As the saying goes, men and women match, work is not tired. Imagine that if the background of the characters is a man and a woman, no matter how helpless they are in the face of adversity, such a collapse towards despair will not occur. Because in the closed environment (system), the destructive energy of male power and sexual desire is very amazing.
Some people say that this is a horror movie. I didn't see much horror. The character setting did not deviate from the human nature, and the alien spirit situation was simply brought over. The only bizarre problem is the treatment of women, the female characters in the film are twisted, ugly, or non-human. For example, the mermaid on the beach, the real mermaid is quite ugly, or it is a completely different creature. This can be said to be quite realistic, but it's not quite scary. So this film deliberately removes all female and female ways of thinking, and purely discusses the collision of male power and male thinking in extreme circumstances.
Old men represent the foundation of patriarchy: power, control, experience, and wisdom. He yells at young people, even humiliating them at will. Young people can only obey in the face of power. Even if he is physically stronger than the old man, he does not dare to challenge authority at will, just like the role in slavery.
Beacon represents desire and sexual power. There are no women here, and the only sexual activity for men is masturbation. The powerful man masturbating in the lighthouse, on the commanding heights, masturbating in the light, is a kind of satisfaction that little men can't experience. The little man was masturbating in the dark and damp broken wooden house. He was suffocated, blamed, humiliated by the old man, and even cursed with sexual fantasies. So he was full of yearning for the lighthouse, and he did not hesitate to try his best to find out.
But there are also glorious moments of patriarchy: talk about life happily, face adversity without fear, be optimistic and open-minded, and see death as home.
There is also a vague content about the relationship between patriarchy and religion. The old man's philosophy of ruling over others is not traditional religious dogma. It was a combination of the legend of the mermaid, the vicious incantation of the sea god, etc., a set of things that controlled people's spirits, which fooled the young people for a while. But he said that seabirds are the souls of sailors, which seems to come true. Therefore, regarding religion, there is no praise or criticism here, it is just a true reflection of what human beings should be.
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