Last year's "Parasite" achieved great success. In addition to the high quality of "Parasite" itself, I personally think that it has the support of the greatest common divisor of society. The big reason for this support is that "Parasite" is based on family values. No matter how dark the class society is, Ki Woo stays with his mother and loves his father, so it can resonate with so many people. . Family is the common emotion of human beings. Setting the role as a family allows the audience to quickly understand the emotional connection of the characters. For example, in Bong Joon-ho's previous work "Han River Monster", the protagonist is set as a family.
In the "Cold Ritual" directed by Chabrol, although it is still a story of the lower class attacking the higher class, there is no such value as the basis. As a matter of fact, the heroine of "The Cold Ritual" as a servant of a higher class has never had the hope of realizing a rise in class. Movies have a lot of composition about mirrors. For example, when the heroine leaves, she leaves from the mirror. The heroine and her friends are also in the same scene with her through the mirror. Mirrors are used to a large extent in the movie. The above metaphors the other side of human spirit. The film focuses on the spiritual world of people who are taking revenge against the class in this more true story.
Another interesting clue to the movie is the TV in the heroine’s room. The heroine’s friends like to watch movies on it at first. In a sense, television is something that poisons the bottom ideology. The daughter of the owner of the house complains that putting a television in someone's room makes the other person stupid. But TV actually creates a private space for the lonely heroine from the bottom, in which she can close herself. When the protagonist called and asked the heroine to get the files for him, because this request would reveal that the heroine was illiterate, which she did not want others to know, she first hung up the phone, and then the phone rang, she immediately went upstairs to turn on the TV And turn up the volume of the TV to "cover the ears and steal the ring" pretending not to hear the voice of the phone or the voice of the driver who came to get the file. Television creates a private space for the heroine, a metaphor for the heroine's self-enclosure in her inner space. What’s interesting is that when the family fired the heroine, they moved the TV to their own living room. However, they were not watching unnutritious TV shows, but elegant operas. Even though they watched the same media, the rich still wanted to be content. Distinguish from the poor, but in fact, they can only hear the voice of the opera in the space they created, and ignore the voice of the heroine and friends. Finally, they noticed that they were greeted by the fate of being killed. Another criticism of the media: no matter how rich the media can carry, the media itself creates the common identity of a certain group, a proof of closing oneself to one's own class and identity without seeking wider exchanges.
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