It's a Medean revenge, but simpler story; it's Agamemnon killing his daughter, but more literary; it's a homomorphic revenge, but more classical and dramatic" "Medicine" story. Steven's mistake caused a patient to die on the operating table, so he occasionally visited the deceased son Martin and his mother. As Martin gets closer to Steven's family, his family suffers from fainting, paralysis, anorexia, blood and tears of undetermined cause. Martin told Steven that this was the price of failing to "kill" his father, and that he had to choose one person to die instead of the whole family, or the whole family would die of illness.
The entire film gives an image of superficial peace but inner tension. The middle-class family of four lives peacefully, but when confronted with the sudden question of "whose death will end this family plague?" The tension is repeatedly increased: the father Dissatisfaction with son's long hair became a condition for his paralyzed son to be threatened to stop "pranking"; wife put on husband's favorite black dress while son was still alive and said we could have another one; daughter was crawling away from home on her hands trying to escape After she died, she said that only her father could take her life; her sister asked her brother if he could have his MP3 after he died while he was wearing an oxygen tube and smoking while sitting on the windowsill... The answer to the coloring transaction, the unspoken betrayal of the husband and wife, the provocation for revenge, the kiss of the gods...
At the end of the story, it did not end in survival like Agamemnon's daughter, nor did it end in total death like Medea, but when Steven was at his most powerless, he chose to use the "Russian gambling turntable" method, The family's "sacred deer" was shot and the others were rescued.
Maybe the above thinking is purely personal over-interpretation. After all, netizens also joked that this movie is The killing of 2 hours of my life. If you look at this movie from a Chinese-style, funny point of view, to put it bluntly: mother and wife fall into the water at the same time, who will you save?
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