Self-redemption is an unbearable pain. Only the instinct of life can contend with it.

Harley 2022-03-27 09:01:09

"The world of images is half of the complete world. If a person does not know the world of images, his soul is barren and has nothing. The wealth of the soul exists in the form of images." ---CG Jung



The progress of the plot is the overlapping of the image world and the world world. Being handcuffed to the bed is, in a way, a symbol of the real-world relationship between the heroine Jessie. As the man jokes, "What the hell is a woman? The life support system that holds the vagina." It's a living reality.

Just like this, he took her to a villa in the suburbs and carried out the sexual fantasy of SM + rape + stealing his wife. Men are lawyers, wealthy, socially accomplished, and dominant in relationships. And Jessie is passive, pleasing, submissive in relationships.

And a man's sexuality, physically like a hungry dog, can be hungry and insatiable at the same time - even if you eat a $200 top steak, you will still crave fresh meat. (The part where Jessie is happy to feed the dog is also a symbol of her attitude towards sex life. Her body is like those two pieces of beef. Her husband's sexual desire is a hungry dog. She pity him and is willing to satisfy it)

The whole process of her breaking free , that is, the process of seeking self-redemption. If she doesn't break free (doesn't get out of the relationship), then her life will gradually deplete, she will die from lack of water and nutrients, and then be eaten by the dog (not living herself, not nourishing herself, under the exhaustion of man's libido and slowly die).

In the helpless waiting, she recalled the incident in her childhood when she was 12 years old - molested by her father. It happened to coincide with a solar eclipse, which is also a reflection of reality and symbolism. The sun can be a symbol of fatherhood, and that obscenity spell is as dark as the sun is obscured to Jessie's world.

As for the continuation of the dynamic relationship between the father and the father in the early years, the father's handcuffs are silent, and the husband's handcuffs are material comfort and comfort, these authors have pointed out.

This symbol appears again at the end of the film. "Those who need to protect you from monsters, become monsters."



However, the most heart-wrenching scene was when Jessie slashed her hand with a shard of a glass, then pulled her flesh apart and broke free from the handcuffs. I was almost in pain with her the whole time. My stomach cramps, growling. It really hurts, it hurts too much, even just to watch.




Finally face. When she decides to go to court to meet the "Crypt Monster", it is her ultimate face - the fear of death. The Crypt Monster, the father, and the husband are somehow intertwined: both father and husband show a Monsters side to Jessie. However, the most basic of all fears is the fear of death. The appearance of the three images is a process of distinguishing and de-staining. People's fear of death cannot be erased, but she resolved the shadow brought by her father and broke free from her husband's control.

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Extended Reading
  • Abigayle 2022-03-29 09:01:03

    Typical Stephen King style, mixing all kinds of disgusting and dirty things into a story, trying to extract beautiful emotions, cultivate kindness, and give hope. The golden-style adaptation remake is closer to the level of the novel feeling. Crazy games are just gimmicks, Gugino doesn't sell too much meat and coquettish, and his acting skills are good.

  • Jany 2022-03-21 09:02:07

    The adaptation of the script is not small, after all, the original work is almost broken into a stream of consciousness. Fortunately, the director is Mike Flanagan, who is good at creating tension in small spaces (Silent Night), and hallucination scenes are also his specialty (ghosts cover their eyes). Strengthening the female core of the original work, the scale of psychological horror and blood plasma is accurate, and the overall is still good-looking. Of course, I use an iPhone for my phone, and the bed doesn't feel solid no matter how I look at it, and the details are too unbelievable.

Gerald's Game quotes

  • Gerald Burlingame: People are safe from ghouls and ghosts and the living dead in the daylight. And they're usually safe from them at night, if they're with others. But a person alone in the dark... women alone in the dark are like open doors, Jessie, and if they scream for help, who knows what might answer. Who knows what people see in the moment of their solitary death. Is it so hard to believe that some of them might have died of fear? No matter what the words on the death certificate say... died of fear... because they saw, at their bedside, the Moonlight Man. Maybe that's just what death looks like.

    Jessie Burlingame: Not... real...

    Gerald Burlingame: Then why did the dog leave?

  • Young Jessie: The people who were supposed to protect you from the monsters turned out to be monsters themselves...