South Korea has a special etiquette. As a guest, you can’t enter the host’s living area, especially the host’s children’s room. Koreans in my country’s Heilongjiang and Jilin regions also have this habit. Knowing this is very helpful for understanding the plot.
This story is a family tragedy, and it can also be seen as an ethical drama. Unlike "The Scarlet Letter", "The Red Lotus in Roses" is more of a roundabout criticism. In the movie, my father said to Xiuwei, "I know I am a bad father." This is actually the case.
At the beginning of the movie, it was the scene where sister Xiuwei was receiving treatment. Xiuwei did not respond at all to the doctor's question. When the doctor took out the photo of Xiuwei's family, Xiuwei still lowered her head and did not answer. (There are 5 people in the photo, and the "stepmother" is standing.) Then the doctor mentioned "what happened that day". Xiuwei raised her head and the sun hit her face. How could such a young and beautiful girl get mentally ill? She recalled the past, but it was not "that day", it should be that after "that incident" happened, Xiuwei returned home from the mental hospital. (Why is it a psychiatric hospital? I'll find out later)
There are small rivers and reeds along the way, and this scenery left a deep impression on me. This was shot from the perspective of Xiuwei. Then the car stopped and we could see from the rearview mirror that it was Dad who was driving. Xiuwei sat in the car and did not come out, so her father knocked on the window and asked her, "Aren't you coming out?" What was Xiuwei thinking? Maybe when she got home, she was already sick, so it was her and sister Xiulian who came down. She is actually the only one.
After reading it, I know that these are all my sister's imagination, and my sister is a wharf that goes to alone. This is the younger sister imagined by her sister. Her innocence and confusion, and the excitement of seeing wild fruits are not necessarily true.
After they entered the house, the stepmother greeted them with the attitude of the hostess. She was overly enthusiastic at first, and later said to Xiulian, "I'm glad you are better now." After watching the drama, I knew that the stepmother and Xiulian were all imagined by Xiuwei. The stepmother said this because Xiuwei knew that she was sick subconsciously. At the same time it hinted that Xiuwei came home from the hospital.
The family ate together. After her father left the table, Xiuwei and her stepmother were angry, put down their chopsticks and left, and the stepmother said this to Xiulian. (At the end, we know that this fantasy has a realistic blueprint. The stepmother came again at the family party on the birthday of the two sisters. At that time, she was still the lover of the father. At this time, the sister and stepmother talked back, put down the chopsticks and turned back to the room. Xiulian who was eating grabbed the spoon from her hand, and the aggrieved Xiulian poured out the food and went back to the room with tears. Both scenes reflect that Xiulian wants to be gentler.)
In Xiuwei's fantasy, Xiulian put down her chopsticks and left when she heard what her stepmother said. Xiulian walked to the corner of the stairs, where her sister was waiting for her. Xiuwei asked her if her stepmother was embarrassing her, Xiulian shook her head. Then Xiuwei said, if that woman makes you embarrassed, you must tell me, don't pretend that nothing has happened like before. In reality, Xiulian put down her chopsticks and went back to her room. She did not consider whether her sister would be troubled by her stepmother. Xiulian was unwilling to tell her sister when she was wronged, but digested herself in the room. Xiuwei fantasizes about this episode, is it to make up for her younger sister?
Xiulian felt that someone had entered her room, rolled up the quilt and ran to her sister's room and woke up Xiuwei when she got into the quilt. Xiuwei asked her if she had a nightmare, she shook her head, and then asked her "Is it a closet?" She also shook her head. The question about this wardrobe was so awkward, I later realized that the wardrobe is a prop that runs through the whole line, and it is very important.
Xiuwei had a nightmare. In the first dream, a hand appeared repeatedly, and in the second dream, she saw her mother, who crawled on the ground like a ghost, then came to Xiuwei, bleeding from her lower body, and then stretched out from under her skirt. A hand was out. All hands in Xiuwei's dreams or hallucinations have realistic blueprints, and the blueprints are here.
When Xiuwei woke up, seeing Xiulian sleeping next to her well, she finally felt relieved a lot. Xiuwei smelled the smell of blood and found that Xiulian was menstruating, so she secretly ran to her stepmother's room to get sanitary napkins. The stepmother said: How come our two menstrual periods are on the same day. When Xiuwei returned to the room, she found that her good friend had also arrived. This implies that the stepmother and Xiulian were both split from Xiuwei.
The two sisters whistled in the cloister together. It was a song that my mother liked. The original piece was very cheerful, but it was slowed down a bit in the movie and looked very sad. Dad came out, but only talked to Xiuwei. Xiuwei was sober when talking to her father.
This may be the only time my father criticized himself, he is indeed a bad father. Everything started because of him.
Xiuwei went to the warehouse to fetch her mother's box, so the photos should also be treasured by her mother. In the previous photos, there is only one child, or a photo of a mother and one of the sisters, rather than both children. Here, one of the sisters is a person who takes a photo with a camera, which also reflects from the side that Dad is often away from home.
Seeing this, Xiuwei's expression changed from her original happiness to angrily.
