In the movie "The Clown", the clown symbolizes the fear of adolescence, the discomfort of sexual maturity and the yearning for sex.
The most wonderful thing in the film is the excellent visual presentation of the girl's fear of menarche and the uncertainty of her own gender identity.
Because Beverly showed her femininity earlier than girls of the same age, she was bullied by female classmates in school, and her father's abuse of her when she returned home caused her to have a negative view of her female characteristics, so she cut off her long hair to weaken her gender. feature.
Another negative and disgusting aspect of female characteristics is that Beverly feels ashamed of her menarche, concealed it when she went to the supermarket to buy sanitary napkins, and was afraid of being discovered by her father when she returned home.
But at the same time, through her use of sexual attraction in the supermarket to disperse cashiers to help the friends, it also shows that Beverly's heart is very confident and affirmed about her sexual attraction.
The three scenes of the film’s campus toilet scene, the supermarket scene and the haircut at home completely show Beverly’s contradictory entanglement of gender characteristics and sexual development, and finally echo the above three scenes in the bathroom scene to achieve Beverly’s personal play. The climax.
In the bathroom scene, first of all the voices of a group of little boys: "We all want you, beverly", echoing the previous bullying scene in the campus toilet.
Next, she stretched out the hair that she had cut to obscure her gender characteristics from the washbasin, which was stained with menstrual blood that frightened her, and bound her until all the items in the bathroom were stained with menstrual blood.
In just one scene, it has formed sufficient intertextuality with the previous campus toilets, supermarkets, and the part where I saw my father when I returned home. It also shows the most feared part of Beverly's heart through images, which can be called a horror film textbook.
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