Brief comment: immovable like a corpse, invading by illusion

"Autopsy of the Unknown Woman" is a frightening secret room thriller. The plot mainly takes place in an underground autopsy room. It has two exits: one through an elevator to take the main room and the underground; the other is An old-fashioned wooden ladder can reach up to two large wooden boards. Pushing open is the outdoor ground, which is a common basement entrance and exit. With the development of the plot, when the elevator fails to operate normally and the planks of the wooden stairs are blocked by external forces and cannot be opened, this underground autopsy room becomes a truly confined space: a long and narrow L-shaped corridor runs through it. The lights in the basement are flickering and dimming, and the convex mirror at the corner seems to reflect some inexplicable ghosts...

Even though the protagonist is a pair of experienced coroners, father and son, when faced with a phenomenon that is difficult to explain and beyond common sense , It is still inevitable to panic; and for ordinary audiences, the autopsy room is a mysterious, curious but chilling place anyway, just like the girlfriend of the coroner’s son played by Ophelia Lovibond in the movie. I wanted to explore the place where my boyfriend worked, and took a look at the corpses placed in the locker.Unlike traditional closed thriller movies, "Autopsy on the Unknown Woman" did not spend all its efforts on escape in a secret room environment. Its real focus is on suspense and mystery, just as the purpose of an autopsy is to understand the cause of death. When faced with a suspicious female corpse, solving the mystery and giving a reasonable explanation to the strange phenomena caused by it is the charm of the movie that really captures the audience's attention. In the process of analyzing this puzzle, the movie "tied" it tightly with the autopsy. Through the gradual advancement of the autopsy stage, the mystery and the secrets buried in it are slowly exposed. The whole design is combined with the setting of the character's identity. Perfectly clothed.

The coroner father and son, played by Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch, run an autopsy room and crematorium. This is considered a family business, and it is the third generation that has been passed down to this generation. It's hard to say how much Emil enjoys his job, but he is a filial son, has a girlfriend to invite him, and is still willing to release his girlfriend pigeons to help his father. On the day the story happened, their business was neither too much nor too little. The six lockers in the autopsy room were half full. Nearing the end of get off work, the police chief of the local town sent a female body to request the results of the autopsy that night, so as to deal with the media on the next day. Earlier that night, the local police discovered a bizarre murder. The family was slaughtered, but they could not find the slightest sign of invasion by external forces. A complete female corpse dug out from the basement deepened the bizarre murder. degree. The coroner and his son were temporarily ordered and decided to find out, so as to provide some useful clues to this murder case. When the story takes place in the autopsy room, I can't help but look forward to the appearance of a living corpse. The film kicked off amidst this huge anticipated tension.The autopsy shown in the movie is divided into four processes: appearance inspection, internal autopsy, heart, lung and digestive tract and other internal organs inspection, and the final brain anatomy. In the autopsy of the first three procedures, many contradictory test results made the coroner and his son suspicious: the gloomy eyeballs indicate that the body has been left for a long time, and a lot of blood gushes out during the "Y-shaped incision" of the chest and abdomen. But it seemed to come from a fresh corpse that had just died; the hand, foot and joints of the corpse were all shattered, the lungs were as dark as severe burns, and the heart and other internal organs had many wounds pierced by sharp objects. There are no traces of bruises on any part of the body: in the stomach of the female corpse, the father and son found a withered mandala flower and an inch of shroud painted with mysterious texts. They are surprisingly in the stomach. It’s well preserved in the corrosion... When the story progresses to this point, Cox, who was already well-versed and experienced at first, began to become increasingly unable to explain the strange phenomena he saw in front of him. The father and son fled in a panic in the basement chamber.

The film uses a very restrained method to create that kind of horror and inexplicable atmosphere. The corpses that were originally placed in the storage cabinets were missing, and the bells tied to their ankles rang in the aisle with pleasant ringing, which made people shudder; The scary face is also reminiscent of " After the Lights " was released earlier this year . During the period, the corpse incinerator was turned on, and the smoke rising from it aggravated the blurred atmosphere of the entire corridor. The father and son dodged in the meantime, sometimes suffering from the intrusion of living corpses that appeared from nowhere. After a thrill, the father and son realized that there was no hope of escape, so they decided to continue their unfinished "career" and returned to the post-mortem room to perform the fourth-step brain autopsy on the female corpse, with the intention of figuring out why all these strange things happened.

From the mandala flowers and shrouds discovered by the father and son before, we can find that the story is trying to organically combine reality and religious mystery, including the entire autopsy process and the repeated occurrence of strange phenomena. A manifestation of this attempt. The former allows us to attribute some of what we have seen and heard, including the auditory hallucinations of the son played by Hirsch after the death of Cox, who played the father, and the result of his final fall to death. The latter pointed to the dark religious tradition of the persecution of witches in New England in the seventeenth century by deciphering the mysterious pictures and texts on the shroud. I am not here to say that everything the coroner and his son saw and heard came from illusion, I just said that this feeling of true and illusion strengthened the mystery of the whole movie, and also made the revenge of the witch from religious persecution. It must look both unobtrusive and just right.In the end, all the autopsy traces were destroyed, and the female corpse completed the final step of the autopsy on its own-the corpse was restored, and turned into a jade corpse as intact as it came to be, leaving behind a chaotic scene and death in it. The corpse of the innocent person, just like at the beginning of the movie, has added a bizarre and difficult murder case.

From beginning to end, Olwen Catherine Kelly, who plays the unnamed corpse, lies quietly on the cold dissection stage, without any dynamic expressions, coldly passive, and mysteriously and mysteriously dominating everything, letting humans destroy themselves in their own hands. . Compared with the cruelty that human beings imposed on witches in the past, the cold vengeance is so high-end and powerful. With the development of the movie, you will feel more and more immobile and terrible and the evil feeling hidden under her cold appearance, and all this will be transferred with the decision of the sheriff at the end. At Virginia Commonwealth University, perhaps there will be another bloody massacre indiscriminately.

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