"The Antidote for Life" is still a bit disappointing as a whole. After all, a rather taboo and crazy story was filmed in the end, but it was very uncomfortable. The too slow rhythm made the original fairyland at the foot of the Alps. The scenery is also uninteresting. The director's grass-snake-grey line can't wait for it to stretch thousands of miles away. No matter how careful it is, it is a waste. Even the exquisite soundtrack, beautiful composition and depressing atmosphere can't get higher scores for it.
The film tells the story of a financial crisis in a big company, and Lockhart was sent to a sanatorium in the Alps to find the boss for help. However, the sanatorium revealed secrets everywhere, and there were quite evil legends about this sanatorium. Unknowingly, Lockhart also became one of the patients. To escape from the nursing home, he had to reveal the secrets of the nursing home.
The first legend occurred more than two hundred years ago, the last generation of dukes was obsessed with pure blood, determined to marry his own sister, and opposed his priest being burned to death. On their wedding night, angry peasants snatched and killed the bride, setting the castle on fire. With the investigation of Lockhark, it was found that it was not the secrets of the nobles' beds that made the peasants angry and fearful at the time, but that more and more corpses were found that looked like mummies. There will be the act of killing and burning houses on the wedding night.
No matter what the truth is, the low status of women can be seen. The peasants resented and feared the Duke. All the murders and incestuous acts were done by him alone. As a result, the bride's belly was cut open, the baby was buried alive, and the house was burned. The Duke lived a good life for more than two hundred years. It really deserves this town and the nursing home to curse each other, and even the enemy family can't tell who it is.
The people who the Duke trapped in the name of the sanatorium became his "experimenters". First, in the name of hydrotherapy, the patients were exposed to the special water of the sanatorium, and then the slippery bugs such as leeches or eels were poured into the water. In the body of the experimenter, the purified water obtained by distillation has the effect of prolonging life and keeping youth forever. After being injected with worms, patients will lose their sense of resistance, as if they had undergone anterior lobectomy. The male protagonist woke up from a dream like a ballet dancer with a strong willpower, killed the baron and set the house on fire, and the old events of two hundred years ago were repeated, and I don't know whether this place can truly be peaceful.
Although the heroine has lived for so long, her body has not developed for a long time. I don't know if it is because of drugs. But after she got her period, she was forced to marry her biological father who had lived for more than two hundred years. What a taboo, what a ridiculous, what a dark story, it just doesn't tickle the viewer's itch, leaving only beautiful and eerie and poignant pictures.
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