Introduction:
1. The story before the story
2. The prelude to the movie story
3. The main line of the movie
Suspense answers:
1. Three fragments of the death of the male protagonist’s wife
2. Now, who is the puppet? The meaning of this sentence.
3. Stepmother Ella
4. Old Henrys
5. Marion's line review
6. The mystery of old Henry's death
7. The plot of Marion killing old Henry is restored
8. The last shot
I originally wrote it for four days, and the whole article was about 1W5 thousand words, but I refined it a bit and reduced it to 8800 words now.
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Foreword: The most interesting thing about this movie is that you see the whole movie and you understand it. But in fact, you don't understand it at all. You can understand the main line and the branch line.
This is a story with only one main line but N branch lines. You have finished the main mission and the game has been cleared. It will not affect your understanding of its excitement. But if you want to understand the real excitement of this world, you must finish all the branches, and then you will see a no The same world.
Yes, I think this is a suspense film in a horror film. The first time I watched it was a horror movie, but after watching it three or four times, I felt it was a suspense movie.
----------The story before the film story-------------
About 70 years ago, a theater was built in the bustling town of Ravens. There is a ventriloquist performer named Mary Shaw in the theater.
Mary Xiao is withdrawn, alone, no husband, no children, maybe it's infertility, maybe she died early, who knows, no one cares, no one cares. Only the doll will accompany her forever.
In this depressive and lonely environment, she was actually a little nervous, and always treated the doll props as her own children.
Although no one likes her, the professional talent shown by this kind of sincere devotion and dedication is not comparable to that of an ordinary ventriloquist. Therefore, the theater is still willing to hire her to perform. She also lived in this small town.
Originally life was so peaceful and unwavering, others lived in the outside world, she only lived in her own small world.
Until one day, in the performance, she met a bear child.
During the performance of Mary Xiao, the child bear said: "Your lips are moving. I see, your lips are moving."
Mary Xiao immediately performed a unique skill with the doll, one person and one doll, and the two voices quickly alternated, until at the end, the two voices spoke at the same time. This won her thunderous applause, but she did not hear them. He just looked at the bear boy and asked, "Now, who is the doll?"
Whether it is the content of her dialogue with the doll, or the final question to the bear child. It all explains one thing: She doesn't think the doll in her hand is a personal puppet, but her own child with life.
But Xiong's question was like the emperor's new outfit, bursting through the bubble that she protected her little world, and it broke apart with a bang.
A few weeks later, she kidnapped the bear child. Although she had an idea for a long time, she didn't really have the courage to pursue what she wanted to pursue: the perfect doll until her small sealed world was broken.
The perfect doll is an experiment on the human body, where a living body is dissected and made into a doll. This is very difficult, the bear child is the perfect puppet 1.0, and she is very happy after it is completed. Feed him milk, wipe the corners of his mouth, with a kind expression and gentle eyes, as if he were treating his own son.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. The Anson family where the bear child belongs is a local family born and raised. There are many people, and Mary Xiao is soon found, and it is determined that she has kidnapped the bear child.
Mary Xiao refused to admit it, let alone hand it in. But all the clues indicate that there is no other possibility that the bear child is kidnapped by the woman in front of him. . The Anson family coerced and pleaded, but Mary Shaw still didn't want to admit it.
In the end, the Anson family believed that the bear child should have been killed. So she forced Mary Xiao to scream loudly, and then killed her with tongue-out torture.
After Mary Xiao died, her wronged soul remained and turned into an evil spirit. Obtained two unique abilities.
One is that she can sit in the dolls she has made. As an evil spirit, her range of activities is limited, and she can only move around the dolls, and can't go too far.
The other is due to death torture during her lifetime, leading her to learn this trick. As long as the victim screams loudly, she can kill the opponent by pulling out the opponent's tongue, and at the same time get the opponent's voice.
-------------The prelude to the movie story----------------
During the 70 years, Mary Xiao continued to kill those who killed him in the past, even their offspring, all of these people died of tongue-out torture.
However, the further forward, the harder it is to kill. Because she has no entity, she can only kill by making the other person scream and then pull her tongue out.
When the residents of the small town are familiar with her routine, they will naturally educate their children not to scream loudly.
Until the end, only two enemies of Mary Xiao were left. That is, the hero and his father in the story.
