Despite the great success of "Silent Hill", there are still voices of criticism. For example, some news believes that "Silent Hill" is a film with "bad reviews" but a high box office (how does it sound like evaluating some Chinese "blockbuster"?), and other film critics say "do not understand" " "Silent Hill" is more imaginative and quite imaginatively comparing "Silent Hill" with "Promise" and thinks it is the same thing. In fact, in today's cultural globalization and post-modern era, it is almost impossible for everyone to applaud movies, not to mention there are so many people with ulterior motives and people who blindly follow the trend. "Resident Evil" and "Tomb Raider" are just the movies themselves, I personally think they are not "bad movies". And the reason why they were heavily criticized is because they are seriously out of touch with the original game, and most of the critics of them are mainly gamers. The reason why "Silent Hill" is favored by players is that it truly restores the characteristics of the puzzle and the bloody, dirty, terrifying, and depressing atmosphere of the game of the same name. What's more, whether it is a movie or a game, "Silent Hill" is definitely not a simple "ghost domain" or "bloody aesthetics" born to render horror. It is a place full of profound humanistic connotations, including religion, morality, and philosophy. Various elements such as, sex and various techniques such as symbols, metaphors and hints. Therefore, for people who have not played the "Silent Hill" series of games (there are four "Silent Hill" games as of the time of filming, and the fifth one has now been released) or those who do not understand, "I don't understand "It's normal.
Since some people say, "A thousand viewers have a thousand Hamlet, so a thousand viewers have a thousand Silent Hill", now let us return to Silent Hill:
The world view of Silent Hill: "Ternary ", "Dualism" and "Dualism"
Anyone who has watched "Silent Hill" should feel that there is more than one space in the movie. Regarding the question of how many spaces there are in Silent Hill, there are generally three viewpoints: "dead theory", "dualism" and "tripartism". Audiences who hold the "death theory" (that is, think that Silent Hill is the "underworld", and those who enter Silent Hill have actually died in the opening car accident) may be "didn't understand" the movie or receive a subtitle of a line that has been mistranslated -"You are all dead" (actually should be "you are all cursed") misleading. "Ternary theory" is a widely supported viewpoint, and the article summarizes the three worlds of Silent Hill concisely and vividly with the words "yellow", "gray" and "black paint". But I think that although there are three worlds in Silent Hill, the term "trilogy" is inaccurate.
First of all, we can distinguish what the three worlds of Silent Hill are:
1. The real world: it is the real world, in this world Silent Hill is an abandoned town, the "Yellow Chengcheng" world, which is due to the movie Most of the real daylight uses a warm and sunny hue.
2. "The world of watch": the "grey" world, which is the world in which the heroine Rose (Rose) found herself in a car accident after waking up from a car accident, as if it was winter, but in fact the demonized Allais The world created by Alessa with the power of evil traps all those who "deserve their sins" in it.
3. "Inner World": the "dark" world, which is the world after the watch world has been transformed from time to time after the alarm has been sounded. It is a bloody, dirty scene with various monsters, which is actually Alesha's heart. The reflection of pain and depression is controlled by its evil power and hatred emotions. Both the outer world and the inner world are concepts borrowed from the "Silent Hill" game.
There seems to be no problem with the existence of three worlds. But after analysis, we will find that if we look at it from the perspective of "dimensional opposition", then there are only two opposing spaces. Before that, we need to look at a concept: dualism.
"Dualism" (Dualism) as a kind of thought in philosophy usually refers to the recognition of two fundamental, indivisible and mutually different elements, which conflict or complement each other, and are divided into the application of these two basic elements "Dualism in the epistemological sense" in cognitive activities and "Dualism in the metaphysical sense" used to explain all objective phenomena in a broad sense. "Dualism" itself is also the product of the self-negative development law of Western history and culture since modern times, and it denies Christian spiritualism in the Middle Ages.
