A classic and dramatic revenge story. The first half is cold and the second half is slightly bloody and weird. Everything about it is specious. The protagonist of the story is a cardiologist. He has some patriarchal shadows on his body. For example, he will force his son to cut his hair short. He has some special sexual habits. Even bed affairs are also cooperated by his wife to satisfy his mind.
Therefore, there is no warmth in this family, and everyone respects each other like guests are polite. At the same time as tyrannical, he was also a cowardly and unaccountable person. He was unwilling to face the injuries of a treatment accident. Until the deceased son of a medical accident appeared in front of him, he also faced it with a perfunctory attitude, and the story unfolded in the above context.
As the name suggests, sacred is related to Christianity, so the whole is filled with religious metaphors, including special music, music is the biggest highlight, and plots with religious symbols. The experience of the other three people in the family, including the little boy eventually shed blood and tears, and the angel-like salvation, failed to melt the hero’s cold and hard heart. Obviously, it is the misfortune of his family for such a person to be a cardiologist. It is the misfortune of the patient.
Deer has a beautiful and pure meaning in Christianity, "My heart longs for you, like a deer longs for a stream." Therefore, the death of Saint Deer also heralded that the purest person in this family will die, so the final outcome is in my expectation.
Everything in the story is ambiguous, like a prophecy. We can only watch the plot advance, so the viewing process is full of powerlessness. We can neither conclude that the patient’s son is the murderer, perhaps the man’s family’s experience is God’s. At the same time, we can't figure out the characters' motives and cause and effect, and the drama's alienation effect is full.
In this way, the director used sound and painting to create panic and introduced us into such a weird setting, and the holy deer eventually became a martyr nailed to the cross.
So how do we interpret and understand what the director wants to express? If the role played by Farrell represents the criticized patriarchy and patriarchy, then we have a clear direction to trace the source of Western civilization and deconstruct and deconstruct from the cultural context established by religion and ancient Greek mythology. Reconstructing "male power, patriarchy" is enough to write a large essay. After all, the so-called "alienation effect" is to make the audience helpless, watching the plot proceed illogically, and thus critically view the overall situation and think about the character's current plight. The dilemma of the role is the dilemma faced by human beings.
It is still written in the Weibo post box, and the thinking has not been completed yet, so I just wrote it briefly. Don't blame for something wrong, just explore it.
2017.12.31 update: I saw a very interesting saying that a big coffee understood this movie through the story of Agamemnon in Greek mythology. I think this is more in line with this movie, but the Christian context is somewhat reluctant. The alienation effect in the movie is indeed more in line with the characteristics of ancient Greek drama.
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