Both are descendants of the Anson family, and they belong to the killer type on her revenge list.
The hero's father has been frightened several times, but he is violent and bold, remembering that things you can't scream are always frightening and not persecuted.
He had a total of three wives. The first was forced to commit suicide because of domestic violence. The male lead was the son of the first wife. After his wife committed suicide, the man was also driven out of the house by his father. The second wife couldn't stand domestic violence either, so she chose to leave. Until now the third wife, Ella.
Ella was even more miserable. She was already pregnant, but was struck down the stairs by the male protagonist's father's domestic violence, leading to a miscarriage, so she wanted revenge and took the initiative to find Mary Xiao.
Mary Xiao was worried about how to kill the hero's father, and the two hit it off. But Mary Xiao also put forward her own condition, that is,'I can help you get revenge, but your body belongs to me. '
Ella agreed, and Mary Xiao made a perfect doll 2.0. Mary Xiao discovered at this time that the dolls made by this kind of people who voluntarily agreed to dedicate themselves were already perfect.
This is similar to the devil's deal. Why does the devil want to make deals with people, because he wants a soul that is willingly dedicated to him.
Mary Xiao has such a walkable physical doll, it is naturally much easier to kill the hero's father. After all, how do you guard against the person next to the pillow? Therefore, the male protagonist's father is basically dead.
After the killing, she made the male protagonist's father into a perfect doll 2.1. This doll is really inferior, completely incomparable with the male protagonist's stepmother Ella. Some are similar to that bear kid, but in just two months, his complexion is pale and a dead face.
At this time, only the male protagonist who was far away in the city was not killed. Mary Xiao thought about it carefully, mainly considering that the male protagonist's father, the doll's body changed too fast, so she decided to kill the male protagonist first, and then study the perfect doll technology.
She mailed the little doll Billy to the male lead and possessed it herself. This is the scene at the beginning of the movie.
------------- Movie main line --------------
The main line is the Revenge of the Evil Spirit. This is why the hidden ending is officially deprecated. Those who are interested in the ending searched for it, and the ending became the revenge of the stepmother, not the revenge of the evil spirit.
The purpose of the evil spirit Mary Xiao is to make the hero scream. This purpose runs through the entire movie. All her actions are centered around this goal.
The process of frightening the male protagonist six times:
For the first time, after the hero's wife died, he used the blood outside to make the hero nervous. Then he covered his wife's body with a white cloth, and after opening it, it formed a moment of horror. The wife's body was also put in a terrifying posture, with a big mouth, no tongue, pale complexion, prominent eyeballs, and a strange posture.
The male protagonist was so scared that he stepped back a few steps, and touched the doll on his heel, but Mary Su did not come out. Because the hero didn't scream.
The second time, a small town hotel.
Mary Xiao appeared directly, and the hero turned on the lamp and it was done.
The third time, the male lead went to the theater for the first time and was looking at the diary of the puppet. Mary Xiao flew over and sat on the bench again, deliberately letting the male lead look back through the mirror, but when he turned around, there was nothing left.
The fourth time, the male lead went to the theater for the second time. After the police officer and detective died, he climbed onto the bridge and barely exposed half of his head. He found Mary Xiao lying there waiting for him to come up. The moment he saw him, he revealed The look of hideous horror.
The male protagonist was indeed shocked this time, and fell straight down, growing his mouth in mid-air, almost screaming, but in time he covered his mouth.
For the fifth time, after the hero returned home, he found the'last' doll, Billy. Mary Xiao pretended to be desperate and flew in from the window. The hero burned the doll easily, and Mary Xiao flew out of the window again.
This is the first five shocks, all of which were unsuccessful. But it was enough to prepare for the sixth time.
For the last time, the male protagonist finally discovered the secret that stepmother Ella and his father are all dolls, recalling the scenes of the stories that happened, could not help but have a mental breakdown, and was shocked by this perverted human experiment, and finally screamed Speak out, the evil spirit wins, and the game is over.
------------Three fragments of the death of the protagonist's wife---------------
① When the wife was about to walk past the mirror, she turned her head to take a photo. Then tuck a blanket under your underwear and imagine what you will look like after a pregnant belly.
