If it weren't for Isabelle Huppert and Chloe Moretz , I would have missed this rather interesting "Captivity in the Chamber of Secrets" suspense. When I knew that Aunt Yu, who had an excellent temperament, was going to evolve, I decided to enter the pit decisively. In addition, the abused object is "Super Killer Girl" Chloe Moretz, this combination of demon and tender immediately made me horny. The poster of "Widow's Secret" (Greta) has actually revealed the key information of "Wishers Take the Hook"!
Many fans also went to Huppert and Moretz.
Isabelle Huppert is a monster in the show business world. She is familiar with all kinds of roles. She is still very charming when she is over 60 years old. Even South Korean director Hong Sang-soo was overwhelmed by her charm and invited her to appear in several recent plays.
In 2016, her feminist abuse film "She" with Paul Verhoeven directly exploded the Internet, and Aunt Yu's charm beyond her age made her an immortal queen in the hearts of fans.
She has won numerous awards and has already won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice Film Festival. Her acting is relaxed, and every time she acts, she is full of topics. Chloe Moretz , who played against her in "The Widow's Secret", became famous at a young age and became popular overnight with her image of a super-killer girl in "Kick-a-Bian". At only 22 years old, she is going through the pain of transition. Many new films have a bad reputation. Last year's "Wrong Education" was a big hit. She is still trying to expand her acting career and get rid of the screen image of Super Killer.
This time, being able to play with the evildoer-level actor Yu Peier is not only an opportunity for improvement, but also a great challenge. The character design of "The Widow's Secret" is somewhat similar to that of "Carol", which is also an emotional entanglement between a middle-aged beautiful woman and a young woman, but "Carol" is more literary, and "The Widow's Secret" always hopes to Highlight the suspense and create a sense of horror that is biased towards commercial movies.
The film tells the story of a female college student Frances (played by Chloe Moretz) who accidentally found a seductive bag on the subway, which contained various information, name, photo and address of the lost person.
The kind-hearted Frances returns to her original owner and finds Greta (played by Huppert), a beautiful middle-aged woman with elegant temperament. The two talked very happily, and soon established a strong friendship, and even had some ambiguous feelings. This puzzled Frances' roommate Erica, and even felt jealous for a while.
"The Widow's Secret" adopts the suspense strategy of "bomb timing" , and the suspense bomb is exposed just after the first act of the film. Suspense films are usually handled in two ways. Invite the audience to enter the secret room, and after some foreshadowing, detonate the bomb unexpectedly; or, when the audience first enters the secret room, inform the audience that there is a bomb under their feet and the countdown has begun.
The two ways of handling each have their own advantages. "The Widow's Secret" chose to reveal the location of the bomb in advance, and began a tense "countdown". Frances excitedly went to Greta's house for dinner, but when she found that Greta's kitchen cabinet contained many bags she had picked up on the subway, and there were people's information on them, a sense of fear immediately disappeared She devours.
Although Enron left Greta's house, the nightmare had just begun. The mild-mannered Greta became paranoid and frantic, stalking Frances from the workplace to the door, even making verbal threats and outrageous behavior. Seeing that Frances continued to resist, Greta began to intensify, stalking and threatening her best friend Erica without speaking, and venting frantically at the place where she worked.
In order to get to know each other, Frances discovers Greta's disturbing past through a search. The middle part of the film is rather lengthy, and in order to set off the atmosphere, it consumes too much plot time. This is where the film loses points. But the tiger head and leopard tail of the film saved a lot of points for the film.
The end of the second act of the film and the dramatic third act counter-kill are quite bright. In particular, Frances' "Dream Within a Dream" bridge section changed the weak middle section, accelerated the sense of horror and suspense, and immediately raised the tension of the plot to the boiling point. After the "showdown" between Frances and Greta, Greta's unfeeling counterattack came back. Frances, who had returned home, thought that everything would be calm, but Greta, who had sneaked into the home, had already done a good job of "waiting for the rabbit".
Frances, who was drugged, found Greta's captivity and was locked in a coffin full of dolls. After a hoarse cry for help, Frances cut back to the moment when Frances had just returned home, as if nothing had happened. . Frances packed up again and was about to leave. The big stone in her heart just fell, but she encountered a creepy experience when she entered the elevator. The elevator kept falling, and even reached the unmarked ten floors...
This "dream within a dream" and "play within a play" is the climax of the whole film's horror, which is quite amazing, and directly advances the plot to the cruel and glamorous "secret room confinement" paragraph. There are many reversals throughout the third act. Frances and Greta are fighting back and forth at both ends of control and being controlled. The addition of detectives and mysterious characters adds variables to the fight between the two, which is the most dramatic in the whole film. bridge section. Leaving aside the suspenseful and glamorous stories, "The Widow's Secret" explains the symptoms of modern people suffering from loneliness .
Greta is a demon devoured by loneliness. She loses women again and again, and can be described as their company. Whether she is a daughter or a lover, she wants to be faithful and consistent. Once the other party repents or resists, she will be imprisoned and tortured mercilessly by her. Why did Frances take the bait? On the one hand, she is kind and soft-hearted. On the other hand, she also suffered the pain of losing her mother and was unable to get out of the emotional trough. The nostalgia for her mother's love was an important reason why she was immediately attracted to Greta.
They were actually a couple who needed each other, but Greta, who had impure motives , and the bag that served as bait created a gap and a gap between the two parties who could have comforted each other. To reduce the dimensionality of this theme, in fact, in ordinary male-female love relationships, the motives for the initial communication often seem to be unclear, and there is not much love at first sight. Active seduction like Greta is the mainstream.
However, impure motives often destroy a relationship, hide good motives, or both parties can "open one eye and close one eye" to continue lingering. The bags and hooks on the poster are a metaphor for the beginning of most relationships. "Jiang Taigong fishes, and those who wish to be hooked" will "pay the bill" for the future. You can only ask for more happiness, don't meet another "Greta"!
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