Many films will use stories or behaviors to show women's stress in a concrete way.
Recently, there is a film that uses metaphorical images of madness, which is very subtle, but it horribly presents the various difficulties that women may face in the home and family, and in the society.
"Nv Jie XX" is a collection of horrors, and four independent stories show horror stories about women.
The four stories are not closely related to each other, but are connected by the stop-motion animation between the stories.
As an independent film, "Nv Jie XX", with a limited budget, gave the four directors the most room for development, allowing them to shoot four short stories with slightly different styles from different angles.
Box, birthday party, don't fall, her only child alive... The
four stories have completely different entry points, and even the use of cameras and the creation of a horrible atmosphere have their own advantages. In order to protect the fans' enjoyment of watching movies, the fat guy here only briefly talks about the first story and some of its metaphors.
The first story, the box, has a prominent metaphorical temperament, and the whole story construction and suspenseful atmosphere control is quite amazing, making you step by step into a kind of desperate fear.
The film first took place on a closed train.
The mother took her daughter and son for the holiday and was on the way back home.
The mother revealed her impatience in bringing her children. Although she took them around for a day, the children were still looking forward to holiday gifts.
At this time, the son found that an old man was holding a huge gift box, and he curiously hoped to see the contents of the box.
His mother interrupted his impoliteness, but the old man didn't mind and showed the boy the contents of the box alone.
Suddenly, the boy was shocked by the contents of the box.....When
he got home, his father had already prepared a sumptuous dinner. Both the wife and daughter are busy feasting, but only the son does not eat at all.
The whole family thought he ate too many snacks when he played in the afternoon, and they didn't care.
But the next day, when the father changed the dishes, the son still didn't eat a bite.
When the family asked, the son only said, "I'm not hungry"!
The father was a little worried, but he still obeyed his son's choice.
On the third night, the son was still willing to eat anything. Father made his favorite pizza!
Now the father couldn't help it, and kept asking the reason. The next day, he urged his wife to take his son to the hospital for examination.
The doctor didn't find out why, just let them continue to observe.
On the fourth day, my father started directly ordering takeaway, the kind of food that stimulated the appetite the most. Chinese food or tempting fast food.
But the son still didn't take a bite. Now my father lost control and knocked on the table angrily.
The son walked away in tears. The family fell silent.
This is, men began to anger women, thinking that at this time, why women can still eat, they should worry about their children.
The daughter is holding the fire in her heart, but of course she cares, but she can tell her rationally that it is impossible for her to start a hunger strike because her son is not eating.
That night, she found her daughter and son chatting quietly.
When she wanted to know what they were talking about, her son and daughter never mentioned it.
The next day, the daughter also started a hunger strike.
Women's worries are extremely escalating.
That night, she found that the man was also chatting quietly with his son. When a woman asks a man on the bedside about their chat, the man also keeps silent.
Later, the son, daughter, and husband started hunger strikes one after another.
The whole story progresses layer by layer, the horror and depression atmosphere slowly escalate, and the most terrifying moment of the whole film comes quietly in the lowest-key way.
The family of three finally started eating, but the food on the table was actually the woman's own body!
The woman's thighs and belly have been eaten up in large chunks.
The man was responsible for cutting, and the two children ate happily.
Not only did the three of them smile secretly, but even the woman herself smiled in tears.
It turns out that this scene just happened in a woman's dream.
The reality is that the woman’s son, daughter, and husband died one after another because of a hunger strike within a month.
The end of the story is that the woman is caught in the frenzy of finding the old man with the gift box. She wanders in the subway every day, trying to find the old man and asking him what was in the box that day.
But she still couldn't find the old man.
The last line of the film is, "I want to know the answer in that box, because I'm hungry!" The
whole story actually metaphors the relationship between women and their families in the family.
Among them are complaints from the husband.
Whenever the child has a situation, the husband and wife will face great challenges at the same time, and both will fall into anxiety at the same time. But the way in which each person behaves upset may vary from person to person.
However, there was no pressure for the two to be transferred, and they could only become objects of vent to each other.
Therefore, when a man finds that his wife has not made enough concerns about the children's situation, he transfers his incompetent pressure directly to his wife in a blaming way.
In fact, the entire hunger strike is just a whack, it symbolizes a kind of crisis and estrangement.
A woman’s first question is, why everyone will go on hunger strikes one after another, but what is more terrifying than a hunger strike is that the son tells his daughter the secret, and the son tells the husband the secret. Everyone knows the secret, but they don’t tell her!
And the secret of this hunger strike seems to have something to do with that box.
When the woman asked repeatedly, the son insisted that there was absolutely nothing in the box he was looking at. The old man was holding an empty box.
This secret, after the death of a family one after another, became a lingering heart disease for women.
The death of a family member is a metaphor that the woman is gradually isolated at home, the dead cannot speak and cannot communicate, and the woman gradually loses the possibility of communication with the members at home.
This has similar problems in most families.
In the long-term family life, as children grow up and have independent thinking skills, their communication with their mothers will become less and less.
After the husband is suppressed by various aspects such as family trivial matters, children's problems, social pressure, etc., he will gradually deal with his wife and communicate little.
But what women still don't understand is why there is less communication and why family members start to selectively ignore her.
In the film, the final line of the heroine, "I'm hungry", is a metaphor for women's mental exhaustion because of the loneliness at home.
She hopes to communicate, she hopes to communicate, she hopes to share their secrets. She used to get these, but as time goes by, she gets less and less, and the spirit that she gains in this home is less and less, so she She has been "hungry" all the time, and she can't know the secret of the change, she can't improve it all the time.
For her, her family is almost death.
"The Box" shows the crisis from the beginning, the huge red box that hooks the audience's appeal.
The things in this box, as the plot develops, will continue to stretch the audience's anxiety and curiosity.
What is in the box? Is it empty? impossible!
All kinds of conjectures caused by the box, along with the weird trend of the plot, firmly grasped the emotions of the audience.
"The Box" is very delicate in terms of the metaphorical expression of the main control thought in terms of the script or the scene scheduling. It can definitely arouse your thinking.
The other three stories in "Nv Jie XX" have black humor, traditional horror, and religious horror. They offer horror metaphors about women for different groups of people.
Women’s reactions to the family may not be as direct as men’s, so expressing these pressures and reactions in a metaphorical way is a way more suitable for female subjects.
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