Well, whining, back to business.
In fact, I have always had no fondness for Miike Chongshi. I have seen the famous "Love in the Skin" at home and abroad. This process is like going to an amusement park to drill a rough ghost hole. , In addition to black is black, I didn't understand what was going on, so I went out of the hole. No orgasm, the only thing I feel about this movie. After the "Visitor Q", I think it has been rotten to a certain level, too lazy to talk about it.
But this film is different.
The "Brand" film has always been very visual, the coquettish prostitutes, pale skin, the black teeth of the old prostitutes, exaggerated buns, thick and colorful hair, and the right kimono. Just in terms of pictures, "Brand" " is also quite pleasing to the eye.
It is rare for the director to make the story of the film more substantial in just 60 minutes, and the actors are also very hardworking.
The overall story can be divided into four stages. In the first stage, the old American man went to a strange island to find a lover, KOMOMO, who had promised Zeng Jin. He didn't find it, but it seemed that he couldn't get out unless he found a prostitute for entertainment. For a prostitute who didn't give a damn about him in the fence wall with the prostitutes. In the second stage, the old American man asked the prostitute about KOMOMO's whereabouts. The prostitute told him that KOMOMO was so jealous that someone framed her for stealing the prostitute's emerald ring and was brutally abused. After that, she couldn't bear it anymore and committed suicide. In the third stage, the old American man said that the prostitute didn’t tell the truth (I really don’t know how he deduced it), the prostitute said, in fact, after KOMOMO was tortured, she strangled KOMOMO to death, she did this to send her Heaven. The fourth stage is the climax. It turns out that this prostitute is not an ordinary person. She told the old American man about her life experience before, and only at this stage did she reveal some of her hidden facts. After the old American man knew the truth, he couldn't take it anymore and shot the prostitute. As a result, the camera flashed and he was standing in front of him, the KOMOMO he had been looking for. Then the old American man was thrown into prison for killing a prostitute.
As one of the episodes of the first season of Master of Horror, although some people say that this episode was not broadcast by American TV in the end, the most suitable part of the whole film is that there is about 5 or 6 minutes of abuse, especially the needle piercing the nails. One paragraph, originally these prostitutes are red-haired, blue-haired, and with the blood of this body, they really look like ghosts.
But obviously the film has more depth. First of all, the location of this film is set on an island with only "demons and prostitutes". From the beginning, the film is creating this illusory atmosphere, plus the prostitutes deliberately red hair, pale skin, old prostitutes They have black teeth, black eye sockets, and ordinary prostitutes are dressed in red. The background of the story is treated illusory throughout the film, just like a horror story in "One Thousand and One Nights".
The heroine's attire is quite unique. Compared with other prostitutes of the same status, the red-haired, Sequoia, the heroine's blue-haired, blue-black clothes are more unique in this crowd of prostitutes. The three stories of the heroine are roughly restored. The truth of the matter: She is the product of consanguineous marriage, and her mother is in the business of abortion. The sin is so deep that the heroine is a freak after being born, with a The strange hand, this is her sister, she has a complete human body, her sister only has this hand, but she can get what she wants by torturing the heroine's head. For the first time in the story, when she came here, when the prostitute was exhorting, the camera gave a close-up of the prostitute's ring, and the development of the story revolved around this ring. The heroine's strange hand sister saw that the ring was going to be obtained. After the heroine went to steal it, she put the blame on KOMOMO. This prostitute mentioned before that after she came here, only KOMOMO treated her well, and later said that what she couldn't bear was that others treated her well. It is estimated that this is the reason why she blamed KOMOMO. After KOMOMO was abused, she couldn't bear to see her continue to suffer, so she strangled KOMOMO, and the prostitute's original words were that she was a sinful person, and she would definitely go to hell after death, but KOMOMO is going to heaven , so she wants to give her a ride. This hellish idea of a prostitute came from when a monk molested her as a child.
The most puzzling part of the whole film is the finale. After the old American man shot, he found that it was KOMOMO who was killed. The heroine seemed to have talked about KOMOMO as her sister. After all, KOMOMO is dead or not, I think he is still dead. From the hallucinations of the old American man eating in the prison, this place is not a normal place, and the heroine should not be a kind, she is more likely to be a supernatural Existence, what the old American man finally saw was just an illusion. However, I personally think it is more likely that the following situation is the case. The heroine's strange hand said that this old American man raped and killed his sister. Maybe this KOMOMO is a role created by the old American man himself. Everything is an American old man. A man's imagination, all the stories are his journey to hell, maybe it's really like he found a prostitute to have fun, maybe there is no KOMOMO at all, KOMOMO's story is his imagination, because this KOMOMO looks like him His younger sister, so it induced his imagination that this real prostitute was eventually shot by him. And the heroine may be the incarnation of hell, her arrival is to lead the old American man step by step to the place he should go. When the heroine was a child, the dead baby was thrown in a wooden tub. At the end of the film, the old American man saw that there was a dead infant in his rice bowl, and sang the song that the heroine and her weird sister sang. I personally guess whether this part is in Metaphor, in fact, it was this old American man who had the experience of aborting others. He got his sister pregnant. He first had her aborted and then killed her. Don’t forget, the heroine said that her parents were a pair of brothers and sisters. , maybe it's alluding to this old American man. According to this analysis, the heroine may be the incarnation of the fetus that was aborted by an old American man. Her appearance is for revenge. The heroine in the film smashed her father to death when she was a child. At the end of the film, the heroine said, "You can't kill me" when she saw the old American man draw a gun. The heroine was originally the fantasy of the old American man, and it was only natural that he could not kill. The shooting of the old American man meant that his Escape also means the heroine's revenge success, because the old American man was thrown into prison.
The last shot is in the prison. The old American man is lying miserably on the ground, next to KOMOMO standing there with a blower. Don’t forget, the windmill in the film symbolizes a fallen baby. The heroine threw a dead baby away when she was a child , go to the river and plug a windmill. There is a little girl standing next to KOMOMO. This little girl has appeared in the film a few times, and once was outside the curtain behind the heroine. The most important thing is that before the heroine officially appeared for the first time, she was The old American man noticed that the windmill on the column suddenly turned, and then the heroine came in. Are these all hints that the heroine is more of an incarnation of an aborted fetus. In the process, she played the heroine and KOMOMO imagined by an old American man. KOMOMO actually represents a trace of love for his sister from the bottom of the heart of an old American man. KOMOMO was abused to death, all to intensify all the contradictions and make them break out completely, so as to achieve the purpose of the heroine.
Of course, oriental people are very forgiving, so the heroine in the film tells three stories. Although the heroine wants to lead the old American man to the final solution, she started by asking the old American man to do multiple-choice questions. Men always choose to know the truth, well, the truth is, you're going to hell.
After the end of the final film, there is also a scene at the end of the subtitles. The heroine
burns something with a stove in the place where the old American man sleeps. When the camera is close, it looks like pieces of fish, so I can't figure out what it means.
Overall, I like this movie very much, from the picture to the story, to the end. Except for the heroine in the film, other Japanese people's English is really strong enough, and people who listen to it get goosebumps. Especially the wretched monk, I really don't know what bird language he is talking about without reading the subtitles.
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