Going quickly is the key. Because it is normal for a normal person to walk to the mirror and stay for two steps. However, having almost walked past the mirror, and then looking back to take a photo, it seemed unusual. Here it is pointed out that she is pregnant, so she will turn her head and tuck a blanket directly to see what her belly looks like after she has a pregnant belly.
She is not stinking, just imagining herself as a mother, after a pregnant belly, the face is not a confident smile, but a happy smile.
②When the wife looked in the mirror, the director put the camera on the white cloth covering the doll for more than three seconds. This shows that Mary Xiao knows that the heroine is pregnant.
③Before his wife died, she looked back, saw something that was not photographed, then screamed, and then she was tongue-tied to death. Typical Mary Xiao's tongue-out and murder tactics. This is the point here, because someone thought it was the wife of the male protagonist killed by the stepmother Ella.
The wife turned her head and screamed. Normally, it was hell. Seeing an ordinary woman, I wouldn't scream like this.
-----------Now, who is the doll? The meaning of this sentence---------------
Back then, the bear child might actually see Mary Xiao's lips moving, perhaps it was just that the light was too dim to see clearly. But anyway, the bear kid just said something he thought was the truth: I saw your lips move.
Mary Shaw doesn't really care about this. What she cares about is the extended meaning of this sentence: My lips are moving, so is my son Billy fake? Do you mean that it is not a real person, but a doll?
Therefore, she frantically performed a shocking ventriloquist on the stage. Then he stared at the bear boy intently, suppressing anger and sorrow word by word, pain and despair, and asked: "Now, who is the doll?"
However, Xiong's words are like a needle, which has deeply pierced her heart. She can no longer live in her own small world as peacefully as before, and at the same time, there is a devil in her heart that is tempting her: make the bear child into a doll. He is a real person and can be treated as a son. If you can get revenge on him, why not do it?
A few weeks later, the bear kid was kidnapped and made into a doll. Mary Xiao really devoted all her love to'him'.
It is a pity that 70 years later, the bear child doll that the protagonist sees has to be carried by various threads to support it. And the bear child, who has just been made into a doll, has his mouth still, but he speaks ventriloquially and repeats the sentence,'I love you, mother. I love you, mommy. I love you……'
The bear child dolls nowadays have long lost this ability to speak.
Mary Xiao's love for him, I am afraid, has also been used to the end. This is also when she finally killed the male lead, and once again said,'Now, who is the doll? 'The reason for this sad and angry cry.
fake? They are all fake, right? My child is fake, right? I have no children, am I? So now you come and tell me, who is the fake?
This kind of painful cry is not just revenge. The reason why Xiongzi’s words can become a needle in her heart after seventy years and still not fade. The most important reason is that what Xiongzi said is the truth, it is impossible. The fact of avoidance.
Therefore, her cry, in my opinion, is a silent cry to the sky: Why is it that others are lucky enough to have their own children, but I don't? Why?
Do you still remember Ye Erniang in the eight parts of Tianlong? The two really have similarities.
In the film, there are actually many hints about these contents. For example, before the male protagonist went to the big theater for the first time, he picked up a little girl-style doll from the ground before he picked up the diary. After pulling the line behind, The doll made three sounds of "Mom, Mom, Mom"... These all show that Mary Xiao is actually just a poor mother who longs for a real child of her own.
-----------Stepmother Ella----------------
The stepmother Ella is basically a problem with the official setting, causing a little mess. But we only talk about the current official ending, and the others are for reference only.
In the last six photos, the director has clearly told us with the lens: you know that you idiots can't guess who is the real person and who is the doll. Here, the answer is for you!
The last remaining dolls, there are only these six: male lead, male lead wife, male lead father, male lead stepmother, police officer, old Henry.
The police officer, the male lead, and the male lead's wife are all three people with a clear and simple plot. What is really complicated is the three people in the small town. Here first talk about the hero's father and stepmother Ella. The two can be confused.
①Puppet making technology.
The first thing to be clear is that after Mary Xiao died, for various reasons, she could no longer make dolls. She killed people purely out of revenge.
Before she died, she had the 101 dolls and the bear child dolls. After death, until Ella found her, these 102 puppets were still there.
During this period, she killed countless people, but none of them were made into dolls. According to her paranoid psychology and personality, if she could be a doll, it would be impossible to give up so much'material'.
