With a cold onlooker attitude, the director calmly narrates the story of a mentally abnormal child committing murders from childhood to adulthood. According to the horror film routine, at first I thought that Uncle Charlie was an illusion of India's split personality, and then I guessed that Uncle Charlie came to dominate the property. As a result, I guessed all wrong.
Looking at the famous perverted killers in the history of movies, the teenagers who killed the whole family with an axe, the teenagers who set the whole family on fire, the girls who set fire to their mothers, burned their classmates, etc., all of them wanted to be dissatisfied, or in other words, unable to pass the normal Channels to vent their thirst for sex, long-term repression had to kill to achieve physical and psychological climax.
Even though Uncle Charlie teased the widow-in-law in every possible way in his words and body, which made Eve lustful, but Charlie never violated anything substantively, making Eve wait in vain in the late night boudoir. This can't help but make people guess, could it be that Uncle Charlie has some hidden disease?
And India has always avoided physical contact between herself and others, not even a hug with her mother. Just while taking a shower, I climaxed through masturbation while recalling the murder scene in the woods.
In contrast, the widow Eve seems to be a normal person, but it is not so. She has expressed more than once that she misses her husband when she was young. The relationship between husband and wife was good at first, but it turned bad later. Perhaps it is because her husband who is many years older than her (as can be seen from the group photo) has been unable to meet her sexual needs. So when the handsome young Charlie appears, although Eve realizes some clues, in order to keep the expected lover, she chooses to be silent.
Before I knew anything about the storyline of "Stoke", the names of Nicole Kidman and Park Chan-wook alone made me look forward to this movie, but last night was long and not too boring While watching it, I was a little disappointed. There seems to be something missing in the slow-moving interlocking story, which I blame on Matthew Goode.
Since "After the Wind and Rain", I have been wondering why Matthew Goody always looks old, and then I thought, probably because he exudes an air of too alienation, which is out of tune with all the characters. So when he tried to show the boyishness of the pervert killer in "Stoke," he seemed to have a little more than enough energy. As someone who has been a hobby of killing since he was a child and has lived in a mental rehabilitation home for many years, he should not exude an adult sophistication. Perhaps Ben Whishaw would be more appropriate to play Uncle Charlie, who by nature exudes a dark boyishness.
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