Elizabeth Bathory is a very fascinating figure, and there are many legends about her. But personally, obviously, I prefer stories that are darker and more perverted.
Bathory is one of the bluest bloodlines in Hungary - so blue that she still keeps her surname after her marriage (because her natal family is Biff's ox). Generations of intra-marriage within the family have resulted in two obvious outcomes: one is a breeding that resembles a thoroughbred horse, where the genes of the strong in the family are stabilized and strengthened, for things like beauty and intelligence, and the other is biologically similar. The consanguineous marriage that I learned in class, even if there is no physical abnormality, there are not a few people in this family who are psychologically abnormal. In addition, they are powerful, do whatever they want, and commit a lot of koans.
Elizabeth's life is undoubtedly the quintessence of both outcomes. On the one hand, she is famous for her beauty, high IQ, flexible means and firm will. After her husband died in battle, she was still able to defend the border to ensure Hungary was not invaded by Turkey. On the other hand, she was one of the very few female serial killers. And is one of the most murderous serial killers ever recorded.
CM once specially introduced female serial killers-compared to men, the rate of women becoming serial killers is much smaller, the reason is of course because women are not dominated by sexual impulses, so once they want to kill there must be a reason, To kill again and again, it is not only a clear target, but also often the method is hidden, and it will not do any extras such as leaving any souvenirs, or provoking the police, or staying at the crime scene, so it is more difficult to catch than male killers is the second reason .
The purpose of Bathory's murder makes her one of the prototypes of another legend - a vampire. So it is conceivable that I heard this lady's name early in the morning and checked her life.
Although it is popular to reverse the case now, I don’t think she needs to be whitewashed. After all, people in that era were indeed divided into high and low, and the lives of the poor were worthless in the eyes of the lord. In addition, her family guarded the frontier for generations, and was used to killing people. The bloodshed, killing some people who have no survival value in her opinion in order to keep her youth forever, is nothing compared to some cases in CM. Although it is inevitable to make a B-movie according to her own story, it is much better than these will make her a victim - especially a victim of love.
The word "love" is now closely associated with "stupidity". No matter what, even if she's a descendant of Dracula, a Countess known for her hard-heartedness, she's just like the little nympho in Twilight who only knows how to destroy herself when she falls out of love, it really makes me roll my eyes - like the first few days of this movie Minutes said how ruthless her childhood was, and in the middle of the movie, she was arguing at the dining table, seducing Xiao Zhengtai every step of the way, all of which were like telling bad jokes. With this lady's ability, power, and disposition, she should turn the paste into ill-will, and take mad revenge with a plan and artifice. It turned out that a menopausal woman's advanced age was there to play the role of Sister Lin, which made people very surprised how this role was created. Only the one that cut open his chest and put Xiao Zhengtai's hair in is still a bit original.
True, the king owed a huge debt to their family at the time; it was true that there was a stake in one way or another among the nobles; it was true that she was a heretic (the one who would keep a witch in a castle couldn't be a pure Puritan, but she was shown in the movie) It looks very religious); indeed, all of the above can be used as reasons for others to want to destroy her. But the 17th century was not far from the present, and the hundreds of victims were really astonishing. Judging from all the evidence, it is reluctant to say that she was framed. I actually love the version that was shot in the Czech Republic and I don't know which country it was shot in. Although the same is the style of overturning the case, but at least she is not a bullshit love (the most repeated word in the whole movie is "love", and it is often accompanied by adjectives such as "noble" and so on, making it look like Shakespeare Like the drama, it made me disgusted), but a victim of the times, not lost to my own nympho, but lost to my own strength and personality.
In fact, Bathory started killing people while her husband was still alive (I'm a little bit ill-willed to think that Delpy can't play a girl in her early 20s, so she deliberately pushed the murder to after her husband's death). Her husband is also a legend, known as "the black hero of Hungary". But they turned a blind eye to their wife's derailment and homosexual love. The two worked together to create the most powerful family in the country at that time. Even if I were to make a love story, I would be more inclined to the emotional entanglement between this strange couple - no way, heavy taste. Taking the classic Shakespeare-style love route like this film is relatively boring.
But the clothes in the movie are very nice. Especially the design of the collar and rotator sleeves, as well as the accessories, are too vampire-like. I totally recommend it for the sake of clothes.
PS: I don't see where Xiao Zhengtai looks good. I think that Mr. M is even better looking.
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