This is also the reason why she made the hero and others into dolls later, because she only has the ability to make dolls at this time.
②Ella's deal with Mary Shaw.
Basically, the content of the transaction was that Mary Xiao promised to help her get revenge, and she was willing to give her life.
Mary Shaw takes Ella to the abandoned theater, and then makes her a perfect doll. This production process was probably dictated by Mary Xiao and Ella did it herself. As mentioned earlier, Mary Xiao may not be able to make dolls by himself because of the lack of physical reasons, or other reasons.
The diary that the protagonist picked up and fell on the ground clearly contains records, with the English letters of the perfect doll on the front and Ella's head on the back.
This shows that Ella has been transformed into a doll. Maybe it was the effect of this voluntary dedication, maybe she left a part of her soul, no matter what the process was, the result was that this doll was perfect.
③The father of the male protagonist.
After Ella became a doll, Mary Shaw had a physical body and could make the hero's father into a doll. But this doll is obviously neither voluntary, nor can it leave him with any soul, so after a few years, I am afraid it will be no different from the current bear child, and it needs to be suspended by a string to keep it from falling apart.
------------Old Henrys ----------------
Old Henry has a relatively simple character, kind and timid, and he said a lot of lines, but most of them are introductory background stories, and there is not much suspense.
But Marion is different. If the biggest suspense of this film is who, there is no doubt that it should be the wife of old Henry, Marion.
Marion's first appearance:
The male lead went to visit old Henry to discuss his wife’s funeral, and asked about Mary Xiao by the way.
Marion said to a crow god at the time: "What else? What do you want from me?"
The second appearance, after the old Henry took back the body of the protagonist's wife. The wife Marion was found hiding in the basement.
'She is here now, I know. When I hide here, she can't find me. '
Appeared for the third time, and the funeral was over. Marion found the male lead: "It was she who killed your wife. Did you see her? She is here. Everyone is in a dangerous situation. You must bury that doll. "
The fourth appearance was after the male lead returned from the large theater for the first time, and the camera changed. She was there again talking to the puppet god, and the old Henry who was outside was obviously accustomed to it.
'What do you want from him? We reunite your family, why do you bother us? I did nothing! '
The doll replied,'No, you did, you told him. '
Ma Lien hurriedly defended, but didn't react until a few words, and the doll spoke. But she didn't mind, but still hoped that the doll could say a few words to herself.
In the fifth appearance, after the hero and the police officer fought in the theater, the hero came to Old Henry to get the doll. At this time, Old Henry was dead. Marion hugged his body, hoping that he could live to speak, and told the hero that it was the hero's father who took the doll away.
The director has clearly told us at the end that Ma Lien is not a puppet. Because there is no picture of her.
However, there is definitely something wrong with Marion. The director has also told us with the theme, the theme of the town is to refuse to scream and keep quiet.
The innkeeper didn't even show his face, let alone talk. The priest who was responsible for reciting the scriptures to the master's wife was better and showed up, but when he was reciting the prayer, the background music completely covered up what he said, and there was no line.
In this era, there are only four people living in small towns who have lines: the male protagonist’s father, the male protagonist’s stepmother, the old Henry and Marion. (Those in the memory are not counted)
The other three are all puppets, but she is fine. She still has so many lines. Isn't it normal?
---------------Ma Lien's lines review ----------------
Let me talk about my personal opinion. There should be no blood relationship between Ma Lien and Mary Xiao. The English name is not related, and the Chinese translation becomes the same pronunciation of the first two characters.
Her first sentence is worthy of scrutiny: What more? What else do you want from me?
In other words, she used to help Mary Xiao, don't care what it is, there is an intersection between the two.
What she said during her second appearance and her third appearance, as well as her frequent hiding in the basement, all represented that she was extremely afraid of Mary Xiao.
The fourth appearance is more problematic: "What do you want from him?"
He refers to the male lead. Combining the latter words,'We help you reunite your family, why are you still pestering us? I didn't do anything! 'It can be understood that what you want from there has nothing to do with us, just let us go.
At this time, Mary Xiao responded directly to her,'No, you did, you told him. '
What did you tell him? The audience is probably dumbfounded. Looking at the previous few sentences, there is one and only one useful message that Ma Lien said: the doll was buried.
