Stoker told me the answer, and the story of the kid in the man's coat who kills.
Compared to Hide and Seek, which had a huge reversal at the end, in Stoker, Charlie was seen by the audience very early. This sexy man was the murderer, but director Park Chan-wook was smart enough to let him continue to kill. But at the same time, he restrained the use of camera and language in order to maintain the image of an elegant, mysterious and charming man, making people unable to stop him, seducing the audience to look forward to the climax. Finally we find out at the end that this man never really grew up, he hated everyone who knew his secret, he hated everyone who stopped him from finding his mate, he killed Stoker's nanny, who knew his childhood secret Aunt Kim, killed Wipp who hurt Stoker, and tried to kill Stoker's mother. After Stoker went through the whole process of Wipp's killing with her uncle and was questioned by the police, she finally transformed into a dark girl after her 18th birthday, a glamorous, cold-blooded female killer, who was better than blue. She killed her mentor, her own uncle.
The unfolding of this huge secret at the end of the film finally gave me the climax I was looking forward to. This kind of flood-like decryption is very enjoyable. But that's not the brilliance of the film.
I'm curious how an Asian director can tell the story of a dark American family from his own perspective. Sure enough, he did not emphasize the ingenious arrangement of the plot, but played with details and all kinds of metaphors to express the emotions and inner changes between the characters.
Stoker's shoes are of the same style and type. When she was 18 years old, her uncle gave her a pair of high-heeled shoes, implying the formation of her independent personality; spiders crawled on Stoker's legs, from the ankles to the depths of the thighs, and again Crawling away from the face of the dead uncle, implying sexual awakening and passing away; the change of seats and the music turned from chaos to harmony when the two played together with four hands, which means that Stoker turned from resisting to being attracted to his uncle, while stoker never refused The uncle's sports car picks up and leaves in the uncle's sports car, which implies that the uncle's dark essence has fully erupted in her.
I imagined how wonderful it would be for the audience sitting in the dark, facing the many blurred metaphors in the film, knowing that just in front of the computer, I fell in love with them.
Park Chan-wook, a delicate and quiet director, also promotes the development of the plot and unfolds the truth of the story through sharp editing.
Still playing with four hands, charlie only sits on the stool with half ass, stoker sits firmly on the stool, charlie's hands are in the bass area, only occupying 1/3 of the piano, stoker is in the middle and high range, condescending, music It's not harmonious, charlie is confident, stoker is suspicious; charlie's hand moves to the right, the music of the two begins to collide, producing a peculiar aesthetic feeling, stoker panics; charlie's right hand switches to the high-pitched area, and his body also embraces stoker's from behind All of a sudden, the music is in unison, stoker begins to be sexually satisfied by being surrounded by a man's body; in the distance, charlie seems to be kissing stoker, she tries to respond, the music stops, her eyes open, charlie is not around, as if she had never sat There. The man she hated at the beginning of this period was full of mystery and charm.
Then Aunt Jin went back to the hostel. At the same time, stoker went to the freezer to find ice cream to eat. The mother went upstairs with a red wine glass to find her brother-in-law cheating on him. There was a documentary on the TV in the brother-in-law's room. The camera keeps changing every second, taking the pictures and lines of vultures in the documentary as the main line, telling the whole process of Aunt Jin being killed as a predator, and stoker discovering the nanny who was hunted earlier in the refrigerator The whole process of the corpse.
Finally, stoker masturbates in the bathtub after witnessing charlie kill the wipp who tried to rape her. The camera keeps flashing back, slow down, the young boy's neck, Adam's apple, belt, gasping, choking, interspersed with top-down shots, stoker's nudity and masturbation in the bathtub, the boy finally dies, the stoker finally reaches an orgasm , She raised her face and smiled, from this moment on, she fully recognized charlie's dark behavior.
The editing of the above three scenes perfectly shows the results of the two key murder cases that charlie personally executed, as well as the core milestone of stoker's transformation from a sensitive and suspicious girl to a dark goddess of war. Without these tight and deliberate edits, the prominence and collision of the two characters, as well as the powerful confrontation between stoker and charlie at the end, would not have reached its peak.
Hey, Park Chan-wook really deserves to be an Asian director, delicate in appearance but full of ambition, sophisticated in technique but full of power. I hope to see his "Old Boy" one day, it is an authentic Korean story.
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