An elegant, poetic, and mysterious film. The film is obviously influenced by surrealism and mysticism. The pictures are beautiful, the music is melodious, and the temperament is very unique.
Surrealism
Beneath the cliff, ants on food scraps and stopped clocks appear in the footage, making it hard not to recall Dalí's masterpiece, "The Eternity of Memory." In Dalí's paintings, ants and clocks signify decay and death, and sensitive viewers should be able to guess the tragedy that may follow.
symbol of cliff
Cliffs seem to be able to affect people's subconscious. As the girls climb up, their consciousness seems to be affected. They gradually give up the shackles of etiquette and take off their shoes, which is absolutely unacceptable in a strict girls' school. Allowed. They seemed to be guided by some kind of guidance, and after Edith strongly expressed her desire to return to the crowd, they continued to move forward without looking back as if they had not heard.
The cliffs in the film are mysterious, as inexplicable as the caves in EM Foster's Journey to India, and like the mysterious black slate in 2001: A Space Odyssey, as if it has its own consciousness. When the characters appear on the cliff, there is always a mysterious and eerie soundtrack lingering in it, which makes people feel terrified.
Angel
Miranda is really beautiful like the goddess in Botticelli's masterpiece "The Birth of Venus". Several shots connect Miranda with the elegant swan, and the picture is covered with a golden luster. As if Miranda did not belong to this earthly world, but to heaven.
headmistress
The headmistress is a terrible character, cruel, cold, and selfish. The cast is so good, she's just horrible looking, perfect for those impersonal characters.
Sarah and Potty
At the end of the film, we are told that Sarah and Potty, who are also orphans, are actually siblings! Omg, what a little surprise I should have realized sooner!
a tragedy
The whole movie is a tragedy. Miranda, Marion, Miss McGraw missing from cliff, Sarah, headmistress, 5 shocking deaths
unknown mystery
What exactly happened on the cliff? Did the two boys hurt the girls? Are they hiding something from the police? Do they know what happened? Why is Miss McGraw only wearing underwear? Did Edith lie?
The film is full of too many mysteries, and it doesn't try to get the audience to the truth, it just puts us in the middle of it all, and eventually has to accept it all like a botanist: "some questions have answers, some just don't", and Left endless confusion and curiosity.
The film broke the traditional viewing expectations. Audiences don't like to be kept in the dark. They want to understand the whole thing. But this film challenges the tradition, and the whole incident is complicated and confusing, giving people an unusual movie-watching experience
Supernatural and Agnostic
The film focuses on the power of nature, caves, cliffs, dangerous animals, these things are full of mystery, sometimes seem to have a consciousness beyond human beings, and are objects of human awe. These things cannot be fully understood by human beings, who are very small in front of nature.
The film warns human beings: human abilities are not without boundaries, human beings do not have enough ability to understand the nature of things, and any attempt to explain nature will ultimately be futile. Humans will not have all knowledge, there will always be a transcendent existence that human beings cannot comprehend.
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