Of course, the English word you can be interpreted as you or you. You are her and old Henry.
Although old Henry said a lot, they all talked about history. What to do specifically, old Henry’s suggestion is just one sentence: Be careful.
So, I think that Mary Shaw responded directly this time, and it was exactly what Marion told the male lead and asked him to bury the Billy puppet.
………………
What does this mean? Give a real-life example.
There is a bully by your side, and you can't afford to offend him. He wants to frame your neighbor. You kindly reminded the neighbor. But when facing a bully, you dare not say that you reminded your neighbors.
Even if the bully said clearly: You just reminded that neighbor. You will still deny, no, I don’t, brother, misunderstanding, it’s all misunderstanding!
According to my understanding, that's probably what I mean.
From this point of view, Marion is an absolute good person, just a little bit less timid.
Then old Henry decided to bury the doll, but he got his lunch.
----------The mystery of old Henry's death------------
Old Henry died very simply. Someone was crying in the basement. The cry of crying was different from the voice of talking. We all knew that his wife was not dead, her tongue was not pulled out, and there was no sound of being snatched.
Therefore, the basement is just the sound of a woman crying. Old Henry mistakenly thought it was his wife's crying, so he got into the basement and wanted to pull her out.
As a result, after entering, the basement door was locked from the outside. The cry immediately disappeared, and he knocked on the door sadly and scaredly for help: "Marion, stop joking, please, let me out quickly."
A weird voice came from behind,'Hello, Henry. 'Henry saw Mary Shaw's grimace, screamed loudly, and was tongue-tied to death.
The above content is simple and easy to understand, there is no suspense, the really complicated point is: who is locking the door outside.
After the death of old Henry, his body fell out, smashed the door open, and lay half of his body outside. So, who was the person who locked the door at that time? Because the camera's angle of view is always in the basement, we can only see from the basement that the door was closed by someone from the outside. It is unknown who it is.
However, there are only so many story characters in this film, and we can speculate one by one:
① Let's exclude the impossible roles first. The male lead is impossible, and the police detective is impossible.
②The hero's father, or stepmother Ella. Both are puppets, no matter who they are, they all represent Mary Shaw himself.
Mary Xiao first controlled the doll outside to lock the door, then used her spirit form to get into the basement to kill old Henry, then went out to take the doll and return to the villa.
Of course, we don’t know whether the spirit body can pass through the wall, because there is no clear expression in the film. The evil spirits are all flying and can host dolls, but they never pass through the wall. The snatching of the Billy dolls all flew in from outside the window, and then flew out of the window.
For the time being, she can go through the wall and discuss it.
② Ma Lien. Marion is the wife of old Henry. She is in her own home and is suspicious, but we don't have direct evidence.
Therefore, there are only two suspects. Who are the male protagonist's father doll and stepmother Ella doll controlled by Mary Xiao, and old Henry's wife Marion?
In fact, the director has already told us the answer very cruelly with the lens: it is his wife, Marion.
For details, watch the movie from 81 minutes 56 seconds to 82 minutes 03 seconds.
----------The plot of Marion killing old Henry is restored--------------
In the theater battle, the hero burned 100 puppets and bear child puppets, remembering that there was only one puppet that had not been burned, but it was in the old Henry's house, so he drove to him. It was discovered that old Henry was dead, and his wife Marion hugged him and was heartbroken.
The protagonist asked where Billy the puppet was. Ma Lien said that she was taken away by the hero's father.
At this time, there are three reminiscence shots about the puppet being taken away, the memory of Henry's wife. Through the interpretation of these three lenses, we can naturally know the answer:
The first shot: Old Henry fell out of the basement, smashed open the small wooden door of the basement, and was killed by pulling his tongue out.
Second shot: Immediately afterwards, the camera turned from Old Henry to the right and turned to the door of the house. The door was opened a crack. A man in a suit was standing outside. He could only see the part from the chest to the belly button. Look Faceless.
The third shot: a dark shadow takes the little doll Billy away.
The first shot told us the answer. The moment old Henry smashed the door open after his death, his wife Marion was outside the door. Because this shot is Marion's reminiscence shot.
In other words, it was his wife Marion who locked the door outside and prevented old Henry from coming out.
In fact, we have another way to verify that the small wooden door in the basement was locked by his wife.
