I just wanted to say, I can't be your friend.
This is the first sentence Ellie and Oscar said when they first met. The entire Stockholm is icy and snowy, and the picture presents the inherent sense of cleanliness in northern Europe. Oscar has pure white skin that is almost transparent, and a thin body like a little boy. He asked softly, do you think I want to be your friend?
Then the two lonely souls slowly walked into each other's lives. They pass the Rubik's Cube to bring all the whites together. He asked, have you ever received a birthday present? After getting a negative answer, he ran into a store and bought candy, not knowing that vampires can't eat anything but blood. However, in order to please him, she reluctantly ate one, and then in the corner of the street, she couldn't help but vomit.
Ellie is sometimes as innocent as a little girl, but at the same time, she is as mature as an adult in an instant. Maybe it's because she has a 200-year-old heart. She lives with the old man named her father. The first thing the old man did when he moved to the new residence was to collect blood for her. For vampires, blood is the only food in life that can fill one's stomach. After the failure of the first murder and blood collection, we heard Ellie shout angrily: Do you want me to do it myself?
The old man was silent. Under her invisible persecution, he finally started a second hunt. Before leaving, he said, can you grant me a request? Can I not see him tonight? At this point, we should no longer simply think that he is just a father. Perhaps in this girl's long journey of hundreds of years, she captured one accomplice after another with her youthful face of eternal 12 years old. prostrate under her and be her willing slave to death.
But the old man's second attempt still failed. So he took out the sulfuric acid he carried with him to disfigure his face, in order to ensure the safety of the girl. What a great and cruel feeling is this?
Between her and her subjects, until death, there is no equal love to speak of.
Scream, scream like a pig!
It was the revolt that Oscar had been imagining deep in his heart. He lived with his mother and was ridiculed and violent by his classmates at school. Oscar kept enduring, dodging. But when I was alone, I practiced confrontation alone. He even collected a lot of news about violent murders. This child also has a potential violent factor in his body.
Maybe everyone is like this, do you also enjoy the thrill of violence when you are sadistic to creatures weaker than you? Some people reveal this nature easily, while others control themselves and bury it in their hearts. Ellie commits violence in order to survive, Oscar commits violence in order to resist, and how much different is this fundamentally different from those classmates who are violent for pleasure? When you saw the end of the film, the perpetrators killed by Ellie, who originally bullied Oscar but were rushed to arrive in time, did you feel very happy? Everyone has their own dark side.
And Oscar's father, this kind-hearted man, brought some warmth to the film. Father and son get along happily. But between the two of them playing chess, another man came, so the father opened a drink to drink with him. This metaphor about his sexuality also alludes to Oscar's relationship with Ellie.
Ellie asked Oscar again and again: If I wasn't a girl, would you still like me? In the second half of the film, we see flashes of Ellie's castrated body. So their relationship is not just as simple as boys and girls falling in love. This kind of love, which roughly straddles the narrow scope of love, begins with a feeling of loneliness in a similar situation. Because of loneliness, I want to be together, like each other, and depend on each other. I am not alone. You won't have any unclean associations when naked Ellie slips into Oscar's quilt, replaced by a sense of peace of mind. The reassurance of two hands clasped together.
Doctor, can you open the blinds?
The middle-aged woman who was bitten by Ellie and became a vampire, left the table sadly because of her husband's cold words to her. Unexpectedly, this disaster happened. In the early days of her infection, she began to show various vampire characteristics. Easily burned by the sun, bloodthirsty, and attacked by cats because of the unclean smell. She has become no longer herself. All the experiences she experienced, when the 12-year-old little girl Ellie became a vampire, she also experienced the same, right? How can creatures easily violate their own nature? Just as man cannot fight against fate. So the woman chose to end her life in the sun, while Ellie survived by relying on her survival instinct.
Did she do it wrong? No one has the right to judge. We only know that the moment Oscar opened his heart to him, she finally felt the joy of being a human being and the warmth of interdependence with others. But how long will this warmth last?
On the departing train, they communicated with each other in Morse code. And can you guarantee that what happened to the old man won't happen to Oscar? Everything will be reincarnated eventually, maybe we can only believe in the tenderness of this moment.
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