The world of Silent Hill itself has a dualistic opposition between the outer world and the inner world. In this way, adding the real world to it, it seems that the "tripartite theory" is established. But the opposing external and external worlds cannot be opposed to the real world at the same time. Because the world of Silent Hill is either the surface world or the inner world, the two cannot coexist in mutual transformation, so either the real world and the outer world coexist and oppose each other, or the real world and the inner world coexist and oppose each other, and there is no reality. The world, the surface world, and the inner world exist at the same time and oppose each other. It needs to be explained that the church in the inner world is only inaccessible to monsters due to beliefs. It does not have the characteristics of the manifest world, so it is not the manifest world, but can only be counted as a special place in the world; and Allais The basement of Sha’s hospital is only a special place in the surface world. It is not considered the surface world just because there are monsters and black paint in the basement of the hospital, because there are monsters in the surface world, and the basement is naturally black without light; and The creation and formation of the outer and inner worlds in the game "Silent Hill" are different from those in the movie, and it cannot be used as a basis for explaining the movie "Silent Hill". Therefore, it can be concluded that there are indeed three worlds in Silent Hill, but from the perspective of "opposition", there is only duality. Therefore, the world view in "Silent Hill" is a "dualism" in which there are three worlds, or it can be considered that there are actually only two worlds: the real world and the changing world of Silent Hill. As a Western horror film with religious themes, "Silent Hill" has not broken away from the law of dualism.
In fact, this binary opposition in the film has been hinted at the beginning of the film. It is the shot of Rose's daughter Sharon who almost fell off the cliff during her sleepwalking, which constitutes the up and down opposition, the opposition between the water and the water. , The opposition between the real world and the imaginary world, the opposition between the good Sharen and the evil side of Alyssa, even the underwater world has the opposition of water and fire like the fire in the illusion. When the shot of Alyssa’s evil side falling from the cliff at high speed appeared, I admit that I was really shocked. Although it is said that the staying shot only lasted 0.7 seconds, the horrible smile was really shocking. It was really difficult. Imagine that the image of the cute Alyssa and this terrifying and evil Alyssa are the same little actor! I really have to admire her acting skills!
Three Alesa:
Regarding the role of the "little girl" in the film, some people may not be able to sort out the relationship between Alesa, Sharen and other characters. With reference to some accepted conclusions, we can clarify that there are three different forms of "Alais". Sha" exists.
1. Alyssa: The little girl who was burned more than 30 years ago was also the "ultimate monster" who was later slaughtered in the church. From her later figure, it can be known that she has been growing.
2. The evil side of Alyssa: the figure that caused Rose's car accident. Later, he has been guiding Rose to track, solve mysteries, disappear in the form of burning and merge with Rose in the basement of the hospital. The blue-purple school uniform that Sha wore that year appeared. She is the embodiment of the image of evil forces produced by the extreme fear and hatred in the hospital after Alessa was severely burned. She gave Alessa the power of a demon.
3. The good side of Alyssa: Rose’s daughter Sharen, born by Alyssa in the form of childbirth, and sent to the real-world monastery by Alyssa’s evil side, and later adopted by Rose (by This learned that Alyssa’s evil side has the ability to travel freely between the three worlds). Some people believe that Sharen is Alessa’s biological daughter based on the fact that Alessa was raped. This is simply a lack of basic life logic: at that time, Alessa could not be fertile. In addition, based on Sharen’s age Look, it is impossible for Alessa to be pregnant for twenty years and have a child again, and Sharen repeatedly sleepwalking to Silent Hill is called by a mysterious power to "combine" with Alessa's evil side.
