Behind the youth sprout and racial issues of the whole film, the real supporting role is still the gothic theme, which can be summarized as: a certain character releases suppressed (or unrecognized) desires-desire produces disasters- -The character ends the disaster (mostly the same), and the dungeons, castles and other imagery in the British Gothic tradition are replaced by marshes here.
The wonderful thing about this film is that it has been hiding the Gothic theme, not only wrapping the nostalgia on the outside, but also subtly transforming the Gothic elements. For example, the image of Charlotte is actually equivalent to the "innocent woman" in the classic Gothic. Although she seems to be slutty, she has naive hopes for people, and sex is pure for her, without shame and taboos. She didn't want to blow Jack for Jack, just because she didn't want to ruin a friendship, even after being abused, she still said in a letter that "he just loves me in his way".
On the surface it seems to be nostalgic, playing old records one by one, like "Zodiac Killer", but it is actually a cold reflection. The era of free pursuit of beautiful ideals is a hidden crisis. Sexual liberation originally seemed to be It was beautiful, but suddenly it started to hurt people all over the body until a cruel death. So we recalled from the sudden loss, it turned out that everything was foreshadowed from the beginning-well, I was joking, if this effect can be achieved, it would be the Coen brothers.
It needs to do a solid job of the reflection line, and a beginning of the "Old Nowhere" style, that period of hunting is a super foreshadowing.
View more about The Paperboy reviews
