Guilt and Suicide

Chelsey 2022-08-05 12:06:46

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Okay, I admit, I came to see the娜塔莉多默尔. I always feel that Little Rose is incredibly hot, and it’s cool to see Little Rose looking scared and scared! Therefore, I didn't think about it with the mentality of watching a horror movie. Quan is an idol movie, just like Nozomi Sasaki starring Grudge III. But the movie still surprises me.

In terms of horror, the horror element of the suicide forest is not special. I thought that an American horror film shot in Japan would combine American vision plus mental horror with Japanese psychological horror elements, but in fact it did not do very well. In other words, this movie is not scary. Only the poor PG13 is rated, and it is suitable for the whole family to watch with a little guidance. . .

The suicide forest is really set in Japan's suicide forest-the sea of ​​trees in Aokigahara. I’ve never heard of such a mysterious thing. Google Suicide Forest found that it’s true. It is said that the beautiful Aokigahara Sea of ​​Trees is located at the foot of Mount Fuji. The lush trees make it difficult for pedestrians to find their way back, and the underground magnetic mineral deposits make the compass malfunction, and it is easy for people to get lost once they enter. "The locals say that its reputation can be traced back to the heroine in Matsumoto Kiyha's novel "Fuji Mountain Forbidden Love" in the 1960s. The heroine committed suicide here. As a result, more and more people committed suicide in Shukai." The film is completely based on the story of Shuhai. A story about two sisters struggling with guilt and guilt.

Sara and Jess are twin sisters, both played by Natalie. The younger sister Jess has always been troublesome since she was a child, and it is her sister Sara who always cleans up the mess. The two sisters are in a good relationship. One day Sara received a call from the Japanese Metropolitan Police, saying that Jess had disappeared in the suicide forest. Sara did not hesitate to fly to Japan to find her. After arriving at the hotel in Japan, Sara looked at Jess's Facebook and recalled the good times of the sisters. Before going to bed, she checked the pictures of the suicide forest very responsibly. So, that night, Sara had a nightmare. This story tells us not to watch scary things before going to bed.

In the dream, Sara was in an old house, the light was not turned on, and there was a white painted door in front of her. Sara was hesitating whether to open it, twisted it, crunching, and she gave up. When she turned to leave, the door squeaked and opened by herself. Behind the door, there was a young girl's singing, calling her name. Sara took a breath, turned to see what was happening, and opened the door. It turned out to be a basement, with a narrow staircase leading down. Sara stepped on the wooden stairs and walked down one step at a time. Finally I reached the top of the stairs, and I could see the inside of the basement when I looked over. Sara squinted. It turned out that there was a tent in the basement. There was a dim light in the tent, and the shadow of a girl (or two) was reflected on the canvas. Sara walked over quietly, unzipping the tent slowly, little by little, and the contents showed up little by little. Ah, it turned out to be a cute and sweet little girl with big Shui Lingling eyes, looking at Sara. Sudden! The little girl's smile turned sullen, opened her black mouth, screaming loudly!

Sara woke up, it was dawn. Pack up your mind and set off to the school where Jess teaches to learn more about the situation. Classic Japanese classrooms and high school students wearing uniform uniforms are thinking about the crappy English that London is pronounced as "crawling". Sara was recognized by her classmates as Jess who had been told of her death, so she learned about Jess and Suicide Forest from the dean and the frightened class representative. Sara doesn't believe that Jess is dead, because there has always been a kind of telepathy between them, and they can always hear each other's voice there. Once they are quiet, then dangerous things have happened. So Sara decided to go to Jess by herself. Oh, by the way, the dear friends of the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department think that pedestrians who have entered the suicide forest 48 hours after they have committed suicide, so they do not intend to help our poor and lovely little rose.

The first day Sara arrived in Aokigahara, it was evening, and they went straight to the police station. They found a dead body, but Sara confirmed that it was not Jess. The police station does not send people to help find people who have passed the time. The friendly front desk only leaves a sentence "Do not leave the path", don't leave the path. In front of the police station, a pretty girl told Sara that there are ghosts in the forest. When you get lost, your heart will be crazy. The ghosts will find you, make you hallucinate, and make you want to commit suicide. Sara was upset, so she went to the bar to ease her emotions. In the bar, I was accosted by the male protagonist Aiden. Aiden claimed to be an Australian writer and had a younger brother. He knew Sara's feelings well, so he offered to help, and at the same time he could accumulate writing materials. Aiden has a local guide friend, Michi, who often enters and exits the suicide forest to rescue those who are on the verge of life and death. An appointment was made, and the three set out together the next day.

