The interesting thing about this film is that people with different experiences and knowledge backgrounds have very different understandings. Even after I started discussing with the people who watched it, I didn't find that two people had basically the same understanding. For example, the director will say that the film shows "stigmata"; friends who know more about Christianity experience the crow feces of Huang Zhengmin's sacrifice? It was explained that the demon had already possessed the shaman, so the priest would take the picture at the end. Others will analyze what the flowers and plants hanging on the door represent; are the Japanese and the shaman fighting? However, as a good teenager taught by socialism, I thought about a series of atheistic viewpoints for the time being:
In fact, this film is a film that depicts people's hearts and fears. The village was just eroded by poisonous mushrooms, rumors spread, and everyone suspected the Japanese without evidence. The various ideas of the villagers come from their prejudice against Japan. This is the so-called human heart. If they do not understand, they will assume that the other party is not good, and fear will occur. Soon, the most feared and feared thing of each main character happened, and this fear did not come from the outside, but from the person's own thoughts. As long as you believe that fear exists, then fear exists. Including the protagonist, the police officer Zhong Jiu is most afraid of his daughter being poisoned; his partner Chengfu is afraid of being entangled in life by Japan, and as a result, he is poisoned and goes crazy; the shaman is most afraid of encountering a "woman in white" who can suppress him. Ghost; the woman in white always wanted to save people, but Zhong Jiu or the people before her didn't listen to her, and finally sat on the ground with a sad expression on the ground; the Japanese were afraid of being chased and killed; the little priest should be most afraid of That Japanese is the devil Satan, and the devil that the Japanese really turned into in the end is also the image of the devil in the Christian concept.
What's interesting is that none of the characters' guesses about other characters are really in line with the situation of the person being guessed, that is to say, all the characters are self-righteous, which leads them to think that the world is what it sees. The most amazing thing is that this point also applies to the audience. The audience's worldview determines the understanding of the film. What the audience sees is what the audience thinks they see in their own minds. Director Luo successfully brings the audience into the film itself. . . . Very thoughtful.
And the second point I want to say is that all characters have positive and negative coexistence. The author did not give an answer, which caused everyone to appear to be both good and evil. Perhaps this uncertainty is also an atmosphere the director wants to create. The positive thing about Zhong Jiu's wholeheartedness to save his daughter is that he has no reason to suspect that others have killed him. When he returned home, the flowers on the door also withered. Could it be that the real devil is Zhong Jiu? Shaman priests cast spells to save people, but later they also took pictures as evil; the woman in white saved people with good intentions and was also said to be a ghost; the Japanese were said to be demons in the front, but they were also said to save people in the back. , and finally appeared in the form of a demon but chanted what Jesus said in the Bible. This duality is also very interesting.
ps. Kwok Do-won's acting skills are simply ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! The photography art is amazing! The little girl acted so well too!
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