The protagonist of the film is a boy named Joshua, a 9-year-old boy with his hair always meticulously combed and wearing a shirt. Many people find Joshua terrifying, but it's hard to say why. I think maybe it's because of the always meticulously combed hair, always wearing a neat white shirt, always looking calm. And he was only 9 years old. It's a cognitive fear that people think of 9-year-olds as active, athletic, and sunny. On the contrary, he hates sports, likes reading books, and likes the piano. Everything he shows is like an adult, even his eyes are profound. His image is a subversion of the traditional view of known children, and people have a fear of the unknown. And the film creates people's fear of him through the huge gap between people's perception of what they know and when they find out that it's not the case. It is this fear that makes the film cast a black veil.
A 9-year-old boy who is considered a gifted child by teachers, a father who works in a securities company, and a housewife's mother, such a seemingly happy family, no one will doubt its beauty, and everything in the story is from the younger sister. of birth began.
With the steady sound of the piano, the story opened its title page. Joshua and his uncle sat at the piano to accompany, while grandmother, father, and mother teased sister Lily on the sofa. The calm and powerful piano sound, accompanied by laughter, looks happy and beautiful, and this is the beginning of Joshua finding himself out of tune with the joyful atmosphere. The heavy classical music was stopped by the mother and replaced by Mozart's lighthearted little star variation, "twinkle twinkle little star, howi wonder what you are" they sang laughing and laughing around their lovely sister. Joshua stood in the doorway, watching it all. They are so close and so far away from themselves, all the joy is someone else's, he is just a spectator.
"What do you think of me? Am I weird?" he asked his father.
"No, no, how can it be weird."
"You know that little magic, when a magician puts a person in a box and turns the box to make the person disappear?"
"Well."
"I know, as long as you look carefully, you can find it."
"That's how magic happens. Let's take you to the magic store and buy you some magic props."
"You don't have to love me, it doesn't matter."
This kind of dialogue, seemingly plain, revealed Joshua's heart. A child's heart is sensitive, as he can see through the tricks of a magician, and he can also keenly capture the demeanor of his parents. Perhaps what he wanted was an affirmative answer from his father, "But I love you, you are my son, my child... Anyway, I still love you." The father's answer was yes, however, it was difficult to brush away The haze in his heart, no one knows how suspicious and uneasy he is in his heart, because his expression is so calm, like, like nothing has happened. But this really happened. He knew that there were all the thin estrangements between him and his family.
With a slow and heavy piano sound as a transition, it seems that life has not changed much because of the birth of my sister, but the calm sea is a dark wave.
"How am I as a baby?" he asked his parents busy taking care of his younger sister at the dinner table.
"Fine, you're fine...you have a lot of ideas...you know what you want."
"What do I want?"
"...we won't say...you're fine, you're great."
Afterwards, Joshua watched a video of her own as a baby, and the video showed her mother becoming hoarse and agitated by the baby's cries. At the end of the video, the mother kept repeating the sentence: "I'm fine, I'm fine...
In front of the huge TV, the tearful mother's constant repetition of "I'm fine, fine" seems to be a great irony Then
, Joshua's piano music performance at school was completely messed up, and the development of the story seemed to climax with the messy piano music.
The number of times the sister cried more and more, and the mother's mood became more and more Bad, even had auditory hallucinations and heard strange noises coming from the ceiling, and this was just the beginning.
One night when she was woken up by her sister's crying, she went to the kitchen to drink water. She was startled by Joshua who was hiding behind her, and the shards of the glass were scattered on the ground. Joshua, who noticed this, slowed down. After slowly retreating, the mother was led to walk forward, and her feet were stabbed by debris. The mother's mood has become more unstable because of the foot injury, and she even needs to take medicine to maintain her composure.
The arrival of the grandmother seemed to ease the tense atmosphere at home. Under the calm sea, the waves were rough. During this period, his father's dog died, and Joshua's decision to follow his grandmother to believe in religion and be baptized once again broke the peace of the family. There was a great dispute between the mother and grandmother, who were strongly opposed to religion. Go, the home is re-gloomy and grand.
During this period, Joshua asked his parents more than once, "How are you?" and the parents always answered, "No, I'm fine, I'm fine."
One night when his father was working overtime, Joshua played games with his mother and deliberately hid his sister. , and used her sister's cries to lead her mother to the top floor. After her husband came back, the terrified mother saw Joshua standing beside her sister's bed, and her spirit finally collapsed. She danced and shouted at Joshua. Called: "You, you, you... And from this to the end, Joshua looked at his mother with a calm face and a calm tone: "Mother, why are you staring at me? "The
mother had to be admitted to a mental hospital for mental reasons, and the grandmother took care of them instead of the mother. The father quit his job and concentrated on taking care of the children, but unexpectedly found that Joshua recorded the crying of his sister to lead the mother to the top floor. At that time, the grandmother and Joshua took their sister to the museum, and the father, who felt the crisis, rushed to the museum. After carrying the stroller down the stairs, the father turned his back to the mother and Joshua who were still on the stairs, and held Lily in his arms. In his arms, unexpectedly, he heard the screams of his mother behind him. The mother fell down the high stairs and died. After Joshua caught his father's eyes, he ran down the stairs and lay on his grandmother and cried bitterly. .