The Humanistic Connotation in "Silent Hill"
A large part of the humanistic connotation of "Silent Hill" comes from the existence of religious elements. Just as Rose was frantically looking for Sharen in the opening movie and finally hugged Sharen with her husband, a lighted cross appeared in the background of the screen. Why didn't some other things come out over there? Like a Ferris wheel with lights on? A building with lights on? Because this was originally a hint, telling you the religious themes involved in the film. And there was a sign on the way to Silent Hill by Roti Sharen, and the camera stayed on it specially, and the content on it was, "Do you not know that we will judge angels? Do you not konw that the saints will judge the world? ( Don’t you know that we are going to judge the angels? Don’t you know that the believers are going to judge the world?)" These sentences are originally the content of the "Bible · First Book of Doringo". The original text is "Do you not know that the saints will judge the world?" And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! Are you not worthy to judge the smallest thing? Don’t you know that we are going to judge angels? Let alone things in this life?)” This is foreshadowing their prospect of going to Silent Hill and being “judged” by a group of self-religious paranoias. , But in the end it hints at the end of the entire film, that is, the devil’s trial of the believers. Those who think that they are righteous for evil will eventually be abandoned by God-don’t tell me that you didn’t notice that the shape of the brand is a book Book, don't tell me you saw the appearance of the book and didn't expect it to be the "Bible"! There is also a shot of Rose's text on the door frame when he was at Silent Hill School: "The foes of the righteous will be condemned. "This is the content of the "Bible · Psalms", the original text is: "Evil will slay the wicked; the foes of the righteous will be condemned (evil will kill the wicked; those who hate the righteous will be condemned)." "Needless to say, the fate of those who believe in God has been convicted and tried, and the audience has been informed once again in advance.
From the movie, we can know that Silent Hill is a small town that was abandoned in November 1974 due to a fire in an underground coal mine. So far, the underground boilers and mineral veins are still burning with raging fires, so the air in Silent Hill is deadly. Pollutants. This is not obvious in the real world. In the watch world, it appeared to be "snow" that seemed to be falling continuously, but Rose discovered that it was actually falling "soot". And how does the "Revelation of St. John" in the "Bible" describe "hell"? "It is a perpetual lake of fire. Its air comes from scourge coals, and its light comes from flashing flames. The night is dark, and the cursed people's places are rampant with vipers. Their hope is despair. Ah, the death of eternal life! No life! Life! Ah, endless pain!" Jesus’ description of hell in the "Bible · Gospel" also contains the words "fire is immortal".
The broken walls, rusty pipes and doors in the world, iron stairs, rotating fans, clanging metal crashes and smoke or steam from nowhere, it seems that there are only iron black and fiery red. The oppressive environment of the two colors is exactly the reproduction of the industrial age produced by large machines! These are all renderings of the film's artistic style in the later industrial era with a sad image of the end of the world in the declining industrial era.
For "Silent Hill", the artistic style of the post-industrial era is only its appearance, and the religious metaphors in the "Bible" are its essence. After the Ulsea was opened, what the believers in the church prayed to prevent was the "Judgment of the End" in the Bible, or the so-called "Apocalypse" in the movie.
The monsters in "Silent Hill" are also a highlight. Their appearance and characteristics are the manifestations of the severely burned Alyssa's fear, pain, hatred, and anger. Whether in movies or games, these monsters are not the product of "how ugly and how to design" just to cause horrible visual effects. Religious connotations and sexual cues are enough to make these monsters worshipped by Freud followers. !
The first horrible sight Rose saw after entering the inner world was an object on an iron bed. I didn’t see what it was, but it was a person who died miserably. That’s right. A restoration of the game scene. Rose later discovered that there was a believer (person still alive) in a "protective suit" hanging on the barbed wire wall. If I am not mistaken, he has broken a hand, and he is hanging there in the form of a cross (another religious suggestion). The next monsters that are still in a half-burning wreckage state can be seen from the perspective of their size and child-like hissing sound. In fact, they are the classmates who bullied Alessa at school back then. These children are being After the fire caused by the evil power that Alysha possessed was burned into coke, it existed in the inner world in the terrifying way of this monster.
