This review is an overview of the movie + partial analysis. Serious spoilers. Those who are not ready to watch or who have already watched it can watch it.
Describe the plot: Cage is a lumberjack (for him to be good at using chain saws as a bedding?) He and his wife Mandy live in a wooden house in the woods. His wife can draw pictures and run a convenience store at the same time. One day his wife walked on the road and was admired by the cult leader. The leader kidnapped his wife and Cage, and persuaded Cage's wife to have a relationship with him. However, he was ashamed and angry and burned Cage's wife to death. Cage gets mentally ill, then takes revenge, and finally succeeds in revenge.
——On the surface, the main storyline looks like this.
But there is another way to understand the content of the movie (maybe I think too much):
Note: It is necessary to default that those fantasy scenes are not only the illusion produced by the character taking drugs.
Cage is a lumberjack. A large number of cedar trees appeared at the beginning. Cage was logging. There are shots of him getting off work by helicopter, and there are shots of overlooking the cedar forest. It is a portrayal of the mysterious atmosphere. This place is deserted. The story may take place in the temperate zone.
As Cage drove through the woods, the radio said, "A spiritual awakening movement is gradually prevailing in the United States, and the revival of traditional values has become the foundation of the United States' strong national strength. The vast majority of Americans oppose pornography and abortion..."
Cage and his wife Mandy live in a wooden house in the woods. The wife can paint. The wife painted a lion and a naked girl. At this time, Cage walked into the house and asked his wife what he was painting. The wife said about the temple in the jungle (the place where Cage killed the cult leader at the end may be the temple in the jungle).
In the conversation between Cage and his wife, the wife mentioned Jupiter (Jupiter), and then the wife mentioned that the storm raged on Jupiter for thousands of years, and the wind was so strong that it could swallow the entire planet (the tiger breeder mentioned "ancestors" Brahma warriors descend from the eyes of the storm”) and Cage said that he likes Saturn (Cronos Greek: Κρόνος Saturn represents destruction. One of the original symbols is the sickle. I wonder if this is related to the sickle, the weapon later used by Cage. ), then, Cage changed his words and said that he likes Planet Devourers. I think this line is a reflection of his inner destructive power. However, the specific meaning remains to be explored. In this period, there are no characters taking drugs, but the camera moves up, not the starry sky but a fantasy picture. It can be seen that this film is a fantasy movie:
Next. Cage took his wife to boating, lit a bonfire at night, and stared at his naked wife through the flames. [This corresponds to the fact that the wife was burned to death by the cult leader behind her, and that there are naked women in the painting of the wife in front (traditionally speaking, one of the symbolic meanings of naked women is freedom, while the lion is cruel, fierce, and aggressive)]
The wife dreamed of a young deer dead in the woods, and she shed tears. Then the wife told Cage about her father's killing of the baby starling.
The wife is reading, the book is called seekea of the serpents eye. The wife said: The ancient sky is scarlet as blood, and underneath lies the volcanic mountains and jagged rocks. The evil wizard plunged into the darkness, his hand touched the smooth surface like a mirror, cold as ice, his fist clenched the eye of a viper, he slowly brought it to the front and looked carefully, the blood-red sun light was gradually Dissipated, the faint green light radiated from inside, strange and eternal.
This book is the key to explaining the plot.
Then the wife went to the forest road, walked in a cloud of red mist, and met the cult leader passing by. After returning to the camp, the cult leader lay on the sofa and asked his hands to catch Cage's wife Mandy. Probably this is an incident of robbing a maiden woman: first, his old lover went to the convenience store where Mandy worked and pretended to chat with her to find out where she lived. Several of the master's subordinates (disciples) came to the wilderness at night and used a sheng-like instrument to summon the knight.
A knight is a monster dressed in leather and thorns, riding a motorcycle. Not afraid of being stabbed (but severely injured will cause death). Speaking is a dead voice, and it is also divided into high and low sounds...
A cultist got off the cart and contributed a kind of ointment to the knight. This ointment should be a hallucinogen stronger than LSD. After the knight smiled, he went to Cage's house and helped them kidnap Cage and Mandy.
Here, the expression of his wife before being kidnapped and during the kidnapping process is a bit different. As if she already had a foreboding.
In the cult den, the old lover of the leader said to Mandy: As long as you are obedient, your husband will be fine. Those terrible people are gone (the terrible people are the knights. It can be seen that the leader and the knight are not in the same group, there is that magical LSD trade between them, the cult contributes ointment, ask the knight to help). Then the old woman gave Mandy eye drops, took a poisonous insect from the jar, and stung her neck.
