Sometimes people don't want to destroy the enemy, but don't let the enemy cause harm to themselves. That's why "If you can't catch the enemy, destroy the enemy's opponent, so as to achieve the purpose of appeasing the enemy." This is human selfishness.
Rating: 7.63丨 Movie Library List: 110
Synopsis
Gilman (Pierre Frénet) is a midwife in the French countryside, but he often fails to deliver babies, leading to the death of babies.
Not only that, he also had an ambiguous relationship with Laura, the wife of psychiatrist Waller.
On this day, Gilman received an anonymous letter signed "The Crow" .
The content is to stop him from fooling around with Laura and claim to keep monitoring him.
At the same time, many people in the village received letters from the "crow".
The letter not only serves Dr. Gilman, but also reveals many people's secrets.
This makes everyone feel like sitting on pins and needles, and everyone has guessed who this "crow" is.
Rumors spread all over the village, everyone was in danger, and at this time someone came into everyone's sight.
She is Laura's sister Mary and Volger's ex-wife. She is considered the first suspect of "The Crow".
One pass ten, ten pass a hundred. Gradually, everyone blamed the anonymous letter on Mary, and one day she was arrested.
The whole village has returned to peace and life has returned to normal.
But the facts proved that they were all wrong and Mary was not a "crow" because the anonymous letter did not stop.
The farce continued, and the villagers continued to be confined to panic.
They even considered driving Dr. Gilman out of the village if the "crow" was not caught, because the "crow" was aimed at Gilman in the first place.
But Volge thought of a way to gather all the suspects together to listen to the letter, so that perhaps the "crow" could be found in the handwriting...
Film Analysis
Henry-George Cruzo, the man who swept the three major film festivals , his "Crime Bank" won the 8th Venice Film Festival National Award for Best Director, "Mistress Manon" won the 10th Venice Film Festival Golden Lion Award, "The Price of Fear" in 1953 won the 6th Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or and the 3rd Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear Award. Although the movie "The Crow" shared today did not win, it is also very A good suspense film, I even saw the shadow of "Memories of Murder" in it.
The film has a strong suspense atmosphere and a tortuous plot. If there are shortcomings, I don't know if it is a translation problem. I always feel that the plot is not coherent. The director seems to prefer to reverse the ending, just like "The Devil", until the truth is revealed at the end, but the whole process of the film has a deeper analysis of human nature than "Devil", and it is more reflective.
"Everyone has an unknown side." In the film, we know that although the "crow" is mainly aimed at Dr. Gilman, he will also reveal some other people's secrets from time to time, which makes the whole village panic. . Imagine, if someone is watching our every move in reality, and he may expose it at any time, our reaction may be like the villagers. After all, who doesn't have such a dirty mess?
Therefore, they would rather kill a thousand by mistake than miss one. Although there is no evidence to prove that Mary was a "crow", with the efforts of the whole village, Mary was successfully locked up as a "crow". This reveals the evil side of human nature. When other people's interests and their own interests produce multiple-choice questions, everyone chooses to be selfish.
The next thing I will talk about is the crime of imitation mentioned in "Memories of Murder". Are all letters written by "the crow" alone? Or is there only one person in the "crow"? When we have something to say but don't dare, do we also use the "crow" to speak it? The answer is obvious. There are more than one or two people who have become "crows" in the film. For their own benefit, people may use "crows" to say things that they usually dare not say. This is true human nature.
As Dr. Wallger said to Gilman, "But you have to be careful. Once this happens, the entire city will be infected." And when "everyone looks at their own soul, the result may make themselves all Surprised" , this is what the film wants to tell us, human nature is selfish, at the first thought of good and evil, how many people will choose good at this moment instead of evil that is more beneficial to them?
If selfishness is evil, how many people dare to confidently claim that they are a good person?
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