The title of the film "Harvesting Elizabeth" makes the whole film completely into the imagery work, so I decided to scrutinize the film, the Chinese translation is very good, quantify and symbolize the name of Elizabeth, like the difference between lilies and white orchids in the film, it is worth paying attention to. Product, carefully proofread the names of the hero and heroine of the film: Elizabeth, and Henry. It turns out that in Western history, Queen Elizabeth I of England and her controversial life experience, as well as her father Henry VIII and her medieval era, defined her name in political theology as:
"The union of two bodies - a natural body and a political body,"
Basically in line with the analysis angle I am about to cut into:
One is a simple person's name, a simple line in terms of meaning,
One is the characters behind the text and the miniature details of the world, which work perfectly together.
At the beginning of the film, there are a pair of blue eyes that are full of stories and seem to be unworldly. There are also many close-up shots in the film, indicating that the consciousness behind the body is exactly what scientists have tried their best to control and even want to clone. The film is so absurd and in line with the complex nature of the human heart's character setting:
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The protagonist Elizabeth Snow White's appearance line: "I dreamed that I would meet a rich and talented man, I would make him amaze my beauty, and he would take me away from this ugly world and save me everything. ” This should be the good wishes of countless young ladies/brothers in the modern society for the world, they are all looking forward to being saved by the rich and wealth to change the status quo of their lives... Ordinary people (the Nth Elizabeth accidentally Seeing Henry’s definition of himself after seeing that in addition to his outstanding background and an unattainable IQ) This image reminds me of the contradictions of universal values. The dream is to get rich and get rid of poverty and solve basic problems, but stepping into the society is like a fairy tale setting made in the film, like a dream, people can't distinguish reality from dream, because happiness comes too suddenly? And he is completely unable to control these wealth with gaps? Therefore, human curiosity and competitiveness are like Eve in the Garden of Eden. They have already stepped into the Garden of Eden. The more the rich people don't want you to eat the apples and the grapes that you can't eat, you always want to prove something, don't you think? ? It's a pity that life is not a movie, and you are not Elizabeth, who is loved by thousands. Even the beloved Elizabeth, in the eyes of the rich man, is nothing more than a number of experiments and Eliza N who is looking for her first love. Basically, you can't have your own independence. If you want to resist, you must first prepare for the possibility of dying countless times. The tomb script has already been written. If you want to counterattack, it is not impossible. In the end, you must kill yourself. You must also insist on being curious, stay awake, and cannot give up. Of course, the more important film also said that to achieve Elizabeth, the first thing to rely on is "you are just lucky". Realistically speaking, even if you are given the wealth of the world and become a princess and queen, and all you need is not to be too curious or too smart, and to sacrifice your personal freedom, can you be sure to save yourself from the abyss? The heroine who was made into a superhero finally just breathes the air outside the door for a second.
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A wealthy and talented image representative of a monarchy and aristocrat-Henry, what makes him feel that he can challenge and conquer when he is sitting on the throne? There is nothing more than first love, the regret of first love, so he decided to clone his beloved wife Elizabeth, and hired a Claire who could match and be sure to completely convince the charm of his authoritative personality to witness with him (more in line with his character), these are well hidden by the director in the middle section. After sacrificing more than two Elizabeths, each Elizabeth is unsurprisingly overly curious, which can well explain the imagery of the reincarnation of fate, and at the same time because of the update of research technology It also symbolizes the baptism of the era, and the rich are no longer the meaningless pursuit of wealth, but they all go to study the absolute control of human consciousness, such as memory, dreams, etc. These are the focus of their research and pursuit, With the greedy human nature, it will gain these knowledge, skills and even consciousness like harvesting wealth. As a representative of absolute authority, it is naturally impossible to accept anyone's disobedience, even if it is your beloved wife, then you can't get it. When you become conscious, I'm going to destroy your body, which echoes the opening and repeating lines (there are many scenes and lines that appear to be repeated, and also refers to Erik Satie's piano music for hints, like Philip Glass The world always thinks that their movements sound like repetitions, but they are not. In the film, when Henry plays the movements, he wants to discuss with Elizabeth the details of literary music and the murder of Elizabeth by means of a gramophone. Reveals the class consciousness of the powerful and talented and the essence of the evil capitalist exploitation, and just as every Elizabeth, even with his own son Olive, spends his life trying to get rid of this fateful nightmare) Here father and son, husband and wife, The imagery of the father-daughter relationship and the twisted insider description may make some viewers who are less sensitive may find it confusing after reading it. Or maybe it is said that the rich and powerful no longer care about the increase or decrease of material things, but only care whether it is interesting to do something, just as the protagonist Henry also said a very philosophical and causal line: The only measure of behavior is its consequences.
