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"Murder is just for fun, four teenagers tortured and killed women", "Three homeless teenagers tortured and murdered two primary school students"... After reading these news, watch "Eden Lake" ” (Eden Lake), will feel the film is very real. It's just that the whole movie is humiliating: the hero and heroine have no sense of crisis. This is the after-effect of the foreign security environment. If you leave them to stay in China for a year and a half, they will naturally learn to behave well, not to mention driving by themselves. In the wilderness, walking on the city streets is always like an enemy. In addition, the extreme stupidity of the hero and heroine when escaping, can not help but wonder if it is out of consideration of natural selection, such a pair of incompetent idiots, had to be eliminated.
But in this movie, the simple plot has many factors worth pondering:
at the beginning of human beings, is nature inherently good, or is it evil?
As a kindergarten teacher, Jenny, at the beginning of the film, loves to teach children to sing, and then uses glass to pierce the teenagers, which is a sharp contrast; the innocent and cute children at the beginning of the film, the hideous teenagers in the film, the angels grow up to become demons? At the back of the film, the family members of the deceased teenagers in the small town screamed: "They are just children!"
Good and evil are only a thin line. When the boy who was stabbed to death by glass, saw the heroine, he actually had kindness in his heart and softly called out, "Miss", probably wanting to help. As a result, he was not given a chance. The girl, Paige, started to despise what Brett had done, and ran off alone without giving her a chance to correct, and Jenny hit her hard and knocked her off.
There is a very perverted "Funny Games" (Funny Games), which I haven't watched yet. It is said that the perverted director plays with the audience's moral bottom line: while the audience is watching the juvenile murder in the film, their consciousness can't help but go deep into the crime. I suspect that this "Lake of Eden" also has such a tendency: the glass stabs at the boy, I still have a trace of regret; Adam was drenched in oil and burned to death, just hoping that Jenny would run away quickly; and the car rushed towards Paige, even more so. Shout out "cool"! I also hate that iron is not steel, and I hate that Jenny doesn't become steel sooner, and kill those little bastards. Under the director's arrangement, the audience became more or less "inherently evil".
collectively easier
In this movie, the screenwriter is less convincing. Among the group of teenagers, only Brett is the real evildoer, and the others are coerced by him. I think it would be more credible if 2-3 teenagers would do evil and the rest would be timid and follow blindly.
Many bloody and violent acts that are inconceivable to look at individually are not so abrupt if they are organized collectively. On the contrary, they may be put on the banner of nationality and patriotism. In my review of the film Welle, Die, I mentioned the Milgram experiment at Yale University (“the study of power obedience”): a test of how much human nature can How much refusal power is exerted. The result is that 61%-66% of people follow orders to harm others. Whenever the Cultural Revolution and the Nazis are mentioned, this experiment comes to mind. This "Lake of Eden" is still applicable. In front of the group, there is only conformity.
Adam seems to be a character created to reveal the ugliness of human nature: he was abused and bullied by the group of teenagers. Instead of providing assistance to Jenny who asked for help, he deceived Jenny and lured her into the hands of Brett's group. Under oppression, there is only obedience.
Brett
, the leader of this group of villainous teenagers, has a father who is more rude and violent than Brett. Brett will grow into a person like him in the future, and similarly, a father like him will have a bad boy like Brett.
Except for Brett's father, everyone in the whole town is weird. Like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", you think you are encountering individual perverts. People in the whole area are like this. This is the most terrifying. During breakfast, Steve mentioned the boy's misdeeds to the fat girl, and the fat girl changed her face and said several times: "Not my child!"
What makes such a small town full of people Angry? At the beginning of the movie, when the actor Steve introduced Eden Lake to Jenny in the car, he said: This place is fenced, and the developers want to develop real estate. When Jenny rushed into the town calling for help, the townspeople were listening to a song that repeated: "You will be respected".
This is a group of people living at the bottom of society, living in relatively backward areas, and the natural resource Eden Lake near them will no longer belong to them and will be developed by enclosure. They themselves are victims of the civilized world and the rapid development of capitalism. They are disrespected, full of resentment, and have nowhere to vent their anger. Such an environment makes such parents, and such parents make such children. Finally, Steve and Jenny, who come from civilized areas and enjoy the conveniences of capitalism, pay the bill, forming a cycle like a food chain.
Similarly, the British film "Out of My World" (Billy Elliot) is also about people living at the bottom of society: Billy Elliot's father, a coal miner, is also very rude and smokes Billy at every turn. Billy went to learn ballet and made great achievements. It can be seen that humanities and family education cannot be the reason for the torture.
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