Author: Rhubarb
1. Dramatic story
According to the linear narrative structure , the film tells a suspenseful, thrilling and highly dramatic story that happened within a year (November-December-October of the following year).
Lucas, a kindergarten teacher, came across Clara, the lost daughter of his friend Sio. Because of her kind nature, she took her home or kindergarten time and time again and made Clara, who lacked family care, relied on her. With admiration.
Lucas realized his wrong perception and declined the love-shaped trinkets given by Clara, and the sensitive little girl made up a malicious lie (child molestation) to retaliate against Lucas.
Having met a new girlfriend and a divorced wife also allowed his son to return to him, Lucas seemed to have started to improve, but Clara made her life happen because of intentional or unintentional, simple, naive, and fierce words. A huge tear.
From the beginning of conflicts and conflicts , the real "initiator" Clara began to exit, presenting an extremely real and cruel adult world.
The principal of the kindergarten further expanded the incident. With the fermentation of the incident, Lucas lost the trust of almost all his friends in just one month from November to December, and his girlfriend also had doubts about his behavior. The people on the table did not welcome him and rose to physical violence (dead dog, fisted by the supermarket clerk). The only supporters of Lucas are his son and his only friend.
This incident tended to reconcile after the conflict reached its climax. Lucas, who went to church on Christmas Eve, could no longer stand the priest’s prayer of forgiveness, the innocent singing of Clara’s children’s choir, and the constant whispering of former friends and wife. The friend fought and stared at him, making Theo see the truth, emptiness, and powerlessness.
At night, Theo wore a symbolic "Communion" to Lucas's house, and the two reached a reconciliation.
Towards the end of the film, at the coming-of-age ceremony of Lucas’ son--
After obtaining the hunting license and shotgun, everything about Lucas seemed to be back to the original: his girlfriend returned, his once indifferent friend came to say hello, and reached a settlement with Clara.
But when Lucas was hunting with his son, a very clear, unknown gunshot broke the silent jungle, and also broke the imagination between you and me, leaving behind an unexpected and reasonable opening. ending.
In addition, the establishment of this timeline also implies the fateful reincarnation of cause and effect.
2. The Fable of the Adult World
1. Lake: the world of adults
The beginning of the film is accompanied by rapid speech and cheerful music, showing us a bunch of middle-aged men playing childish games like children-see who dared to jump into the cold lake first.
As the night is approaching, with the help of the distant view lens, the dark blue cool tone, the image of the lake in the jungle is gradually concealed by the rising mist.
As the situation worsened, the image of the lake under the perspective lens gradually became clear. This all means that the lake is an ambiguous adult world. When there is no "special event" to break its balance, it is just a closed world for adults to rest on their feet, entertain themselves, and live a boring life day after day. The steaming mist concealed the alienation, suspicion and mistrust between people.
Until the operation of the "internal system" failed, the dense fog dissipated, snow fell in winter, and the cold reality was panoramic.
2. Hunting: the rules for adults
In the first half of the film, Lucas shot and killed a deer without hesitation while hunting in the forest.
At the end, when Lucas was hunting with his son, he saw a deer again, but this time he did not shoot. Lucas let go of the prey, never knowing that the harsh gunfire reminded him that he was the target of the hunt.
A son's coming-of-age ceremony, the pass of the adult world-the acquisition of shotguns, the real hunting has just begun.
3. Children: the adult’s trial
Compared with the philosophical issue of whether the nature is good or the nature is evil, the film uses children as a catalyst of reality.
Children’s weakness, innocence, kindness, sacredness and inviolability have always been regarded as objects to be protected. Clara’s naive but deeply malicious lies make everyone who has heard of them have long been determined by Lucas without trial. When Clara decides to withdraw her remarks, no one believes that Lucas is guilty anymore. People choose to believe only what they want to believe.
Extending from the child to the adult world, for Clara, being held a few steps can walk through those "black and white lattice floors", but for Lucas, every step is extremely difficult.
In this small town separated from the outside world, Winterberg tells a fable of the adult world. With the help of children who "the ignorant is innocent", we can see the weakness of human nature and the evil of human nature, as well as the hunting grounds. On, you may be besieged and suppressed at any time.
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