At this time Xiulian came, and Xiuwei showed her what she found. After seeing her mother's photo, she chanted a strange spell, saying that she was calling her mother. This created a big illusion for the first time viewers that the ghost in it was the mother. In fact, there is no ghost in this movie. When Xiulian was holding the items, Xiulian found the scars on Xiulian's hand, (just planning to release the bird, was discovered by her stepmother's personality and taught her) and asked her if she was beaten by her stepmother's personality. Xiulian didn't speak, and suddenly Xiulian died. Becoming very savage, she kept pulling Xiulian and questioning her loudly, until Xiulian yelled, Xiuwei stopped.
In Xiuwei's fantasy, the stepmother is not very pleasing to her father, and she often abuses her younger sister. The former is obviously inconsistent with reality. Judging from the behavior of the stepmother, it seems that the stepmother also has some mental problems and needs to take medicine after meals. All this makes sense when she knows that her stepmother is Xiuwei herself. When the personality of the stepmother appeared, the father could only sleep outside, and the scene of the father and the stepmother sleeping in the same bed was a fantasy.
Xiuwei asked her stepmother why she was beating Xiulian. The stepmother would be beaten if she said something wrong. After a quarrel, the stepmother said this. At this time, Xiuwei was very broken, and she lifted the tableware on the table. But when Dad came out, there was nothing on the table.
Dad was shaving, when she heard a voice asking her, Xiuwei wouldn't let her dad touch her at all. She was full of resentment towards her father, why did that woman hurt her sister under her father's nose, but father turned a blind eye.
Carefully play this conversation and find that they are not talking about the same thing at all.
After saying this, let Dad answer the phone. Later, it was my uncle and aunt who came to visit. From the very beginning, Xiuwei hated them, it should be the stepmother's brother.
The stepmother's personality first talked about the uncle's childhood, and then about a madman. The stepmother found it interesting and was very happy, but the uncle said that she didn't remember it. Some great gods inferred that my sister used what they saw in the mental hospital.
During the dinner, my aunt suddenly fell ill. I won’t take a screenshot for this, the scene is quite disgusting. Seeing the personality of the stepmother was terrified. On the way home, her aunt told her uncle that when she became ill, she saw a girl under the pool. Note that this is a distraction.
After the guests left, the stepmother was sitting alone in the dining room. Hearing a strange sound, she looked under the pool, and there was nothing, but after she turned her head, there was an extra card on the ground. When she was picking up the hairpin, her hand was grabbed by another bloody hand, and she immediately fled back, but she did not expect the ghost to be behind her. The camera did not show a ghost face, only a green back.
After reading it several times, I felt that this dress was too familiar, and I found it later. it's here.
In the original plot, the stepmother's personality was terribly scared in the pool, but if the ghost is Xiulian, it obviously doesn't make sense. Possibly, Xiuwei knew from her subconscious that Xiulian was dead.
The conclusion of the stepmother’s personality is that there is something in the house. "Since the children came back..." Dad really had nothing to say, he only knew that Xiuwei was sick again.
Dad checked around to see what Xiuwei and her other personalities had destroyed. Later, it developed to the point that he killed the bird that stepmother's personality liked, so Dad had to bury the bird. This scene happened to be seen by the stepmother's personality.
The stepmother's personality rushed to find Xiulian to settle the account. Xiulian mentioned that she wanted to let go of the bird, but when she happened to be seen by the stepmother's personality, Xiulian had a few more bruises on her hand. So the bird is dead, Xiulian first thought of her stepmother's personality.
The stepmother's personality saw that Xiulian had torn off or painted all the photos of herself, and angrily shut Xiulian in the closet.
Here the wardrobe appears again.
Xiuwei woke up from the nightmare and dropped a photo from her hand. This is the only photo of the mother and child in the same frame.
He probably heard the movement, then went to Xiulian's room and found Xiulian was locked in the closet.
Dad had no choice but to tell Xiuwei. The camera was shaking at this time, suggesting that Xiuwei's world was collapsing. Normally, the younger sister is still around, but the father says Xiulian is dead, and the protagonist will refute it. But Xiuwei didn't. She just looked at Xiulian in pain and shook her head and said no. She actually believed that her sister was dead.
Dad told Xiuwei that Xiulian was dead, and Xiuwei's spiritual world collapsed completely, so she imagined that it was her stepmother who killed Xiulian.
At the same time, because of the father's words, the sister's dream changed from the scary intention about the hand or the mother to the real memory, although it was only a few fragments. It shows that Xiuwei's current spirit is extremely unstable, thinking of everything on the one hand, and destroying everything on the other.
The sister's room was locked up. Xiuwei went downstairs and saw a blood stain. She walked down and found her sister's body. Xiuwei went to untie the rope, but she couldn't untie it because she was flustered.
What she had to do now was to find the scissors and rescue Xiulian. Looking back, the bag containing Xiulian disappeared.
Xiuwei was about to cut the bag, and the stepmother's personality came in with the water bottle. Seeing that the posture was about to get rid of Xiuwei together. The two personalities fought. But there is only one body, and Xiuwei is always injured. Xiuwei's original spiritual world has collapsed.
