Probably guess

Lesley 2022-01-12 08:01:29

First of all, this is not a ghost film, but a psychological suspense film, which confirms that what the female teacher sees and hears are hallucinations. How did this illusion come about? It comes from the anxiety brought to her by the two children. According to the analysis of modern psychology, the two children have obvious anti-social personality, so Miles will be expelled from the school, and the pigeon will be twisted. The key to this story lies in how the former female teacher and male servant died. Obviously the deaths of the two are strange, so no one wants to mention them both. According to the clues provided by the old maid, Miles admires Quentin, the male servant, but Quentin is a villain and inculcates evil thoughts in him, while the female teacher has a relationship with Quentin. Miles once strangled the heroine's neck, it is hard to say that this was not stimulated by Quentin. In other words, the female teacher was probably killed by Quentin. What about Quentin? Everyone didn't want to talk about him, and Miles was irritated to hang up after just saying his name. Obviously his death was the main cause of the whole incident. My guess is that Miles killed him. Because Miles obviously has an Oedipus plot, there will be pro-female protagonists. It is not surprising that he has a crush on the female teacher. It is precisely because he discovered the cause of the female teacher’s death and killed Quentin. Under the constant stimulation of the heroine, she went crazy and died. The title of the innocent person is very ironic, because there are no innocent people in this film. All of them have committed crimes, including the old maid who ignored everything that happened but did nothing.

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  • Antonina 2022-01-12 08:01:29

    I really like the original, but I was hypnotized by watching the film... It can be seen that the director did not like cinemascope, and the British style of the plank did not match this pre-Freud psychoanalytic narrative; and indeed, the heroine after losing the original narration The distance between is too close to the audience, plus some hazy descriptions that visualize the original work (for example, it is not mentioned in the novel that two children were directly possessed... right... Anyway, I think the adaptation is too hard. Yes, telling the story too realistically, Capote’s shooting script is also difficult to save. PS. Costume design is really good-looking

  • Wendy 2022-04-22 07:01:45

    Psychological masterpiece, the original can be interpreted in various ways. I feel that this film focuses on the female teacher's possessiveness/insecurity, forcibly treating children as innocent and causing tragedy, or that children who are not pure and precocious are instead. It is normal and innocent. The scenery sets the atmosphere, the sprawling gardens and broken sculptures and the song of love throughout are impressive

The Innocents quotes

  • Flora: [singing] We lay, my love and I, beneath the weeping willow. But now alone I lie and weep beside the tree. Singing "Oh willow waly" by the tree that weeps with me. Singing "Oh willow waly" till my lover returns to me. We lay, my love and I, beneath the weeping willow. But now alone I lie. Oh willow I die, oh willow I die...

  • Miss Giddens: The children... have they had a governess before?

    The Uncle: Yes, unfortunately. Not that there was anything wrong with Miss Jessel. She was an excellent governess and a most respectable woman. The children quite liked her especially little Flora. Oh, which reminds me: Be careful not to broach that subject to Flora unless of course, she broaches it to you first which I doubt will happen because she was so fond of Miss Jessel and it did come as an appalling shock.

    Miss Giddens: I'm not certain that I understand you, sir.

    The Uncle: She died.