But after watching this movie, I saw more content than serial murders caused by perverted killers. The plot has a main line and a side line. The main story is that the girl Sidney was chased and killed by a perverted killer in a white mask and black robe a year after her mother was raped and killed. The secondary line is that Sidney is estranged from her boyfriend Billy because of the psychological trauma of her mother's death, and Billy tries to mend the relationship and go further, and the two eventually have a physical relationship. And these two lines finally met when her boyfriend Billy revealed his identity as a perverted killer (one of them). Sidney's mother has promiscuous sex, causing Billy's parents to divorce. With a grudge, Billy, together with a psychopathic friend, kills Sidney's mother.
I think the focus of the film is not on the main line but on the side lines. The whole movie is a metaphor for adolescent girls' primitive fear of sex. This content was originally described in the sub-line, the heroine is a relatively conservative girl, and the relationship with her boyfriend is more restrained. In the main line, the murderer's assault process is a metaphor. Think about it, in the dark night, "parents are absent" (symbolizing the absence of protective power), the girl is in the "deep house", being harassed by the low man's voice (and this voice is described by the hostess as "sexy"), In the end, he easily broke the "door" and "smashed her belly" with a "dagger". This metaphor is very obvious.
I think there are two sources of the image of the murderer. The first is adolescent boys who seem to be extremely enthusiastic about sex and even a little abnormal in the eyes of adolescent girls. In the film, such adolescent boys are the murderers. It can be explained that adolescent girls fear that their boyfriend will bring physical damage to themselves. The second is to return to the promiscuity setting of the heroine's mother. Her promiscuity eventually brought her a bad and tragic ending (raped and murdered). The murderer threatened the hostess repeatedly, saying that she would let her follow her mother's footsteps and humiliate the hostess with her mother's affairs. In the toilet, the hostess heard other girls smash their mouths about the life style of herself and her mother. It can be explained that adolescent girls worry that having sex with their boyfriend violates the society's concept of chastity, thus giving themselves a sense of guilt. These two negative emotions twisted into one in the girl's heart, and finally turned into such a perverted killer.
The mechanism that girls have primitive fear of sex can protect the unsound fertility of underage girls and is beneficial to human reproduction. And this fear will eventually fade as the girl grows up. However, adolescents may sometimes need to constrain. Don't be so forced (bian) or cut (tai) about sex in order to avoid this unnecessary fear of the opposite sex. The sheriff in the
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film has a close-up of stomping out cigarette butts with leather shoes. The same leather shoes worn by the perverted killer who attacked the hostess in the toilet. I don’t know if I misunderstood it, it may be a foreshadowing.
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