Everything will grow old, everything will die, all terror will be bloody, and all desire will be naked.
Some critics have mentioned the sexual innuendo in the content of the film, and I feel the same way.
Confinement, male violence, uniforms, religious overtones, masks, rituals—these elements are somehow erotic.
What's more obvious is the character design, let's not talk about the nurse, just talk about the triangular head.
The triangular head is a very famous monster setting in the Silent Hill series. The upper body is a symbol of male power. The iron triangle head represents violence, unease, detention, and punishment. .
It provokes a hidden uproar in the audience, as opposed to pure horror. Instead of disgust and resistance, there is an inexplicable desire and expectation.
Horror and sexuality, violence and pornography, iron and blood, condensed into a figurative image from symbols, so there is provocation in terror, moaning mixed in exclamation, not to mention religion.
This hodgepodge of symbols, this carnival of meanings, ends up being as psychedelic as a witch's secret medicine, and immortalized in hallucinations, or, instantly, dead.
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