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Claire's appearance gives the audience the first impression of a maid, and this image represents the image of a breastfeeding mother in a traditional matriarchal society, which lays the groundwork for the following tragedy and human slaughter. The first is Elizabeth's very sharp description of her: in her eyes She has the confidence and calmness of a hostess. This is a maid with a story. Even a clone can't help but want to communicate with her. As an experienced and involved initiator, she absolutely keeps the door of communication tight. Closed, so you can only understand from her eyes and body language, and more importantly, the contrast of the diary image transformed by her inner narration, which has nowhere to vent, is basically in line with the housewife of the 1950s who was born in the male-dominated society. Stereotype, but from her diary, you can hear more of her hard work and wisdom. Being recruited to this person, she is indeed the initiator and contributed to the one-in-1000 position. Absolute obedience makes it impossible to refuse her existence, but the disillusionment of the monarchy caused her to collapse for a time and was sent to the hospital for treatment. The absence here gave the two cloned descendants a space to face themselves, and her return in the end also directly showed her The desire and contradiction of the rich and powerful, the grown-up Elizabeth used "You earned it!" to directly reverse the morbid mother-daughter complex (there is a fantasy feature of two people in the same grave), which also saves the power struggle between women. , Elizabeth became a real superwoman and queen in seconds.
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As for Olive, the son of the rich and handsome, he also has his own troubles. First of all, anything produced under the authoritative personality will be suppressed and absolutely controlled. His appearance is forbearance or even invisible, so that the counterattack and kill him later is completely useless. He was not emotional, and even bluntly said that he hated Henry, which shows that his father's influence in his mind was so distorted, how much resembling the behavior reflected by the hatred. Later, in the interrogation and house arrest of Elizabeth, it can be seen that he was very similar to him. The father's personality is so similar that he can't even accept the fact that he is a clone of Henry, and at this time the director arranged for him to be blind. The image reminds me of the lyrics in the Beatles' Nowhere Man: "He as blind as he can bem just sees what he wants to see, isn't he a bit like me and you?" The blind Nowhere Man can coexist for the rich, which is also different from the Ma Yun, Jobs, and Li Ka-shing in society It is worth reflecting on the social phenomenon of entrepreneurship as a honeycomb idol. The mantis catching cicadas is his only will to survive. He stays in the dark and observes and creates a stereotype of the world (about deceiving Elizabeth's door password is her birthday on September 16th. It can be seen that Japan represents the ultimate challenger.) Create more good memories. If one is not perfect, change it to perfect (it can be seen from the attitude towards flowers). Recruit a few clever women to help. The final goal is to replace the rich personality, directly Take over high society.
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The last seemingly tasteless police role cannot but be mentioned. With their professional instinct, they encountered the tolerance and protection of the powerful and their mistakes in judgment also directly assisted a series of dramatic tragedies that followed.
The theater-style lines and lighting used in the whole film are already a very good literary filter for commercial films, plus the depth of character creation, it is worth recommending, but positioning it as a sci-fi film, I personally think it is more stereotyped, I feel like a superhero The film will be more in line with the positioning.
Summary: Everyone wants to be Henry or Elizabeth, but the director told you how each of them climbed to today's possibility, it is estimated that no one wants to do it, so, watch the movie and sleep, have a good dream, Continue to wait to be harvested.
Follow-up: After reading "Bluebeard" in Grimm's Fairy Tales, I feel that the plot of this film has a bit of plagiarism. I feel that it is a more modern version of Bluebeard's feminist heroism. Personally, I don't like hero films. End.
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