When bad luck is like a genetic defect, buried deep in the blood, even if you die, you can't get rid of it.
*This article contains spoilers for [Hereditary Doom], [Master Key], [Ghost Shadow], and "Sharp Weapon"
*Pictures may cause shock and discomfort
I'm also the one who's been intimidated.
[Midnight Bell], I was stunned after reading it—
It's over, I didn't watch it on a videotape. How can I break the curse by downloading resources?
[Ghost Shadow], the cause and effect of karma, the huge hatred and resentment of the female ghost, she has always been face to face with the male protagonist.
But in general, watching American horror movies, you will not lose me. Because of that pattern, I don't eat it.
In the dim light, the slow motion drifted faintly until I finally fell asleep—
Boom! Sound on! The ghost head flashed suddenly!
Very noisy.
In the past two days, an American horror film has carried out a magical attack on me, and I haven't slept well for two nights.
Its production cost is only about 10 million US dollars (about 68 million yuan), but the local box office has reached 44 million US dollars (about 460 million yuan), and the global box office is 79 million US dollars (about 540 million yuan).
The name alone hints at the ambitions of the film. Genetic doom. When bad luck is like a genetic defect, buried deep in the blood, even if you die, you can't get rid of it.
That kind of unexplainable supreme power makes people sweat.
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Greek tragedy, fate without choice
There is such a scene in the film.
In son Peter's class, the teacher asked, what was Achilles' weakness?
The girl in Peter's front row said it was arrogance, because all the signs were in front of him, but he turned a blind eye.
Just like mother Annie, she has all the puzzle pieces of the truth in her hands, but she doesn't know what the truth is.
As early as 20 minutes into the film, all the signs are in sight.
The father was mentally ill and starved himself to death - the mother dedicated herself to a cult, became the companion of the great demon, and offered her own backstage for generations. The first thing to remove is this stumbling block.
The brother committed suicide by schizophrenia, leaving a note accusing that it was the mother who stuffed a person (case) into his body - the mother wanted her son to be the host of the demon Paimon.
When Annie was pregnant with her son Peter, she refused to be close to her mother - the intuition of motherhood made Annie subconsciously aware that Peter would be the next host.
Anne put her daughter Charlie in the care of her mother, and the relationship between her mother and Charlie became almost "connected" - Anne compromised, and Charlie became the transitional host.
Annie was vaguely aware of what was wrong. "I think I'm doing something wrong," she said.
But when a mutual aid member asks: What do you think you are doing wrong?
She said, I don't know.
Annie turned a blind eye to all the signs.
Back in class, the teacher continued to ask, if Achilles had a choice, would his story be more or less tragic?
More, some say, because fate is still inevitable, and these characters are hopeless.
This is the scariest part of this horror movie. The characters of a family are all trapped in a given tragedy, and no matter whether they have a choice or not, it is impossible to break free.
The ghost recognizes you, even if you run upside down from the ceiling, you can't get rid of it.
The director said:
I wanted to make a serious meditative film about grief and trauma that started as a family tragedy and continued all the way until it gradually turned into a total nightmare where everything fell apart.
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The will of the devil, the rules of the game that do not exist
Mothers have a choice.
She found that the picture book was full of Peter's portraits, crossed out again.
She wanted to burn the album, but when the album ignited, she caught fire herself.
But for her son not to suffer, she would rather die than destroy this thing.
She couldn't do it, and asked her husband to help her burn it, but it didn't work. She desperately threw the booklet into the fire.
Her expression changed from shock to emptiness in a second.
Mother tried her best to think about the logic of this evil thing, she finally figured it out, and was ready to sacrifice.
But there is no logic at all. Whoever wants to die or who wants to live, there are no rules at all, it's just that the devil plays tricks on people depending on their mood.
Talk to ghosts and demons, what are you talking about?
In [Master Key], the heroine finally understands the logic of the voodoo ritual.
But when she cast the protective spell, she realized that it was the devil's trap.
You believe, the spell will work. If you believe in his evil, you will fall for his evil.
Human ingenuity, or little ingenuity, is really worthless under the powerful malice of the devil.
Someone asked, if Annie didn't fall for the trick and chanted Charlie's soul, would Paimon still take advantage of it?
The director smiled slyly: "This is just one of the ways Paimon achieves his goal."
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Miniatures, a life at the mercy
In fact, my mother should also understand this truth. Her occupation is intriguing: making miniatures.
At the beginning of the film, the camera is slowly pushed towards a doll's house. After being pushed to a close-up, the scale of the model is enlarged and becomes a real scene.
The dollhouse has always been a strange existence in the movies.
Susan Peet played a nesting doll house in the animated short [Asparagus].
In other words, there was once a dollhouse, and there was a man in the dollhouse, and people were tinkering with the dollhouse: there was a man in the dollhouse, and people were tinkering with the dollhouse...
And this means that everyone who thinks he is "manipulating" the fate of others is also being manipulated.
There is also a dollhouse in Sharp Objects.
The mother always dressed her sister as a doll, fed her medicine, made her sick, took care of her and manipulated her when she was weak.
The dollhouse itself represents a kind of manipulation.
People stand in front of the dollhouse, from the perspective of God.
But who knows if there is a god or a devil who stands before man and overlooks man's doom?
Charlie dies because Peter misses and breaks his head. And Annie actually made this scene into a miniature model.
"It's just a neutral view of an accident," she said.
At the moment, the perspective of God is cold, but her family tragedy, for Paimon or a demon from a higher perspective, may be just an "accident from a neutral perspective".
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Separated head, uncontrollable self
Aside from Charlie's bloody decapitation, the film is full of beheading imagery.
Faced with such a situation, I just want to say that the brain is a good thing. I hope everyone has it, but they all don't have it.
The mind is considered by humans to be the reason why they become higher creatures. The headless person, completely lost control over their own.
Although, even if Annie has a head and a choice, she cannot control her own destiny, and can only rely on a higher mysterious power to drag the entire family into the abyss.
That's the scariest thing about [Hereditary Doom].
Asian horror films emphasize the cycle of cause and effect, and retribution is unhappy. They are terrifyingly rewarded for good and evil, and a little obsession can cause irreversible consequences.
And the horror of [hereditary misfortune] is that even if there is no evil deed, the curse of the original family cannot be escaped. And this curse is imprinted in the hearts of most people.
The film repeatedly portrays the family's genetic history.
For example, many of them suffer from mental illness (although most of them are caused by demons), such as Charlie's nut allergy, which indirectly caused her death.
These defects do not have evil causes, but are destined to have no good results.
The irresistible fateful tragedy is shrouded in this horror film, which makes people unable to think deeply about their own destiny.
Toni Collette, who plays Annie, said:
"The most terrifying thing is that this woman suddenly awakened. All the unease she didn't know in her life suddenly had an answer. But what was waiting for her behind was still traps, despair and betrayal."
Just like Achilles, even if he knew his weakness, even if he found all the signs, how could he fight the oracle.
Your mother wants to sacrifice you to the devil, how can you break free?
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Text: Jiang not stop
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