I didn't observe much about horror and suspense movies, but only listened to the unit knowledge explained by the teacher when taking the genre film course. However, based on what I have seen and what I have communicated with my classmates, horror and suspense films often work on some broken relationships between people. For example, trying to use supernatural phenomena to repair or prove the cracks in a relationship, or use these supernatural phenomena to persuade the world.
For example, the girl in "Annabelle: The Birth" who was disabled due to polio was gradually isolated because she couldn't play with her friends for a long time. It should be reminded often in the "Conjuring" series: once you are afraid, it is easy to be caught by evil spirits. The negative emotions in the little girl's heart are the power of evil spirits to invade. But to explain in another way, in fact, this also implies bullying incidents in society. The little girl's attack on others after being possessed by an evil spirit has the meaning of counterattack and revenge by the bullied. On the other hand, in the first "The Conjuring", it is about the mother's desire to protect her child. The evil spirit specially makes a woman who is a mother kill her own child to sacrifice to Satan, which is actually related to the family line that is often set in horror and suspense films.
The film tells the story of a single mother who was divorced due to domestic violence and moved to the suburbs to start a new life with her only son. The mother worked hard to make her child happy in a broken family, trying to educate him to be a child who grew up physically and mentally. Take him to the playground, persuade him to eat well, persuade him to make friends and integrate into the new environment, teach him not to kill creatures at will, and so on.
Christopher (the single mother's child) wondered why his parents divorced, and neither did his mother Sarah. The film does not directly explain, leaving Sarah and her ex-husband's right and wrong in an unknown state. And Christopher has a sense of admiration for his father, from his saying "father will kill it for me", questioning his mother, and seeing Christopher and his father playing an arm competition when Sarah signed the divorce agreement. The relationship between father and son is actually Not discordant.
However, it can still be seen in some details why Sarah chose to divorce her ex-husband, which further proves that Sarah's choice is an absolute ideal decision for herself and her son: the scar on Sarah's forehead is the scar of her ex-husband's violence, killing him for Christopher Scared creatures, Christopher often plays soldiers fighting games and uses violent foul language as character lines, he also likes to watch war movies, and his father's games should often be arm competitions, these may be like "manly training" routines, for children's It can also be unhealthy for homeschooling. (Although I have also watched action movies, war movies, boxing matches, etc. with my father since I was a child, this cannot be said to be an absolute causal relationship.)
Unable to get an explanation from his mother, Christopher rushed into a wood next to the house in a rage. Sarah chased, but found an eerily active, swampy opening. Then Christopher suddenly stepped forward to apologize to Sarah and walked out of the forest. Then Christopher became a child that Sarah felt very strange, even though he was almost obedient to her, Sarah still found it strange.
Through the actions of a neighborhood woman who had lost her child and was mentally ill, and her husband's revelations, she realized that she and the woman felt the same way about her child: this child is not mine. Then she broke into the hole in the middle of the woods that made her feel weird and Christopher started to be sweet and cute, and found her son inside.
Philosophical thinking: While examining whether a loved one is a relative, one is also examining whether one is oneself or not. This mirror image is revealed in a vigilant manner at many moments. At the beginning, Sarah and Christopher played happily together in the amusement park in front of the funny mirror, which was a foreshadowing of the role of the "mirror" in the whole play. Later, at Norin's funeral, he saw the many mirrors in his house. His husband said, "When I get older, I often look at myself in the mirror from all angles." (Similarly, this paragraph is a bit forgotten) But there are so many The mirror is not for Nolin's husband's personal interests, but for Nolin's purpose to check whether his husband is really her husband. Because the devil will show his true body in front of the mirror. As for Norin's husband's use of these mirrors as a way to see himself from various angles, it also represents his willingness to accept these mirrors.
Growing up in Chinese culture, I have an indescribable taboo about mirrors. Many folk supernatural stories are related to mirrors, and there are always some wonderful connections with mirrors in taboos and feng shui. Legends such as combing your hair in front of the mirror in the middle of the night or cutting an apple to see the other half of the future, all make people feel creepy.
However, if you think about it carefully, the fastest way for people to see themselves is in the mirror. Human intuition sometimes has an inexplicable reliability, and under the fastest mapping, the true face of the individual will flash quickly. How we look at and face the self or others in the mirror, these are life philosophies, even life philosophies. For example, in the cave in the forest, Christopher was caught by one of the demons, and Sarah wanted to smash the other's hand, and the other party changed into Sarah's appearance. That's interesting, why doesn't it become another Christopher? Why not become anyone who treats her well in her life, like her boss lady, so maybe she will hesitate to act.
This is the most important scene in the film, the role of the "mirror". Sarah decisively smashed the demon who had become her own and escaped successfully. This can also be explained as Sarah's cognition of the ontology of life, of my own identity and of Christopher's ontology. When she was talking to the proprietress about whether she felt that her child had become unfamiliar, she talked about "essence". When she found out that Christopher was not Christopher, when she saw that the devil had become her own, her choices and actions were all insisting on the "essence" of herself and Christopher.
From philosophy to life, there is actually a problem. My sister and I discussed it after watching the movie. It's only when you've been questioning it that you're going to run away. Perhaps Sarah always thought that this was because her son suddenly became sensible, and maybe he could spend his life peacefully.
But my sister said, the essence is different.
This extends to the issue of family education. If one day, your child becomes a child who can't pick out any faults at all, who is not picky about food, lose his temper, and is not rebellious, how does it feel? Papi-chan has filmed videos where parents become very obedient to their children's rebellious behavior, etc., and the children feel very uncomfortable. Conversely, for parents, it can be very strange.
The demon incarnated as Christopher performed perfectly, but its essence is not Sarah's son after all, and it is uncertain what effect it will have on Sarah in the future. If a child's behavior is mutated, if it is only an apparent behavior, how he thinks in his heart and temperament is actually very important. This film thus has another layer of practical significance, which is to advise parents to pay attention to the reasons behind their children's behavior.
Record an interesting conversation with my sister-
Me: If Sarah doesn't expose that it's not her son, I think maybe she could have a perfectly well-behaved child out of it. It didn't hurt her at all until she exposed it.
Sister: Yes. But it always made some strange noises to attract his mother to see.
Me: roar.
Sister: But it also makes sense. Many parents are like this, and they are always curious about what their children are doing in their own rooms. This might also be an insinuation.
One more note: Personally, I like the story of the "Legend" as the theme of the adaptation. This film has some inspirational settings based on the content of the Irish folk song "Rattlin Bog" sung. The name of the song means an "active swamp". ". The lyrics sing about that rare tree in that hole, and that hole is in that swamp. The swamp in the woods, the root of all evil in the movie, obviously has such a description. In addition, the characteristic of this ballad is that the stanza is faster than the stanza, and Sarah turns into a slow song when she listens to Christopher, who is the devil incarnate, which is an abnormal phenomenon. when making absolute judgments.
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