Koreans seem to have a talent for horror movies, and Rose Flower Red Lotus is not just a pure horror movie, but has a surprisingly tragic force. In the elegant and dignified wooden villa, the elder sister always lives in the shadow of self-blame and fear. What she fantasizes about is her younger sister, who is still by her side. She splits and acts as the tormenting stepmother. Is the stepmother's endless pain for life, her future, and herself all the price of the stepmother's sentence "You may regret this moment" when her sister was pressed under the wardrobe?
The stepmother's intervention in the parents' feelings, the mother's suicide, and the sister's death have turned life into a fragmented mirror, in which the sister has no choice but to twist and split, like the plaster statue that hides her face from time to time, the only one. The choice is to escape, lost in the chaotic past and today's fantasy reality, and give birth to two people out of thin air in the huge room to torture myself. "Are you crazy?" her stepmother asked, or was she asking herself?
The soundtrack is the sad melody of the violin, the lingering and tangled texture, echoing between the light green floral wardrobe and the dark red door panel, ups and downs, constantly.
What destroyed her and woke her up were the family, the broken marriage, the stepmother she had to face, and the little sister who used to hold her hand tightly and whisper, "Sister, save me" at the last moment of her life. The younger sister seems to be another shadow of her, her rebirth. It's not the wardrobe that ends everything; it's the relationship.
Are you crying? For me, the most touching moment was when my sister grabbed the hand of the sister who still existed in her fantasy at the beginning of the film and ran to the small pier.
The dazed little sister who ran away and forgot her shoes was gone, and her world was gone. When she could soberly admit that no one would accompany her to sit on the pier and play in the water, it would be meaningless.
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