This all happened under the eyes of my father, who thought it was Joshua who did it, but when he told the uncle, the uncle looked incredulous. No one would believe that everything that happened would be related to a A 9-year-old boy is concerned. My uncle even thinks he should see a psychiatrist.
"Dad, I set up a house for one night, do you like it? ' Joshua said to his father, looking at the house of building blocks.
"I know what you've done, Joshua. I don't understand, but I stand by you."
"They're made of blocks."
"You won't hurt anyone anymore."
"Are you mad at me? Do you still love me, Dad?"
"I think you're sick, Joshua."
"I'm not sick, I'm not sick at all."
"Then why are you doing this?"
"You know the best part. Is it, Dad?"
He walked to the building block, pulled out the bottom one, and with a bang, the tall building block fell.
Later, the father called a child psychiatrist and wanted to prove to the doctor that Joshua had a psychological problem. Instead, the psychiatrist thought that Joshua might be abused because of Joshua's paintings.
In the end, the helpless father decided to send Joshua away. After Joshua found out, he deliberately caused his father to beat himself in public, which led to his father being interrogated.
At the end of the film, Joshua's uncle acts as the guardian. He sits with Joshua in front of the piano, and the light playing sound reveals Joshua's state of mind.
What impresses me most is how the film echoes before and after. The toy Joshua said to give to a friend when her mother began to have mental problems was actually the culprit behind her mother's auditory hallucinations. The strange voice that my mother heard was actually made by Joshua. And the phrase "Are you okay?" "I'm fine." It seems to run through the entire film. Before the official start of revenge, Joshua asked his parents how they felt about him, and the parents always said it was good, But even after the mother's mental problems, they still answered well, which seems to be a lie, a great irony, and this lie also seems to cause Joshua's distrust of his parents. And Joshua once said to his father, "Watch out for Jeb Walker!" (the child psychiatrist) when it triggered the father to beat the child in public. There was also a conversation between my father and the teacher, and I accidentally saw an empty cage. The teacher explained that the hamsters were poisoned by food, and these hamsters, at the end of the film, appeared corpses that were stitched up like mummies. At the end of the film, the paintings accidentally scattered on the ground by the porters also revealed Joshua's heart. These all reveal Joshua's psychological changes.
These details are the highlights of the film, and the ingenious design of the director is an important element that constitutes the entire film. These pieces are like puzzle pieces that can peek into the changes in Joshua's heart. Only by connecting them together can we get as close to Joshua's heart as possible.
"Do you love me?"
"Do you still love me?"
"No one loves me."
This is the theme that runs through the film—love. From confusion, to doubt, to affirmation. Joshua verified his guesses by proving step by step - no one loves me. What he kept testing, kept looking for, maybe it was the certainty that when the veil of hypocrisy was lifted and devastated, yes, you didn't love me.
And at the end, when my father heard him smile evilly and say "no one loves me", he was completely out of control.
The father keeps saying love, but doesn't understand himself, the mother has mental problems but tries to pretend to be normal, the fanatical religious control freak grandmother, this sick family is the truth. They all talk about love, but not real love. What they saw was blood, because he was their descendant, a part of what they were. They loved blood, not him, the man. He asked his parents what they thought of him, and they had no words other than "good" and "great."
What parents say is "fine" is another kind of hypocrisy.
If it is just because of jealousy of his sister, there is no need to get rid of the family. What Joshua really wants to do is to protect himself. My sister, in such an environment, my sister will only become a doll for them to play with. As he ends by saying "I love her more than anything else." And "re-establishing order in the chaos" is Joshua's plan. The best person he looked for was an uncle who could play with his four hands.
There are two scenes that impress me the most.
The first is at the beginning of the film, when Joshua asked his father "Do you love me?" for the first time, he said to his father: "You don't have to love me, that's okay." It's like a skilled killer killing Sweet words when you die your lover.
The second scene is the end of the film. Bingya and his uncle were sitting at the piano, and the clear childish voice seemed to tell us everything. He plans a huge escape by any means necessary to protect himself and his sister. Maybe as Joshua said to his uncle: "You and me, this is good, it should be."
You know they didn't ever
Have to love me
No, no, no
And no one ever will ever
Love them now
Oh, oh, but they
always wanted somehow
To save me
Why, oh, why
For pit's sake, they should've saved themselves
Oh, oh, but you
You always said I never missed a note
I only ever wanted to be with you
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