I watched the movie carefully, and I read a lot of movie reviews. I found that the plot in some places was controversial. Let me tell you my opinion below.
1. Is the father a real existence or a split personality
Let’s talk about the conclusion first, the father actually appeared, and the reasons are as follows:
(a) Rifle that appears suddenly. Before the father appeared, there was no such rifle, and after the father appeared, the rifle appeared, indicating that the gun was brought and left by the father. (2) The scar on Jack's head. As an important distinguishing mark before and after the personality split, the scar was caused by his father pushing him down the cliff. (3) Newspaper reports that the father escaped from prison, as a beast father who had abused his daughter, in revenge for accusing his son in court. Subtitles appear in the film after his father shoots a gun at the window. In fact, in almost all the films after that, Jack has been in a state of split personality.
2. Who killed Billy, Sam, and Jane?
Many analysts believe that the three children were killed by their beastly father, when in fact they were killed by Jack who smashed his head. Explain the reasons: (1) Jack locked the three siblings in the attic. After seeing his father, he came back with a gun. He believed that his father got into the attic and built the door with bricks without even opening the door to check. At this time there is a detail, a detail that is easily overlooked: the fort. The fort is another mark that distinguishes whether Jack is split or not, in addition to the scar. Note that when Jack rushed back to the house with his father's gun bleeding on his head, when he was about to kill himself, the fort was already there! ! It's already there! ! It shows that Jack is already in a schizophrenic state at this time! ! ! It's Jack's imagination that the father is in the attic and killed his younger siblings. (2) The death posture of the younger brother and sister. The three lay neatly, and Sam was held in Jane's arms, indicating that the three died calmly, not as if they were injured to death by violence.
As for who is the most in the attic, see the next question.
3. Is the beast father appearing in the last attic real or Jack split personality
Many people think that this thin savage is Jack's beastly father, but in fact he is just a personality split from Jack's imagination. Please see the analysis:
(1) The attic is a wooden door and a wooden floor. As a strong serial robbery murderer, with so many tools in the attic, how could he not be able to make a hole in half a year? Moreover, the attic floor already has a damaged place that appears many times in the film. Further proof that no one lives in the attic. (2) The lawyer was stabbed in the throat, exactly the same as what Jack did to his father. In fact, Jack's memory was confused. When his father pushed him down the cliff, his father's throat was unscathed, indicating that Jack did not stab the knife at all, but stabbed the lawyer in the throat. (3) Jack rushed to the house with a gun, and smashed the door with the lawyer with a sledgehammer of 80 or 80, using the alternate method of reality and reality. In fact, there are three dimensions of time and space: in memory, Jack went back to beg his younger brother and sister, the lawyer smashed the wall in reality, In reality Jack rushed into the attic to kill the lawyer. (4) When Ellie was finally attacked, it was not Jack who called, but Billy, Sam, and Jane. It is very likely that the attacker was either the beast father or Jack. (5) The corpse spots seeped from the ceiling wooden strips, indicating that the corpse has not been moved, and the possibility of surviving by eating the corpse is ruled out. In addition, the attic does not have the conditions to support an adult living for half a year. In addition, Billy once said that there are animal bones all over it, but in the end we found that there were no, it didn't look like someone was living at all, and the money box was not moved.
So the context of the story is: the mother brought 4 children to the old house, and then unfortunately died. In order to retaliate against the eldest son who testified, the beast father found here with a gun, beat the eldest son Jack and pushed him off the cliff and left. Out of fear for his father, Jack imagined that his father would enter the attic and kill his younger brother and sister. As a result, the younger brother and sister starved to death in the attic. Out of serious guilt, it led to a split personality, splitting the personality of the younger brother and sister. The bad lawyer ran the attic to find money, but was killed in the attic by Jack's imaginary personality. Ellie finds out what happened, saves Jack and stays with him for the rest of his life.
The things that cannot be explained are 1. How did the little raccoon upstairs die? ? 2. Why did your father leave money and guns when he left, and his conscience is still alive? I am afraid that only the director and screenwriter can explain this.
It's all personal opinions, and you are welcome to testify where you are not! !
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