I have to say that the brain setting and theme of this movie are superb. On the one hand, it is a confined space, and on the other hand, it is inexhaustible. These things that can't happen to ordinary people are put in the movies, and they fit everyone's dreams or desires so closely, so it's hard to make people uninterested.
At first I watched it with curiosity, because the curiosity made me wonder what they would do after they got everything, including the children, and what conflicts would happen later. To be honest, when I saw the hero scribble in the room and bought a gun, I was really afraid that he would become the lunatic man in The Shining in the next second. It was a childhood nightmare. Fortunately, this man was very sober, and his thinking was clear, he did not fall into the routine of the past.
In fact, I feel that this movie is narrated in stages, and it has different meanings in each stage. The first is that the male and female owners moved into the house. At that time, the two of them just wanted to live a good life easily. They found a room that was more magical than Doraemon’s pocket. The shock at the beginning quickly changed to a wishing mode. The transition from simplicity to greed only reveals the nature between one thought. Later, the hostess wanted to make up for all the regrets, children that there is no way in reality, the room can be built for you, and it can also save the twelve-level pain and temptation of having a child. Don't try how to be worthy of yourself! As a result, the child appeared like a juggler, and he looked pretty good. Later, the hostess carried the child out, only to find that he could not go out, and the child quickly grew up. That’s great, before changing the diaper of the child, just take it out for a while and the child should graduate from kindergarten. This mode of raising a baby is too worry-free...
From then on, the mother refused to let the child go out and entered the second stage. And this house is like a black hole that freezes time. As long as you don't go out, you won't grow up or grow old. It's like in the eyes of parents, it seems that as long as the children do not leave the house, as long as the children are still with them, they will always need to take care of them, and they have not grown up. For example, the mother in the movie wants to be with her child forever, but suffers from the fact that the child is fictitious, and she doesn't know when she will lose it. At this stage, I really feel that the mother is like every parent in her life who is unwilling to let their children leave alone. At this stage, there are more anxiety and conflicts as parents.
But the child always grows up. Soon there is another accident in the movie. The child secretly goes out. As a result... he grows taller than his mother. This is a good way to dare to graduate from kindergarten. After the beginning of adolescence in college, then... Oedipus complex is committed. Started to snatch his mother with his dad, and pretended to be his dad, trying to fool his mother... The following plot is really messy, but it is also a wonderful climax, and there is a kind of "horror cruise ship" inexplicably. Fate. When they wanted to get out of the house and get rid of the so-called son, they realized that everything was too late. It's like the little girl who dreams of getting red dancing shoes, when she really gets her shoes on, she can't stop dancing anymore.
In the meantime, interspersed with the mental illness that killed the previous owner in this house is actually a clue to the whole movie. It is because of his story that it is completely connected, and also because of the very different choices of the couple that year, the story is different. Towards the end; and at the end, there are two more suspense, one is who the child is, and the other is the light flashing, then whether they actually walked out of the house. It can be seen that the director and screenwriter are still very thoughtful, but there are still logical loopholes in the period. When I was watching a movie, I actually kept thinking, since everything brought out of the house will turn to ashes, if they make a wish to get food, and then eat it and walk out, the food will turn to ashes in the stomach... ...Thinking about it is terrifying.
The film is actually quite cleverly conceived, and the ending is well designed. The director wants to create a brain-burning atmosphere, which really means a thousand Hamlet in the eyes of a thousand people. But it has to be said that the densely packed cables all over the room are a bit of a play. Since it is magical, it is unlikely to be man-made, and those wires are obviously suspected of artificial arrangement. Are they caused by aliens? The weirdness of the house should be that it is weird but nowhere to be found! The fixed scene cost is not high and the effect is not bad, and the movie is quite good as a pastime after dinner.
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