The second monster to appear is called a "tight suit" by gamers, and is also the only monster that appears in the movie world. From the red blood that it spewed when it was shot dead by the policewoman Sybil with a gun, it can basically be inferred that it was a person trapped in his skin. It is said that when shooting this monster, a real person put on armless tights and then synthesized it with a computer. This monster is a portrayal of the painful psychology of the male protagonist in the game "Silent Hill 2" who has been restrained by his sick wife for many years. Moving here can also have a reasonable explanation. Because Alesha was also forced to be restrained when she was burned. In fact, here we can deny that “tights” also have a certain sexually suggestive meaning? It is a fact in the film that Alysha was raped, and the naked body of this armless monster is like a male genitalia that can walk back and forth. This monster is the image embodiment of the fear and pain mentality of Alyssa when she was raped. And the monster itself can eject a highly corrosive liquid. Can it be regarded as the fearful impression of the unfamiliar Alyssa towards men's semen? Later, this very sexually suggestive monster did spray these liquids, and it was sprayed at women. Don’t tell me you can’t see the meaning here...
The monster that crawled out of the toilet was the cleaner who raped Alesha after she was bullied by a classmate and hid in the toilet. The name Colin on the ID card was used twice in the movie to imply his relationship with the monster. This monster was tied with barbed wire in a twisted form, and it should be Alyssa's revenge with the mentality she had when she was raped. The monster's eyes blinded by barbed wire are Alyssa's punishment for seeing Colin when she raped her. Only the infusion bottle on the monster is strange, and it may also be a respect for the details of the game. When the monster crawls, there will be vine-like blood vessels and poisonous bubbles in the place where its arms are crawling. Its continuous "tongue" action is a sign of sexual suggestion, and according to its way of crawling with its legs raised high, Every time it crawls, the genitals will be severely rubbed, and it is Alisa's revenge for him to suffer such pain.
In the lens of Rose Yuli's world, there are many adult male corpses hanging upside down in cages. Why are all adult men? I can only explain that Alyssa herself is an illegitimate daughter, she had no father since she was a child, and Suyi rarely touched men. Later, she was raped by a man, which caused her to have a sense of distrust and hatred towards men. . Following the footage of Rose walking down the stairs, I found that one of the male corpses had no genitalia (was it cut off?). Perhaps this was the reason that Alysha retaliated against the man for the above reasons. It is also because this distrust and hatred is also the reason why Alyssa did not pull Rose's husband into the world of Silent Hill. As for those dead bodies, in fact, the answers are easy to find in the "Revelation of Peter" in the "Bible". The people who were punished in the hell described there were punished with different punishments for different reasons, but being "hanged up" or "hanged upside down" was a very common one. In fact, the inner world of Silent Hill is "hell"!
After that, the troubled Rose encountered a large group of scarabs or monsters called "face bugs". The three cultists who were too late to escape were eaten by the bugs. It seemed that they were wearing sturdy protective clothing. It’s not that great. At most, it should be able to withstand the venom sprayed by the “tights” monsters in the lower world. Regarding the origin of these bugs, some people think that Alesha was bitten by a beetle when she was seriously injured or felt like she was bitten by a beetle. It turns out that these are actually without any basis, at least there is no such plot in the movie. It seems a bit far-fetched to think that the bug is Alessa’s former classmate, and I don’t see how the beetle’s face looks like a human face. In fact, These insects are scarabs, which are considered to be the incarnation of the sun god Kohopah in ancient Egyptian mythology (of course, there is more than one sun god in ancient Egyptian mythology). The reason is that the ancient Egyptians thought that when they saw the sunlight reflected by these black beetles They are the incarnations of the sun god. Some people think that these insects are corpses rather than scarabs. In fact, this is not a contradiction, because the ancient Egyptians did pour the insects that were believed to protect the corpse from evil spirits into the coffin. Holy. Another meaning of beetles in ancient Egyptian mythology is "resurrection". In the movie, they represent the hatred produced when Alysha, who was almost dead after being burnt, "resurrected". Or you can try to figure out the religious metaphors of these insects. Jesus' description of hell in the "Bible·Gospel" mentioned that "worms are immortal" in hell (the scarab can resurrect with the transformation of the outer world in Silent Hill) And the "Revelation of Peter" in the "Bible" even wrote that those who persecute the righteous should "stand in the flames" and "be swallowed by the undead", while murderers and accomplices were "thrown into full of viciousness." In the narrow place of pests, they are tortured by those creatures, and they are constantly twisting in pain. Black cloud-like pests frequently attack them. The souls of the murdered people stand by, witnessing their enemies being punished and treating them. Said, Lord, your punishment is extremely fair." Does the above content remind people of the scene when the three believers were eaten by scarabs? Which of these people was not the murderer who wanted to burn Alessa to death, and which of them was not an accomplice of Ghristabella?
