There is an old saying that books cannot be read unless they are borrowed. I have a very bad problem, that is, I like to watch new films as old ones, but good films have this characteristic, that is, no matter when I watch them, they are always the same. Good movie, "Fruit Hard Candy" is such a movie.
Since the book "Lolita", I have been very interested in the subtle psychological relationship between Uncle and Lolita. Is the uncle trying to use some external substances to control Lolita? Or does Loli seduce the uncle with her fresh body and seemingly pure eyes? "Fruit Hard Candy" tells us with a complete story, whether it is seduction or control, the most important psychological feature is that both of them are half-assisted. "Fruit Hard Candy" tells a story that Lolita doesn't want, or a story about Lolita taking advantage of her uncle's weakness to take revenge.
Ellen Page plays a 14-year-old girl named Hailey, who was killed by a pedophile because of her friend. She carefully planned a game of revenge, and invited the suspect photographer Jeff out and followed him. It goes home, and then begins a plan of revenge, the most important of which is to make him confess and castrate...
The first 15 minutes or so of the film uses an ambiguous shade of orange to show us a deceived man The story of a young girl, just when we were worried that this girl would be deceived, the film suddenly changed, the tone changed to a cold blue, the little girl who was supposed to be the victim turned into a strong avenger, She is calm and smart. During the period, there was a passage I liked very much, that is, Jeff tried to persuade Hailey with the rhetoric that the uncle used to seduce Loli, and Hailey told him very clearly, I am not the same as those girls. Yes, Hailey is different, she is not an ordinary girl at the mercy of Jeff, she is his reminder.
The film uses the change of the overall tone to express the change in the relationship between the two. The warm orange at the beginning, the cool blue in the middle, and the more normal tone in the second half all make us feel a very depressing tone, plus The film uses a lot of close-ups to show the psychological confrontation between the two very well, and the use of light is also very particular. (If I could seriously analyze this method of shooting, I could write a lot, but this review is not mainly about it, so I just took it with me.)
The controversy of the film lies in two points. First, Has the male lead been castrated? I don't think so. After he got up, he took out a clip, which means that the castration scenes just now were completely acting. Unfortunately, Jeff was very cowardly at the time (every man encounters this kind of Things should be very cowardly...)
Second, did Jeff jump off the building and die in the end? I don't think so, because the rope is not straightened at all, so Jeff can't be strangled to death, plus the building is not high, Jeff is likely to fall, and Loli said a word at the end, before she said she would deal with it All of this, but after Jeff jumped off she said "or not" which means she played Jeff again, so Jeff shouldn't be dead, he's going to take everything he's done and be ruined .
Recommended index: four stars
Suitable for the crowd: 18 years old and above
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