The old woman emphasized: The leader thinks Mandy is very special. The young woman announced: Join our dream~
Mandy turned on the magic mode, and the effect was about the same as taking drugs. She was taken to the leader, and the leader confessed to her: When I met you on the road that day, you called me silently.
Then the leader asked: What did you see?
Mandy replied: I saw death attacking me.
The leader said: I recognized you, so I think you will recognize me sooner or later.
The leader said: You know, "he" just wants "his" children to love each other. Now I find that he allows me to show love in different ways, one of which is music. Then he played music to Mandy. He told Mandy that he was the chosen one, and repeated that Mandy was very special.
Then he unbuttoned his robe and Mandy burst out laughing.
I think Mandy here has entered the world of cult consciousness, and she is full of sarcasm at the hierarch's smile. Probably under the action of the drug, she agreed with the existence of the Chosen Son, and at the same time rejected the leader who is the Chosen Son.
(It cannot be ruled out that everything the cult believes in is also a kind of "existence.")
Mandy was burned to death by the cult under Cage's gaze.
Here is a weapon (the stained sword of the pale knight with an eye on it):
The tone is black and red, and the sword turns green as soon as it appears. I think this sword corresponds to the "green light" and "snake eyes" in the text that my wife reads. The leader is: the evil wizard.
The leader stabbed Cage with this sword. (It is very strange that the sword is pierced very deeply, and there is a close-up of the pull out, at least 20 cm deep. But Cage is okay, and I will get irritated when I go home later. I think he It was born again from this moment.)
The leader took the people away, he should have left because he felt that Cage was sure to die.
After that, Cage easily broke free of the shackles, hugged the body of his wife who was turning ashes, and then returned home.
He fell asleep on the sofa and had a cartoon dream, in which his wife was melting.
Here, there is a performance that impressed me very much. Cage was mad in briefs:
The next day he went to find an old black who lives in the car. He fetched a crossbow and two arrows from Lao Hei, and obtained a very useful information.
The old black lines are: black skeletons. Listen, brother, there is news coming from the drilling side that there is something dark and terrible, and no one knows where they come from. At the beginning, it was a story from state to state, truck drivers and prostitutes disappeared, leaving visceral corpses, motorcycle gangs, and black motorcycles on the steps. It can only be seen at night. There is a legend that some priests are responsible for transporting goods for a hallucinogen manufacturing factory. The drug maker has opinions on them and made a batch of special goods. Since then, they have never been normal again. I saw them from a distance once, and they were hunting crazy beasts.
Focus: drug making, priests, dark and evil things (knights). Here is an explanation of the origin of the cult and the origin of the knights (drilling, underground, demons).
Old Hei said: Do you know what is the most perverted place? They like pain.
After Cage went back, he made a sickle (I personally think this weapon corresponds to what he said at the beginning that he likes Saturn. It is a symbol of destruction and death.)
Revenge begins.
Cage lay in ambush in the woods and shot a knight with a crossbow. But the Cavaliers were okay, and Cage tried to kill him, but he overturned the car. Caught a place by the knight. There used to be an old couple living in this place. After the knight killed the old couple, they occupied their house.
Here Cage had a second cartoon dream. In the dream, his wife was lying in a piece of water and opened her red eyes. (I think this represents her revival in film consciousness. From then on, Mandy has begun to symbolize freedom (naked girls) and strength (lions))
Cage woke up. His hand was nailed to the ground by the knight, but he was all right next.
In the fight with the knight, he first pushed the knight downstairs, pulled out the nail, then went downstairs, and continued to fight the knight while escaping. The knight is a human, which is reflected in his two points of watching pornography and eating human food; but they are certainly not entirely human. His abilities are very powerful, and he won't die if he gets injured.
After the death of the first knight, Cage smiled strangely. At this time he should have understood something, but this understanding was obtained through killing.
Cage retrieved his crossbow and sickle in the house, and then found a jar with ointment in it. He dipped a bit with his finger and tasted it, and almost ascended to heaven...
There is a really cool shot in this place, I watched it four or five times repeatedly. Coolness and mushroom growth. jpg; spoon catching water. jpg.
Okay to continue. Cage walked out of the house and met a knight standing by the burning car. He fought the knight with a sickle, and finally cut off the knight's head. When the knight was killed, he kept repeating to Cage: She was burning, she was burning... After the murder, Cage saw half a cigarette on the ground, so he picked it up and lit it to smoke.
