Rose is the elder sister, and Red Lotus is the younger sister. The beginning of the film is beyond beautiful. Rose is wearing a blue cotton skirt, a red sweater with embroidered edges, and a beautiful face. She took Gulian's hand and ran on the road in the countryside. In the warm sunny afternoon, the ancient and luxurious villas are hidden in the scenery of lakes and mountains. The green lake water, white and tender toes, and bright colors are everywhere. The age of seventeen or eighteen is the most beautiful years.
Then, the camera moves through the dark and depressing room, and there is no corner where sunlight can penetrate. Whether it is day or night, this place seems to be a hell driven out by light, people slowly sink to the bottom of the water and gradually devour you. Feeling drowning, losing oxygen. The stepmother, who is always rubbing her red lips, is like a terrifying ghost. The twisted resentment in my sister's eyes, and the cowardly fear in my sister's eyes. The perpetually grimacing father. Floral wallpaper, thick cotton curtains, and dresses with ruffles and slender silk streamers flashed across the narrow corridors of the villa. Wooden floors, dark pavilions, copper chandeliers and wardrobes engraved with delicate patterns, the clocks in the room that have long been stopped have begun a new cycle. On a night without moonlight, the two sisters fell asleep hugging each other in an illusory world, and the real nightmare was quietly attacking them. That night, my elder sister hugged her thin younger sister tightly and said, with me, don't be afraid, don't be afraid.
On the sunny morning after the nightmare, my sister saw blood stains on her sister's body. The sanitary napkin that was stolen for my sister who was menstruating, my sister's happy smile. After washing, the white sheets and the girl's nightdress fluttered in the dazzling sunlight, and the older sister and younger sister hummed their mother's favorite song during her lifetime. Seeing her clumsy appearance, her sister smiled cheerfully. How warm and happy, however, all of this is an illusion. When Rose and stepmother saw the real stepmother brought by their father after the fierce beating, they suddenly realized that they had been living in an illusion, the forbearance of the sister, the cruelty of the stepmother, everything was woven fantasy. In the whole house, there are only two people, the father and Rose, and the dead Red Lotus and her stepmother, who doesn't live here at all, are all Rose's morbid imagination.
She kept shuttling in all corners, playing herself, playing Gulian, and even playing the fierce stepmother.
Rose is crazy. severe schizophrenia. She shed tears of despair in the psychiatric hospital. Finally, I faced the unbearable memory: that day, my father brought my stepmother to the house, and my mother hanged herself in the closet of my sister's house. After the sister found out, in order to pull down her mother, she tried too hard and was crushed under the wardrobe. Poor and desperate, Guren was desperately waving her only movable palm under her mother's body. The selfish stepmother walked away after seeing this scene. Halfway through, I was uneasy and went back to try to rescue them, when I happened to bump into the rose flower that came out of the bedroom. The strong sister sneered at her words, and her stepmother's little conscience was completely erased by Rose's disrespectful words. She told Qianghua word for word, you will regret it.
Sister rushed out of the house. Ignore my father's insistence. At this time, the poor sister called out weakly with her last breath, "Sister, save me." When her sister's fingers gradually stopped moving, her sister looked back and saw her stepmother's gloomy face. The sister turned her head resolutely and continued to move forward. My sister and mother are already cold. The camera freezes here, with Rose's cold face and messy hair. Sad and hopeless music.
The distressed sister, perhaps, is schizophrenic in such self-blame. She beautifully fantasizes about all kinds of conflicts with her sister and her stepmother. The one who imagines "it's hard.. cruel.. but the world is like that.. the world is not as sweet as you think it is.. you know what the scariest thing in the world is.. is when you want to forget one thing.. completely wipe it from memory..and you can never do it..it won't leave you..get it .. Endless extension.. This is the true portrayal of Rose's inner world..
I will never forget Rose's panicked expression, helpless and confused eyes, and tears in her eyes.
Deeply hidden dreams, fragmented memories, unbearable past events. The scariest thing in the world is the human heart. A man can conquer many things, but he cannot conquer himself. escape, or in its own world. But the pain will always settle in the bottom of my heart, leaving only a large area of color, a large area of grief, a large area of silence, a death-like silence, it turns out that everything is just like this.
At the end of the film, sister Rose is sitting alone by the river. Red lonely back. At this moment, I believe that my sister, Gulian, should be by her side. When the resentful soul has wiped out everything, the only thing that remains unchanged is the rose of the red lotus, the red lotus of the rose.
That painful villa, densely packed with small wounds, a touch of it is full of wounds and inexplicable sadness everywhere. The girls' white linen pajamas fluttered in the corners as flags of mourning.
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