You will never know whether this magnificent and absurd adventure is the majestic death illusion of the girl Valerie or the unbridled and weird growth of an adolescent girl. Surrealism and dreams envelop this beautiful and innocent girl, making the story sometimes leap like a fairy tale, and sometimes as bloody and fierce as the cruel medieval literature. So when the story ends, you will think that this is just the beginning.
The girl Valerie got a pair of earrings from her grandmother, but unexpectedly the vampire wanted to take it back. In a small village, there are wicked witches longing for eternal youth, hypocritical and greedy priests, bishops who betrayed their souls to the devil and turned into skunks, and Valais who fell in love with his mother’s lover and had to be expelled by his mother. Li's mother, Olique, who wants to have an orthopedic love with her sister...People with ghosts surround innocent girls, and an undercurrent surging sexual rise is also staged in the village. .....
The story begins with the gaze of the girl's body. The girl sometimes lifts her earrings to the sun and sometimes puts her earrings on her chest. She kisses the bouquet, sucks the spring water, jumps in the forest, and chats with the birds. The graceful and flexible carcass writes the beauty and fearlessness of youth, and this beauty is not only seen in the eyes of girls of the same age, but also seen by priests who are full of benevolence and morality, but are shameless and sensual, and want to pass the girl. The vampires whose blood has gained a lasting life are seen in the eyes, the grandmothers who sacrificed their granddaughter to regain their youth are seen in the eyes, and even more so by their own brothers. The conspiracy surrounding the girl unfolded quietly, dazzling like blood dripping on a daisy.
But has the devil ever come? Or all this is just the fantasy of adolescent girls who are ignorant. She saw the nuns peeping at the men and women in the field, the ascetic grandmother begging to the priest, the other young girls had to marry the fat old rich peasants as their wives, and the flower girls' flowers were always thrown into the silt. Why is the world not as pure and clean as her room, and she is also unable to hold on to the curiosity and desire of her body. When she understands sex but no one guides what sex is, all women become pronouns, and the closest women, like mothers or grandmothers, become the culprits, and men all wear hypocritical and treacherous masks. Devil.
The tone of the whole film is beautiful and joyous. The fresh scenes, magical plot, dreamy atmosphere, and youthful body bring the audience's intuitive enjoyment of beauty, but you have no way of keeping up with the director's mind. direction. The vampire was transformed by a skunk, both a bishop and Valerie's father; her grandmother sometimes incarnates as Valerie's cousin and sometimes becomes the priest's lover. The gap between black and white makes her extremely painful; her brother is both a father and a father The host’s vampire was against him and wanted to be Valerie’s friend and husband; Valerie experienced being burned to death as a witch, being sacrificed to vampires by his grandmother as a sacrifice, and almost raped by a priest, but still drinking vampires. Putting the pearls makes it back into the original skunk, bringing the town back to a happy and friendly atmosphere.
Seeing this, you can actually think of another well-known movie "Pan's Labyrinth", the story of a girl who went through a magical life in her imagination in order to escape reality. From this, we can infer the general social atmosphere of the town at that time: the town was repressed by the canon of the darkness of the Middle Ages and the repressive rule of the hypocritical and cruel priests. There was never any peace at all. Young girls were played by religious classes and middle-aged women were sent away. Go to the monastery to replenish religious power, and the old women will graft their pain to the young girls as the persecuted party. People have no freedom and no equality. Only the bishop or priest orders the vicious joy from the tyrannical behavior.
In this repressive environment, even if there is no devil, sexual openness sprouts in the hearts of young people earlier than tigers. The beautiful earrings, the blood of daisies, the apples in the coffin, the overturned wine, etc., are actually the virginity of a girl. A lot of metaphors and hints make the truth of sumo confusing, women wantonly kiss each other, men release excess hormones, but the subtlety and loneliness of girls are eternal in everyone's heart.
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