The idea is similar to "Silent Hill", the play is not horrible, but rather strange and interesting phenomena. If the director can give a convincing explanation at the end, perhaps it will be a good movie in the eyes of most people. It's a pity that the director just wanted to make ambiguity, but it turned out to be self-defeating, like falling into a cloud and a mist.
I tried to read it twice, trying to get a complete idea, but to no avail. Only the general main line can be connected, but many details and characters cannot be explained one by one.
My personal understanding: the whole movie is actually a little girl's imagination. The little girl wanted to go home, but she couldn't be discharged because of her illness, so she could only imagine her father to take her out of the hospital. And those monsters represent reality. She can't get out of the hospital. Adults, including doctors and fathers, will never let her out of the hospital in reality. So, she had to toss and toss with the characters she imagined in such a strange hospital where time is stopped and time and space are chaotic, and in the end they still can't get out. The lines of the little girl since her father took her out of the hospital are basically repeating what she said in the 7 minutes before the movie. Especially in the last scene in the garage, after her father took her out of the car, she said the same lines that her father said to her in her ward in the 6 minutes of the movie. And in the end, she flashed her whole body and said: "I want to go home", it can be said to be her heartfelt voice. Don't get entangled in the saying of "light and darkness", it is actually very understandable.
Red and blue are a symbolic technique used by the director. Red symbolizes unreality, that is, the little girl's imagined world; blue symbolizes the real world. In real-world hospitals, the floor and walls are blue, and everything is clean; in non-real-world hospitals, the floor and walls are red, and the deeper they go, the darker and dirty. Of course, the most important reminder is the crayons. The red crayons represent imagination when they appear, and the blue crayons represent reality when they appear.
The hardest thing to explain is the "dead old man". He is like an NPC in the game, constantly giving clues and hints, and can help at critical moments. It is really the director's panacea. The scenes he appears should be all imagination, why? Because he is wearing a red scarf. (囧……)
As for why the little girl imagined Lordi's Ghost Mask Uncle's five-member group coming on stage, naturally because she is their fan.
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