The brothers and sisters were starved to death by the manslaughter of the eldest brother. This is a sad story!
This is a sad story. The four siblings who were victims of a violent family have left deep wounds. After the death of his mother, the violent and criminal father absconded to the United States. The eldest brother died of his father in a cave by the sea. At that time, he became mentally confused, thinking that his father did not die and broke into the attic and killed the three siblings locked in the attic. The eldest brother sealed the attic with bricks. This is where many people argue, let me explain:
1. The eldest brother had killed his father at the beach, but in the movie, the father was stabbed in front of the escaped elder brother magically. This is unreasonable. The eldest brother was pushed down such a high cliff without any death or injury, so he broke his head. It's unreasonable..., so my father was killed at the beach..., maybe he ran away before he died..., but the corpse was not seen...
2. Why the attic was sealed and why not open the attic to verify: the eldest brother was stimulated, reported his father and killed him, but he is not sure if his father died. The eldest brother was insane, thinking that his father hid in the attic again and kidnapped his siblings. This can be seen from the conversation in the attic-you dare to come in and try. This is actually a conversation in his heart, which shows that the eldest brother is extremely afraid of his father and his brothers and sisters. The confusion of life and death. In the confrontation with the illusory father, he chose to seal the attic with bricks. He would rather lock his younger brothers and sisters in it and starve to death with his uncertain father, and didn’t have the courage to open it to prove everything. This is because of the cowardly character of the elder brother. to. In remorse and pain, the personality officially begins to split.
The movie also describes the conflicting struggle between the starvation process and the door opening verification: during the split time, the younger brother was afraid of ghosts, the second brother was irritable, the blood stains on the ceiling, the younger sister looked at herself in the shower, the ghost in the mirror, herself I woke up from several nightmares, the voice from time to time upstairs, and the headaches of my eldest brother in front of the attic several times. These are actually projections of starvation and contradictions. Is it the voice of the father or the voice of the brothers and sisters? I dare not open the door to see. I just want to dream of the brother and sister's affection to numb myself in the split...
3. The lawyer was killed by the eldest brother with a knife. You should remember the knife that the eldest brother picked up when the younger brother split and went to the beach to take the box. It is true that the eldest brother also went to the beach and took the box and knife, but he went with the personality of the second brother. When the lawyer smashed the attic, the eldest brother killed him to conceal the facts. This is the evidence and function of the knife in the movie. And when the eldest brother killed the lawyer, he was finally verified that he was wrong. There were only the corpses of the three brothers and sisters, not the corpse of the father, so he hid in the safe room and split the conversation until his girlfriend arrived...
4. What truth did the girlfriend see? The eldest brother has long been obscured in a divided world, but he still wants to know the truth, whether he locked his father in it or locked his brother and sister by mistake. He needs a third party to uncover all this, because he really has no courage. So he put the diary in the cave where he had met before with the three-sister personality, and his girlfriend gradually learned the truth, especially when he witnessed the splitting of his eldest brother, and witnessed the murdered lawyer and the corpses of three children in the attic, and understood everything. . And the father that the girlfriend sees does not exist, it is the girlfriend who pretends to call for the eldest brother’s own personality, so that when the eldest brother enters the attic and kills the long-non-existent father in his mind, everything can be completely over. The language of the movie also gave the answer ingeniously. The father who suddenly appeared in the empty attic was as fascinating as the big brother at the sea had imagined. It was obviously an unrealistic description..
5. Ending: A group photo of the 4 brothers and sisters by the sea, the eldest brother stared affectionately, and the girlfriend said: Go back to the house, they are waiting. The girlfriend chose to accompany her elder brother, and she also chose to let her elder brother live in the happiness of division forever. This is why the girlfriend chose to go to the house to guard him, because once the eldest brother leaves the house, he will return to reality, and it will be endless pain torturing him...
Love and family love are the themes of this film. The human nature that is torn down under violent families, but there is also tenderness and unhesitating love, all of which are deep in our bones forever...
In addition, the music of this film is so touching...
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