What kind of story can attract such a strong lineup? Including the US team we are familiar with-Chris Evans. 007-Daniel Craig, The Shape of Water-Michael Shannon, Blade Runner 2049-Anna de Armas, the story of Ryan Johnson, director of Breaking Bad, is actually It's not very brainstorming, but it lies in the fun of the script, the subtle structure, the layers of reversal, and the huge details to express the weakness of human nature.
After watching the movie, I feel very beautiful, the rhythm is smooth, there is no unnecessary procrastination, funny and full of suspense, 2 hours in a variety of unexpected reversals flashed by, people are still unsatisfied. Slowly recalling the details, I found that the whole story is not simply advocating an attitude that good people will be rewarded after all, but a series of hidden in hypocrisy that is involved in the bizarre suicide of the manor owner and the huge inheritance problem left behind. The most real human torture under the mask.
If you complete the movie and only see the so-called happy ending that the "good guys" finally won all the inheritance and the "wicked guys" finally have nothing, then you didn't understand the movie at all, and the director's mind is far deeper than you think.
To understand the deepest details buried by the director, you must first understand these issues.
1. Why is this movie called Knife Out of the Sheath?
At the beginning of the movie, Detective Blanco faces the interrogation between the family members of the manor, and everyone sits on the bladed chair and begins to tell their own stories, true or false, and everyone is disguising their own stories. , Are hiding their human weaknesses.
This bladed chair, which is a bit like the Iron Throne in Game of Thrones, has appeared in the movie from beginning to end.
The sharp blade on this chair is the truest humanity of everyone in this manor.
2 When will the sharp blade be unsheathed?
After the family learned the final ownership of the old man’s inheritance, the ugly and embarrassed everything was shown. The humanity that had been hidden under the hypocrisy before began to gradually be exposed, and they began to attack each other, and "fight" with each other mercilessly. . The process of unsheathing the sharp blade is the process of revealing their true humanity one by one.
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Thinking deeper, why does the portrait of the old man holding a sharp blade appear repeatedly in the movie? And the first shot of the whole movie is a close-up of a coffee cup,
The words written on it are-my house, my rules, mycoffee
What the director wants to express here is that all the directions in this manor and the formulation of all rules are controlled by the father. This sharp blade is an incomparable shocking layout that the old man tightly controls in his hands. The old man knows the thoughts of several children and grandchildren. When the old man commits suicide, it is when the most deadly blade is unsheathed. , This humanity trial game has officially started.
3Why do I say that all this is the meticulous layout of the old man?
Let's start with the real cause of death of the old man.
Less than half of the movie, the director told us that the father committed suicide. On the surface, the reason for the father's suicide seems to be that the female carer can get the inheritance of the inheritance, so that she can evade the punishment of the patient who died due to "mistakes" at work.
But it is not the case. The movie does not explain the deep bond between the female nurse and the old man. The female nurse is just a female nurse who takes care of the elderly seriously. There is no plot in the movie to show that the old man and the female nurse have any An improper relationship, why would the old man commit suicide for the sake of the female carer, don’t you understand?
The reason is very simple. In fact, the father committed suicide not for the female nurse at all, but to achieve his last perfect work.
Many people may not know that the most perfect time for a writer to die is when he completes the most perfect work of his life.
Many Japanese writers commit suicide after writing their most satisfying works. They think this is the greatest poetry in their writing career.
Therefore, I think the old man’s suicide was a sacrifice with his own blood and life, giving this final story truth and magic. In order to write this final and most subtle story, he personally used his own death as the whole humanity trial game to start. Button.
4 Why did the old man choose to give his inheritance to the female carer?
At first, I was disappointed with my children and thanked the female nurse for taking care of him day and night.
The more important and more essential reason was because the old man discovered that the smartest person in the entire manor was not someone else, but the female nurse. Give her the inheritance and let her be the protagonist of this last game. This game will be the most interesting and the story will be the most exciting.
The eldest daughter is so stupid that she doesn't even know that her husband is cheating.
The eldest grandson is a rogue staring at the legacy, the younger grandson is the keyboard man, and the younger granddaughter and daughter-in-law are parasites. The eldest son wants to sell the adaptation rights of his own works to Netflix for money.
They were all seen by the wisest old man the flaws in human nature. Only the female nurse does not.