The next appearance is the "big iron head" monster with great visual impact. This symbol in the game "Silent Hill 2" represents the protagonist’s own violent tendencies and self-judgment of sins. It is said that its typical feature "triangular iron head" comes from the image of an executioner in a prison in the American Civil War in the history of Silent Hill. . In the movie, this monster that wanders through the world with a heavy pace and kills at sight is also really terrifying and shocking. The triangle on its head is the most stable structure in geometry, but it is a symbol of "very unstable", "violent" and "irritable" in psychology and aesthetics. Her strong and masculine body expresses Alessa’s desire for revenge. The reason why Alessa would be bullied, raped, and tortured by classmates and unable to resist is because she thought she was a weak girl. Such a powerful appearance is just in line with the conditions for Alyssa's revenge. Someone once regretted that the triangle-headed weapon in the movie was changed from the sexually suggestive spear to a broad knife, but I don’t think it is necessary, because according to Freud’s theory, it is not only a spear, but everything. Long, raised, erected, hard and piercing objects, especially the weapon itself, are very sexually suggestive. When Rose and the policewoman Cybil (Cybil) avoid the iron-headed monster behind the iron door of the hut, when the iron-headed monster "pierced" the two "female" irons with a very sexually suggestive knife When the big swords that had "entered" the irons were "stirred" back and forth, the "big swords", "huts", "iron gates", "hands" and "door latches" that the big iron heads reached in here were even put down. The few scarab beetles that came in brought the ambiguous color of Freud's sexual suggestion. Reminiscent of the big iron head in front of the church door because Anna once threw a stone at Alyssa’s biological mother and the stone tore Anna in half. You said that the iron-headed monster would tear it up if you want to tear it. Why do you want to strip off Anna's clothes and then tear them? When the big iron head picks up people’s clothes cleanly, there is almost a charm of rape. Is this Alyssa’s revenge for being raped? Freud is smiling again...
Looking at the big knife, it seems that the "Bible" is also going to have a share of the pie. In the "Revelation of St. John," it is written that in the doomsday judgment, the lamb (this refers to Jesus, can it be a metaphor for the weak Alysha in the movie?) reveals the seven seals and tilts out anger (this is consistent with the movie) , Released four people, the first was given a "crown" (Is it an iron triangle?), the second was given a broadsword... It seems that now, God is about to smile with Freud.
That group of nurse monsters was originally the product of the protagonist’s long-term repression in the game "Silent Hill 2" or the product of Alessa’s antipathy towards the hospital in "Silent Hill 1," which can only be explained in the movie as Alessa’s The evil forces killed everyone around them and turned them into monsters due to extreme anger. From the film, it can also be known that the fire in Silent Hill did burn some innocent people to death. The red-clothed nurse who had no eyes was curious and saw Alessa seriously injured and then Alessa had her eyes gouged out and she has been taking care of Alessa's life. The nurse monsters using sharp weapons to kill each other is not self-cannibalism, but the reaction of feeling people around but because of the lack of light (the film says that they only respond to light), and the movement of these nurse monsters when they walk is affected. Known as "Spasm Ballet", they are said to be played by showgirls and jazz dancers.
