Horror movies have always been in an awkward situation. Due to various reasons, the production costs of this type of film are generally low, the quality of the work is severely uneven, and the content is mostly strange. So in many contexts, it is all Things that can’t be entered in the Daya Hall, except for a few heavyweight masterpieces such as "The Shining" and "The Devil's Infant", horror movies are mostly in a marginal situation. At present, there are some horror movies in theaters at home and abroad. Most of them are shoddy, almost irrelevant to style.
Horror films have been a bit unreliable recently. In recent years, apart from Wen Ziren’s horror films that are viewable, it is difficult to find satisfactory works. "Behind" is an unsatisfactory work for me, but the "Witch" that I finished watching Starry Night last night really gave me a big surprise. It is a very stylish horror film and an artistic one. The horror film I pursued, it showed me that there is still hope in the artistic wasteland of horror film. It is a rare masterpiece.
The story of "The Witch" is very traditional and simple, but the creators have worked hard on the background, character settings, setting details, narrative style and other aspects. The story of "The Witch" is very convincing. The background of the story is set in the American continent in the 17th century. This era is still at the end of the medieval witch hunt. About 300 years ago, thousands of women were persecuted as witches by the Holy See and the people. Burned alive. In the film, there was a religious conflict between the puritan immigrant family in England and the sects of the colonial authorities. A family of seven was forced to leave the colonial village where they originally lived, and came to the edge of the forest away from the crowd to cultivate farms. Although the era set by the story has gone out After the darkness of the Middle Ages, among the rural farmers, the remains of medieval religious control still exist. The religious atmosphere in the family is still extremely strong. Although a family of seven people is far away from the village, they are still piously bathed in God’s Zebu. They tried to cultivate and survive on the New World, but Satan walked out of their hearts.
The setting of the characters, the six character attributes of the seven characters in the story are very obvious. The role of the father is the most complicated. He seems to control the family with patriarchal power to not torn apart, but there is still cowardice hidden in his bones and easily shaken. The role of mother is the main force of prejudice and suspicion; the eldest son has just entered puberty, and his desire for sex has just begun to sprout, and he has begun to desire his sister; the eldest daughter is the purest existence in the film, but in the age In the age of patriarchy, she is the most helpless target of religious persecution. It is her original sin to have the graceful body of a girl. This led to death and depravity, and women’s narcissism and volatility made them natural allies of Satan), the devastation of women by the medieval witch-hunting movement is essentially the evil persecution of disadvantaged women by the patriarchal religion.
The other is the twins in the film. Although they are children, in the setting, they are like microphones and spreaders of "innocent" rumors. Finally, they are the unbaptized babies in the film. They are the starting point of the story and have not been baptized. He carries a natural flaw in his religious beliefs. These six character attributes each carry their own religious labels and seem to be a pious family, but their respective human weaknesses eventually caused the family to collapse in an instant. The wild forest is a taboo in the film. It can be regarded as the fear brought by the unknown. The black goat, red-eyed rabbit, and crow are all traditional and classic incarnations of Satan. When these suggestive metaphors of Satan repeatedly appear in the details of the lens , The internal contradictions of the family began to subtly project into the fear of external symbolic symbols.
Satan lives in the forest and also lives in the hearts of the family. This low-cost horror story is not shackled by the standard small-cost horror films of "plasma", "surprise" and "weird power", but cleverly set this highly religious connotation to accurately integrate Incorporated into the core of society and family ethics, the film has a unique depth of thinking. In addition, the film’s skill in setting and costume details and realistic consideration of the depth of the background make the story stand up to repeated chewing, and the director’s calm, concise narrative and precise grasp of the atmosphere have brought the story to the story. The chilling poetry brings this seemingly indestructible and devout Christian family step by step into a bottomless abyss. This simple story implies a critique of religious patriarchy in the Middle Ages and a precise analysis of family ethics. Various symbolic elements are familiar with each other. It looks calm, but it is full of artistic ambitions.
"The Witch" is a great horror film with a very stylish style, a horror masterpiece that breaks away from the low-level interest, and a horror film that has been elegant. The last scene of the film is very interesting. The naked witches are in the air. They are very graphic, reminiscent of the painting "Witch in the Air" by Francisco de Goya at the end of the eighteenth century. It also reminds me of the end of the dark age of religion inexplicably. Afterwards, the immortal poem in "Faust" by the feminist Goethe: Eternal women, lead us up.
Although this sentence sounds like a black joke after watching this film.
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