In the bar, the plot mentioned an important part. Sara said that she was raised by grandma. Aiden asked what happened to your parents. The smile on Sara's face solidified for a full second, and then she pretended to be all right and began to recall the incomplete memories of that night. Sara is talking about the accident. It was a drunk driver who ran into Sara and Jess's parents, and the two died. The picture shows Sara's memories simultaneously-the two little girls and grandma are watching TV, suddenly there are two loud noises in the basement, and they hurry to watch. Grandma was at the forefront, Jess followed, and Sara was at the end. Jess walked in front and saw what was happening below. His mother lay down in a pool of blood, and grandma cried loudly: Close your eyes, don't look! Sara didn't see anything, and Jess saw all of them. After Sara recalled, she drank a sip of wine and was shocked, saying that it was okay, but her body was honest.

During the day the next day, Sara, Aiden, and Michi met. Michi advised Sara not to go in. He said, "You are very sad." But Sara was determined to go, and the three went to the legendary suicide forest. The entrance to the forest was blocked by a string with a sign "No Entry" hung on it. Three people stepped across the string in turn, and the fate of the three was determined.

The following plot enters the main horror part of the movie, and the horror details will not be discussed. We still focus on the main plot. The three of them found Jess's tent shortly after entering the forest. It was the tent in Sara's dream. It was yellow-green, but there was no figure of Jess. However, it took them a long time to find the tent, and it was getting late. The local tour guide Michi Wall Crack suggests to come again tomorrow, because at night, people in the suicide forest will have hallucinations, and the forest will elicit your fear and sadness and do terrible things. Sara decided to stay and continue looking for Jess, but Michi insisted on leaving. Aiden fell in love with Sara, so she stayed too.

The next night, Sara and Aiden raised a bonfire around the tent, chatting about Jess, Sara finally came up with our theme: guilt. Sara has always felt guilty for Jess. Sara closed her eyes for what happened that night. Jess saw everything. Jess had always carried it on her own, but she didn't share it. This is why Sara has been taking care of Jess all these years. But at the same time, Sara's vigilance and distrust towards Aiden are getting stronger and stronger. After all, Sara is married. Aiden has always wanted to soak in Sara, and Sara sees it. When it was time to sleep, Sara hid in the tent and Aiden slept by the campfire. In the middle of the night, Sara wakes up from a nightmare and pokes out her head to look for Aiden. Aiden is still asleep. Sara vaguely saw a figure in the dark night, and chased after him, it was a high school student. The high school student told her not to believe Aiden. The seeds of doubt germinated at this moment.

On the third day, Sara was suspicious of Aiden's path and found a picture of Jess in his phone. Eventually this distrust broke out and Sara fled Aiden. So one ran and the other chased. Poor Aiden didn't actually do anything, just a little bit of a traitor. . . The following plot incorporates some horror stalks and will not be described in detail. On the third night, Aiden finally found Sara, and the two went to a hut in the woods. Sara was gradually controlled by hallucinations and killed Aiden in the house. After killing Aiden, Sara looked at the dark door in the room, and there was a terrifying light behind the door. Sara opened the door, and the scene that appeared was not unexpected, the basement of her childhood. Little Jess stood on the stairs and looked down. The adult Sara rushed up to cover the eyes of little Jess, and saw what was happening below. The mother fell in a pool of blood, her eyes opened and her mouth wide open. His father was leaning against the cabinet with a bullet hole between her eyes and a spear at her hand. Suddenly, his father got up and grabbed Sara's wrist. Sara took the knife and cut his father's hand forcefully, and ran out of the house.

