There are a lot of metaphors in it

"It's Behind" isn't scary. Before watching it, I knew that "it" in "It's Behind" is an image metaphor of AIDS, which is transmitted through sexual intercourse, but I don't know that the film is set in the 1960s when AIDS first appeared. In the opening, a long shot of young girls running in panic explains the scene and atmosphere: the sky is gloomy, the suburban American houses are scattered along the roadside, the empty lawn, the lush trees, and the faintly depressing electronic soundtrack. And the girl faced the camera and paused for a long time, showing a special sense of camera language. The opening segment consists of two freeze-frame pictures, which are the upper right overhead mid shot and the side panorama of the weird death girl with her right leg broken. I was impressed by the scene where the heroine was dragged by Hugh tied to a wheelchair.
The real protagonist appeared in the swimming pool, and then turned indoors. According to the news on the TV related to nuclear energy, and the 1954 movie "Outer Space Cowboy", according to the interior of the old brown sofa and table lamp, the clothes of the actors were distinguished. that era. There are various images of water in the film, the swimming pool when the heroine first appeared on the scene, the swimming pool that appeared when she relaxed slightly after having sex with another man, and finally tried to hunt down the swimming pool and blood that appeared in "it". The beach where the first dead girl ran, the beach where the heroine and a group of friends went, where "it" was confirmed, showing the power to hurt people. "It" seeps the water under its body. Including the heroine dating the "host" who goes by the pseudonym Hugh, Hugh was like a ghost at the theater and it was raining when she hurriedly left the venue. They had their own concerns in the car, and the neon lights outside the window were blurred and flashed by the rain.
What does the image of water represent? What's the point of the excerpts from Dostoevsky's The Idiot that keep appearing? I like "Idiot", especially the part about the prisoner facing hanging and about to die. The film seems to use a few related sentences. Poetry is also quoted, which makes the film present a literary and philosophical atmosphere. Maybe the movie is really about love. Paul's secret love line is the main line of emotion. They were childhood sweethearts, and the heroine gradually grew into a "popular". He was ordinary and did not dare to express it. When the heroine is tragic, she waits silently and firmly, waiting for the heroine's choice. After the heroine's first attempt failed, he tried to get rid of "it", and finally had a relationship with the heroine, and the two walked hand in hand. Is it safe and appropriate to imply such feelings?
I watch very few horror and thriller movies, and the scary ones are just the same: monsters, monsters, perverted monsters, and people themselves. The shots of "It's Behind" are in place to restore the panic atmosphere and emotions caused by AIDS at that time.

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