Never read the old version. Because there are too many English accents in German, this film sounds like a paste, and I only understood a little bit in the second brush. Here I share my understanding of the story line of this film and some detailed reflections.
1. About the story line
1. Susie is the reincarnation of Mother Suspiriorum. From birth, Mother Suspiriorum was sleeping in her body. So her mother mentioned when she was dying: My daughter is the greatest sin.
2. Susie never knew (just a guess). Since her childhood, there has been an indescribable force that drove her to yearn for Berlin and dance school.
3. The witches vote to decide who Markos and Blanc are in power in the coven, and Markos wins. As for how this coven is organized, I don't quite understand.
4. Markos is a fake. Since the dance school was established, he has claimed to be Mother Suspiriorum, so the witches have been looking for her next host.
5. In the dance school, Susie could faintly perceive something wrong. When she first went to dance school to participate in the audition, she breathed. She also asked Sara if she felt anything. (But I still have a question: why Susie saw the witch freeze and played with the two policemen who came to investigate, she just smiled, no panic, and no more information. So Susie may also know that she is Mother from the beginning. Suspiriorum, just disguised all the time?)
6. The Mother Suspiriorum in Susie's body gradually awakened in the dance academy (maybe awakened by those dreams).
7. After the dance Volk ends and before the final ceremony begins, Blanc and Susie have a telepathic conversation. This means that the Mother Suspiriorum in Susie's body has woken up (but if Susie knows that she is Mother Suspiriorum, does it mean that she doesn't think she needs to pretend to be in front of Blanc?).
8. Blanc tried to stop Markos's ceremony because she felt that Susie was like her young self, with a sense of sympathy. On the other hand, she was also suspicious of the purity of the ceremony.
9. Finally, Susie, the Mother Suspiriorum, summoned Death (the black creature) and killed all the witches who supported Markos and her own mother (the black creature also appeared in the mother's room).
Two, some details
1. When Susie was at the train station, there was a stop sign named Suspiria, which heralded the arrival of Mother Suspiriorum.
2. When Patricia went to the psychiatrist Jozef, she said that they took my eyes. And Markos always wears sunglasses.
3. Tilda Swindon played the role of a psychiatrist, but I didn't actually notice it at all. But her accent is really strange.
4. After being stared by the witch, Olga burst into tears and was led to the dance studio. I thought that witch was Mother Lachrymarum (Goddess of Tears), but then I realized that it was not. Two other goddesses besides Mother Suspiriorum did not appear in this movie. In fact, all witches can look at Olga through the eyes of the witch who is staring at Olga, and bewitch her. (Many other details of the movie prove that the senses of the witch are interlinked.)
5. Olga's twisting movements in the dance studio do not match Susie's dance style perfectly. It is a pity that it is neither synchronized nor the opposite.
6. When Susie dances close to the floor, the hands below it sensed are Markos's (some people say it's Death, but Death hasn't appeared yet; others say it's Mother Suspiriorum).
7. When the psychiatrist was about to leave the police station and return to thank one of the policemen, the policeman adjusted the ball with his hands.
8. The witch who committed suicide with a fork, she could feel from the beginning that Susie is Mother Suspiriorum and Markos is a fake (she refused to vote, whether it was for Markos or Blanc, she refused). So when Susie first arrived, she was observing from upstairs and was fidgeting. Later, after sensing the tragedy of all the witches who supported Markos, he ended his life early.
9. Caroline's jumping skill was exchanged for Susie with Blanc's eyes.
10. Sara counts the numbers to find the dark room. The sequence number is in front, and the reverse number is the next. The length is measured by footsteps. But I remember that the reverse order happened to count to zero?
11. When jumping Volk, Sara's eyes were a bit strange after returning to the team. That's right, it was Blanc who exchanged bodies with her, but it was Blanc who was actually dancing with Sara's body (you can see Blanc standing next to him doing the dance). So this part of Susie and Blanc danced together.
12. In the second gathering of the witches, there is an arm that shakes up and down on the wall.
13. The 30 minutes of the final ceremony can be called the 30 minutes of WTF! Probably because the red tones were deliberately filtered out in the front of the film, the intense red in the end can be described as bursting.
14. Markos has a baby's hand on his arm.
15. The gate of the dance academy is facing a long wall like the Berlin Wall.
3. Metaphor
1. Some people say that the constantly playing Terrorist news and scenes in the film hint at the confrontation between the new generation of rebel forces in Germany in the fall of 1977 and the old government. This is a metaphor for the story line of the dance academy (and vice versa).
2. The film can also be interpreted as a reflection on fascism. Blanc compelled the dance Volk in 1944 under the lust of Markos, a fake authority, which coincided with the dark years of Nazi Germany. The word Volk is the German "people" and it is also a metaphor.
3. There are also comments that this film expresses the desire of German women after the war to castrate their husbands who participated in World War II because they did not care about their protests.
4. Psychologist Jozef is the epitome of patriarchy. Although he is benevolent, there are very few substantive actions. He failed to save his wife from the persecution of the Holocaust, nor did he save Patricia and Sara ("Women tell you the truth and you tell them they're delusional."). Patriarchy still sets the rules of this world, and even Markos succumbed to it-there must be a male witness at her ceremony, as if there is no notarization by a man, everything is meaningless. But anyway, in the end Mother Suspiriorum erased all his memories of women as a punishment.
In addition, it is said that there are easter eggs... It's a pity that I didn't see the end twice. It is said that the scene of the easter egg is that Susie looks at the screen and gestures to the audience to clear the memory. Maybe because I didn't see the end, I can still remember the plot hahaha.
Additions and corrections are welcome.
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