Movies are half an hour longer than the usual two hours of foreign commercial blockbusters, but I don’t think it’s long at all. I don’t know how to say those Marvel movies after seeing comments that say they are bad and long. It's not longer and simple, it's just action and visual effects. But everyone's tastes are different and it's not easy to force them. Looking back, I would like to talk about the reasons why I feel that this movie did not make me feel long, and it is also very exciting.
The film uses multiple retrospective techniques, covering one layer like a bamboo shoot. After watching each episode, there will be some doubts. When you watch the next paragraph, you will suddenly realize, and then there will be new questions. Just like this, the incident will be uncovered layer by layer. The ins and outs, until the final core.
A good story also has an attractive beginning. From the beginning of the movie, the image of a fierce woman (hero, warrior, etc. seems to be too big and abstract, just use the title of it), although it is not omnipotent. , But those eyes staring silently at everything made people wonder what difficulties would overwhelm her. It was the husband’s hatred that saved the mother’s life during delivery, or the pastor’s gloomy warning. Why does she have no tongue but she doesn't appear weak at all? Can she protect her family by herself?
At the end of the first chapter, the husband of the mute girl failed to escape, and the mute girl escaped with her two children in Xueye.
In Chapter Two, a Cantonese-speaking person suddenly appeared. Could it be that this escape has escaped to China? This is too weird, because the time and place were not marked, the monk Zhang Er was confused at first, and slowly figured out that this was a flashback. Joanna was in trouble for some reason and was sold to a brothel, a drunken and cruel place. Sometimes prostitutes were punished by the boss for conflicts with customers, some were hanged, and Joanna’s friend Elizabeth was bitten. The guest’s tongue was cut off. Seeing this, I wondered why it wasn't the heroine who had her tongue cut off. The next plot unravels this answer. It turns out that one day after Elizabeth had her tongue cut, a rich man took care of the entire brothel and called Joanna by name. Joanna was covered with black cloth strips. After unmasking the mask, she discovered that this person was a pastor. He still looked like a demon, but there were no scars on his face at that time. Elizabeth tried to kill the priest in order to protect Joanna, but was killed. In the end, Joanna killed the priest and set it on fire. She cut off her tongue and pretended to be Elizabeth, making others mistakenly believe that the corpse in the fire was her, and got in the car to escape. This Gomorrah. However, from the previous chapter, we know that the pastor is not dead, he came for revenge. So what happened before.
So in the third chapter, the surprising relief came. It turns out that Joanna is the priest's daughter. In order to exercise his rights (according to Christian doctrine, the husband governs his wife, and the wife is under the jurisdiction of the husband, this is Eve who steals the fruit of wisdom and is punished by God), he often flogs and humiliates his wife, and covets his youthful daughter. The wife wants to protect The daughter, but unable to resist her husband as the ruler, had to commit suicide in the end. Fortunately, Joanna helped a cowboy. With the help of the cowboy, Joanna escaped temporarily. The ins and outs of the matter are clarified everywhere.
The fourth chapter returns to the end of the first chapter. Joanna, also known as Elizabeth (Liz for short), finds the father-in-law's house according to her husband's instructions. The priest soon followed. Joanna got the gun and started a fierce battle with the priest. Finally, the priest was killed, but the father-in-law died and the house burned. But then Joanna resolutely built a new house and started a new life.
Then this is not the final outcome. Because a policeman came at this time. He said that a pastor once introduced him to work in the mine town where the brothel is located. There he investigated the brothel fire incident... He asked Joanna why she didn’t change her name. She was called Elizabeth and she didn’t have a tongue. There are not many people. Joanna, who couldn't escape in the end, dived and died.
After the spoiler, let's talk about how the fierce women are made. At first I thought of the sentence "Where there is oppression, there is resistance", but it is not right to think about it. Joanna has never resisted, she just kept running (fleeing three times in total), but being able to escape is also a skill. Compared with her mother's passive resistance-suicide, Joanna is already strong enough. Objectively speaking, even if Joanna has a gun, she is not an opponent of the pastor. From a psychological point of view, growing up in an environment full of domestic violence, I do not know how many people will learn sexual helplessness. There are several scenes in the movie that involve killing animals. Joanna was treated as an adult after her menstruation. She used a gun to kill animals. When her son was very young, her husband shot a gun with him to hunt. When the sheep was caesarean, the fetus was pulled. When she came out, Joanna was completely calm when she saw the scene, she could even watch the cowboy strangle another cowboy as a child. At this point, I suddenly thought of the movie "Wild Hunter" that gave Xiao Lizi the Oscar winner. The film mainly fights against the sky and nature, and finally fights against people with vengeance. In order to survive, he cuts the mare apart. She hid in the horse's belly to avoid the cold; in order to survive, she cut off her tongue and changed her name. If you want to say who is more abused, it must be Joanna. Although all kinds of distressed little plums were back then, Joanna was abused from childhood to adulthood, and it was Conan who died of her husband today and her father-in-law tomorrow. I wanted to know what beliefs made Joanna survive, but found that there was no way to talk about it, because even if she hadn't cut off her tongue, she was just a silent bystander and rarely showed anything. But must you ask why? That’s not necessarily. Maybe it’s just by nature. It’s like her father is a priest on the surface, but in fact he is doing all demon behavior. This is just rat shit in a pot of porridge. Although I don’t like Christianity, there is nothing in the film that can explain him. Why is it so, I don't want to add some jealousy to religious humanity or something. Even the heroine doesn't want to analyze it, it's just a cliché to talk too much. I just want to say that this is a very cool film in my opinion, there are suspense everywhere, foreshadowing everywhere. Saying cool is not because of sensory stimulation, nor is it a whimsical idea, but a kind of energy rooted in reality is constantly bursting out. She is actually very much like the superhero in the movie. Generally, superheroes have reasons such as protecting the earth and protecting the loved ones. Our heroine does not have these reasons. Maybe she only has what it is and not why. Why I don’t know how to discuss human nature (about Joanna), because such people are wild existence, and I feel refreshed, not the kind of pleasure and enmity, but the wild carnival, glowing and being buried in the ashes of death Passion for it.
Finally, I remembered the lyrics of "Antik"—Der Tod ist der zeitlose Frieden und das leben ist der Krieg, which ended with this.
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