Then Cage came to a drug manufacturing site (perhaps the drug manufacturing yard mentioned by the black population). The poison master kept a tigress in a cage.
As soon as the poison maker saw Cage, he said: The Zufan warrior descended from the eye of the storm. You are right, my God, you are right. (Perhaps it indicates that Cage is the one who put an end to the bad luck brought about by the knights, and is the "chosen son" in another sense.)
The poison master pressed a button on the side, and the tiger walked out of the cage. (The gown that Cage wore in front was printed with the tiger head, and the tiger came out of the cage-his next action, a hint of heavy taste?)
The poison master looked at Cage and said: Oh my god they made you into such a ghost, why did they do this? The darkness you exude is endless, can you see it? (Cage may be the incarnation of death for the time being)
The poison maker said: Okay. child. north.
A picture of a tiger roaring. Cage rode into a passage on a motorcycle.
When he slept at night, he had the last cartoon dream: behind a fallen monster, Mandy in the dream reached into the monster's wound and grabbed an emerald-like object. (This should correspond to her study period: the blood-red sun rays are gradually dissipating, and the faint green light is emitted from inside)
Next, the bloody shot of this film came.
Cage killed one of the older brothers who took the knight to his house to kidnap them, and killed a young Christian. Then use a chain saw against a tall man who uses a chain saw like him, and finally wins. Two chainsaws and a large iron chain appeared in this section. When the man laughed wildly, Cage strangled his neck with a big iron chain and threw himself on the chain saw. Spray blood for ten seconds.
Cage walked into a building like this:
The beam in the picture above divides the space into upper and lower halves, reminiscent of a figure of God’s eye on the pyramid. The nested frames seem to be parallel to time and space. Cage picked up a book under the cross. I thought it should be something from this religion, and then he threw the book aside with disdain. Go down a tunnel with red smoke.
When he met the old lover of the leader, the servant might want to seduce Cage, so he told him that the leader praised her as the most sensitive and sexiest, and Cage was unmoved.
Next, he saw the leader in this place-like the bottom of an oil tank.
The leader said: Don’t come close, God is in this room.
Cage threw the old woman's head directly at the feet of the leader. Although the leader was frightened, he still said: Look at everything God created, everything is mine, you are just a mortal, without a soul, and without wisdom. Nothing, just animals. Your soul cannot last forever, without the scorching light. The hallucinations I have seen are all you have never experienced before.
Cage: You have a mental illness. Your world is full of mysteries, you have been submerged in it, and I can control myself.
Leader: You evil fellow.
Cage stepped forward to subdue the leader. The leader began to cry and plead: saying that I can forgive your sins with both hands. Forgive me, I can give you a flute. He went crazy again and said: God's gift is in my heart, not in your heart, you kneel down for me!
(I think they are discussing life...)
Cage: I am your God.
"Snapped"
After returning to the car, Cage saw the vision of his wife. The lens rose, and saw-toothed mountains, the sun, Jupiter, and Saturn appeared.
The film is over.
I think there are too many possibilities for this movie to be analyzed. Because it has too many symbols, such as lions, naked women, Saturn, Jupiter, knights, sickles, pyramids, crosses, temples in the jungle. And a black metal symbol appeared on the screen. And there is a scene in front of Cage smoking a cigarette at the door of his house and then dropping the cigarette. When killing the knight later, he obviously picked up half a cigarette and smoked it not at his door... All of this must have connotative meaning, but the conclusions obtained from different angles of analysis must be different. For example, cults may also be a political metaphor. At the beginning of the movie, when Cage listened to the radio in the car, the radio said, "A spiritual awakening movement is gradually prevailing in the United States, and the revival of traditional values has become the foundation for the strong national strength of the United States. The vast majority of Americans Oppose pornography and abortion..." And this corresponds to the naked girl symbol.
Perhaps the great god who often watches this kind of movie can give a perfect answer to the connotation of the movie, so I won't add to the confusion.
But I think the movie is still good, it should be worth more than 3 stars. One of the biggest advantages is that this movie is both a revenge cult film and a fantasy film. It seems to separate and extract a direction of consciousness from events in the real world. In other words, its events can be viewed from two perspectives, and they have successfully expressed two atmospheres, one, reality, and two, beyond reality. If these contents are changed into words, they are often expressed through psychological descriptions and metaphors, and the expressiveness of movie lenses is too intuitive, and it is often difficult to penetrate the "world of consciousness". This film not only portrays the event, but also portrays the "consciousness", which presents a very three-dimensional effect. It brings a strong sense of mystery, and the atmosphere is perfect.
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