A writer studying the behavior of wolves received a letter from a mother deep in the wilderness of Alaska. Her child was eaten by a wolf. She hoped that the writer would help her get revenge and kill the wolf. When the writer came to this icy and savage village, he faced humans who were more ferocious than wolves.
The writer successfully found the wolves. In the cruel environment, the wolves were eating the little wolves. He did not shoot. After returning, the mother had disappeared. He found the child's body in the basement. The child was killed by his mother.
The police informed the father who was injured in the brutal killings in the Fallujah battlefield. After the father returned, he slaughtered the police and forensic doctors who were about to arrest his wife. He snatched the child’s body and helped him with the help of another neighbor whose daughter was eaten by a wolf. , Buried the child, and started looking for a wife.
In the meantime, the child's father and neighbors fought with the police and killed them everywhere. In the end, the couple met and dragged the child's coffin to the depths of the wilderness like a wolf in the ice and snow.
The film was depressing and desperate. Although the scenery is magnificent, the focus is on the fact that the living environment is really bad, and the story is mostly bloody, violent and thrilling. The couple and the male neighbor who lost their daughter are completely three psychopathic and distorted demons. Compared to them, the wolves in the wilderness are much more lovely.
This film is good, but the amount of information is so much that many people feel obscure. In fact, you don’t have to think too deeply, just a pot of simmering, mixed flavors, which makes you depressed and touched, and the director's goal is achieved. Up.
The title of the film is Holding the Darkness. One is that the three perverted demons hold it, and the other is that the residents of this place have to face the long night of the severe winter. Everyone also holds the darkness. The film mainly discusses why they hold the darkness?
The cruel environment turned them into wolves. The film mentions Sunny Beach in San Diego more than once, and even the sheriff plans to take his lover on vacation. It can be seen that the darkness in that place is everyone's share, depressed, gloomy, and thinking. Fleeing, the three demons are just representatives.
Indians, witch doctors, wolf oil, and the blood cross of the coffin board are just the content of the background of the story and have no specific meaning. The film is actually a profound interpretation of the old Chinese saying;
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