Tell a "ghost story", watch a bitter life, and taste the coolness of the world. ——"Ghost Story" is a movie with perfect script creativity! Next, let me tell you this "ghost story".
"Ghost Stories" is adapted from the British stage play of the same name, a very popular thriller drama, consisting of 3 separate but closely related "ghost stories":
01 The Last Night of Tony Matthews
02 Fragile boy Simon Rifkind's car accident
03Middle-aged man Mike Pledel lost his wife and daughter
The First: The Last Night of Night Watchman Tony Matthews
Tony is a night watchman in an abandoned women's mental hospital. She has a daughter who suffers from "locked in syndrome" (except for the eyes to move, and the whole body is paralyzed). One night (in the morning) at 3:45, Tony was drinking tea and listening Playing the radio to pass the boring time, but the power supply in the duty room suddenly went out. Tony found that the power supply was unplugged, and there were a few weird scratches on the generator.
After going back, he found that the cup had been placed at the door for no reason. Tony had just closed the door when someone suddenly knocked on the door outside. He went out to check and saw only a figure in yellow clothes. He thought it was a prank by a colleague, so he chased after him. Going up, in a ward area with AF81 written on the wall, a door marked 92 suddenly opened, and Tony found his "daughter" inside, turned hideous, and came to him shouting "Dad" ...
Second: Simon Rifkind's car accident
Simon is a fragile boy from a family with a discordant life. At 3:45 in the morning, he was driving without a license and was driving on a dark road. Because of the constant phone calls from his parents, he was distracted and crashed into the car. A monster in the face of a sheep, Simon, who was terrified, drove away, but the car was out of gas and could not start. At this time, the back door of the car was suddenly opened, and Simon got out of the car and ran into the woods because of fear. Terrifying monsters are waiting for him...
The third: Mike Pledel, who could not bear the death of his wife and daughter
Mike Pledel is a middle-aged man with a successful career. Ben and his wife planned to have a child, but his wife was past the optimal age for childbearing. In the end, artificial insemination was successful. One day, his wife bleeds when she was 7 months pregnant. He was sent to the hospital by Mike at 3:45. In the end, his wife died unfortunately and "two lives", and Mike also found some strange things at home: the rag doll in yellow clothes sat up by himself, the baby The wind chimes on the bed rang by themselves, and the deceased wife suddenly appeared with a strange face...
After the three ghost stories are told, there is one more thing you need to know
Professor Goodman is the key figure in connecting these three ghost stories. In the film, he is entrusted by someone (psychologist Charles) to investigate these three strange events, and all three stories appear at the same time 3 :45 points; lots of numbers AF81, 92 (mental hospital), 20 (Simon's house number) 92 20 1 48 32 (a series of numbers on the door where Mike put the gun), etc.; the doll in yellow; The weird hat guy (Callaghan) who has been following Goodman; the bullying teenager who appears several times; the window sill that appears many times...
Goodman's bitter life and the coldness of the world!
The film has a wonderful reversal at the end, which is also the answer to all the mysteries of the film.
In fact, in the real world, Goodman was lying in the hospital because of a suicide attempt, and was judged to suffer from "lock-in syndrome". He was paralyzed and only his eyes could be opened. The rag doll in yellow clothes that appeared in the ghost story was placed on the chair beside the hospital bed. It turns out that everything in the ghost story came from Goodman's fantasy (which can also be understood as a dream). Here The ending looks a little "familiar" to our mainland audiences. Is this simply a standard domestic ghost movie routine!
And the three ghost stories connected together are Goodman's bitter life
Tony, the night watchman in the first story, mentioned the new immigrants more than once, and the Goodman family is Jewish. Because of the relationship between Britain and the Jews, Goodman has been bullied and his spirit has been deeply affected. And Tony's daughter suffers from atresia, the reality is that Goodman suffers from the disease.
In the second story, Simon was deeply traumatized by his father's spirit. In fact, Goodman had been deeply traumatized by his father's spirit as a child. Driving into a "monster" is a metaphor for Goodman's teenage crush on Callahan (another bullied mentally retarded). All the numbers that appear are the numbers on the wall in the sewer when Callahan was bullied and died, which is a metaphor for the serious damage to his spirit by Callahan's death.
In the third story, Mike represents Goodman's middle-aged period. Mike's experience is the real experience of Goodman. The death of his wife and daughter overwhelmed the last ray of hope that supported Goodman's life. In the end, he chose suicide to end his life. , and Mike in the story also chose to shoot his own life.
Who caused Goodman's tragedy?
Goodman's life was a tragic life. The social (bullying of his peers, Callahan's death), the spiritual destruction of the family (father) in his youth, and the 'one corpse and two lives' of his wife and daughter in middle age. But who caused this tragedy?
In addition to these external factors, more because of yourself! He was cowardly and did not dare to resist in his youth, and in his middle age, he only cared about his career and did not care about his family. In the end, Goodman was already so miserable, and he still couldn't escape the guilt in his heart, and he had been having this terrible "nightmare".
The protagonists of the three ghost stories in the nightmare are actually the three people that Goodman contacts every day, and they should be the only three people who can be contacted. The reality is embarrassing! Tony is the cleaner of Goodman's ward in reality, Simon is the nurse in his ward, and Mike is his attending physician!
The film more or less insinuates the indifference of society and the coldness of the world
Goodman's dream has always been devoted to exposing the "magic sticks" in society who deceive the world. On the one hand, it shows that he is trying to do good things in order to repent and make up for his childhood mistakes. On the other hand, he also insinuates that the society is full of deceit, Hypocrisy and indifference.
And what are the consequences for bullies who make fun of other people's lives? Will it be cast aside and punished by the world? Callahan, who has been following Goodman, and the bullying teenager who has appeared many times, although the film does not discuss this issue in depth, it also implies the indifference of the society and the coldness of the world, which is chilling!
The brain hole of the film is still quite big, even if the "ghost story" of the film is not so perfect, it does not hide the flaws.
It is said that "one white hides a hundred ugliness", and the same is true for the film. The powerful brain hole and the surprise of the reversal are the audiences who come for this. Even if the story is not perfect, it does not hide the good.
Tell a "ghost story", reminisce the bitter life, and taste the coolness of the world!
This Ghost Story is a good story!
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