"Holding the Darkness" full film explanation

Joe 2022-11-14 07:58:54

The story of this film takes place in an area where Native Americans live. The relationship between Native Americans and whites can be referred to "Hunting the Valley of the Wind", and the relationship between Indians and wolves can be referred to "Dancing with Wolves".

1 Medora and her husband Vernon are not Indians, but Nordic.

(According to recent historical data, the Vikings had arrived in the Americas long before Columbus, and there were wars and other exchanges with the locals. The Americas also unearthed the remains of the Vikings. So the Northern Europeans came to the Americas earlier than the Western Europeans, and Survive earlier in this land.)

2 Medora and Vernon are brothers and sisters. There were family portraits in the photo box when Vernon hunted Medora. The little boy and girl inside were young Vernon and Medora. Because of the incest between the siblings, their father tried to treat his son with wolf oil.

3 Medora killed her son Bailey in order to rescue Vernon from the darkness of his heart. Vernon had incestuous with her sister and taught her son to kill. She has lost her humanity. She also killed her all the way to the pursuit of Medora, Mei. Dora's approach is to save him by destroying him, similar to "fighting with poison", killing his favorite son, causing him to suffer and awakening humanity. This is what the writer said personally when he was eating at the police's house, and it was the key clue given by the director.

4 Qi Yang's daughter was taken away by a wolf. The writer said that wolves are under great pressure to survive before they eat their cubs. The wolves do not have reindeer to eat because the locals hunt and kill the reindeer, and the locals hunt the reindeer. It is also because of the lack of food, which implies that the local people are in poor living conditions. It is normal for wolves to eat children without food, and the police's neglect of their duties caused Qi Yang's blood to wash the place. They also used violence to control violence and used cruel methods to solve the problem.

5 Medora wrote to the writer because he is a zoologist, understands animal nature, understands the reasons why animals hurt people, and is compassionate to animals. He is a person who understands and helps himself. The story needs to arrange a person who can see the truth clearly, and this person is a zoologist, his identity has explained many problems, the film repeatedly shows animal masks, the same reason.

6 Why did Medora seduce writers? When Medora met a writer, she said she had seen a girl wearing a bikini in a magazine, but it was difficult for herself to understand it. It proved that Medora’s thoughts and behaviors were all isolated from the world, and she was definitely not a modern person in a civilized world. The author's pursuit of the wolf pack means that he should be asked to find the truth, so that he understands the plight of the wolf pack, the locals and the plight, and his own plight. She said that she had no money to pay him, so she paid him physically.

7 To watch this movie, you need to be free from morality, law, and common sense. These things are invented by humans and are the products of the civilized world. Human nature, or the animal nature of human beings, is inherent and unavoidable. This The film is given five stars because the director faces humanity, is neither humble nor overbearing, neither praise nor derogation, impartial, and tells you very bluntly: “Only darkness can make light” is just a result. We need darkness so much. Because it is in everyone's heart, darkness does not mean "error", light does not mean "right", human nature does not need to be freed from it, and there is no way to free it. The film is so obscure, it should be inconvenient to laugh at "civilized disguise" directly.

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Hold the Dark quotes

  • Cheeon: [trapped by policeman] You stopped that phone call for today, guy. Phone call to your wife. But it's coming, ain't it? The call. It's always coming.

  • Hunter John: [to Vernon] Your daddy wanted wolf's oil - for you. Do you know that? He said you was "unnatural." That was his word. Unnatural.