That is, as long as the suspicion of the hero's father and stepmother Ella is eliminated.
Both of them are puppets, and they don't have the ability to move freely. They must rely on the evil spirit Mary Xiao to possess her body.
Therefore, if Mary Xiao wants a person to lock the small wooden door, kill the old Henry, and then enter through the door, he must perform the following mentally retarded operations:
① Lock the small wooden door.
②Get out of the house.
③Leaving the adult doll, the adult doll is paralyzed and she walks through the wall and enters the basement.
④ Kill old Henry.
⑤ Return to the possessed adult doll.
⑥Open the door of the house.
⑦ Take away the puppet.
There was an unexplainable invalid operation, that is, after she locked the small wooden door, there was no need to go out of the house because she had to enter the house again to take away the little doll Billy.
Furthermore, this is Marion's perspective of memories, Marion must have been in the house at the time. Would the evil spirit paralyze his adult doll in front of her? Wouldn't Marion open the locked wooden door again in the house?
None of this makes sense.
If this conclusion is to be overturned, there can only be one reason: that is, Marion is lying.
If she is lying, then her perspective of recollection may be faked.
Did she lie? The answer is no.
If she wants to lie, why should she lie? Or, who is telling her to lie? It can only be the evil spirit Mary Xiao.
What is the purpose of the evil spirit Mary Xiao? Introduce the protagonist into the villa, then let him be frightened, and tortured him with tongue-out torture.
Therefore, the evil spirit does not have to force her to lie, but instead wants her to tell the truth, so as to introduce the male protagonist into the villa.
In summary, Marion did not lie, so this perspective of recollection is the real perspective. It was his wife Marion who locked old Henry in the basement.
As for why Marion locked old Henry in the basement, it was an open-ended answer. Maybe it was the evil spirit that forced her to do this, it was also the evil spirit that deceived her, maybe it was some kind of sacrifice, and so on.
As to whether it was the male protagonist's father or the male protagonist's stepmother who took the puppet, it doesn't hurt. In theory, it should be the father of the male protagonist, because Ma Lien's reminiscence scene is real.
In fact, whether it was taken by the stepmother or the male protagonist’s father, the male protagonist is destined to return to the villa, and he is destined to see his father whose spine is removed and made into a doll, causing a nervous breakdown.
Then, can the hero's father walk? Taking the spine off is theoretically impossible, but the wooden stick actually serves as a pillar. Moreover, after the evil spirit possesses the body, it is another matter of whether or not he can leave.
--------------The last shot ---------------
At 87 minutes and 13 seconds of the movie, after playing six new photos made into dolls (male lead, male lead wife, male lead father, male lead stepmother, police officer, old Henry), it seems that someone is preparing to make a new person. Occasionally, it can be regarded as leaving an open ending for the follow-up.
In this picture, on the left is a drawing of a doll. There is a strange tool on the drawing. It should be a tool for taking the tongue. On the right is the face of a doll, with a palm in the middle, under which the photo album is pressed.
This palm looks like the palm of a middle-aged and elderly person. It should be around 50 years old. The middle joints of the five fingers are flat, with dry palms, deep wrinkles, hard skin, and exposed green tendons.
In fact, this open ending is hard to guess, after all, there are people outside of the movie. That is to say, it is difficult for those background boards or even new characters that have not appeared to be taken into consideration.
If these people are not considered, then the palm of the hand, in the movie, there should be only four people, the old Henry, Marion, the detective, and the father of the hero.
In fact, to put it bluntly, it is still an evil spirit and a person. Namely Mary Shaw and Marion. After all, at the end of the movie, there are only these two people left.
From the perspective of people, Mary Xiao is much more likely. Because in the past 70 years, as an evil spirit, she has no entity and cannot make dolls. No matter what bizarre thoughts she has in her mind, she can only be thoughts and cannot be practiced.
With a body that can be controlled at this time, he can finally show his hands and feet. Immediately making the hero and wife old Henry and the four police detectives into dolls is evidence.
Moreover, who is qualified to collect photos of these six dolls. It was obviously the evil spirit Mary Xiao.
On the other hand, Ma Lien, she herself was very afraid of Mary Xiao, and she was in awe of this doll technique. Compared to Mary Xiao, her suspicion was obviously much smaller.
------------over--------------
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