"Lake Eden" movie review
- source of violence
"Lake Eden" is a film directed by James Watkins. It was originally collected in the Baidu cloud disk "Mr. Sun's Music". I was thinking of watching this film with Mr. Sun one day. Unexpectedly, we watched this film together with the Weiguang app Lianmai. Just from the title of the film, it seems to be a collision of tranquility and desire. It seems to be a literary film, but it is actually a real and reflective horror film.
Most of us know nothing more about horror movies than the fluttering white clothes, the endless dark corridors, and the shape design of people who are not ghosts or ghosts. Most horror films capture the audience's desire to watch by creating a lonely and helpless environment, so that the audience is full of sympathy and compassion for the protagonist in the film. And "Eden Lake" is different from other horror films. The story it tells is based on "people". In the story, human nature is vividly expressed through the language of the lens in the film.
The development of the film can be said to be a completely reasonable story, because the storyteller can well present all the premise to the audience at the beginning of the film. Jenny's profession is a kind kindergarten teacher, which is related to her later escape, in an irrational situation, killing a boy who did not want to participate in this tragedy, but became a tragedy; and driving a car to kill a girl. Steve's image is not too decisive and responsible, and more gives the audience the feeling that he is less like a man and more like a boy. A town full of domineering, unfriendly and easily irritated waiters, parents with poor education... In fact, the beginning of the tragedy is the corruption of the most essential things in people, the violence in human nature.
After watching the film, I can't help but feel that the death of Steve and Jenny is a pity. The violence they suffered came from a group of ignorant minors. They used the road as a racing track. They ran red lights, swears, and even bullied the weak. Such a relationship between social figures is like the effect of the strong prey in nature. Such a huge virgin forest has also become a hunting ground for this group of teenagers.
Youth violence is the most primitive and the most barbaric. They are irrational and even extreme, because Brett's dog was killed in the chaos, and the savage teenagers demanded that Steve and Jenny pay for their lives. If we look at it from the perspective of civilization, this is really nonsense; but facing a group of ignorant teenagers, their values are "paying for their lives" when their parents don't pay attention to education. Such an incident was the fuse. Black led their group of friends who had not completely lost their goodwill in their hearts and began to hunt down Steve and Jenny.
In Blake's thoughts and consciousness, he only knew that the person who committed the murder was the murderer. He seemed to stay out of the matter, and he kept emphasizing that "you killed people", his actions and words had a big impact It's already a crime. His father was the source of his violence, and Blake had learned to be rebellious and cold-blooded in a single-parent home. Thrilling in speed racing and complacent about stealing Steve's car, he doesn't realize that his actions are inappropriate, he just enjoys it. His father's way of education is punching and swearing, but does his father love him or not? The answer must be love. In the last five minutes of the film, Jenny, who was fleeing, happened to meet the Bright family. Bright's father chose to kill to protect his son. The whole town was profiteering and selfish. In the end, Jenny was drowned in the bathtub, and Brett's father did protect him, but did he love him the right way?
The "accomplices" in the story, the creators of the more tragic story: a group of boys who are afraid of Blake. Through Bright's verbal provocation, they wandered on the edge of correct cognition, but eventually went astray, which became their lifelong regret and remorse. What they succumbed to was Bright's violence, which was terrifying. Bright's violence led to the deaths of two children under his extreme bias, a weak boy was burned alive by him, and a boy who wanted to escape and escape was beaten alive by him.
No reverence for life Bright is more a play with life. One boy found Jenny fleeing, probably thinking he wanted to help or repent, but Jenny stabbed the boy through the neck with a piece of cloth wrapped in glass. Such actions and pictures are very similar to the picture of Steve killing Bright's dog, Bonnie. These two pictures are metaphors. Teenagers are like animals. If there is no good education method, it will lead to a kind of era. tragedy.
The story is really a reincarnation. Steve accidentally ran to Bright's house to ask for an explanation, but escaped. Jenny finally asked Blake for help, and instead entered the end of the story. The newlyweds died tragically in this way. The final result of the film is also different from other films, there is no justice in the film, and I feel that the end of the film is deliberately arranged by James Watkins, among all the victims of violence, not all justice can be served. This is even more true in the barbaric primitive society. Whether right or wrong, he tells the barbaric behavior of the civilized world, and more of it is contempt for such behavior.
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