The film tells the story of a couple who came to a country house in order to save their marriage crisis, and tried to save their lives through mild sex, but unexpectedly, after the wife was handcuffed to the bedside, the husband died of a heart attack. Forgetting to lock the door made the dog enter and eat the body of the husband, and the evil spirit seemed to be wandering in the house, and how should the locked woman save herself...
The first reaction after watching this movie was to try Check whether the Siri of the mobile phone is available. Sure enough, you can make outgoing calls without using your hands without turning on the power saving mode. Living in a modern society with smartphones is happiness. The second thing is to check whether the doors and windows are locked. I have to say that in European and American horror movies, there are too many habit of entering the house without locking the door. I don't know if the security there really reaches this level. The third is to take off the handcuffs. In fact, this is the only means from the beginning, but it is too backward for the film to release this "horror" big move until the end for the sake of the plot.
The fear of being imprisoned in handcuffs is amplified with the death of her husband and the attack of wild dogs. This fear makes the heroine delusional: her husband despises herself as if she was alive, and the calm, intelligent but resentful person in her heart is. The id also recovered. The men and women in the hallucination are like evenly matched opponents, betting on the woman who is handcuffed on the bed, and raising the war of words in marriage to the pattern of your death and my death. In a woman's subconscious, she is well aware of her husband's machismo and abhors his theory of objectifying women, the "life support system of the vagina", but she can't resist being handcuffed, just like she was handcuffed in childhood.
The childhood heroine was molested by her pedophile father during a total solar eclipse, and after being rhetorically spoken by her father, she decided that she should not disclose the matter to anyone, and thus developed a flattering personality, which made it more convenient for her father's sexual assault. Repression kept her heart forever in that sunless afternoon. After marriage, her husband's arrogance and domineering turned her pain into self-blame, believing that happiness can only be achieved through constant obedience. If you hadn't been at the bottom of a well, you wouldn't know how difficult it would be to climb out of the dark. The brilliance of the film lies in turning her inner world struggle into a real portrait struggle for the audience to see, but unfortunately, the long dialogue is also produced, which makes the plot more and more thin.
Nowadays, the native family is no longer as popular as a mouse, but its first evil power is unquestionable. The heroine's childhood is not valued by the mother, and the mother who only cares about giving birth to children has no time to pay attention to the education problems of many children. In the face of her husband's sexual abuse of her daughter, she only dares to die to get relief. This is not the marriage problem in most unfortunate families. ? The father is strong, the mother is cowardly, the child seeks stability, and the family is walking on thin ice to maintain the stability on the surface. Unhealthy family relationships and emotions make children still do not know how to properly handle sexual and emotional relationships when they grow up, so they can only reproduce the most familiar scenes—the painful childhood experiences—and recognize their own value from the most familiar pains , and even obtain an illusory "redemption".
The appearance of necrophilia is really the highlight of the whole film. The heroine, with her strength to overcome hallucinations and self, actually frightens this perverted murderer, as if she must ignore or ridicule when she sees exhibitionism. To clean them up, people make some unconscious little jumps. The vicious dog pays homage to Stephen King's own novel Cujo, and compared to it, this black dog is honestly tempting to adopt.
In the female protagonist's subconscious, I think that men are like dogs, and they will devour you when they get the chance. In fact, I think this nature is unisex. If you have too much expectation of human nature, you will only ask for trouble. Whether you are hungry, or desire, you can turn into a beast when you get the chance. When dealing with beasts, human means cannot be used.
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