In the last slaughter of the church, which was slightly "ornate", on the floor of the church corroded by Rose (or the evil side of Alyssa), the real Alyssa was covered with dark red fire and steel equipment. Appeared underground. When she killed the leader of Kleis, it was obvious that the wire fence that first penetrated her body was inserted directly from under the skirt into her lower body, which was another obvious sexual suggestion. From the fact that Kleis’s blue-purple dress is the same color as the school uniform of Alyssa’s school, we can know that Kleis may be the teacher of that school. If you want to promote a religion, then it is completely possible to start from the child. Yes, not to mention that there are no church schools in the West. So in other words, the children think that Alysha is a witch, apart from the "parental indoctrination" mentioned in the film, it is very likely that there is an instigation and order from Mrs. Kress. Among them, Kress closed the door and pushed away a few curious students when she was talking to Alyssa's biological mother. From this, she learned that the place where they were talking was the school. Who else can summon the parents at the school besides the teacher? And it was precisely because the students were instigated by Kress to bully Alysha, she hid in the toilet and was raped, so it is completely known that Alyssa killed Kress in this way as revenge for her behavior that caused her to be raped. In the end, Alyssa split Kleis into two, just to let her know how Alyssa was painfully split into a kind body and an evil body after being tormented by fire. The church massacre is the embodiment of Judaism eschatology and Teutonic Christianity's concept of the Last Judgment Day. Perhaps walking into Silent Hill opened the "Bible".
In fact, many of the sexual cues in the film can be explained not only from Alyssa’s experience, but also from the words of the film director-"I like women and love to have sex with American bitches. I want to make a film everywhere. There is no man in the movies of sexy women. I don't want to deal with men-related things." It's just that these actresses have become the target of the directors' obscenity again and again.
A probe into the interpretation of miscellaneous items in "Silent Hill":
1. The real world and the surface world in Silent Hill, the real world and the inner world can be contacted in a certain way, here can be from Rose's phone call to her husband, and the policewoman sends it to When the headquarters called for help, the husband smelled Rose's perfume and learned.
2. Alyssa used a mysterious power to pull Rose and the policewoman into the world space of Silent Hill through the car accident caused by her own evil side. This can be proved from many related materials. It is very possible that the policewoman deliberately pulled into Silent Hill to protect Rose from completing the task. The reason why the female police followed the mother and daughter was that the female police went to Silent Hill to investigate a murder case in which a boy was stuffed into a coal mine ventilation duct, and then suspected the combination of adults and children who wanted to go to the abandoned town. I do not support the fact that there was a plastic female model next to Kleis who alluded to the policewoman. I think the reason for this idea is because the policewoman has short hair and the plastic person just has no hair, which makes it look similar. , And it's better to say that the plastic is alluding to Klaisi herself, a "puppet" who is controlled in Silent Hill without knowing it.
3. Pay attention to the name of the policewoman, Sybil. The English name is "Cybil", which seems to be an ordinary English name at first glance. However, in English, the word "witch", in addition to the commonly used "witch", there are two other words, namely "sybil" and "sibyl", which means witch, female fortune teller and female prophet. Have you discovered that the first word of these two words is only one initial difference from the name of the policewoman "Cybil" and their pronunciation is the same? And the second word "sibyl" just swapped the two letters "y" and "i" in the middle of the first word "sybil"? And its pronunciation is also consistent with "Cybil"? In other words, the name of the policewoman itself is a "witch" or a homophonic of "witch", which is another hint that the policewoman Cybil was burned to death (consistent with the way the witch was executed).
4. The appearance of real world conversion and watch world monsters will cause noise in electronic products such as radios, mobile phones, etc. This is a restoration of the game, and there is no scientific explanation.
5. The metaphor of the fan that often appears in the inner world: one is the ventilation equipment necessary for industrial production itself, it is also an element of post-industrial art style, and it is also the source of the repressive industrial operation sound of the inner world, and it is also the "meat grinder" to the inner world. "", and there are also religious views that the operation of hell is the cause of the "iron wheel" turning back and forth.