Stepmother personality is the evil and indifferent part of Xiuwei's personality. Xiuwei can't beat her. Xiuwei was dragged to the living room, and the blood on the ground disappeared in the blur. Even for a moment, Xiuwei had been sober.
What the stepmother's personality said to Xiuwei is very crucial!
The stepmother's personality speaks to Xiuwei's heart. She wants to forget the "things of that day", but she can't forget it, even if she is schizophrenic.
When father came back, the stepmother's personality collapsed and Xiuwei fainted. Dad came back in good time, or Xiuwei might die at the hands of her own personality.
When my father went to get the medicine, he found traces of fighting and a doll in the cabinet. When he came back, Xiuwei became a stepmother again, and asked him timidly how Xiuwei was.
Dad had no choice but to let the real stepmother in.
Dad sent Xiuwei to the hospital, but Xiuwei held on to the real stepmother. There are some hidden secrets, Dad really doesn't know. Why is the stepmother so hateful in Xiuwei's world? Why does the stepmother always abuse Xiulian, just because Xiulian is easy to bully?
The whistle sounded, even if Xiuwei understood that everything was her own fantasy, she couldn't live without a sister, or she was unwilling to accept that she indirectly killed her sister. So in Xiuwei's world, Xiulian appeared again. In Xiuwei's other fantasy, it was to punish the real stepmother, so she fantasized about the supernatural event the real stepmother encountered in Xiulian's room. After thinking about it, lying on the bed alone, even the sadness has no strength.
She finally remembered the "things of the day" she wanted to cover up with schizophrenia.
The two children are swinging in the yard. Today is their birthday. Dad came again with "that woman", and when he entered the house he just glanced at them and said nothing. At this time, my sister's expression was very complicated, not as naive as Xiuwei had imagined. On the other hand, my sister is much calmer. In other words, my sister would have been colder.
This time not only "the woman" came, but also her brother and sister-in-law. Mother heard the movement upstairs, but could do nothing.
Xiulian is such a character, everything is hidden in her heart. Only her mother understands her mood. In the past, she was wronged, and only her mother accompanied her, not her sister. The mother knew that her daughter had been wronged, but there was no way to fight back. The mother and daughter had to cry. On the other hand, Xiuwei's personality is very different. She will write all emotions on her face, so her father always prefers Xiuwei.
I heard that the child born first is actually smaller than the one born later. Of the twins, the one born later is the eldest. Seeing this, I thought my sister was more sensible, and I remembered this statement.
When my sister woke up, the closet door opened by herself. Looking over, my mother hanged herself inside.
It is true that depression patients hang themselves in the closet. That was the case with Lee Eun-sook, the first-line actress in Korea.
The following are the reasons for Xiulian's death.
A loud noise was accompanied by Xiulian's scream. Of course, everyone noticed this sound.
A set of completely frozen shots, everyone is looking towards Xiulian's room.
Then there was the sound of my sister-in-law tidying up the tableware. She was only here as a guest, not a close relative of the host. She had to follow that strange etiquette. So, what happened in this house is not something she should see. Seeing the stepmother go up, the younger sister-in-law obviously felt strange.
If you don't explain this etiquette, the stepmother's elder sister seems to be just the waywardness of the sister. In fact, the stepmother has crossed the line, and the child’s room cannot be entered without parental consent.
The picture at this time turned into a brown tone. This was the moment that my sister regretted the most. Because of her willfulness, Xiulian was suffocated in the closet alive. Many people said that my sister was pretentious, but those people might not understand...In addition, my mother and Xiulian died on the same day, but the sister easily accepted the death of her mother, but could not accept the fact that she killed her sister. This is also Xiu. Wei's wayward and indifferent side.
In human society, a person's abnormal death will ultimately be borne by the living being their death. After Xiulian's death, her younger brother-in-law (or aunt) was also blaming herself, so she would have hallucinations that there was a girl under the pool. On their way back, the husband apologized to her. Perhaps the biggest reason was that after the incident, the sister-in-law was reluctant to step into the house.
There is also a stepmother. From the perspective of the ending, it is a godswork if she can really marry Xiuwei's father. Because she and Xiuwei are also the ones who caused Xiulian's death. In the play, she is the mysterious person who dad calls several times. She wanted to make up for her father in this way, but it didn't help. She and Xiuwei fought each other and stared at Xiulian in Xiulian's room. Dad didn't know. In my father's opinion, it was because of his extramarital affairs that his original wife committed suicide. The youngest daughter was crushed to death and the eldest daughter went crazy. He didn't know there were such complicated reasons, but thought that Xiuwei's schizophrenia was because Xiulian couldn't accept Xiulian's death... The death of his sister was completed by his father's extramarital affairs, not by a certain person.
It is also a description of family tragedies. I still like "Rose Flower and Red Lotus". "The Scarlet Letter" is too bloody after all.
The same type of movie is "Horror Cruise". There is also a small game "Fran's Tragic Journey", which is also very fun.
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