The plot is simple and smooth, but it is really very delicate and gentle, and can be watched as a family-friendly human film. And I believe that people from single-parent families feel more deeply.
The only terrifying element in this film, I think there is only one, is the selfishness of the ghost girl stealing her mother. Selfishness can already do terrible things, and ghosts are selfish...
First of all, let's talk about the details and imagery.
First of all, about the schoolbag, this schoolbag appears in various places and is seen obviously not an illusion, because the director did not arrange a scene to show that this is an illusion, the best explanation is that the director has materialized the ghost, and the ghost girl has been moving the schoolbag , be sure to distinguish. The heroine used to suffer from mental illness, but because the entire plot did not integrate the heroine's mental illness and horror elements, and no illusions were produced, the horror elements were not sublimated. Just because of excessive tension and fear, how can a normal person not be afraid after encountering a ghost that actually exists.
Secondly, as mentioned above, the reason why the schoolbag can move is the materialization of ghosts. In fact, I think that since the girl in yellow is set to be a dead ghost, it should not be regarded as a physical existence, which means that people who cannot contact reality , I also think this is the biggest flaw of the film. However, the girl in yellow in the movie has contact with the real mother, and based on this, if the movie can treat "water" as an illusion rather than a reality, and the little girl has always been an illusion and will not come into contact with reality, then the whole I think the horror atmosphere of the movie will improve a lot. But none of these things have been done. I think that the setting of the horror elements being materialized rather than virtual is enough to make the movie greatly reduce the horror score.
Furthermore, the character of my mother made me a little anxious. I am not complaining about this mother. I am a victim of my parents' divorce. Not only did I not learn the lesson, but I wanted to make my daughter suffer like this again. The mother was great, but she was extremely vulnerable and insecure. After feeling that there is a ghost at home, he gave up moving because moving out may not have the advantage of fighting for custody. This is actually a manifestation of fragility and irrationality, knowing that he is not strong enough and unable to give the child a safe psychological guarantee. Considering that the child needs to grow up really healthy, then I feel that no matter whether or not you can fight for custody, you must choose to leave this place of right and wrong decisively. Even if there is a possibility that you will not be able to fight for custody, this can make yourself not strong enough. Being able to let go of the pressure can also ensure that the girl can grow up healthy (but there is another way of saying that the girl's father is too scumbag, so scumbag that making Shumei so firm that giving custody to the child's father is equivalent to destroying the child, The ending line also shows that the girl doesn't want to live with her father. If she understands that, then I don't need to consider this point in what I wrote, but the question is again, why should a father who is so scumbag try to raise him? Right?) Back to the topic before the parentheses - so at this point, I think the image of this mother's great maternal love is actually narrow and unintelligent. The truly great maternal love is to let the child grow up healthily at all costs, including sacrificing your own absolute companionship and knowing how to let go. (In reality, the greatness of a mother’s love lies in considering the child’s economic situation and healthy growth, and choosing not to divorce and endure being with someone you don’t like, but then this story will be lost…)
But the biggest highlight of the movie is the ending, which is really touching. The mother knew that she would be killed by the ghost, but she was not defeated by fear at this time, and she still rationally told Yu Zi not to come over, because she was afraid that the ghost child would hurt her, and she did not want the child to know that she was going to be killed by the ghost. And she also knows the heart of the little girl in yellow very well. She just wanted to find an adult to accompany her, because her parents had left her, so Shumei hugged the little girl in yellow...
Until the end, the mother also turned into a ghost after her death. As long as her child was not harmed, even a mother who let herself die and became a ghost child would not want her own daughter to be threatened with life. And apparently Yu Zi still doesn't know that her mother is dead ten years later (observed through the lines), which proves that the handling of the funeral is in place. The news is estimated to be blocked by the police and not let Yu Zi know. But at this time, after Yu Zi looked back twice, she found that her mother was gone too. Maybe she would recall what she experienced when she was a child at this time. She may understand at this moment that her mother is dead, but her mother has been guarding Yu Zi for 10 years. Around... At this moment, some girls may already want to cry, but for me, as a boy, although the family is not divorced, it is in the situation in the movie, and I did live with my mother when I was a child. After visiting the haunted house, the feeling this movie brings to me is not touching, but more terrifying...
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