6. The alarm tool used by the believers to switch between the outside and the inside is the bird in the cage, which is also the tool used to monitor the carbon monoxide content in coal mines today.
7. The world of Silent Hill in the film is surrounded by cliffs, which is why people trapped in this space can't get out. Even if you can run out, the other places are also an extension of the watch world and will turn into the inner world, so it is better to stay in the church for refuge.
8. "DRUGS" (medication, also refers to drugs) under the title NATHAN Hotel is not supported, which is a hint of drug trafficking in the town. This is the plot in the game, which is not explained in the movie. This is at best a restoration of the game. If it is a hint, it can only imply that the believers in their religion are like taking drugs.
9. The male policeman who appeared in the film was the male policeman who rescued Alessa from the stake in Silent Hill. Because he was a good man, he was not trapped in the space of Silent Hill.
10. Why does a knife that Rose once got must be lost in the jump? I'm still thinking about this, but many people on the Internet think it's weird that there is no sound when the knife falls, and I think if there is anything soft on the ground below, no sound is normal.
11. The mailbox number where Rose got the painting was 111. Later, in the hotel, the room behind the painting (the room where Alesha was burned) was also 111, an obvious hint.
12. When the policewoman escorted Rose down the elevator, she had a fight with a few believers in protective clothing. She once beat a person to the head with blood directly through the protective clothing. Such a person could get up again and beat the policewoman. , I don’t think Schwarzenegger will work either! Resolute as a flaw!
13. It’s not clear how this should be explained: The film has been told that the fire caused by Alyssa's evil powers caused Silent Hill to be abandoned in 1974, and Rose came to Silent Hill in 2006, and there have been 32 years in between. But from the 32 years before and after the appearance of Kleis in the film, we can find that there is almost no change in her, that is to say, the people who may be trapped in Silent Hill have stopped, because the dilapidation of the world of Silent Hill can tell if it is not If there are years, this situation will not happen. And it’s impossible to think that Anna is a former classmate of Alyssa, because she is only in her twenties, absolutely not like someone in her thirties or her forties. Maybe she was not born in 1974. . And Alyssa can only pull the believers who have persecuted her into her space, so it seems correct that the believers have stopped growing since 1974, but it is strange that Alyssa was already an adult at the time of the final massacre. Now that she is in shape, it can be seen that she has been growing all the time. The question is that even if people don’t grow, the people in the film can still come to find food. In the environment like Silent Hill, any planting and food processing are impossible. We also see that Anna is looking for something in the past. Canned food leftover in Silent Hill. But please pay attention! What kind of canned food has a guaranteed shelf life of 32 years? How many cans in Silent Hill can sustain so many people for 32 years? And where does the water for the people in Silent Hill come from? The water plant must be in ruins. The film said that the river by the Silent Hill was also blocked by a cliff. It seems to be raining in the other world, but can the rain in the other world be drunk? Even if it can drink, can it serve so many people? Will the rain in the world disappear as the world transforms? If the people in Silent Hill were "postponed" rather than "stopped" to explain the age of the believers, how would the male police who rescued Alessa explain? Suppose he was only 20 years old in 1974, and 52 years old in 2006, but he was in his thirties at most in the film. How could his age be "postponed" if he is not in the world of Silent Hill?
