This film is easy to think of Victor Ellis’ "Honeycomb Ghost", the same shadow of Franco’s regime, the same actress Anna, the character’s name is also Anna, the same political allusion, the same dim and repressive The family atmosphere, the same mysticism. But the difference is that "Honeycomb Ghost" shows more the outside world, Frankenstein, abandoned houses, and soldiers evading hunting. These important metaphorical elements require the audience to follow Anna out of the dim home to find them. And this film hides the metaphor in the dim home, in everyone's actions and language, and adds many family ethics elements to make the film content richer and more beautiful.
The film begins in a dimly lit house. Anna hears her father’s painful groan in the room, and then a disheveled woman ran out of her father’s room. The woman and Anna looked at each other and fled in a hurry. This woman is Father has always been a lover. Anna walked into her father’s room and found that her father was dead. She took away the cup of milk on the table. After washing the cup in the kitchen, her dead mother appeared behind her. This is an illusion of Anna. The mother is her. The only loved one. Anna Mirage is that she poisoned her father. Her mother was a talented pianist. After meeting Anna's father at the concert, the two came together. The mother had to give up her career in order to take care of her children, or she might have given up the challenge because she was afraid of not being able to achieve people's expected achievements, and led a mediocre life. But after the marriage, the father got in trouble everywhere, hooked up with the maid, and became a lover with his friend's wife. This made her mother miserable, arguing with her father all day, and eventually died of a painful illness on the bed. Therefore, the phantom poisoned her father and gave Anna a sense of relief to avenge her mother.
The dead father’s room was full of soldiers who came to mourn. His father was a fascist officer, so these soldiers were all former fascist supporters. Anna refused to mourn her father. She ran away without saying a word. Her hatred for her father was deeply rooted. Then came Anna's childhood memories in the face of the camera twenty years later. Anna looked the same as her deceased mother and was played by the same actor (Chaplin's daughter) twenty years later. Anna told that childhood was full of depression, pain, and darkness. The same appearance of Anna and her mother also highlights the importance and interactivity of her mother in Anna's heart. Many of her actions and emotions seem to represent her mother.
Before his father died, the custody of the three sisters was handed over to the aunt of the three sisters, a staid, dogmatic single older middle-aged woman. The three sisters, especially Anna, were full of resistance to this new mother role. For example, three girls refused to learn the traditional table manners taught by their aunts, how to use knives and forks correctly. They told their aunts that their parents had never taught them these shit table manners, and that they had resisted the new guardian, the new ruler's dogmatic management, especially Anna. When Anna pushed her grandmother who was in a wheelchair and couldn't move and talk, she went out to relax, phantom herself jumped off the roof and committed suicide. As Anna said twenty years later, her childhood was not happy at all, only suffering and suffering. The desire for death always followed Anna. Her illusion blocked her father and tried to instigate the elderly grandma, who could only look at the pictures on the wall and recall the past, and committed suicide by poisoning. This kind of death instinct gave Anna's childish face a trace of evil and weirdness.
The three sisters danced to the song "Why did you leave" selected by Anna. This song appeared many times in the film. The most impressive thing is that Anna looked at the camera in the song and combed her hair while repeatedly saying: "I want you to die." These cold words were clearly directed at my aunt, and Anna looked extremely cold and terrible in this shot. The three sisters will secretly use her aunt's cosmetics and wear her aunt's high heels after her aunt goes out. Anna plays a role with her sister, Anna plays the role of mother, and sister plays the role of father. They faithfully restored the scene of their father arrogantly arguing with their mother after returning home late. The bad relationship between the parents, the helplessness of the mother and the indifference of the father existed like a nightmare in their childhood. There are a lot of memory scenes that Anna imagined in the film, that is, scene recurrence. For example, the parental quarrel, the father touched the housekeeper's chest through the balcony glass and was bumped by the mother. The father kissed his lover in the garden of a friend's house. The gentle mother told the bedside story of "Little Almond" to coax herself to sleep. The seriously ill mother He moaned in pain and said desperate words that he didn't want to die. And every time the illusion about the mother is over, the figure of the aunt will appear... This contrast between reality and imaginary makes the audience see Anna's inner sadness and resistance at a glance.
When tidying up the household clutter, the three sisters expressed excitedly that their father had promised to let the three sisters inherit a father's gun. And Anna skillfully picked up a revolver and aimed it at the aunt who was kissing her lover. Anna's gun movement and expression are so skillful and calm, which is in stark contrast to her clumsy use of knives and forks. Such passion must be the product of ears and eyes. When you have a thought, it will come naturally. Then Anna imagined using the poison that her mother had let her throw away into the milk, trying to poison her aunt. After her aunt fell asleep on the bed, Anna washed the cups and put away the suspicion like her father died... At the end of the holiday, the three sisters walked to the school amidst the singing of "Why did you leave"...
This holiday, Anna recalled her life, and Anna 20 years later recalled her childhood.
"The crow you raised will come to peck your eyes when you grow up." Everything you brought to me made me stand on the opposite side of you, making me want to kill you, my father, and my country.
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