Ordinary people marry into a wealthy family, live a boring life alone in front of a luxurious mansion, try to break through the comfort zone and try a new thing every day, but she thinks of swallowing dangerous goods. The movie throws a high-concept, the heroine swallows shots with a sense of horror. One of the swallowing shots in the end is accompanied by a child's whispering voice in the background, depicting a shocking sense of fear, and the audiovisual language accurately expands the heroine's face to an unfamiliar environment. , The loneliness and depression of a new identity, trying to rationalize the reasons for the heroine's quirks.
In essence, the story wanders between being trampled on and raised by feminism. The protagonist who has been in a state of aphasia for a long time not only fails to step into the upper class, but also loses her original identity due to the change of roles. The tired and running husband prefers to slide the phone after get off work. Let’s talk a few more words. I have perfunctorily asked the heroine to plant flowers. The cognition of the father-in-law and the mother-in-law is close to zero. The film deliberately leaves the background of the hero and the heroine, intending to amplify the heroine’s ignorance and construct the audience's empathy.
In the early part of the story, the focus is on the heroine’s anxiety and loneliness of identity and aphasia. After being diagnosed with polyphagia, the husband’s family’s attitude towards the heroine is different, which also highlights the fact that they learned of the heroine’s accident. To make up for it, the baby in her belly is actually more important. However, the story fell to the heroine trying to struggle and unravel the unknown secrets of the heroine. The story behind it was old-fashioned and boring, and the two parts could not form an organic fusion.
"Swallowing Addiction" tells the young and beautiful Xingte has an enviable life: living in a luxurious mansion, riding in a famous car, and marrying a rich second generation. It was supposed to be happy to get pregnant quickly after marriage, but Xingte has undergone incomprehensible changes and has a morbid addiction: swallowing various dangerous substances, the sharper and harder it is to swallow, the more excited and addicted. Even though the family members strictly controlled after discovering it, Xingte became more and more into the black hole of out-of-control desire, gradually destroying the happy life with his own hands, and forcing her to swallow the addiction and spit out the truth that she did not want to face...
The heroine has been left out of wealthy families for a long time. At the beginning of the film, the four people shared a dinner on the same stage. The hero asked the heroine to tell the story of his childhood. In the middle of the story, he was suddenly distracted by his father-in-law, and the three people formed a small circle. The heroine, unable to join their conversation, is also quite cleverly separated from the three sets of shots of the heroine, the actor, and the parents-in-law. Through a large number of personal shots of the heroine, the sense of depression is enhanced, showing a state of aphasia, and the heroine is forced to swallow ice. Blocks express their dissatisfaction and vent their sovereignty, so that they refocus their viewpoints on themselves, and start a swallowing journey when they find that it works.
One of the plots is quite interesting. The actor holds a party at home. The actor and his work partners chat by the pool. The world of the actor and the heroine is opened by the glass curtain door frame. The actor's colleagues enter the indoor space as if breaking into the room. The heroine’s small world, demanding a hug, the hesitant heroine heard him slowly throw out "I am lonely", the heroine is determined to embrace him, as if two lonely weak hearts finally found their belongings, suggesting the heroine’s life The world left a foreshadowing for the follow-up.
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After the diagnosis of heterophagia, the heroine suddenly received meticulous care from her family. To a certain extent, the heroine misunderstood that she had to gain attention through this method. At the same time, her husband's control became more and more intense, and she even wanted to send her to a mental hospital and fall into it. The heroine with contradictory status and class tries to escape from the clutches of being controlled. The second story is launched, only to discover the cause of the heroine’s illness. In addition to being unable to join a new class status and presenting a state of aphasia, the shadow of the original family also distorts the heroine. Character.
The parents obviously did not want to claim the heroine. After joining the wealthy family, the mother seemed to have let go of her burden. The mother subconsciously thought that the heroine came to the earth as an accident, and the heroine’s existence would evoke the mother’s painful memories, and finally the heroine was retrieved. The biological father carries out self-salvation. Using the parents' background to interpret the heroine's behavioral motives is boring and untenable. In the early part, there is no mention of patriarchy. The heroine's behavioral motives alone fail to properly connect the relationship with each other.
"Swallowing Addiction" relies on the rich audiovisual language to set off a strange atmosphere of horror, grabbing the audience's attention, and the pre-existing swallowing shots are just right, not deviating from the direction of the story, the heroine Haley Bennett successfully plays the weird role of the role, especially It is a swallowing shot in the end and the switching of several moods is smooth, but the handling of the ending of the story is rather sloppy.
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