Watching this film, there are two points to mention. One is that it is not the key to not understand, but the key is to understand the aesthetic meaning. The little boy, the little boy's thing, the shot was unobtrusive, ambiguous and beautiful. At some point, I even saw the shadow of "Interview with the Vampire". The actor is indeed beautiful, emotional processing is happy but not obscene, not wild and romantic enough to fight for three hundred rounds of realm. In the standard blockbusters, big breasts show up too much, although I have been a standard pervert for a long time, and I feel tired. After watching the film for two hours after Chen Zhong's whole body infusion, I can sometimes also have some beautiful urges to eat human flesh.
The second is, don't understand this film in the general framework of a horror film. During the two hours of watching the film, I once again experienced a great sorrow in the world.
Based on this premise, the whole film can be simply understood as the history of the formation of a deformed personality. This is also the essence of the whole film. People watching the film can feel sadly that this formation process is almost irreversible. We can feel sad but have to accept his occurrence. The definition of black lies in the many insurmountable obstacles in the world. Because of its insurmountability, it becomes black. As far as the drama of dealing with the inner transformation of the characters from ordinary people to extraordinary people, I think it is more sophisticated and credible than "The Shining".
There is a prerequisite to understand the whole film. I think we must first accept a prerequisite, that is, the vampire in the film is just a symbol, from the beginning to the end is a mixed product of the repressive memory impulse to violence in the boy's heart.
It is much simpler and easier for us to understand characters on this premise.
Little boy: First of all, I have to point out that the actor of the little boy is an extraordinarily beautiful little boy. The aesthetics implies that he represents the pure and beautiful heart of human beings. The physical characteristics of boys are all hints of psychological characteristics: young-vulnerable and easily injured. Quiet-introverted, it is easy to cause inner closure and split personality. Loneliness-the lack of basic communication with parents, school, and others deepens the formation of personal divisions.
Many of the horror effects in the film are almost under the guise, serving the heart, and because they want to fool the audience, they do not neatly check the inside of the characters.
Vampire: Represents the sexual awakening and violent consciousness of a young boy. From the perspective of the process of contact between the young boy and the vampire, it almost becomes the process of the boy's sexual awakening. The blood on the vampire has a hint of a girl's menstruation. When the blood in the film enters the body of the little boy (kissing with the bloody mouth of the female vampire), the little boy has completed sexual maturity, and his suppressed sexual desire (violent desire) is fully formed. Provide a basis for subsequent release.
The completeness of the deformed personality and the struggle process, the first hand bullying, the bully's performance is almost a hint of the boy's inner violent desire escalation. The first words, the painful and struggling violence afterwards, and the violent mood tends to be relieved and calm.
Almost all characters in the film except the little boy and the vampire can become the inducement of violent impulse. One, being neglected (teacher, parents, classmates-staying alone in class), two, being deceived, and three being bullied, these are also the main incentives. Of course, the fuse is being betrayed, framed, and bullied by a friend (symbol) you trust.
Of course, men and women who have a quirk of psychological analysis can also start from his complex of floating in the swimming pool, bloody mouth, knife, wearing mother's clothes, etc. to satisfy lust. The vampire has almost become an urgent imagination he desires to communicate with others, and all the violence carried out by the little boy in the film is related to the vampire. From the side, it shows the distortion of the boy's desire to communicate with others, so the whole process of watching the film is a process full of helplessness.
The tragedy of the whole film is that the vampire has almost become an indispensable character. She has almost become a ray of light in the life of a boy. Even when the old man wants to harm him, the viewers feel a kind of immoral tension in their hearts. The sorrow of the whole film is also here.
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