14. Luo Ling drove Alessa home. Although out of Silent Hill, the world was still gray, and the bustling gas station on the way to Silent Hill was also empty. When returning home, the movie uses the repeated alternate appearance of Rose in the gray Silent Hill and the real world of Huang Chengcheng where her husband is to show that Rose is actually trapped in the surface world of Silent Hill forever. The reason is simple. At that time, Sharen was actually the person after Alyssa's evil side merged with Sharen by looking at each other, or that Sharen no longer exists. Didn't find that Sharen had an adult look after returning home, and as if she had never been to her own home, she had a sense of curiosity after entering the house? It is because Alyssa was abandoned by her biological mother to believers, and she felt the true maternal love from Rose, and wanted to trap Rose in the world of Silent Hill to enjoy her maternal love exclusively! The action of "Sharen" sucking her finger after getting in the car was using mysterious power. After she sucked her finger, the car that could not be started started. There is an article that the car “flying” out of the cliff. I don’t think it is. From the scene of the car passing the cliff, it is obvious that a bridge has appeared on the original cliff. As a result, the space showing the world was finally extended to Rose's home. I think that after the catastrophe, Rose actually knew that her daughter was not the original Sharen, and also knew that she would be trapped in the world of Silent Hill forever, otherwise, why would she go up and try to drive this car that had been driven before but What about the invalid car? Rose originally knew that there was nowhere to go around Silent Hill, so how could she dare to drive outside? The reason is that she knows that "Sharen" or Alyssa will not let her car fall into the cliff and will definitely let herself drive out of Silent Hill. The world is still grey and the gas station is empty. It is impossible for Rose to be unaware of it. Finally, after entering the house, she stared at the sofa. She felt the presence of her husband, but she also knew this kind of "two spaces". 'S existence is close to the horizon. In fact, all of this was arranged by Alessa. She sent her kind face Sharen to the sinister place of Silent Hill and was adopted by others. When she grew up to the age when she was tortured by fire, she was recruited back to Silent Hill to get revenge and complete the fit. Then enjoy maternal love exclusively.
The theme of Silent Hill:
1. Maternal love: Reflected in Rose facing such a difficult and perilous environment, she has never looked back for her daughter. Alyssa's biological mother is safe and sound no matter in the inner world or in the final judgment. The policewoman's phrase "In the eyes of a child, the mother is God" and Rose's quotation of it, and the policewoman also called her mother when she was burned to death, all reveal this.
2. Post-industrial era: Just like the industrial cities that declined in the post-industrial era in the United States and even other countries in the world, Silent Hill also symbolizes the end of an era.
3. Religious reflection: Alesha was not tolerated by the local "cult" organization because she was an illegitimate daughter. Similarly, in some areas of old China, women were drowned when they became pregnant when they were unmarried. The United States itself is a Protestant country, and there are countless "witches" burned to death by Catholicism in Europe in the Middle Ages. Countless innocent people were executed by fire in various names, becoming victims of religious fanaticism and ignorance. The most absurd thing is that in 1474, Basel City was burned to death because a rooster laid an egg (a fighter in a rooster?) was regarded as a "witch"! Before the founding of the United States itself, there were also various denominations from the European continent, leading to the various religious organizations in the United States today. In the chaotic state before the founding of the United States, all denominations considered each other to be "heresy", and as a result, more people were put on the torch because of "heresy" or "witch". Therefore, "Silent Hill" is not only a reflection of Christian Protestantism on Catholicism, but also a reflection of American Protestantism on itself, just like Alyssa's biological mother said: "Our faith is our gravedigger."
4. Thinking of good and evil : In the movie, the male police said that "the devil also has its own justice". If justice destroys evil by evil means, then is it justice or evil? What exactly are good and evil? Is there an absolute standard?
5. Atonement/Place of Judgment: This was originally the theme of the game "Silent Hill 2", and it is also applicable here. Silent Hill is actually the bottom line of morality in everyone's heart, and the final self-torture that everyone has to face. Those who have done bad things will be finally judged, and the way of atonement is to be judged. Just like the believers in the movie, those who excuse themselves for evil without knowing it, will be judged by the devil sooner or later!
Silent Hill is a horrible, depressing and charming place. I don’t know why I wrote "Take me back to Silent Hill" in the title of the article, as if I had been there before. Maybe there is something to people’s hearts. Mysterious charisma. Director Ang Lee once said when he won the Oscars that everyone has a Broken Arm Mountain in their hearts. If this is the case, then oh think that everyone also has a Silent Hill in their hearts. That is the self-judgment in everyone's heart, and it is the last thing everyone wants. Where to return...
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