The film is full of metaphors, contrasts, and layers of delusions that wrap the deepest sins in layers that require a lot of stamina and mental strength to endure. The heroine's contrasting face has always made people feel nervous and uneasy, especially when it comes to the super-long abuse scenes, various close-up pictures, harsh screams, and slow blood flow, which makes people extremely mentally broken. This movie will not make people feel over and relaxed after watching it, but it will make people dull and depressing, and the horror and abuse of the spirit is far more intolerable than the visual one.
At the beginning of the story, a boat full of lustful men encounters a pregnant woman's corpse, which already hints at the tone of the film, which is related to women, sex, and death.
The secret that the American man who came to find his lover raped and killed his own sister was really revealed at the end of the story, but it was actually hinted at the beginning of the story. The first time is when the prostitute behind the screen is selected. When turning to the house, there is a close-up shot of a little girl running in front of the corridor; the second time, the little girl's figure appears after the female worker who paints the floor, and begins to disappear. I understand why such a scene is given. If it only expresses a terrifying atmosphere, it does not feel in place. There is no terrifying music match, only a dark and quiet scene, but it is precisely this that forms a sharp contrast with the roaring little girl at the end. It also coincides with the horror of the male protagonist mentioned later by the ghost prostitute, and the ghost of the little sister has been following him.
In the process of telling Jia Tao's story, the stories of ghost prostitutes have also been interspersed, and the two stories are also divided into three paragraphs to describe.
The first paragraph is all false and beautiful. Jia Tao committed suicide because she couldn't wait. The ghost prostitute has a sick father, but she is a midwife and loves her mother.
In the second half-truth, Jia Tao was wrongly accused of stealing a ring and abused, and finally committed suicide because of the pain she could not bear. The ghost prostitute has an alcoholic and beating father, a mother who helps people with abortion, and the only Buddhist who doesn't hate ghost prostitutes' ugly faces, and Buddhists also show ghost prostitutes a picture of hell, telling her that people who do bad things will go to hell.
The third paragraph is a terrifying truth. Jia Tao was tortured and hanged in the air. The ghost prostitute put Jia Tao down but strangled her with a rope. Because the ghost prostitute believed in hell, she wanted Jia Tao to go to heaven and be friends with the devil. people will go to hell. The ghost prostitute's own story is even more terrifying. Her parents are brothers and sisters who were driven out due to incest, so the ghost prostitute is a deformed twin with a hidden sister. The father not only drank alcohol but also raped his own daughter after drinking. A ghost prostitute, her mother discovered her deformity when she gave birth, and wanted to drown her. Buddhists molested her when they told her that she would go to hell if she did bad things. The world of ghost prostitutes is a world full of twists and turns to torture evil, so ghost prostitutes A prostitute can endure everything, but the only thing that cannot be endured is kindness, so she kills the innocent Jia Tao, and the one who steals the ring and denounces Jia Tao is also a ghost prostitute. Therefore, such a ghost prostitute can discover the secrets of the male protagonist and rape and kill his own sister, because they are the same person, full of sins. So she decides that the male lead can't kill her because he can't kill himself. But in the end, the male protagonist still shot and killed her, but what appeared was Jia Tao's face, which implied that even if the male protagonist found Jia Tao, he would not take her back to the United States to live a beautiful life like a princess. What he did to her was the same as his own sister, and the ending was death, and Jia Tao's fate could not be changed.
Finally, in the prison, the male protagonist holds the water basin, but sees the dead fetus, just like the wooden barrel containing the corpse after the ghost prostitute's mother had an abortion. The male protagonist is holding the barrel and slowly falls to the other side of the darkness, implying that the male protagonist chooses to be with the evil even if he dies, and his soul cannot be redeemed.
At the end of the picture is a ghost prostitute, she smiled and looked at the camera, maybe she is not only a ghost prostitute, but also everyone evil.
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