The movie itself doesn't have much new ideas, it's nothing more than a counterattack after being bullied by outsiders, betrayed by friends, and not understood by family members. And the story is not complete in my opinion.
Its incompleteness is that, first, it did not explain why the girl Maria became introverted and repressed, and how the classmates started to bully. The story directly gave us the setting of a bullied girl.
Two, and this girl is another manifestation of this incompleteness. She is not like Carrie White in the Witch Carrie, rustic and unpopular, her mother's perverted education and lack of common sense. Then the conflict that caused Maria to be so resentful that the boy who bullied her was injured, her best friend and her father were killed is not so obvious. (Of course, the transformation of a person in reality is indeed due to the accumulation of many small things that cause huge tragedies, but the movie should come from life and be higher than life, otherwise the story will be really dull.)
So the story of the whole drama is not brilliant and the plot is flat. The only thing that can hold up the whole movie is the heroine - 93 American little girl India Eisley's beauty, the nudity of the female body and the attack on perfection.
In fact, after watching the whole drama, I really think that the reason for the girl's change should be the father's double standard for perfection.
The perfection of a father is really morbid. For his newborn child, it is said that the newborn child is ugly, but this father directly threw one of the twins into the snow and let it be born on its own. self-destruction. This is the beginning of the whole tragedy.
Until Maria was 18 years old, my father's perfect requirements were mentioned in all aspects. For example, if there is no reason for you to appear in front of everyone in spirit, and your spirit is not good, it must be because you have not slept. Another example is that I am your father, so I understand why you don't have a ponytail, because the difference between the right ear and the left ear is 2 mm...
The father's perfect performance is private and double standard. He thinks he wants perfection. He thinks his daughter's troubles are what he imagines. He thinks he can handle his wife's worries about his daughter. Everything is what he thinks.
And what he asks of himself is not so perfect. Be the one who cheated on the marriage, have a weekly date with my daughter, take my daughter to an adult movie...
And this almost perverted behavior created the deformities of her two daughters, one was deformed in appearance and the other was deformed in heart.
When they were born, the father chose the one with the perfect appearance, but he did not think that the excessive pursuit of perfect appearance would cause the deformity of his daughter's heart. For example, the father and daughter made an appointment to go on a date every Thursday. The daughter's best friend commented that your Brennan family was strange, and the girl and her father were very afraid of their classmates seeing them when they were in the theater. Is this the cause? The classmates think the girl is very strange. What is an important reason for bullying her?
And in the girl's 18th birthday gift, the contradiction is intensified. The girl thought that her father cared about her, but she did not expect that on such an important day, what her father would give her was the perfect appearance that her father thought was very important.
After the incident, the girl changed, and she began to accept what the deformed sister Alan said...
Tragedy begins with the choice of a perfect appearance at birth, turns into an adult view of perfection at the age of 18, and ends with the death of a father who demands perfection.
With the death of her father who chose the perfect Maria, Maria no longer responds to Alan, who eventually returns to her mother, who has always felt guilty for her.
The story ends. Perfect ending, let's continue to live in this imperfect world.
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