Most of the clips took place in the dark, and the dark tones took up 75% of the film for more than an hour, which gave people a very depressing feeling. And the mysterious stories interspersed in the dark night are even more heart-pounding.
Mysterious male protagonist: He has a lucrative job and looks handsome, but he is experiencing an emotional crisis. He and his wife are in the process of getting a divorce. It is his wife who has filed for divorce and obviously his wife does not know. Why do you want to get a divorce? At the moment before the divorce, he wanted to go back and regret it. The helpless male protagonist let his wife's tossing, and inexplicably fell in love with peeping at a strange girl in the emotional tangle, but the purpose or satisfaction of peeping was not I just like the girl "working in the kitchen, listening to music, cooking, nothing else", and after getting to know the girl, I can't wait to abandon her, it's a mystery. What's even more worrying is that the male protagonist sleeps with his eyes half-open, glowing in the dark...
Around the male protagonist, we are familiar with his divorced wife, which is even more of a mystery. When he appeared on the scene, he went to the law firm to get divorced with the hero. When he sat down with her husband, she didn't want to leave. She asked her husband, "Do you still like her?" Even like when she was in love, I called him at 3 o'clock in the middle of the night, and after signing the agreement, I teased that my ex-husband would come and date him... She looks more like a naughty little girl who is not satisfied by love, but this little girl will be divorced after the divorce. He meticulously directed a psychological murder case, forced his love rival to death, and even made his husband lose his job, put his life on the verge of death several times, and was in a state of mental breakdown...
Then there's the "lover" of the hero who appears as the heroine of the film—let's put it this way—although whether the hero loves her or not—it's another fierce girl. Alone in a suburban house in the dark, there is a strange man peeping at her work in the dark opposite, and the gloomy wind drives by. This kind of scene setting has a disturbing fear. What's even more fierce is that this woman, after discovering the man who peeped at her, invited the man into her home with only a little hesitation, and then abandoned her original boyfriend and fell in love with the man... Perhaps from this point of view, she is exactly the same as the man's ex-wife: she doesn't know why she abandoned her original other half. After getting to know the male protagonist, he is more active than the male protagonist who peeped at her, sticking to him like a chewed gum, taking the initiative to ask him to climb the mountain, asking to stay at his house, and finally taking the initiative to climb the man's bed... , and finally committed suicide for an uncertain murder case. As she said, her fate was already arranged after she met the hero, and she knew what she wanted to do. This kind of absurd fatalism is not only tragic in its own sense, but also an invisible god of death, pulling the heroine to hell little by little in the development of the depressing plot.
Finally, the heroine's boyfriend. A poor man with a similar fate as the hero was inexplicably dumped by his girlfriend. It's just that he is different from the melancholy male protagonist. He is a direct-tempered and irritable person, so there is a scene where a stone is thrown in when his girlfriend and the male lead are secretly talking in the kitchen. Apparently this is a muscular and simple-minded guy who will do anything to get his girlfriend. At the mercy of a strange woman (the wife of his rival), he performs a lame death trick and fantasizes about assassinating the man as his dead man. The protagonist, once again has a girlfriend. After he forced his girlfriend to death and everything was exposed, he became mad, and finally accidentally injured the man's ex-wife in the fight with the male protagonist, which ended abruptly.
fear:
There are so many uncertainties in life. Others are hell, Sartre said. Everyone you interact with can be a reason to disappear from the world. At the beginning of the movie, when the man in black looked at the woman working in the empty room in the dark, most people were sweating for the woman, thinking that the man would kill the woman. The "murder case" that appeared after a fight between the male protagonist and the woman's boyfriend by the river aroused everyone to think about who the real murderer was, plain and blurry. The male protagonist sleeps with his eyes half closed, and the lifeless white light in the dark night is like a zombie, and he has to take a breath. The rest are like the shadows reflected on the screen, the bullets shot through the glass in the dark night, and the cry of a lonely owl... all of them show the power of fear.
Weak:
Owls represent death both in China and in the West. Perhaps the car that drove quietly by in the dark at the beginning was doomed to the tragic nature of the story. The two known murders are the female No. 1 and the female No. 2 in the play. It seems unexpected, but it makes sense when you think about it calmly. Shakespeare said that women's names are weak, and there are jokes that crying is a woman's greatest weapon. In this film, however, this weapon is directly crossed, and the fact of suicide and blood is used to dismember the definition of "weak".
Perverts:
Who are Perverts? Is it the male protagonist who likes to peep at other people's sleeping half-closed eyes? Is it the heroine who fell in love with this man and died for it out of nowhere? Is it the ex-wife who still fantasizes about repetition and does not hesitate to direct this tragedy even though she divorced the male protagonist? Or the stubborn boyfriend who suddenly appeared in the dark night to fight with the hero? Everyone is. The impetuous material life conceals too much inner fragility. The color of the night cannot penetrate the refraction of the retina, so the darkness becomes a natural umbrella. When we are grinning and glaring at others in the darkness, maybe the light is bright. Suddenly, we are smiling. (Or to be more simple, as a netizen said, many times when he typed "Haha", his heart was not actually "Haha", but "Go next door to your Mahler")
Death:
There are four deaths in the movie. Except for the first unknown identity, the rest are the heroine, the hero's kind neighbor, and the hero's ex-wife. They died of suicide, homicide and manslaughter, regardless of which one. This kind of death, the state is very scared with eyes open. Baidu searched, and the normal death of a person is to slowly close the eyes, while the death with the eyes open is due to sudden death, and there are important things that have not been completed before death. It was obvious that the neighbor's death was a sudden death, killed unsuspectingly by a maddened Avenger. The death of his ex-wife belongs to the latter category, and she still wants to get back with her husband. The heroine's death is incomprehensible, and the death of suicide, but opened his eyes to see the snow in the sky, and there are two lines of dark red blood flowing from the hand veins in the snow. If it is fate, she should know that her and the hero will end up "without a happy ending". In this way, her death with eyes open seems to be understood as a sudden death under fear. Opposite to death is the male protagonist's sleep with half-open eyes, the light from half-open eyes is bullying and emotionless, a color more terrifying than death. Men's indifference mentality, impetuous heart, and indeterminate thoughts are the reflection in the sunlight of the color of death.
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