In other words, the female nurse is the one chosen by the old man.
We can confirm the fact that the maid is the smartest in the whole manor from one detail. Grandson Lansen, who plays Grandpa Go, can only win the Grandpa once, but the female nurse can easily win the Grandpa all the time.
If you watch the whole movie and think that the female nurse is a "good-natured girl", then you didn't understand the movie at all.
In fact, the female nurse is the smartest and most scheming blade in this entire manor.
Let us explain from the special setting of the female nurse-lying will vomit.
The first time a female caregiver lied was when the detective asked her father and eldest daughter’s husband if she had cheated. The female nurse said no, and immediately vomited. This is just that the female nurse is using this irrelevant information to tell the detective that she has the setting of lying and vomiting, and then can use this setting to hide the really critical information that she really wants to talk.
Therefore, the second time the female nurse lied was to selectively tell the police the truth about what happened, and to keep silent about the facts such as returning to the manor and climbing up the secret door. Let the police feel that everything she said is true.
The third time she lied revealed her cleverness and scheming. She turned around to answer the phone, hiding her emotions and expressions, lying to the maid’s death, and using the maid’s death to induce grandson Lan Sen tells the truth about framed himself.
In addition to her lying, there are many details to show that she is not innocent.
At the house of a female nurse, there was a scene where her sister was listening to a suspenseful murder and bloody radio drama. Her mother said that your sister had just experienced the murder in the manor where she was working. Why do you still listen to this kind of thing? Stimulate your sister?
At this time, the female nurse said with a very calm expression, it doesn't matter. This detail shows that the female carer is not the kind of innocent girl who doesn't understand anything in front of the police detective, and can easily collapse and cry. It's a very fragile little girl. Her inner qualities are actually very powerful.
Finally, the female nurse stood on the balcony proudly holding the old man's coffee cup and looking at the family. There is a font pattern on the coffee cup that marks my home, which is also announcing her final victory.
In addition to the part that shows the kindness of her human nature, the paragraph about the female paramedic saving the maid is also because she has seen through the true face of Lansen. If the maid is really dead, there will be no evidence of it. If she succeeds, the maid is the most important piece that she can take down the entire estate, her biggest opponent, Lansen. This piece is still useful and must not die now. So she wants to save the maid.
The female paramedic broke the surveillance video tape, messed up the footprints on the muddy ground, threw away the damaged railings, used other people to think she would not lie to lie, etc. The details all show that she is not a purely innocent person.
In the end, what did Lanson mean by the ridiculous prop knife that didn't stabbed the nursemaid?
This is the director's further explanation. The sharp and powerful blade (referring to Lanson) is sometimes not the deadliest blade. It is just a virtual toy, just a stupid fake handle.
The really powerful blade is quiet, it is the deepest hidden, it makes you not see that she is a sharp blade, and it makes you feel that she is a kind, harmless doughnut with humans and animals. This most powerful blade is not Lanson, but the female nurse.
As soon as the blade of the female caregiver came out, the whole family was wiped out.
But the most powerful blade in the whole story is the old man. Although he is dead, he is the author and manipulator of the story from the beginning to the end of the entire manor. Real human insight to write this wonderful story, to make the ultimate torture of their humanity.
The old man deliberately angered his grandson Lansen because he expected that he would act for the inheritance and open the whole story.
The father gave his daughter the letter that needs to be roasted to see, broke off the female internet celebrity son-in-law, the tuition funded by the granddaughter, and took back the younger son’s copyright company, all for the purpose of spying on their true human nature and exposing their true colors. layout.
Why does the police know that there is blood stains on the shoes of the carers or is it a legacy for the female carers to win?
Because he saw the ugliness of this family and the hypocrisy of this rich family.
People in the manor have been referring to the female carer as their family. But from beginning to end, they didn't even know where the female nurse was. In the words of the eldest daughter, younger son, granddaughter and other people, it appeared that the female carers were from Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador and other different places.
The old man's game of unscathing the blade is wonderful, allowing everyone to expose the deepest humanity hidden in the sun, and accept the most real torture in the sun.
I have always liked that sentence-there are two things in the world that cannot be looked at directly, one is the sun, and the other is the human heart.
So never try to test human nature lightly. Human nature is more complicated than you think. Once you test it, you will step into this abyss.
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