It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most surprising horror movie I have seen in recent years. It is well conceived, rich in details, reasonable in rhythm, qualified in performance, full of scenes and shots, and has a profound theme.
The director of this film has the previous work "Hereditary Doom", which has been hailed as "a horror film destined to go down in history". This "Midsummer Nightmare" is also no less, and the director has perfectly maintained his unique personal style. I have no intention of writing a gorgeous video label introduction and psychological analysis like the roller coaster experience. Many friends have already written such wonderful film reviews. I want to write some random thoughts to entertain myself.
Friends who know a thing or two about the tarot may know that in the tarot, there is an indescribable card, which is the inversion of the tenth card of the Holy Grail deck.
Among the 4 decks of the Tarot, the one with the most good meaning and the most gentle and humane is the Holy Grail deck; and the tenth deck, which symbolizes the most mature and complete story, presents a fragrance of birds and flowers. Warm and beautiful picture, a veritable happy ending.
Just looking at this picture, have you seen some scenes from the movie? The endless meadows, the blue sky, the small houses, the cheerful children, and the two adults in the center of the picture, supporting each other, sing songs praising the gifts of nature with uniform movements.
When the card is drawn, this bright picture can hardly hide a shadow, and most people will be relieved, because it indicates a bright and complete answer. The reversed card, on the other hand, represents the dark side. The most common explanation for the reversed Ten of Grails is the hidden worries in harmony, the strange atmosphere, the hidden dangers of inherent relationships. And fear, and real, deadly danger.
After the film enters the middle, the director also throws a lot of disturbing omens along the way. The protracted and broken relationship between the male and female protagonists is a major premise, or the weird tremor and music when the camera floats out of the window on the plane. There are also bizarre folk customs that seem to be close to the three views, which directly bring high-energy horror. You don't know if something bigger is going to happen.
There is a classic scene in the film that when the car drives into the harga, the perspective of the road is flipped 180 degrees, as if the tarot cards have been turned upside down. A world that rises upside down for you to see is particularly terrifying.
In the film, we can see that many harga young people have gone to a civilized society to experience life and interpersonal relationships for a long time. It can be said that they have a lot of opportunities to "open their eyes", but this has not shaken their original of faith and purpose. This is very ironic, it seems that the director expressed the pain point of all urban civilized people: our society is not impeccable, on the contrary, it has such a big problem that in the face of the group values of an ancient small village, it was hit hard smash.
This also paved the way for the heroine's final transformation - when we live well in reality, we often lack empathy or even find it difficult to find the unfortunate part of society. We can see that the heroine has always clearly controlled her emotions, just to not let herself become an alien in the eyes of the people around you - imagine if you yourself are the unfortunate one?
The end gave us the answer, and the heroine completely threw herself into the ideal society set in the film to gain a new life. In front of the raging flames and collapsed buildings, and in the madness and even carnival shouting of the people around me, I felt the shocking healing that the heroine felt. At the end of this healing, it is even more shocking, which will make you feel for a long time. Still horrified to think about it.
Is this so-called ideal society really the destination of human beings? It is undeniably ridiculous.
There is no supernatural element in the film, and the gods do not exist at all. Their reverence for nature is sometimes laughable. In the film, before the final sacrifice session, the priest feeds the sap "collected from the yew tree" to the two harga who volunteered to sacrifice, claiming that it can "eliminate pain and eliminate fear". But then we saw the ulf on fire and screaming in pain from ingmar's point of view, the yew tree didn't help much.
Often the solution to a reversed card requires going back to the previous card. And what this Holy Grail Nine tells us is that before we can build a society without problems, we must first learn to build ourselves without problems.
Small and broken, we must learn to save ourselves.
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