This article may contain some spoilers, so read carefully. cannibal. This word seems shocking to many people at first glance. Under the current moral system, murder is still a serious crime that our society cannot tolerate in our modern society, and cannibalism is even more disgusting on this basis. The first time I heard about the film "Raw" was about half a year ago. Before it was released, it had already appeared in the list of must-see thrillers this year. Girls, broken places, cannibals, just these few colorful plot keywords, some people have made up tens of thousands of words in their brains, and I am one of them. I was fortunate enough to watch this movie a while ago, and sure enough, the plot is not too different from what I initially guessed. It tells the story of a girl who grew up in a vegetarian family and entered a veterinary university for the first time. etc., which involves the "fraternity culture" of foreign universities), partying, sex with gay roommates, and even eating the fingers of one's own sister, etc., from a herbivorous (literally) obedient student The domineering girl gradually grows into a "woman" under the double awakening of sensuality and sexuality. What does human flesh taste like? Is it really that delicious? It is a pity that, according to my many years of movie watching experience, most of the movies, for the motives of cannibalism, are mostly explained from the perspective of psychophysiology, social experience, etc., but rarely from the perspective of real taste. described movie. From the rough life of Xiwei in "Cannibal Maniac", the superstitious belief that the heart of a child can be used as a medicinal material for curing diseases, Huang Qiusheng in "Human Flesh Char Siu Bao" to cook the corpse for the destruction of corpses, and the death in "Man Cannibal Record" The documentary filmmakers continued to oppress the tribal primitives, eventually leading to the end of being divided among others, etc., even the "human flesh foodie" Dr. Hannibal in "The Silence of the Lambs" (aka "A Bite of America") , the motive of cannibalism also puts the internal cause (the childhood shadow of the younger sister being killed in front of him and cooking food) before the external cause (human flesh is delicious). In comparison, the cannibalistic motive of "Eat Raw" is simple and rude. This cannibalistic impulse comes from the heroine's family inheritance, from the mother, to the sister, to the heroine herself, the female members of their family. They are all born full of desire for bloody human flesh, which is simply a clear stream of cannibal movies! I just don't have a reason, I just want to eat you. In the film, the heroine indulges in her expression and superb performance when she eats human flesh, and she can almost play a "Lonely Gourmet in France"! This "carnal" expression is very immersive, so it is easy for the viewer to think, if we also have such desire, what would we do? The difference is that the three female members of the family deal with this desire in an intriguing way. At the end, when the father opened his clothes to reveal the scars on his body, and said to the heroine, "I believe you will find your own way", the heroine suddenly realized. Asking the whole family to be vegetarians and venting their bloodthirsty desires on their husbands is the mother's way of dealing with "carnal desires". As an abuser, finding an abuser who can satisfy her should be the director's insinuation of a similar ending to the female protagonist's desire to restrain her desires in the future. On the other hand, the heroine's sister, as the opposite of the word "restraint", showed her natural bloodthirsty desire and aggression to the fullest. Creating accidents on the road, "hunting" the accidental driver, guiding the sister to release her charm and desire to eat raw, and even killing and eating her sister's bedmate at the end, may be the ending of the heroine's bloodthirsty desire that the director wants to express Another insinuation of . In recent years, the feminist movement has seen a revival in the film industry. "Ghost in the Shell", "Wonder Woman" and even the old Disney "Beauty and the Beast", most of them follow the "curve to save the country" routine, weakening the role of men in the plot from the side, highlighting the leading role of the heroine. The feminist awareness in "Eat Raw" can be said to be undisguised, the male protagonist in the vase position, the female protagonist in the main point of view throughout the whole process, etc. There is a small clip in the movie that is very interesting. I wanted to pee, so I stood up to pee calmly in front of my sister. The setting of this plot is probably the most naked expression of the author's feminism peeing on the face of a male-dominated society. There is another impressive bridge, when the heroine is on her "broken journey" with her roommate, the heroine goes from being quilted at the beginning, to "turning over to be the master", and then to the male protagonist. To begging for mercy again and again, at this moment, this gender inversion means that there is no violation of the visual sense, which can be said to be the finishing touch of the whole movie! At this moment, the heroine bit her arm, and the mixture of water and milk was mixed with blood. The heroine completed her nirvana in sexual and carnal desires. Of course, this film also has some common problems with European films, including that the rhythm of the film is sometimes a little slow, and the editing is sometimes too jumpy (you can also understand the stylized narrative style of this film, to a certain extent, there are a psychedelic connotation). But for a thriller, the quality of this movie is already excellent, but it is not so much a horror cannibal movie as it is a young girl growing up. My personal rating for this movie is 7 out of 10, and I recommend it. Welcome to my public account: Boogie Night
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