This is a black and white movie from the 1960s. The subject matter of the story is not new. It is about a famous surgeon who accidentally drove his car, causing his upright and aging daughter to be severely injured and disfigured, leaving only a pair of faceless eyes, girl Wearing a white hard-shell mask all day long, living alone in a small attic, like a ghost, life is better than death. The doctor only has such a beloved daughter, in order to redeem her fault and compensate her happiness at all costs. It just so happens that he himself is an authoritative surgeon, his unique skill is skin grafting and skin replacement, so he built a tight operating room in his cellar, and cooperated with his female assistant to find a young man who was about the same age as his daughter and had a similar appearance. Girl, take the whole face alive and implant it in her daughter's face. However, due to the strong rejection reaction of the human body, within one month after each operation, the newly implanted face of the daughter began to rot to bad. The doctor firmly believes that he can always find a face with exactly the same constitution as his daughter, so he embarked on a crazy road of addiction—continuously cheating young girls from everywhere, performing operations, and the girl whose face was taken alive was not finally To be scared to death is to be killed. The magnificent villa became a tomb where the girl's face and life were buried.
The director is Georges Franju, the master of French heterochromatic films. Personally, I think this film is a more classic of Cult Film. Explore the dark side of the world through weird and bizarre face-picking incidents. The film has no fake morality and a clear view of right and wrong. Everyone is stubbornly sticking to their own principles. Love, the cruelty of the female assistant comes out of repaying the benefactor, and the daughter let the dog kill her father out of sympathy for the girl. From the front, the behavior of these people is horrible and horrible, but from the back, they are all normal and even noble. But this is also the fun of heterochromatic movies, boldly revealing the diversity and complexity of the world and people. It's not a clear-cut subversion of the normal world view, probably only a few people can appreciate the subtleties. (It can also be called a personal evil:))
In addition, the biggest feature of this film is that it is very beautiful. Although it is a black and white film, it does not hinder its layered gorgeousness. The actresses range from the protagonist to the supporting role of French beauties. The doctor’s heavy villa on the outskirts of an ancient tomb, the white mask of the daughter, and the mummy-like wrapping of the dying girl all revealed a deep gothic atmosphere. Special mention is made of the last scene: a girl wearing a white mask, wearing a dangling lace nightgown, and a white dove on her arm, walking towards the dark forest under the long and cold music. This mysterious and weird scene is full of the breath of death. , Too gothic~
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