Briefly describe the specific plot. This episode tells the story of a boy who was sexually assaulted by an old man as a child and returns to take revenge. By taking the opportunity of the engagement, Ian, the revenge man, knew that their family would play a game called sardines, and then waited for everyone to enter Ian's pre-designed wardrobe and set it on fire to complete his revenge.
In the play, it can be said that every line and every abnormal action and expression has a connection behind it about the irreversible past. Many netizens have listed many examples in this regard, so I won't say much here. However, there are other things I noticed that I didn't understand at first, but after watching it a few times, I seem to finally understand the second meaning behind it.
After reading it, my biggest doubt may be unique. Many people care about the meaning of a certain stalk in the play, but most of them are details. The most important issue in my opinion is the integrity and plausibility of the entire story. First of all, at the end of the story, the revenge man is to take revenge on the former sexual predator, but in the end everyone was killed. There are many people who have nothing to do with the revenge man, such as handsome boy Lee, a handsome and handsome man who has a good sense of sight. Why did the vengeful man seem to have planned everything in the end, and ended everyone without blinking his eyes. Secondly, in addition to implying the tragic encounter of the vengeful man as the reason for revenge, there are many grievances and grievances about the family, such as Jeremy still loves his ex-girlfriend, and Mark and his wife use the old man as a springboard for profit purposes. Insider. What do these do for what the director wants to convey? In the end, when everyone was hiding in the closet and the revenge man was about to commit murder, the method used was to burn them, but before the fire spread, could more than ten people in the closet really be unable to open a locked closet?
For these questions, I think it's not the director's mistakes, but the second-level meaning. That's what the director wants to say through such a revenge story? Of course it's not right for the old man to sexually assault, so the vengeful man kills so many people at once to achieve justice? The answer is, of course not. Let me say the result first, that is, in the end the story will end in a tragedy. The vengeful man blocked the closet door himself to prevent others from escaping. The space in the closet was small, the air was insufficient, and the flames and smoke were added. One person blocking the door can suffocate so many people to death, and then the point comes , the vengeful man will commit suicide after he succeeds. What is the reason, move the small bench, let's talk slowly.
After I did a lot of research, I found that the people in the closet and their actions are the seven original sins in Christianity. But the director did not deliberately introduce this religious intention, only in the middle part of the old servants in the dialogue with Rachel, mentioned the details of Rachel is afraid of snakes. At that time, the old servant first mocked his skirt as a bruised color, and then said the last sentence without taking the next sentence, so you are afraid of snakes, right? Then Rachel looked confused, obviously she was talking about claustrophobia, not snake phobia, so the old servant should have said that on purpose. So why is this? In Western culture, if you talk about the intention of snakes, nine times out of ten, you are going to say something shameful about Adam and Eve. As a symbol of sin, the snake is mainly a representative of the original sin of lust. The reason why the old servant was so disgusted and sarcastic towards Rachel was that the old servant looked up to Rebecca from a young age, and of course was on her side. But the old servant seemed to know something, some secrets about Rachel made her describe Rachel like this. You guessed it right, even though Jeremy and Rebecca are engaged, he still has contact with his ex-girlfriend, and it is the kind of contact between you and me that is only minus ten centimeters. bumped into or learned of. This also explains what the old servant meant when he sang the spooky song: Wedding bells only ring for other girls. Yes, I just wanted to use this song to imply, Rebecca, that you're not actually the girl Jeremy loves. There are many instances where Jeremy always speaks of Rachel and rarely Rebecca. So this is the representation of the first original sin: lust.
Then I have to say, since Jeremy doesn't like Rachel, why is she still engaged? This is not difficult, of course, is the root of all evil: money money money. From many sides, it can be seen that the old man's family is very powerful and capital, so that it can settle the scandal that alarmed the police many years ago with money. This symbolizes another original sin, which is jealousy. Note that this is not greed, which in religious interpretations means uncontrolled desire, and Jeremy's greed is a desire for possessions and other good things that you don't own. The English original meaning "Envy" more accurately illustrates this point of view. The representative of original sin greed is actually sexually assaulting old men. Because I just said that covetousness represents an out of control desire, that is, an old man’s love for men, more specifically, the love of male children has greatly exceeded the acceptable range of moral and ethical laws. evil deeds.
Next up are the Marks who were shot in the knee. The purpose of the two of them attending the banquet this time is to find a springboard. But the two of them have revealed their superior views from beginning to end. He has always emphasized the difference that Ian works for himself rather than with himself, and always puts himself in the position of the upper class, and disdains to communicate and respect people who think he is inferior to him. This is the representative of the original sin of arrogance. Next are the two who I think died the most wrong. Lee and Stewart lay with arrows in the buttocks. The two drank wine and drilled under the bed to talk and laugh, and they were pitted. And that's it, the two of them who don't leave the wine represent the original sin of gluttony, excessive greed for pleasure, and they are still enjoying the happiness of alcohol after the banquet. In addition, the role of the two people in the play is to connect the plot, which leads to a lot of topics about the main contradiction. Especially Stewart, his conversation with Carl is also very informative.
Finally, it is necessary to talk about the people who are directly related to the sexual assault incident of that year. Daughter Rebecca, son Carl and Stinky John. It can be known that Carl and John, like Pip, were both abused by old men. Later, Pip escaped from the bitter sea due to resistance, but left an indelible childhood shadow. However, Carl and John, who were both victims of abuse, chose to endure and escape. So much so that when he smelled the soap, Carl still had lingering fears, and he was still very restless about the room where he had painful memories, especially the bathroom. And she has mixed feelings of resentment and helplessness towards her sister Rebecca, who knew the inside story but was fortunate to avoid it because she was a girl, but chose to ignore and remain silent. John was even more serious. Suddenly he stopped taking a bath one day. Maybe he was too hurt by the bathing incident at that time, or maybe he hoped to prevent it from continuing by not taking a bath. In short, from his weird behavior, you can imagine this. event had a major impact on them. However, all three chose silence and escape. This is the representative of the original sin of laziness, the desire to escape.
Looking back, all of this and the evil behind it was something Ian couldn't control or plan. He just wanted to kill the old man for revenge. As for why everyone else was being buried with me, I thought at first that they might be facilitators or spectators of sin, but that obviously doesn't make sense with the Marks, Stewart, and Lee and Rebecca. Then there can only be one reason, that is, Ian had no intention of killing them, but due to the rules of the game, the person who found the place can only wait there, and the old man was because he took people to visit the horse stable before. The last person to arrive, this is also beyond Ian's control, so Ian can only turn on revenge mode after the old man finally arrives. In his eyes only revenge, no matter whether others are innocent or not, he only cares about his own revenge plan. After killing so many people, Ian also knew that it was inevitable that he would kill himself in front of these people's corpses. And this is also the last original sin: rage, the punishment for the desire for revenge.
It seems that Ian planned this revenge plan, but his purpose was also achieved after killing the old man. And what is truly a hundred times better than Ian's plan, the driving force behind all this is undoubtedly the destiny of all things. Or another expression that Westerners prefer, God. From the director's point of view, the main purpose is not to present to the audience a beautifully planned murder, but the irony behind it.
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