The director uses the demise of a family as an incision to attack and side-reflect the horror of religious fanaticism, which is just an excuse for personal cowardice. The director's two works look very unique and unified.
The director has put a lot of effort into the background of the story, character settings, and details of the scenery. The story is not set at the height of the witch hunt, but at the end of the movement, in the homes of rural peasants, where the remains of medieval religious control still exist, and the family moved to the wilderness due to conflicts with local sects. , but there is a sense of irony. The six character attribute settings of the seven characters in the story are very obvious. The father's superficial patriarchy controls the family, but he is very cowardly and easily shaken; the mother is more domineering than the father, and is the main force of prejudice and suspicion; the eldest son is repressed Because of their young age, the twins are the spreaders of seemingly innocent rumors; the eldest daughter has a beautiful body and is the purest setting. The setting of a family of six can be said to be a macro symbol and a summary of the medieval witch hunt. A lot of ingenuity is also used on the set, such as the many knots hanging on the wall, which allude to religion and witches.
The director's unique way of controlling the atmosphere is a great advantage. Although it is not as delicate as the (lighthouse) shot, the shot is still very steady. The slow-moving shot swept through the woods, and the slowly zoomed-in shot captured the back as a horror movie. In the film, the director almost abandoned all the sudden lens design, all the lenses are slow and heavy, but the result is to create a very strange and solemn sense of horror. Apart from the camera lens, the characters move slowly from time to time, and there are a lot of strong religious stalks that add to the atmosphere of the work. The appearance of black goats, hares, crows, and apples makes the film even more treacherous. The gray-and-white tones filter also gives the picture a Nordic style.
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