Fear is an external manifestation. This manifestation is caused by another external stimulus, such as ghost movies like Midnight Ring, and even the category of corpses playing in the realm has risen to the level of intimidation. The subject of nausea, people's reaction is only fear rather than fear.
Fear is something inherently based on the original meaning of the human heart and soul. It does not require external stimulation. It occupies your thinking more firmly than anything. --Fear is an innate emotion of human beings, a state of existence. ----Heidegger.
In general, there are four forms of fear: the first is the psychological reaction of potential criminality caused by the infringement of childhood prohibition; the second is the fear of incest; the third is the fear of vendetta; the fourth is Alzama Si fear-fear of death.
For "Small Island", the fear of this movie comes from the third type.
Vendetta fully expresses the dark and cruel nature of human beings, and strengthens the aesthetic pleasure of fear. Moreover, it is not enough to mere vendetta. Only the vendetta triggered by blood relatives is the most fearful force (Aris Dudd).
There are several forms of vendetta among relatives: one is because they want revenge, knowing that the other party is a relative and intentionally murdered; the other is the attempted murder of a relative; the third is manslaughter, the most famous being King Oedipus, or Xiao Feng killing Azhu The fourth is that when the murder was justified, he found out that the other party was a relative and gave up.
Grace kills her own child is the first form-revenge. The vengeance caused by the long wait, the hatred of her husband is concentrated on the children, Grace chose to blind her child to death with a pillow. Pay attention to the murder weapon of the pillow. A pillow is not a knife. It takes quite a while to kill a person with a pillow. But a knife is an instant weapon. A mental disorder causes the death of the opponent. It can be said to be a manslaughter, but the pillow is obviously not.
But as the revenge is over, a strong sense of fear follows. This fear is based on knowing that the other party is a relative and intentionally murdered. Especially for a mother, this sense of fear is mixed with a very great sense of guilt. , So the two made Grace’s inner "inhibition effect". Not only did she suppress her recollection of the incident---the murder was a factual murder in Grace’s eyes, which was just a nightmare (the beginning of the movie), but also At the same time, the child’s recollection of the incident is suppressed (the child hesitatingly said, in fact, Grace did not know what it was, but she instinctively prevented it. Isn’t it weird when we watch it? In fact, this is a coincidence Her restraint mentality). Inhibition usually has a counter-effect. For example, Danny, who was suppressed from dreaming in "Mu Holland Avenue", became the kind of person she wanted to be in her dream. This inhibition also caused Grace to become what she wanted to be in the movie. The kind of person-a good wife and mother.
But the revelation of the final ending destroyed not only Grace’s imagination of being a good wife and mother, but also the protective mechanism of psychological suppression, making Grace truly in the center of the whirlpool of fear and guilt, just like Oedipus. Wang knew that he had killed his father and had intermarried with his mother. It was like the Zhou family's relationship was exposed in a thunderstorm. Their common feature was that the fear of being covered up came unhindered.
The English name of this movie is actually very good. Translated literally, can it be called "other"?
References "On the Form of "Fear" and Its Tragic Significance" Zhou Yi
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