The way the story is told is very fairy tale, reminds me of Spielberg's "Dream Blowing Giant" last year, and the classic "Pan's Labyrinth", these movies are all about children in distress, both It is presented in the way of fantasy fairy tales, with cruelty in warmth. Whenever I think about the details, I feel that there are many metaphors hidden in it. It's because this world is too cruel and painful, it's bloody to tell so many sad things directly, but fortunately we have fairy tales.
The first half of "When the Monster Knocks on Your Door" has some thriller and suspense movie temperament, a bullied little boy, a nightmare that can't be repeated forever, a mother who is getting worse on the hospital bed, a grandma who doesn't want to face, The tree monster that always appears at 12:07... In the end, the story is gradually finished, but I feel a little tricky. The boy is an extremely lonely and predicament boy. This movie tells about the most difficult stage of his life—— The mental state of his mother during the period of illness, an illusory tree monster taught him the philosophy of life and told him three stories, which were related to distinguishing right from wrong, related to belief, and related to life. a long period of suffering.
His parents were divorced, his mother was seriously ill and he was about to die soon. Because his father had a new family, he couldn't take him away to raise him. This is the worst possible situation for a boy, the first half is extremely depressing, because you know how the plot will go, this boy is not a superhero, not a boy chosen by God, he is just an ordinary, weak, A powerless boy, he can't change the fact that his mother is seriously ill, and he can't change his own destiny at this stage, all the boy has to learn is "acceptance".
In the end, after the death of his mother, the boy saw the tree monster in his mother's picture book. Combined with the previous plot, we knew that the mother had also experienced the same painful period of facing the death of a relative as the boy, and they were all accompanied by the tree monster. Get out of the hard days.
In this film, the depressing function is far greater than the healing function, because the hard days are always long, and getting out of the predicament is not a sentence or two that can be effective. The tree monster left when his mother died, but the boy has a long way to go.
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