Horror movies are just a coat, the key is self-salvation

Joannie 2022-09-16 04:36:32

It seems that everyone agrees that Cthulhu’s appearance is a failure, destroying the atmosphere created in the first half, but if the Cthulhu does not show up and does not force the male protagonist’s head to make him kneel and worship him, how can the male protagonist succumb to the violence before. (Little gangster) Until now, I will not succumb to the transformation of violence (this time it is God at any rate). This is the theme of this film.
The film deliberately made a close-up of the marks (blood holes) on the bodies of the old lady and the English-speaking lady, as well as the male protagonist. The English lady said that Cthulhu chose the male protagonist because of his deep pain. I think it is this kind of pain that makes it easy for people to succumb and worship the Cthulhu sincerely, while other people who enter the forest are hung up. Scary on the tree.
Regarding the comment from netizens that "they have not found a real exit until the end, the escape of the body does not mean the victory of the soul", in fact, the male protagonist has been rescued when he walks out of the forest, because he has left the area controlled by the evil god. The male protagonist did not kneel down to worship the evil god. After seeing the phantom of his friend who was killed by the little gangster, he smashed the evil god with an axe, and his soul had already won, even if he could not escape in the end.
Regarding the comments from netizens that "feeling that friends die because the hero can finally be saved by himself", in fact, according to the previous routine in the forest, there are only two ways for people to enter, either being hung on the tree or being marked. Stay to worship the evil god.

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The Ritual quotes

  • Dom: My old scoutmaster used to say 'If the shortcut was a shortcut, it wouldn't be called a shortcut, it would be called a route'.

  • Luke: Why don't we go to... boom! Amsterdam?

    Hutch: No, it's too touristy now, isn't it?

    Phil: All right, TripAdvisor.

    Robert: I'm not getting off my head again.

    Dom: Tuscany?

    Phil: Yeah, good wines.

    Luke: No.

    Phil: Germany, then?

    Luke: Nein.

    Dom: Belgium?

    Luke: Belgium? Mate, no one's ever been to Belgium by choice. What are you on about? What's in Belgium?

    Dom: Beers that are, like, 42% or something.