At the beginning of the story, Edith was soaked in blood, swallowed between the vast snow and scarlet snow, and said with fear in his eyes: "The ghost is real." Then there was a flash in the background. Ghost shadows suddenly lead the audience into preconceived notions. From the beginning of the film, they have been guarded and feared all kinds of things in the castle under the ancient wreckage. The atmosphere created from the side, such as the shadow in the elevator, the castle emits terrifying sounds. The sound, blood-like mud poured out from the floor, and then to the performance of face-to-face, such as the ghost in the bathroom with the bloody head being split open, the ghost in the corridor cutting off the ring finger of the left hand, and then the ghost holding a dead baby in his arms It really terrifies the audience. But when the layers of disguise of the castle are revealed, in addition to the mourning ghosts in the dark night, hidden under the ancient wreckage are the horrific crimes and twisted love and resentment and the entanglement of moral right and wrong behind these ghosts. . We begin to be horrified by the fact that the human nature known to be defined is distorted beyond cognition, far beyond the human fear of unknown ghosts. Every ghost in the film is the ghost of the Sharp brothers and sisters, but they do everything in their power to help Elis prevent her from falling into conspiracy again. As we become familiar with these ghosts, we begin to let go of our prejudices , even with their bloody faces, we still feel sad and kind for them. On the other hand, the Sharp brothers and sisters, the modest gentleman on the waltz dance floor and the slender lady in front of the piano, are creepy, a love and imprisonment buried in the dark, which makes people distorted like this. The appearance of ghosts in the film is also handled with visual effects, Sharp's previous wives are red, like the scarlet clay in the castle base, Sharp's mother is more crimson, and Thomas Sharp is the only white ghost , while Lucy's ghost is black. I interpret the color as the presentation of the character's characteristics. Lucy is hateful and pathetic. She puts the focus of her entire life and even her life on her brother's mother-like and lover's feelings. She is abandoned and separated from this world. She imprisoned herself in darkness for Thomas. In the end, however, the lover she guards falls in love with someone else and tries to escape the castle she spent her life protecting for him. So she was the most resentful, and in the end she could only play the Sleeping Song numbly like a sculpture. Thomas, on the other hand, was more of a marionette from beginning to end, trapped in emotions that could not be shown. In the face of his sister's brutal behavior, even though he felt repressed and imprisoned, he silently agreed. Even if this love is deformed, Lucy is braver, she always knows what she wants, but Thomas lacks that courage, he is not willing to be imprisoned, but he is cowardly after all. Perhaps the final decision is his true salvation for himself, because as long as he lives, he cannot escape the shackles in his heart. Perhaps in the face of his invention, he is the real freedom. So in the end, his ghost dissipated in his invention, which was a kind of destination.
For Thomas and Edith's love, people are admitted. But Thomas' use of Edith was like a flaw on white jade, which could not be concealed after all. However, I think that choosing Edith is the first step in Thomas' self-redemption, even though there is too much selfishness in this emotion. From the film, we can see that Edith is not the first choice for the Sharp brothers and sisters, so when Thomas appeared in front of Lucy holding Edith's hand, Lucy panicked, because the younger brother who had been following her instructions all the time left One step out of the chess she controlled. So Edith is not only special to Thomas, but even more to Lucy, which explains that Lucy never wanted to see Edith, not even to cover it up. A lot of people say that Thomas loved Edith, at least it started when he stared at Edith in Thomas's invention room, but I think when Thomas saw Edith's article, he already liked it He, but he didn't notice it at the time. He saw himself in her novel, tortured by love and the pain that followed, like a soul in her novel waiting to be rescued. What Thomas said to Edith's father later was more like a complaint from his heart, the pain, loss, torment of love, and unfulfilled love. And when Edith was amazed at Thomas' invention, if Lucy was compared to his life partner, then Edith was more like his spiritual partner at this moment. At this moment, he really saw his heart clearly . During the overnight stay at the post office, Thomas told Edith that he liked the darkness of the hero in her novel, and asked Edith if the hero could make it to the end. Edith replied that it depends on the hero's own choice. I think this is one of the reasons why Thomas was able to truly redeem himself in the end. At the end, the conversation between Thomas and Edith in the elevator made people feel distressed for this man who was burdened with love and sin, kindness and darkness. Edith said: "You poisoned me.", Thomas said: "I do."; Edith said: "You lied to me.", Thomas said: "I do."; Edith said: " You said you loved me.", Thomas said, "I do." Thomas was more like a ghost, bound in a land, in a castle, in a crime, in an emotion, even if he wanted to be free , want to love, but after all is firmly dragged by the past, can't escape, can't escape, and finally with the slowly collapsing castle, with all the gains and losses sealed in this land. "I remember there was such an English gentleman who came with a knife in his belly, but left with a knife mark for love."
The emotion between Lucy and Thomas is more like a kind of guardianship, different from the guardianship between ordinary siblings, they are beyond the moral category stipulated by human beings, so they are abandoned by the world and can only rely on each other in the dark keep each other warm. So if people didn't stipulate that the sister and brother were indecent love, then whether the ending would be different. Their mothers hadn't been killed, they wouldn't have committed ugly crimes, and would they have lived happily ever after. Not necessarily, even if there is no moral category, then their children are the best witnesses. In fact, to a certain extent, morality is also innately determined. They were kept in the nursery when they were children. The maternal love that Thomas lacked all came from Lucy. She hummed a lullaby for him. She became the most important role in his life as he grew up. Lucy is a child's attachment to his mother. When their unrecognizable love was discovered by their mother, 14-year-old Lucy killed her mother, and their identities have changed since then. They shared unknown pain, and they warmed each other in the dark, like black moths slowly gnawing at the butterflies that fell into their hands. When Lucy found out that Thomas wanted to protect Edith, she said, "You wouldn't leave me." Thomas said, "I can't." Personally, I think these two modal verbs are used so cleverly. 'can't' shows how helpless and desolate Thomas is. He is not like Lucy with blood on his hands. He is emotionally kidnapped and cannot escape. They are tightly bound by fate. So when Lucy saw Thomas stabbed Ellen with his own hands, she gained a momentary sense of security that they were finally one and the same, and he couldn't escape anymore. When Lucy finally stabbed the knife into Thomas, her heart had completely collapsed, and the things she had tried to protect were still destroyed by her own hands, which was more tragic than hateful. Love that surpasses human nature will eventually be destroyed by human nature.
The film "Scarlet Mountain" is more like an intersection of contradictions, the struggle of human nature and emotion, the struggle of morality and redemption, the struggle of protection and imprisonment. As Edith describes her novel, this is not a ghost story, it is a ghost story.
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