When you look at yourself in the mirror, what is deep inside you looking forward to?
This is a thriller that reflects domestic violence and school bullying.
Many people complain that the heroine is too beautiful to play Maria, that it is unscientific for such a beautiful woman to be bullied, her father needs eye surgery, the school bully boy has low EQ, Ailan's identity, vulgar meat sales, etc. The film was even evaluated as a brainless blackened revenge film.
After I watched it for the first time because of the heroine's beauty, I also had these questions. But when I read it for the second time, the third and fourth time, I found the answers to these questions.
First, what is the emotional intelligence of school bully men?
The film lieutenant colonel Mark hugged his female companion to watch a movie and met the heroine's father. After meeting the heroine's father, his generous and decent greetings made his doubts about his low emotional intelligence clear. Mark didn't like the heroine, but was bullying on campus.
The movie "for my father" was shown at the end, which also proved my idea that the director may have lacked fatherly love since he was a child, and even suffered domestic violence and even school bullying.
The date between the father and the daughter was actually watching an adult movie, which surprised me and thought it was the director's foreshadowing, secretly looking forward to the German orthopaedic plot (I admit that I am a pervert).
Second, why did the father give his daughter plastic surgery? Why is Maria unpopular at school?
Maria broke down in tears when she learned that her birthday present was not a car but a cosmetic surgery her father had customized for her morbid aesthetic.
Many people here have complained at the beginning of the article, and my father has a problem with his eyes. I watched it repeatedly and saw the details after I learned that Alan was buried in the snow by his cold-blooded father because of a deformed child.
Maria and Alan are identical twins (one person plays two horns, of course I interpret it as identical), Alan is a deformed child, so even if Maria is not deformed, there is a high probability of some minor flaws. It's even possible that Maria herself is just an ordinary or even ugly girl. So how do you explain your beauty when you grow up?
The answer is the father, the source of all the tragedies in this film, the father who demanded perfection for his daughter but cheated on himself. As a plastic surgeon, in his eyes, his daughter's body and appearance are not perfect. Will he wait until her daughter is 18 years old before doing anything?
Of course not, my father has always just regarded Maria as his unfinished work, which can be modified arbitrarily without a trace of family affection.
My father had plastic surgery on Maria before, and more than once she had the beauty she is today.
The so-called Thursday date may also be the father's preparation for the plastic surgery plan, but the appearance of the lover and the embarrassment of encountering the school bully boy used the excuse of accepting birthday gifts in advance.
This is the answer, my father's eyes are fine, because his morbid aesthetic thinks that Maria is not perfect, so he needs plastic surgery. Maria was bullied because her beauty was acquired through plastic surgery, and the whole school knew it.
In the eyes of those students, Maria was an ugly deformity, but she continued to cover up her defects through plastic surgery, smiling on the surface but discriminating in her heart.
These white people discriminate against female protagonists who have undergone plastic surgery, just as some white people discriminate against people of color in reality.
Recalling that there were always some fat or overweight classmates who were humiliated and bullied when they were studying, it is not difficult to imagine the situation of the heroine. Even if it was an aristocratic school whose students were almost exclusively the children of elite whites.
Therefore, on the day of the dance, Maria was dragged and humiliated by the school bully, and everyone in the audience except the male protagonist laughed wildly, and it was explained.
Another humiliated Maria almost collapsed and turned to the last hope - Ailan for help, and finally turned black. When the humiliation suffered by the honest people is full, and the only trace of kindness is completely annihilated, the revenge they make will be very crazy.
Father cheated for so long, mother will not notice? It was only for the sake of the integrity of the family to swallow it up.
That's why when Ailan and her mother had a dinner together and said without any scruples about her father's cheating, her mother slapped her angrily. The efforts made in these years for her daughter to have a healthy growth environment have been torn apart by her own hands. The pain of the mother can be imagined.
Ailan's expressionless face when she was at home with the male protagonist showed that she had no love for the male protagonist, but only for Maria's love or for her own revenge.
What Ailan did to her mother and the male protagonist were just unscrupulous means to accomplish the goal.
Later in the class, when the teacher talked about Dante's "Divine Comedy", "These perfidious souls lack love and human warmth", the camera just cut to the heroine, and the director's intention is self-evident.
Cain is mentioned later, which also seems to imply something.
Cain's wife is his sister, implying that the father and the heroine will incest (after watching the movie, they were slapped in the face, so what does it mean for the father and daughter to watch adult movies, director).
Cain killed his younger brother, implying that the heroine would kill her father.
Third, what is Alan's identity (ghost, fantasy, second personality), the director has never given an obvious answer, maybe it's not important in the director's eyes.
Ailan strips naked in his father's clinic, asks his father to look at his body in the most primitive state (newborn), and repeatedly asks a question that is destined to be unsatisfactory: "If I were a deformed child, would you still love me? me?"
(Maria couldn't know that Alan was a deformed child from a single B-ultrasound photo, so Alan was really the ghost of Maria's twin sisters. But no one else knew Alan's existence in the film, and there was no supernatural phenomenon, and Alan also Maybe it's just Maria's own imagination. The director deliberately made both arguments plausible, leaving room for the audience's imagination.)
Yes, what Alan (Maria) cares about most is the lack of fatherly love, not revenge.
The director here is not simply selling meat. As I said before, the father will not have feelings for the body that is about to be operated, even the daughter's body.
So the father didn't think anything wrong. He was only angry at his daughter's indiscreet naked body, just like he was angry at his daughter's frivolous behavior in the restaurant. I am angry that my works do not meet my requirements, and I do not feel that this is a flesh and blood relative.
Facing the initiator of all these tragedies, after hearing the hypocritical answer, Ailan's expression when he stabbed his father was extra ferocious. The more depressed you are, the more crazy you will be when you bounce back.
After that, Maria in the mirror never appeared again. Whether it was Maria or Ailan who disappeared or merged, the physically deformed Ailan or the mentally deformed Maria could see the ugly side of his heart in the mirror. It doesn't matter who is who.
The great revenge was avenged, and the fragile soul of the heroine was not saved, but fell into the abyss.
After returning home, the heroine wearily threw herself into her mother's arms. No matter how much misfortune you have suffered outside, the mother who truly loves her daughter from beginning to end is the only support for the heroine. (I thought the heroine was crazy enough to kill her mother, but I screamed out in shock. Fortunately, the director still has a bit of humanity)
And the director quickly switches between the bed and ceiling mirrors, showing the classic shot of the mother holding the twins. There have been several shots of mothers facing the mirror before.
A bold idea appeared, the mother is actually the real BOSS? ?
The director seems to want to express that a family has a great influence on the character of children. Excessive scolding, unreasonable demands and even violence from parents can easily make children physically and mentally deformed and lead them to go astray. School bullying and helplessness create a vicious circle. One day I can't bear it anymore, and tragedy is born. (empathy)
Some people are unable to resist when they are treated unfairly. Do they also look in the mirror, hate the world and their incompetence, and look forward to having a strong and confident self to save all this? When you put your hand into the mirror, it also means that you have sold your soul to the darkness.
When your self in the mirror gives you a weird smile, LOOK AWAY!
This movie has the same effect as the heroine's other movie "Adolescence". The same broken family, the same lack of caring and loving souls, the same tragedy of unsalvation.
The heroine India Eisley is so pretty. At the age of 15, when she starred in "Youth Honey", she had a plump body. In this film, she was too embarrassed. I hope that Miss Sister can have more in-depth works in the future, and it will be a big hit!
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