Human memory is sometimes very strange. The more you try to remember something, the more chaotic your mind becomes. Instead, it will reappear in your mind unexpectedly at some inadvertent moment. While watching the movie, I tried to review my memory when I was 12 years old to see if I, like the little boy Oscar in the movie, was bullied by my classmates, and whether I was alone holding a brick or a dagger and was secretly ruthless. Unfortunately, I can't remember anything, only vaguely remember a few playmates and the scene of the cat hiding under the moon. Well, let me trust my memories for the time being. My youth was spent in ordinary life like most children.
In the film, the actor Oscar is not so lucky, maybe all the different children have their stubborn side. When Oscar does not succumb to the threat of King Child, it also means that he is separated from his classmates and has been alone since then. Oscar, who was feeling lonely at school, also could not get warmth and comfort at home. The divorce of his parents made this house in the world of ice and snow even more desolate. Maybe he could only feel a trace of it in the gap between brushing his teeth with his mother in the morning. The tenderness of a mother's love.
It was a relief to be able to spend two days with my father every weekend. During the day, in a silver-clad world, skiing and frolic; at night, sitting by the fire, playing chess and chatting with my father. These two happy hours are like Oscar's red woolen coat, infusing a touch of tenderness and bright light into his dull, monotonous life. Unfortunately, the good times didn't last long. The intrusion of a male friend of his father shattered Oscar's last hope for happiness. At the same time, his father's sexual orientation also left a hazy impression on his unformed gender concept, and played a key role in his later interactions with Ellie.
Classmates, mother, and father have all turned their backs on him one after another (in Oscar's mind, this kind of spiritual estrangement is a kind of betrayal), and at this time, Ellie, who is also lonely, appears. It turned out that she lived next door to him, a new little girl who moved in that night, with a withdrawn personality like Oscar. A Rubik's cube opened the door of their friendship, and they gradually approached each other's hearts from initial conflict and temptation. Here, the Rubik's Cube is a metaphor, implying the beginning of their interesting but spooky life.
As the relationship deepened, Oscar got an unprecedented warmth from Ellie, Ellie encouraged him to resist, so that he regained his dignity in the face of his classmates. At the same time, he also discovered Ellie's specialness. When the truth surfaced little by little, Oscar was shocked, but still accepted the fact that Ellie was a vampire.
The film does not have too much dialogue and skills, and most of the shots are always calmly wandering between pure white and blood red, just as Ellie wrote to Oscar, "Go and live, stay or die." Choosing to live as pale as snow, or to live as real and alive as blood, is the choice faced by Oscar.
When everything in the world is free from greed, only love can save a desperate heart, even if it comes from hell. Oscar's ending is nothing more than that of the phlebotomist, getting old in time, while Ellie is forever 12 years old. In the original book, the blood collector was unable to extricate himself from the pain of pedophilia. When he wanted to commit suicide, it was Ellie who saved him. This was not mentioned in the film, but in any case, he would rather sacrifice himself to Ellie. The love is touching.
When Oscar knew that Ellie was a vampire and was castrated, he still chose to give up and follow without reservation, gave up all entanglements with human beings, and followed true love. The train moved forward with two lonely but no longer lonely souls. When Oscar's fingers were on the big box containing Ellie, and he gently knocked on the password to kiss you, my heart was full of mixed feelings.
The director cut off the hope and love from human beings, which can be said to be decisive and thorough, and even the most beautiful and harmonious sex that has always been hailed by human beings, he did not tolerate it. On the contrary, he gave understanding and sympathy to Ellie's forced killing in order to survive and the unconditional sacrifice of the blood collector.
The film ended, fine snow floated on the dark screen again, and the world returned to its original silence. The beginning and the end, the same picture, alludes to a cycle of life. For Oscar, this may be the best ending. Maybe life is like what Eileen Chang said in the article, "The most lovely time in life is to let go of it?".
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