The screen suddenly jumped to Jess. That's right, Jess was indeed alive, touching his wrist, and suddenly ran outside like a madness, finding the right direction instantly. She found the search team that came to look for Sara, Jess's brother-in-law, Sara's husband (later also flew to Japan to find Sara, the plot is explained). The husband asked if Jess had found Sara. Jess didn't see her sister, looked at them in surprise, trying to go back to Sara desperately, but was stopped by everyone. On the other side, Sara found her wrist was cut by a knife. It turned out that when her father grabbed her hand in the slicing hallucination, he cut the artery and was dragged into the forest underground. At this moment, Jess was stunned, there was only one sentence "Just silence", only silence remained. The final shot was given to Michi, staring at the forest in surprise, Sara's grimace suddenly appeared, and the whole play ended.

Let's talk about the last part, let's talk about personal understanding first.

The key to the whole movie is guilt, guilt. Sara has always felt guilty for Jess. As mentioned earlier, the dark and terrible things have been seen by Jess, but he has not shared everything with her. For a long time, Sara's demon has been entangled with her. This is why Sara insisted on going to Japan to find Jess in spite of her husband's objection at the beginning of the film. Guilt drove Sara into the suicide forest. Guilt became the only reason for her to go crazy in the suicide forest. It destroyed all the beauty in Sara's heart, and destroyed everything about her, including her life. In the process of doubting Aiden, guilt has also become a catalyst for accelerating distrust, pushing it at every key node. In the end, when he cut off his father's grasping hand, was he forced to do it by hallucinations, or was he an active release of guilt? Regardless, in this forest, guilt is induced, amplified infinitely, and eventually leads to self-destruction.

Before writing this film review, I also want to learn from the viewpoints of film reviews on IMDB. One of them is very interesting (the title is "OK hear me out... (Theory)"). The author believes that the suicide forest actually tells the story of a split personality. Sara and Jess are actually two personalities of the same person. There are several points in the article that can support the argument for split personality.

"1. In the first nightmare, there were two shadows in the tent in the basement, but there was only one girl.

2. Before going to Japan, Sara told her husband that she was going to Jess. Her husband did not actively support, but she and Sara To be reasonable, I was very concerned about Sara's state.

3. Aiden showed her phone to Sara in the forest. Sara found that there was a picture of Jess in Aiden's phone. She suspected that Aiden had known Jess a long time ago. It is very likely that Aiden is with Sara. The photos taken after the meeting are Sara’s photos, which is also Jess’s photo. This is why Aiden finds it very, very inexplicable.

4. Inside the forest hut, the two sisters in front of the closet wrote on the paper one by one. Communication, the handwriting is exactly the same. And the final basement hallucination, there is only one little girl, not two.

5. When the last two sisters ran out, the direction was the same. And when her husband greeted him, he couldn't tell which personality it was. Perhaps the color of his hair was illegible. And the final plot is also, because Sara discovered what happened at the time, this disguised personality was also broken, and in the end Jess also said "she disappeared" to indicate the disappearance of the second personality. "

A film review should have a clear point. I'm sorry, I still have conflicting views. If it's a split personality, Sara's recollection of spending time with Jess is a failure; if it's not a split personality, why are there no two? In the photo after growing up, there are many details that suggest a split personality. But the above 5 points can easily be overturned.

Perhaps, the first personality Jess has always been unable to accept the facts and turned to the second personality Sara, and Sara because of Jess’s The guilt turned back to Jess. It looked like a blunt, I'm sorry, I can only blame the movie for not saying it more clearly.

Perhaps, it is not that complicated, the movie is just talking about the destructive power of guilt on people. After all, the separation of personality There are a lot of movies, and it’s easy for everyone to categorize them.

So, what can we do in the face of guilt? Should we completely look away and accept the past “faults” calmly, or retain a trace of self-blame to comfort ourselves heart.

If you really completely get upset, it was not called the "guilt" of the.

suicide forest magnified everything, into which people kill themselves, is really worthy of the name.

in the end, guilt struck Michi, He thought he killed Sara and Aiden.

Finally, he stared at the suicide forest and saw Sara's ghost.

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The Forest quotes

  • [from trailer]

    Sara: My sister Jess and I, we are identical twins. Once something happens to the one of us, the other one could tell. It's hard to explain, but I can just feel it. She's in trouble, and she needs me.

  • [from trailer]

    Michi: Do not stay after dark.

    Sara: I'm not leaving without my sister.