, the heroine in a dark dress was holding a metal dustpan to calmly clean up the broken white porcelain, and the wound on the inner thigh was faintly visible. This gothic black scene depicts the heroine's encounter in a minimal and poetic way. After that, the loose glass doors and windows, the masked gangster who broke in from the door, the black cat, and the violent scenes were repeatedly inserted, which externalized the fear in the heroine's heart, and the nightmare of violation lingered, which became a "prototype" of the film. Scenes. With the deduction of the plot, the black drama staged in the suite gradually changed. The heroine's bloody counterattack with violence and violence was added to the scene, and the twisted nightmare became the preview of the follow-up plot. Up to this point, the unsettling force has penetrated into the room from the outside in an unwelcome way. But after the neighbors closed the doors and windows for the heroine on a stormy night, the uneasy force entered the heroine's living space in an "invited" attitude, and was gradually tamed and even eliminated by her. In my opinion, the scene where the neighbor closes the doors and windows for the heroine on a stormy night is the most romantic and symbolic scene in the whole film. At first, the strong wind blew against the glass doors and windows, and there were shadows outside the doors and windows, giving people a sense of tense danger. Then, the addition of the neighbors quickly diverted our attention. The process of closing the doors and windows with the cooperation of men and women eliminated the audience's fear, and replaced it with ambiguous and provocative. During the closing of the window, the physical contact between men and women is depicted with great sexual tension, full of provocation and suggestion. This time, however, the neighbors hurriedly rejected the initiative Michelle. Looking back at this scene after watching the entire film, we can appreciate the irony in it, the first head-on collision between two twisted desires, but it ended so hastily. The situation has changed subtly since then, with Michelle taking on the role of manipulator and eventually turning things around, subtly putting the abuser to death after enjoying sexual pleasure. After closing the doors and windows, Michelle, who was walking against the wind, was no longer the passive victim of violence, but became the subject of ruthless desire.
Enjoying the pleasure brought by desire and spit out all the triviality and impermanence of life, this is the woman that "She" has created for us - the free and powerful Michelle.
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