Rooted in childhood desires

Casimer 2022-09-15 12:22:46

From the beginning, the film shows that the manor with a large dark green landscape with British characteristics gradually decays. When the male protagonist returns to this place after a lapse of many years, the memories of his childhood can be reappeared. The life of aristocrats is unreachable. Envy is rooted in the male protagonist's heart and has become an unstoppable desire over time. This desire is deeply rooted like a big tree and cannot be underestimated. This is also a line of progress throughout the film. The male protagonist's character is calm, polite, and The devil he hides in his heart is diametrically opposed. It is this great contrast that makes the evil of human nature even more apparent. It is simply terrifying and a thriller. And now he has a chance to get close again. At the end of the film, the male protagonist looks down from the top. Once when he was a child, once when he was a child. Did the male protagonist want to achieve this goal from the beginning or did he return to the manor to remind him to make a decision later because he did not conceal that he stole something from their house when he was chatting with the female protagonist, and he could still use it As a joke, if a person has this kind of plan from the beginning to the end, wouldn't he hide this kind of thing? The attitude of the male protagonist in the second half has changed. He strongly wants to set a wedding date with the female protagonist. The heroine's brother quarreled with the heroine's mother and also had fierce words. These are all manifestations of his inner desires. I have been thinking about how incredible and fearful my heart was when the heroine pushed the door and saw him before she died. It was not a ghost but a human I remember that there was a movie in the United States that told a similar story. A young boy watched an advertisement of a big company when he was a child, and then approached the company's eldest daughter. After failing, he pushed the eldest daughter off the bridge and killed him. Then he seduced the second daughter to marry and have children. It's ironic to be run over by a train with the company's advertisement on it. The desire for an hour has unimaginable power. In this sense, this desire is a kind of horror. If it can't be controlled, it can only be dominated and destroyed by it.

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The Little Stranger quotes

  • Faraday: What this house needs is a big dose of happiness.

  • [First Lines]

    Roderick Ayres: Hello. Who are you?

    Faraday: I'm Doctor Faraday.

    Roderick Ayres: Oh... I was expecting Granger. Roderick Ayres.

    Faraday: It's one of your maids, I understand.

    Roderick Ayres: Huh! "*One* of our maids..." I like that.